December 1, 2002 

Dear Brothers & Sisters in Christ,

I just got back from two weeks in Michigan. I visited several churches and participated in the Thanksgiving Conference at the New Hope Baptist Church in Dearborn Heights, Michigan. It was a spiritual feast. I want to thank that church and Pastor Summers for being such great hosts. It was so good to see all of the preachers and saints there. On the way home I stopped at the Faith Baptist Church in Paducah, Kentucky and heard two great messages also.

I arrived home on Thanksgiving Day at 2:00 p.m. and found Ursula waiting with a delicious meal. For the first time in many years we were privileged to have Thanksgiving with all three of our children and grandchildren. It was such a blessing.

The word from Brazil is that all is going well. We are in the process of relocating the preacher who is at Novo Diamantino to the new work in Primavera do Leste and leaving another preacher in charge there. I am still waiting for the pictures to arrive of the new building there. I hope they weren't lost in the mail. Pray for Brazil. The first of January the new leftist President will take charge in Brazil. Nobody knows how things will go after that. We place it all in the Lord's hands.

I will be taking Ursula to the Hospital near St. Louis on the 11th of this month to get some tests run. We are praying that her blood pressure will be under control. She will also have a colon test done again to see if she has any more tumors. If she does not we should be just about done with her doctoring for now. We will let you know about this next month.

We are available to come to churches and will be here probably until next September or so. After the winter passes we want to go to West Virginia and to States in the North. We will go anywhere we are invited at any time we have an opening even before that. We look forward to seeing many of you while we are home. Hopefully, soon Ursula will be able to go with me some. God bless all of you.

Harold & Ursula Draper, Missionaries to Brazil