May 2000

Dear friends:

Yesterday I returned from Viçosa, in the state of Minas Gerais, about 500 miles north of where we live. There, at the Evangelical Missions Center, I taught a graduate course on Biblical Theology of Mission to 13 students from different regions and church backgrounds.

They were:

• Gustavo & Ernesto, two Argentine Church of God pastors, the first a professor of mission in his denomination, the other a missionary among indigenous peoples of upper Argentina
  
• Walter, Minister of Mission and Evangelism at his Presbyterian Church in Rio de Janeiro
  
• Florêncio, a pastor of the Charismatic Presbyterian Church in southern Brazil
  
• Matuzael, a local Baptist pastor Miriam, a Baptist missionary among Muslims in Brazil
  
• Sueli & Maruza, two Presbyterian women working as missionary evangelists
  
• Sara, a courageous Northeastern Presbyterian woman serving as evangelist in the impoverished hinterlands of her area of Brazil
  
• Denise Andréa, a recent convert who spent the last twenty years in and out of drug rehabilitation and two marriages, now marvelously transformed and ready to serve Christ directing a half-way house for substance addicts
  
• Nivea, who is preparing along with her husband for missionary service among one of Brazil’s Indian populations
  
• And José Bernardo, or just "Zeca," director of Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship in Angola Africa.

Just to say their names and specify their backgrounds gives you a taste of the joy and challenge I felt co-laboring with these women and men for the sake of the gospel. All but one traveled great distances, three from other countries, for this training. Each one demonstrates a sense of urgent call that radiates from their faces. I invite you to join me in prayer for these co-workers, that God would equip them in every way for a holistic, joyful, and faithful witness to Christ.

You can click on the pictures of our family on our home page (address below, then click family in the left frame) now for enlargements. The above news has also been added.

Blessings to you,

Tim & Marta Carriker
Rua Dona Rosa de Gusmão, 565
Jardim Guanabara
Campinas SP 13073-120
Brazil

E-mail: carriker@mpc.com.br

Http://redrival.com/carriker/

The 2000 Mission Yearbook for Prayer & Study, p. 252