This photo shows what it is like to live in a favela house. We've had a really good week, and are enjoying the new routines. I was a bit unsure how it would be to enter into an already established team, but it's great. The team here consists of 4 Brazilians, 4 Dutch, 1 from New Zealand, 1 South African, 1 American and us. So it is a very international team.

This weekend we decided to walk into the city, it's quite a long way, but I (probably the only one) really enjoyed it. Part of the walk takes you down an old road, which is now used as a jogging track, with exercise posts along the way. This is used by the more wealthy Brazilians who like to keep fit, the really strange thing is that this immediately turns into an area where several homeless people live. So, once again you go straight from wealth into poverty and the smell really hits you.

Today, there was a special service here for parents, in celebration of fathers day. It was a lovely service, but sadly there wasn't one father here. This is such a huge problem here. The men just don't stay with their wives or children, these children are used to having men coming (for a short while) and then going. What can be done to reach these men? They seem to be so closed to the gospel. What can be done to encourage the value of family? How can these children really understand that God is a Loving Heavenly Father, when they have no worldy understanding of this?