More pics of the 2008 Carvival Youth Camp.

FYI - Carnival should be classified as "carnal-val". That is why most churches try to offer a camp, or other activity during the 5 day event. Sure, the lights, colors, and sounds may appear enticing, beautiful, and harmless, but ask the police about violence, traffic deaths caused by alcohol, etc. during the week of, or the maternity wards 9 months after the fact, about unwanted, fatherless children.....and the list could go on.

We have been in Brazil going on 21 years, and I have yet to see anything good come out of carnival, except the fact that we have an opportunity to get to a group of youth AWAY from the world at a camp.

ALSO, last year, in the USA, one man at a church, after seeing one of our video clips, made the comment that it looked like we were on "perpetual vacation."
Well, what better place to do evangelism, discipleship, family seminars, and church seminars than at some of the most beautiful camps, beaches, hotels, and scenery in the world. Brazil is beautiful, and no, we do not work with Indians (only 1 percent of all missions in Brazil is indigenous), and yes, we do enjoy serving the Lord in a beautiful creation that HE created. I'm not sure what type of place we are supposed to live, or what type of place we are supposed to work in according to a comment like that.
ANYWAY, Brazil is beautiful, God is good, and He has called us to win the lost at any cost, to share the Good News to ALL peoples, and to baptize and disciple new believers, teaching them to obey the Lord, by our example.