Jonathan Enns

Tocantins, Goias, and now to Rio

// July 14th, 2008 // brazil, travel

Well our trip to Brasil is over halfway done and I still haven’t posted an update on the blog! We had no flight troubles through our connections and ended up landing in Goiania, the capital of my home state of Goias. Some friends from New Tribes picked us up and took us to Anapolis (300,000) which is where New Tribes Brasil has their headquarters. We spent a night there before catching a bus 8 hours North into the state of Tocantins, where we stayed with Russel & Becky Schuring. They have a Chacara (small farm) about 10k outside of Formoso do Araguaia. While there we helped them with some projects they had going on (ie. building a Chapeu de Paia). The house they were living in was still under construction so it had no electricity and only was partially covered with a roof. We had an awesome time hearing of God’s faithfulness to them and their huge family, and even got to visit two Javae Villages on Bananal Island (Worlds largest freshwater island). These missionaries goal is to plant a church among the Javae Indians.

After spending a week with them we returned to Anapolis for a few days where Gina had 4 wisdom teeth removed. After a couple recovery days, we headed to Vianapolis, a small town an hour from Anapolis where NTM has an MK school and language training program. That is where we are right now. I helped out putting a new roof on part of the high school, and Gina & Cherie helped painting and cleaning.

We were able to do some fun stuff throughout our stay as well. (climbing waterfalls, swimming, hiking, exploring a cave etc..).

Tuesday we head to Rio before flying home on the 18th of July. Thank you all for your prayers & support!

If you want to see more pictures, I made a facebook album.