Sunday Funday July

here is our weekly vlog:

Last week we celebrated the 4th with some fireworks, went to the zoo with friends, and unfortunately, saw Brazil eliminated from the World Cup. We also were very excited to see and play with our friend Renato, from the trash dump community: thank you so many who have been praying for him! Here is the update. 

Sunday our friends from Shelbyville Community Church arrived, and we are so excited to spend the week with them, at Living Stones and doing VBS in Cajueiro Claro! 

Reads from the Interwebs: 

1. How to hold the sadness in your heart: super practical and important (about grief)

2. Growth as a community around racism: a life overseas important article
3. Fourth of July--who are we? A super interesting quick look at "We the People": “The question of ‘We, the people’ has been our ongoing and unresolved conflict in American identity,” Cobb said at a Chautauqua Institute talk in upstate New York. “We’ve never sufficiently understood and defined who is included in that term.” Ever since Thomas Jefferson’s passage famously decrying the transatlantic slave trade in the Declaration of Independence was cut, American democracy has been characterized by a boom-and-bust cycle, Cobb said. “An expanding concept of ‘we,’” followed by “a contracting, fearful idea of who ‘we’ should be.”
4. Want to love your job? YES:)
5. In praise of being washed (basically, how to gracefully move from 20something to 30something): a fun secular read to all those who realize that their youthful potential and "glow" is gone.