Soares Family in Brazil

Soares Family with Atletas em Acao

We are missionaries in Brazil working with Atletas em Acao. AeA is a sports ministry that uses sports as a platform to share with athletes about Jesus Christ

March 26, 2012

Tues Bible Study

We have a great group of girls for the Tues Bible Study. We are praying that each one o these girls will have a personal relatioship with Jesus and the ones that do already we be encouraged and grow in their walk with God. Jessica and Stephanie are on the couch. Can you find them?

March 18, 2012

Rebeca playing

Our monster pillows from Bonnie Pope
Playing with the Polly pockets

Recife and Olinda

We are at an old prison in Recife. Now it is all shops.
Olinda has a beautiful view. From the top you can see Recife.

Here we are eating tapioca

Chocolate Easter Egg from Sabrina and Rolando

Sabrina and Rolando are here visiting us in Carpina for two weeks. We are so excited they are here. Sabrina is spoiling us and bought us the biggest Easter Egg that is made. Rebeca's eyes were so big. We had fun eating it together.



Don't worry we eat our lunch first!!

Tuesday Afternoon Bible Study


This picture is from our first girls Bible study. It is at our house. Rachel is leading it. We are doing a Bible Study from the movie To Save a Life. We are praying for each one of these girls that they will understand who Jesus is and live for Him. This picture is just a few of the girs. We had 15 total our first study

March 15, 2012

March 15th Bible Verse

March 15th is here and time to work on another verse or set of verses. I am memorizing verse from the book "The Cross Centered Life." by CJ Mahaney. They are wonderful verses about what Christ did for me. Romans 5: 6-11 will be the next verse I work on.

"De fato, no devido tempo, quando ainda eramos fracos,Cristo morreu pelos impios. Dificilmente havera alguma que morra por um justo, embora pelo homen bom talvez alguem tenha coragem de morrer. ..."

The key to memorizing verses and retaining them is review time. But even though I have memorized many verses during my life and forgotten them, the time spent memorizing them was well worth it. God always taught me many things during the time I was memorizing the verse.

Rebeca and I are working on Our Fathe who Art in Heaven Matthew.

In my kindergaten class we are memorizing The Lord is my Shepherd. The other kids at school memorize a verse a week. Lets hide God's word in our hearts.

March 09, 2012

Easter Egg Project

I love doing projects. Family fun is the best source of fun crafts and projects. I just made the cutest dog puppet with my Kindergraten class today. This that I am working on is a Easter egg, three dimensional.

Family Dinners

Drumsticks, mash potatoes and cornbread, an hour of work is well worth the effort for a nice family dinner afterwards! Our family time around the table is a precious time for our family. I took this picture yesterday as I was thinking how I am thankful to God for this time. For 15 years now since Timothy was born I have cooked many meals and I believe each meal and time at the table has been an investment in each of our kids lives. I am so thankful that I learned early not to invest my time in other pursuits.

Practice Today at JCP


Today Rebeca and I went over to give basketball practice or Rogerio. He had a meeting in Recife so we took over. Drew came to help us so we were thankful for his help. WE had about 25 kids this afternoon for our two hour practice. Some of the kids from last year are getting better. Some of the others are just starting. Rebeca is eating her cookies

March 03, 2012

March News AeA Ministry

Hello,
We are officially starting our new year activities. How can this be since it is March 1st and not Jan 1st ? It is because what they say here in Brazil, the country only starts official activities after
Carnival. We actually started the year in January with our Mission Trip and the four days of Carnival were just a little break before starting our basketball activities in the schools

Now we are ready to start of our local ministry activities. Our AeA team in SP and
PE are searching opportunities to involve sports ministry in schools,
clubs, or churches.

In Carpina, we are already in contact with the directors of JCP and ETEC, which is a technical school with many students. Last year we ended the year with about 120 students signed up in the program “Sports in School” at the JCP school. It was great getting to know some of the young kids like, Edlanyne, Carol, Fabio, Lindalnes, Jamilson, and others. This year we are having trouble starting up the project because of the gym times. The JCP school’s court is used by many
different smaller schools in the city. Right now we just have one day of the week to use the court. We are making contact with other schools with the possibility to begin the program. We would like to get as many students from different schools involved in the project.

We are already working in one private school,” The International School of Carpina” with about
90 students.

We are preparing to receive International teams that will be coming to Brazil this year. We will have AIA Women’s Basketball, AIA Men’s Basketball, and a group from Ohio. We are planning all the activities and games for these teams. The Women’s AIA basketball team coming will be high level because they are bringing an athlete that plays in the WNBA. (Women’s Professional Basketball League). Rogerio will be traveling to SP with them to play the high level team there too.
Our Goal:
1. Create opportunities to present the gospel to children, teens, and athletes at the high level even those athletes that just play on the weekends.

2. Training: We are meeting with 5 leaders of the churches in the area for training. We will meet once a week to talk about sports ministry, strategies, activities, discipleship, and involvement of the church.

We cannot do all this alone. We need you prayers and financial support Your help even in small quantizes is a big help. If you have not looked at the pictures of the Mission Trip that we took in January please take a look
http://atletasaea.blogspot.com/
Thank you so much for your involvement without you we are not a team. Don’t forget to send us news about you and your family! We love to hear from you.
Pray:
1. Preparation for the International AIA teams that will be coming to Brazil in June, July, and August.
2. For gym time so we can continue the project in Carpina, PE
3. For the students who are participating in the projects in Nova Odessa and Carpina –salvation, spiritual growth and safety during the activities.
4. For the training of these five leaders from the local churches here in Pernambuco. Pelo sustento missionário.
5. For the involvement and training of new ministry candidates – Matheus Ratke, Simone Vasconcelos and Priscla Araujo.
6. For the beginning of the project in Nova Odessa, SP and in Carpina, PE using the strategy of basketball.
7. Pray for us missionaries for our excitement, energy, dependence on God. Many times we feel frustrated as we do not see many results of our work and from all the pressures of the world.
Praises:
1. We praise God for the financial support needed to go on the Mission Trip in January
2. We praise God for the young people involved in the mission trip, Priscila, Simone, Matheus, Tiago, Timothy, Jessica, Lillian, Rodrigo.
3. Praise God for the fruits of the trip – various children are being disciple.
Soares Family
Blog:
http://atletasaea.blogspot.com/
Skype:
rogerio.soaresaea
Cel
TIM: (19) 8206-7435
Cel
TIM: (81) 9857-3813

Outras Informações: Luiz Rogerio Soares
Endereço:
Rua Maria Isabel Buarque 70 1
Bairro Caja Carpina PE 55813-360

March 01, 2012

Scripture Memory Verse

March 1st is here. We are ready to begin another verse. My verse is Romans 8:32

"Aquele que nao poupou seu proprio Filho, mas o entregou por todos nos, como nao nos dara juntamente como ele, e de graca todas as coisas."

I will try to memorize 34,35,36 too!