IWC Salvador Brazil 2007

IWC Salvador Week 2 Day 5

2007-08-03T09:31:00.001-04:00

The Son is shinning very bright in Salvador.

USA Ladies take on the Brazil ladies in flag football. USA won.

IWC Salvador Week 2 Group & Crew Photos

2007-08-03T09:13:00.000-04:00

The Bookworms school crew served in the Plataforma area with crew manager Andy Miller.

The Teacher's Pet school crew served in the Paripe area with Annie Johnson as crew manager.

The Hammerhead crew served in both Plataforma and Paripe areas with Brian Wagner as their crew manager.

The #2 Pencils school crew served in the Plataforma area with Danielle Lillo as their crew manager.

Huguenot Road Baptist Church, Richmond, VA group.

Centennial Community Church from Littleton, Colorado.

The IWC Group in Salvador, Brazil.

The IWC Leadership Team Salvador Brazil.

IWC Salvador Week 2 Day 4 (Evening)

2007-08-01T22:11:00.001-04:00

Tonight we took some time to relax and have fun together by going to a Brazilian Barbeque place. It's called a chuzekeriahlamdoringyding or something like that. Basically they have a salad bar and a pasta-and-other-stuff bar for the light weights and then a bunch of guys come around to all the tables with skewers full of meat. All kinds of meat! And you can have as much as you want! They have filet mignon, ribs, sirloin, chicken hearts . . . you know, all the good stuff. Here are some pictures:

Olivia proves that girls only like to eat things like noodles and vegetables.

Lisa, Heather and Jarrod drink a popular Brazilian soda called Guarana.

Kirsten and Emily hang out with one of our translators.

Hunter and Susan (our fearless leader!) buddy up to the oh-so-popular Tyler Gibson.

Max and Brian eat. (Finally some people who know how!)

Norton and Tatiana are so much fun.
Danny departs some wisdom to Brianna.

And finally, we wanted to leave you with this. For your desktop or something.

IWC Salvador Week 2 Day 4

2007-08-01T12:25:00.001-04:00

Ready or not here we come!

This construction crew is ready for another day on site.

Debbie and Jackie teaching a security guard "Yippy Skippy". He's almost got it.

IWC Salvador Week 2 Day 3

2007-08-01T12:08:00.000-04:00

Danny our Super Field Rep

Starting a new day off with encouraging words from Danny and Norton.

We love encouraging students each morning.

Stories from Salvador

2007-07-31T21:37:00.000-04:00

God Experience from Erin on the Plataforma school team:

Seeing the children be so open and so willing to listen to what we had to say. It was great to see some of the children that didn't know Christ want to accept Him for the first time.

IWC Salvador Week 2 Day 2

2007-07-31T21:16:00.000-04:00

Teams leave for ministry sites.

The Paripe construction team heads out to site.

Aimee shares her photo album

Lacey plays chess at the Gincana

Lisa gets some love from school kids in Plataforma.

Check out this video!

IWC First Day on Ministry Sites

2007-07-30T22:34:00.003-04:00

Our afternoon game time teaching these high school kids American Flag Football. The weather did not work with us, so we had mud ball instead.

Wake up sleepy heads. We have a full day of ministry in front of us.

IWC Salvador Brazil 2007 Week 2

2007-07-30T21:54:00.001-04:00

Our planning meetings happen in all kinds of places even Danny and Nancy's room at the Retreat Center.

The Bookworm school team is ready with the Moses story for the first day of school.

The Teacher's Pet school crew practices their puppet songs as they prepare for Monday in the Salvador schools.

Jackie Heberle our Ministry Coordinator leads our first crew meeting. She is ready to rock and roll.

Our new team from Colorado arrived and is ready to start with week of ministry. Kirsten prepares to tell the Moses story.

Hammerheads are ready for action this week on the construction site.

Andy leads the Bookworm crew in planning for the week ahead.

Danielle leads the #2 Pencils in planning time.

Last Day of Week 1

2007-07-30T21:50:00.000-04:00

Ana and Zelia our amazing hosts at the Retreat Center take such good care of us. Check out what they made us on the last morning.

Thank you Ana for the amazing cake for the last morning meal. We love you.

Saying good bye to new friends at the airport. The week was awesome and everyone arrived home safely. We miss you friends!

Stories from Salvador

2007-07-26T23:06:00.000-04:00

God Experiences from The Teacher's Pets:

Once again today, it was a great day! We worked with smaller children all day and it still amazed us how eager and bright all of them are. It's been so neat to see each one of us have a special "moment" that was the highlight of our week and one that changed our lives. Because we have each had a "moment" just reassures us that we were meant to be here this week and at this time. God is really in full control.

IWC Salvador Day 6

2007-07-26T21:17:00.001-04:00

IWC Salvador Brazil 2007

FBC North Carolina

HRBC Virgina

Our 3 inidivdual Participants

Melissa, Jon and Robin

FFBC Kentucky

Construction Team: The Mortar Slingers

School Team: The Three Ring Binders

Construction Team: The Hammer-

heads

School Team: The Bookworms

School Team: The Teacher's Pets

School Team: The No. 2 Pencils

Stories from Salvador

2007-07-25T23:49:00.000-04:00

God Experiences from Logan New:

We saw God in all the children's faces! They seem so happy all the time and always laughing just wanting us to play with them. God is humbling us through them. The kids faces lit up when their paper airplanes eventually turned out to be a cross during the object lesson.

IWC Salvador Day 5

2007-07-25T22:28:00.001-04:00

Robin Dahl returns after a great day in the Plataforma schools

We will go to great lengths to make sure our participants are encouraged in the mornings as they leave for their ministry sites!

The Plataforma crew mix some more "mud" for the walls that are going up quickly!

Zach, Hunter and Graham build a kitchen and bathroom in Paripe

Stories from Salvador

2007-07-24T22:07:00.000-04:00

God Experience from Elijah Schiarelli- Construction crew in Paripe
I was talking to a woman today at my site and she told me that her children did not sleep at all waiting for us to return the next day. It was pretty cool.

IWC Salvador Day 4

2007-07-24T21:08:00.000-04:00

Randy Moore shows off his muscles chipping block in Paripe.

The Bookworms showcase their dramatic talent in the telling of the Moses story.

The Three Ring Binders show their photo albums to eager students.

Morning send off begins at 7:20 a.m. with an encouraging word from Norton our worship speaker. We are ready for a new day of ministry as we head off to ministry sites.

The Bookworms school crew showing off their puppeting skills for a room full of kids.

IWC Day 3 First Day of Ministry & Construction sites

2007-07-23T12:40:00.000-04:00

The Hammerhead crew are off to their worksite for the day!

Marty & his girls head to school

Yeah! The IWC Staff cheer them on!

The Mortar Slingers head to work!

Jon is happy & ready to do ministry in Paripe

IWC Day 2

2007-07-23T09:13:00.000-04:00

American Airlines Flight 995 on Friday,

Miami to Sao Paulo- diverted to Miami
July 20-21, 2007

Wow, God's itinerary is sure different than the one from the travel agent!

Crew planning and getting ready for the first day on ministry sites. It was a late night!

IWC Day 2

2007-07-22T22:49:00.000-04:00

My name is Mat Weddle and I’m on the IWC staff this week as the music leader. We are missing a big part of our group (who are joining us later tonight!) but those of us that are here went to a couple Brazilian churches to worship. I got to tag a long with a group that went to a church in a neighborhood called Plataforma. There were a ton of people there - the church was full! They had a special service planned in anticipation of us being there. They had about three different choirs sing, they did a lot of worship songs and even had some surprises for us! When we got there they had put up red, white and blue balloons on the aisles (I wondered to myself if they were for us.) At one point in the service they said that they had a surprise for us as the youth choir came in wearing red, white and blue t-shirts. When they got to the stage they put on red head bands made out of crepe paper that said "USA" and they brought an American flag down the aisle. Then they sang “Shout to the Lord” in English! After they sang a verse or two they gave us yellow head bands that said "Brasil" on them and had us come on the stage and sing with them. It was obvious that they had put a lot of work into welcoming us so beautifully and we were really touched.

I got to sing a couple worship songs for them in English (while Jared Schiarelli jumped in on drums) and Robin Dahl and Dan Melton shared their testimonies (and did a great job!). Then we did a puppet show to a Brazilian kids song. It was really cool to be able participate in their service and share out stories and talents. The whole night was a huge reminder of how big our God is and how His Spirit unites us in purpose – to worship Him and to spread His love throughout our world!

IWC Day 1

2007-07-22T13:21:00.000-04:00

It's a beautiful day in Salvador. Our IWC teams are all in Brazil! Huguenot Road BC, individuals Jon, Robin, and Melissa made it last night on time. Fairview BC will arrive today after spending some time in Rio after they missed their flight to Salvador. Please pray for our teams as they prepare to go on sites Monday morning with little team planning. Everyone is ready for us and we are excited to be here.