Farming in Rural Campo Verde

Campo Verde is an agricultural town and the cotton capital of the state and country. They also raise corn, soy beans, and sun flowers. On our way to Agrovile, we saw the harvesting of soybeans. Some fields were still pretty green, but others were very dry and ready for harvesting.

As you can see John Deer is the major farming equipment company here.

Agrovile

Tuesday a couple in our church who works at company who
raises chickens and eggs took a group of us to Agrovile, one of the chicken farms that raises chickens for export. Each chicken house has 14,000 chickens that will then go to Cuiabá to be exported to China, Japan, US and other countries after being slaughtered. These chickens have reached the correct weight so be sold. Before a truck can come in to pick up the chickens, it is washed at the gate with spraying water.

Vacation Bible School for the Teens

The same week we had VBS for the kids with Roza and César, we also had teen meetings every night. It was such an encouragement to have 22 teens participate. This is great since as yet we really don't have a youth group and several who participated were new. After the worship and lesson time there was fun activities. On the last night Jessica and Thaimara did a skit. One night they played a game where if they rolled doubles they had dress up and eat chocolate cake until the next person rolled doubles. You can imagine how much fun it was and enjoyed byall.

Vacation Bible School - Children

Roza and César, a couple attending a Bible School in Bahia (a state on the coast), came for a week of ministry. They had a full week holding Bible school for the children every afternoon and for the teens every evening. And on Saturday evening they led a couples encounter. (Pictures of the teens and couples activities will be in the next blog.) Our theme was "You are important to God" , a study on the life of Esther. We also had two teens, Thais and Thaimara and their mother Bette come up from Cuiabá to help with the music. They were a great help and blessing.

The kids loved singing "Read your Bible, Pray every day" and doing the motions. They also love having our puppet, Ninho (César) visit each day. Then he brought his friend to VBS (Jessica).

Here are some of the kids wearing their crowns.

Zoe Peffer and Jessica (Roza and César's daughter) taught the little kids upstairs while the bigger kids remained downstairs. For the closing program the kids showed their puppets of the characters in the story of Esther.