People met

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Curitiba Chineese Christian Church

Curitiba Chineese Christian Church, Chineese New Year celebration, Wagner, Rosana, Davi and members.

Sights

Curitiba, Caieiras beach, Falls at Iguacu, Argentina.

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Curitiba YWAM base

Curitiba YWAM base director Edgie Del Santo and wife Ellen with daughter Andressa hosted us our first night there. Wonderful people, so giving and hospitable. Their love and acceptance is so refreshing and everyone else we met there was the same way. Truely the love of Christ is made manifest in our spiritual brothers and sisters. Pictures below of:Edgie's apt; Base Chapel; the 76 bug we rode in; and our YWAM students.

CTM grounds and local

The Recanto Ebinezer retreat center was located 56 km south of Curitiba Brazil in the mountains and in a farm setting. The mornings and evenings were cool and midday was hot. Shorts and sandels for sure in the afternoons. Front of main bld.

Back of main bld. Gail taught in bottom left classroom, I taught in bottom right one and the top is the cafeteria.

Beautiful country side. Much like Va mountains. May see farmers plowing with mules.

We had an outing at a local pool/water park. The Araucaria (Parana Pinetree) is very abundant in this state of Parana. They are everywhere.

CTM Classes

My intermediate class complete with a poster of Amie Semple McPherson the founder of the Four Square Church Denomination in Los Angeles. Many of our students were from Four Square churches throughout Brazil.

Beginners class with Gail, Licia and Forrest teaching and about 23 students. Most could not speak one sentence of English when we began and by the end of the second week they could begin speaking English.

Our English teaching team that traveled to Curitiba, Brazil in Jan 2007. The team consisted of April, Licia, Forrest, Faye, Dayne, Lielle, Gail and myself.