where did november go?

The month of November rushed by us...or maybe ran over us would be more accurate.

Like you, we have a lot going on at the end of the year. I'm just going to post some pictures of the activities this month.


We had a church picnic. It poured rain all day long.









We had Thanksgiving... nine days early. Don't ask. But once we got there we were grateful and didn't even know it wasn't really a Thursday, much less Thanksgiving. We ate turkey and dressing, rejoiced, thanked the Lord, sang and played Rook. (At the least the more judicious of us did so. Others wasted the opportunity!)










I am the president of the board for our Bible College in Curitba. We had our annual meeting and then had the graduation ceremony. It was a blessing to see all the graduates, especially the three from our church in Barueri.










During the month of November we had a program with the children each Sunday and on December 2 we had a final activity for them. You'd call it a carnival. (Booths, ring toss, fishing pond, etc) They paid for the activities with "money" they earned attending church and Sunday School and bringing visitors. I said, you'd call it a "Carnival", but in Brazil we call it anything but that. "Carnaval" is the last thing we could or would have at church. It is wild, hairy and worldly. For want of a better word we called it a "festa" or party.





The kids had a great time. During the month many children brought their parents and we are still following up on the visitors.


Nathan, our son, came for a quick visit to renew his Brazilian documents. We enjoyed being with him and I had him preach the Sunday morning he was here. He accompanied me to Curitiba and saw a lot of his friends who are studying/teaching/pastoring now.









Lastly, here is a picture of my wife's grandfather, Paul Schubert, who celebrated 100 years of life the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Even though we couldn't be present for the party, we thank the Lord for his life and fine example. He is pictured with my beautiful daughter-in-law and all of my grandchildren. I'm pretty sure its our first picture of all of them together. Caleb is on the far right under Becca's shirt!

pictures from October

Here are some pictures from last month's activities. I did a children's day activity for one of our former churches. The interesting thing was how many of the workers were children that I taught way back then! These kids must be getting old.

Then we did a children's program at our present church on Sunday morning. Here's the kids that came on time. (most came late, later and really late!)













We attended the wedding of two of the young people saved under our ministry in Barueri (1994-99), Wesley and Tatiane.





























Here is one of the big rats I saw next door playing tag and eating the dog's food. (Little wimpy whippet)










And here's a new family coming to our church. The wife has accepted Christ and is doing home Bible studies with Rene. Her husband is doing a study with me and coming sporadically. Pray for Nado, Beatriz, Guilherme and Gustavo.





At the end are pictures of an afternoon trip to Roselandia (Roseland) where they raise...roses. Notice the purple rose.

Thanks for your prayers. Lord bless, Graham and Rene Foran

Rene house is ready

Rene made me her slave until I got everything painted and hung. It does look pretty. Problem was time to get it all don (right now!) Actually she was pretty patient considering two trips out of town and special meetings etc.

Love to all, Graham and Rene