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The Teaters: Lots of Firsts (for Amanda)
It has been a busy 2010 already. In the last 3 weeks, I experienced my 1st Brazilian New Year, 1st Brazilian Wedding, 1st Brazilian Baptism, and 1st new CLM child. As some of you may have heard, CLM hosted Loeci (former CLM child) and her husband, Marcelo's wedding two weeks ago. There were lots of preparations to prepare the house, grounds, and children. I had started working on laying out wedding clothes for each of the kids about a month ago. And it was a good thing, because I was still working on it up until the day of. With some very excited to but on "more than their Sunday best" and a few who needed a little convincing to put on more than shorts and flip-flops, each of our kids looked spectacular. Jake and a few of the older boys directed cars - in a lot of rain. But thankfully it died down for the most part by the time the wedding started. Despite the rain, the wedding was beautiful.
Last Sunday we had baptism, hosted here at CLM. The service was done inside - again because of a lot of rain. (Apparently, it rains just about every day - and sometimes 6-8 times a day). But, thankfully, the sun came out and we were able to go down to the pool to watch 10 people be baptized - including one of our older CLM girls, Josiele. We praise God that she has decided to give her heart to Christ and follow him. We pray for many of the others to follow suit.
We were excited to receive Mateus, 4, into the CLM family. He is the youngest brother of Alisson, Aline, and Alex who all came to CLM last year. Mateus had been in the government orphanage and he was able to be transferred to be with his siblings. He is a bit insecure and happy little boy. Jake had to use his i-pod and a little guitar playing to get Mateus to go to bed the first few nights but he is doing better each day. Click here to see the rest of the pictures in the album
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Posted by admin on Thursday, January 21 @ 22:28:33 GMT (594 reads)
(Read More... | 67 comments | The Teaters | Score: 5) |
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The Teaters: Keeping Clean
To help keep the kids' rooms cleaner, we have divided up the responsibility. I am in charge of Lucas, Arivaldo and Luquinho's room. It has been a bit of a challenge, as Luquinho can be somewhat of a Dennis the Menace. Most of the recent problems have been related to his desire to decorate his room for Christmas. First, he tried to decorate it with an entire roll of tape, which he was able to clean up easily. From tape he moved to candles. He set the curtains on fire and the room was a mess from the fire extinguisher powder. He spent 5-6 hours cleaning that one up. At that point, I decided to help decorate and bought them a small Christmas tree and we made some ornaments. That went well until he decided to paint them, but thankfully he only made a small mess with the paint. Since then, things have calmed down. The boys were even able to go for 2 weeks straight of keeping their room clean. So they have won the reward of painting the walls in their room. They are excited about it and by process of elimination they have picked blue and orange as the colors they would like. Red was too violent, yellow and brown were too disgusting, etc. So, blue and orange were all that were left. The process of painting may be another adventure; however, hopefully, it will give them more appreciation for their room and cleanliness.
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Posted by jake on Sunday, January 10 @ 00:00:00 GMT (489 reads)
(Read More... | 52 comments | The Teaters | Score: 5) |
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Latest News From CLM
Mary writes in the latest Prayer Warrior:
Tuesday, March 9, 2010, Brazil
Dear Prayer Warrior,
CLM ENTRE
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