August 3, 2002

Dear Friends,

Last month we closely studied the results from the Marriage Workshop we held recently. We discovered that there were four major areas in our city represented by those who attended. We got together with Brazilian pastors in two of the areas that were rather distant from our work and shared with them our plan for getting those folks saved and discipled. We know that it is God who does the saving and we trust that He will call out some of those who were reached and that they will soon be serving the Lord in a local church.

There are folks from two other major areas to whom we are reaching out. On the third and fourth week of August we will be holding first-time services with these two groups. These folks were not formerly churchgoers. They attended our marriage workshop and indicated that they would like to be invited again when we held other meetings. We will have to meet in rented buildings for the time being because we don't have property or buildings in these neighborhoods. Pray that God will supply great locations and the resources needed for them. If you would like to see God's name honored in the lives of these folks you may label your offerings "New Works/Wacaser".

Edinei is getting married on December 21, 2002. He began attending meetings in our home before we organized as a church in 1987. He was 8 years old at that time. He has shown tremendous integrity for all these years and loves the Lord. He has a gift for expounding the Bible and he is respected by all who know him. I am preparing him to take over the pastorate of the church which I now pastor. Sandro is another man I have been discipling and he will begin to pastor the work in Diadema that I will tell you more about in just a moment. Edinei's fiancé, Debora, has been working with Charlene for seven years and has shown great dedication and ability. We trust that Edinei and Debora will do a fine job as a couple in the leadership of Bible Baptist Church.

Now back to Sandro and Diadema. Sandro is very talented and hardworking. He takes very seriously every work that he gets involved with. His wife, Sandra, is also very talented and hardworking. They do appear to be teachable and we have seen evidence of spiritual growth in them for several years. I will work together with them as they begin to head up the new work in Diadema. You may already be familiar with this neighborhood. I do hope that you are praying earnestly for God to honor Himself in saving the lost folks in that area. We plan to inaugurate our new building there on October 12, of this year. We are still trying to put together the remaining funds to purchase the property. We paid $2,500 down and need to pay the remaining $2,660. The group from Virginia who will put the prefabricated building together will be here in the beginning of August and it takes just a few days to get the work done. We must have the land and foundation prepared before they arrive. Pray and give as God leads you for this work.

Charlene, the kids and I have all been very healthy. We are extremely thankful for this blessing. Just today, Charlene was getting some spices out of her cabinet where we also keep any kind of medication we might have in the house. She noticed that there were only vitamins and Tylenol there. It has been so long since we have had to buy medicine that the medicine cabinet is virtually empty. Think about how marvelous a blessing that is when you consider that we have a five year old boy, an eleven year old girl and two forty-plus parents. Add to that that we are in the middle of our rainy winter season and you begin to see why we are so thankful to our gracious Lord and Savior. We thank you all, too, for your prayers on our behalf. God certainly answers them!

Serving Christ in love,

Bobby, Charlene, Jessie and Brennen Wacaser