Last week was the Fiel Conference. Fiel is an organization from Brazil that is involved in providing Christian literature in Portuguese. Their local coordinator, an American missionary, puts on this conference every year out at the SIL center and invites local pastors and leaders. This year, there were over 300 people! They bring in speakers who teach QUALITY stuff - this year, the topic was Christian Family, and there were teachings on what a marriage should be, how to order your home, forgiveness and peacemaking, and other things.
Kevin and I attended with three couples we sponsored - the men are all Kevin's students. What a privilege to spend time with these wonderful folks, who enjoyed the conference a great deal. What especially stood out to us was the quality of the teaching - we NEVER hear preaching like that. I don't mean good preaching as far as the style, I mean the content. What was taught was solid, biblical stuff. Not complicated, not mis-interpreted (as almost everything is here), but straightforward simple direction from the Bible, backed up with solid doctrine. It was so refreshing to us, and our students were astonished at the wisdom of the teachers.
It was very well-organized and we were provided with lots of good food at each meal, which our students also enjoyed immensely. The whole thing is subsidized so for less than $10 each were were able to attend 3 days of teaching and eat all meals there. Kevin challenged each of his students to take some of the things they learned back to their churches and share this wisdom with others. We are looking forward to attending next year as well.
Here are three of the folks who attended, Catarina and her husband Manuel, and Alberto. What beautiful spirits each of these people have and we are thankful to know them.
- Cami
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