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Teenstreet Brazil, evening event

Soo many monkeys ...

My dear Brazilian host family with whom I have lived my second week ...

"Program-Team"

about Brazil ...

The Brazilian Kutur is so chilled and relaxed, people enjoy life in peace and serenity. Rarely there is stress or time pressure or stress, each moment is lived simply. At the preparatory meeting and Teenstreet However, I wished I sometimes nothing more than a bit of German structure and punctuality, but well, it will match you are just at his surroundings and everything just takes a bit longer ...

The food is really very good, but can any of the rice and the beans then go after a while a little on my nerves. You eat other possibilities at all hours and times that night by 12 or 2 times a week when you can have this beautiful community, makes nothing.

The warmth of Brazil is very special! The people there are just warm and open. There is always kisses, so about 30 times a day, to kiss hello, kiss the bye and kisses in between, can never hurt ... where it sometimes is very unusual ... but I got used to it, and I like it.

The Brazilians are incredibly hospitable and take care of one as if you were a part of the family.

Brazilian music and dance is just too southern temperament in itself, and it probably would be condemned as inappropriate and offensive in many countries. That may be in many areas and events, but nevertheless, I like it and see it on Teenstreet is as cool as like all teenagers begin to dance and sing, I ah, the simple ...

Geistlich Brazil is probably one of the worst countries I have visited. There are a lot of black magic and all that stuff, you realize just how the whole Brazil is a lot more space.

The heat (in summer) where it can sometimes be truly unbearable. There were times there was simply not leave the house with it in the houses without air conditioning is not much colder ... The heat has made me incredibly tired and I fell asleep more often somewhere in the car, on the train, reading ... very strange

* mosquitoes in Brazil make me really crazy, especially since they prefer my European blood obviously. Those bites really did give me a hard times some days. But well, since one must either:)

TEENSTREET. On Teenstreet including staff and group leaders were about 1500 people present. The subject was like in Germany TS "Psalm 23" and again it was incredibly intense and has spoken so well in the lives of many teenagers. I was part of the program team. My job was actually at the meetings to give input, to support them in prayer and say a few times on stage. But basically, I'm as good as every single day spent with the teens, which I just loved! I was able to build valuable friendships and there were so many "Divine Appointments".
More and more I realized how God use me just in the lives of teenagers would like, just to be there for them to talk, to encourage them to comfort, to pray with them, challenge them to be a friend! And if it would only have been, it was so worth it to be there! I know many teens that God has given new hope, a certainty that He is with them through the dark valley, that He is with them. And also that they are called to go out and as David for God's glory to fight and the "giant" and the world's problems such as poverty, human trafficking, etc. to fight world! It was fantastic.

went after sad farewells of Maringá it with a 10 hour bus ride to Jundiai (40minutes from Sao Paulo). I was there for a week with a very special family! Marquinhos (the last year an internal with Young Hope was) and his dear friend Lily have been so kind care of me. Lily's family is getting a little to my Brazilian family just heartily. In my second week I was also very determined to learn Portuguese and yes, my old Latin came out from the shadows and helped me. Portuguese is a beautiful language and I'm glad if I can come back soon longer to Brazil to learn more ...

slums in Brazil:
Together with a group of transvestites have some saopaulo we visited in their homes to pray with them to talk to us. It was really good, very sad to see that their identity is just completely confused and do not know how much God loves them and how wonderfully He has created. But go through the many suffering and misery which these men had just left so many broken.
In Slums were some of the children in the house ... but it was strange that they were laughing and giggling. When we were out I was treated funny. As I held the hand of a transsexual wanted to slum children do not touch me suddenly more and have said that I should only wash their hands. Ultimately, there was still hugs and should I hold her hand again, but this time I found so shocking. These men are simply excluded, expelled, condemned! And yet Jesus would be with them and would just tell them that he can make her heart again and can give them a new life. It was amazing to see how some of the people have lived such a life even once and take care of now for the same people with so much compassion and love.

In Sao Paulo there is a road that is called "crack-land." It is literally a road where hundreds of people live homeless and are based on crack. I think it is the worst poverty that I have ever seen in my life! It's just awful to see young boys and girls with yellow eyes and emaciated crack small bodies. Many pregnant women, little babies, hopelessly caught in this vicious cycle of dependence ...
The only thing we could do in this terrible road was rolls and drinks to give, and much to pray continuously! If you look in the eyes of these people and especially children, it breaks your heart! These children will die in a few years of this miserable drug! Brazil needs help, help of God and the people and the government in Brazil! There is so much help there. And there is so much that it is overlooked, it can not. And just around the corner from crack country is one of the richest neighborhood in Sao Paulo. I am sure that many of these people do not have the slightest idea of what goes on there.
Many people here see this kind of poverty just as a part of their culture and their country that they do not see the urgency and rely not feel, do something about it!

Saturday night I had the honor in a community something about my last year with God and tell about our work here in Houston. It was exciting to talk about what God has shown me all last year, and how work has changed in the "mission" and my life has opened my eyes to the world! I encouraged the young people and challenged to a part of God's kingdom here on earth, in their country of Brazil, in their town, just around the corner where drugs dealt, women are prostitutes and street children have no food.

I am still so overwhelmed by how easy everything went so well, and as is the door has opened for Brazil, it was a unique experience. I hope so much that the door opens again at some point. I must say that I've fallen in love with piecewise culture, language and country. And now that I've seen the great need with my own eyes, I would like to someday go again for a while there.

Thanks for your prayers, soon followed by pictures ... and an update about the first few weeks with new people here, very exciting ...

I miss you!

Love from Houston, Texas.

Lisa

PS: the last days it was again a cold winter front and it was part of -4 degrees, totally crazy! But next week there will again be up to 20 degrees, yay, and then comes the spring ...