Still Taking Tiny Steps.

We have now been in Rio for 3 weeks and it has been a steep learning curve in spite of the fact that we have worked here before and speak Portuguese pretty fluently.
The lovely house we remember so well is in the process of being painted, the painters are doing a wonderful job and are so courteous and thoughtful but the smell gets a bit overpowering at times.


View from the top of Dona Marta.







We have met many old friends and some new ones too. It is amazing to see what the Lord has done and is doing in other people's lives and we are so challenged by the many testimonies we have heard.



Kathryn and Kay on top of the world...

 

Many of you will have seen a picture of the famous Corcovado stautue of Christ the Redeemer but maybe not from this angle at the very top of the furnicular railway which runs right up one side of the 45 degree  angle of the Dona Marta favela which is a short walk from our house and the church.          











Although there is a huge improvement in the housing situation in the shanty town there are still great areas where the houses are as poor and ramshackle as they were 20 years ago.
Praise God the drug barons have all gone. This favela was the first in Rio to be made safe and 80 % of the people who live there would call themselves practicing christians.



Dona Marta favela (shanty town)