April 1, 2005

Dear Brothers and Sisters of the Savior:

We greet you from the land of eternal summer. This Mission Sheets month is from March 1st to today March 30th. I preached 7 sermons during this month. Six were delivered at the 24th of March Baptist Church where I serve as pastor. On the 6th of March I preached at the Manancial (Living Waters) Baptist Church where Paulo Moises Correa de Melo is the pastor. The church was celebrating their 9th anniversary. During this same time period I heard 14 sermons preached. Five at the 24th of March BC during the 5 nights of the 23rd through the 27th as we celebrated the church’s 6th anniversary and my 78th birthday. Certainly the Lord sent down upon us “showers of blessings”. I am giving thanks unto the Lord who has been good – very good to me. We received several cards and e-mail messages, and telephone calls from the USA. Thank you, Lord, and thank you, servants of the Savior, in both Americas for your prayers, gifts, and kind wonderful words. May the Lord bless you all.

I attended two Weddings where I heard two sermons. Three more sermons were heard at three other churches celebrating their anniversaries. Thus we feel like traveling on. Pray that we will continue to be firm, faithful, fruitful and free of folly before the Father until the finish. Our next Mission Sheets letter, the Lord willing, will inform you of how we celebrated the wife’s birthday. She will be 78 years old on the 5th of April. Pray for us both.

Again we are grateful to “God from whom all blessings flow”. May the Lord continue to supply the financial needs of BFM.

Yours in the Service of the Savior,

Harold and Marie Bratcher