That we may be known by face and name and not only as an abstract group we have here photos with our given names and some things about us. The girls first…

Name Year Major Years in CELP
Kelly Davidson Freshman Pre-Med Major 1st
Iman Green Junior Music 1st
Rosanne “Rosie” Gusmus Freshman Business major 1st
Rachael Huch Junior Math Ed. 1st
Lindsay Lee Junior Psychology 2nd
Lane Wellnits Senior Business 2nd


Here are the girls, from left to right:
Rosie, Iman, Lindsay, Lane, Kelly, and Rachael

And this is the guys…
Name Year Major Years in CELP
Patrick Burnett Freshman Education 1st
Nathanael Cooke Sophomore Music 2nd
Steven Herron Senior Art n/a
Troy McDowell Junior Music 1st
Colin Pond Junior Accounting 1st
J.D. Revels “J-Dizzle” Sophmor Musik secund
Cruz Thomas Freshman Criminal Justice 1st
Roger Yarbrough Junior Psychology 1st

Here’s they guys:
(back row) J.D. (our guitarist), Roger (the Pastor who can sing the entire Beverly Hillbillies theme song), Colin (the REALLY tall guy), Steven (shaved head – afraid of lice apparently!), Robby (bass player), Pat (the happy flip-collar-Polo guy). (kneeling) Nate (typical Nate: not looking at the right camera), Troy (on tha keyz), Cruz (“4 real B.” Our brother with more energy than all the rest of us combined!).

But here we are actually being ourselves….

This is us in Charlotte Airport at the beginning of our trip (hmmm… Nate was in the bathroom). Rev. Singleton is on the far left.

Here’s some pictures of La Rogate. Don’t worry mom, security is tight…

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Plus, we have guards in the backyard:

(no really, those were in the backyard).

Sunday evening we attended church service with our hosts. Brazilians have their church in the evenings. (perhaps American’s could take some tips from them?).

The service was incredible, lasted for three hours. In one service they welcomed a new member, welcomed us, and welcomed (with fireworks and celebration) a group of their own who had just come back from a weekend of intense spiritual encounter. Lindsay spoke to them about our work, and we sang several American songs for them.

The service was a wonderful way to start our ministry here. We were shown in a very real way Paul’s words in Galatians 3:27-28 “For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female, for you all one in Christ Jesus.” Across cultural differences (most of us hardly understood a word of the message or the songs) we learned that beyond these minor differences our true unity is in the Spirit.

Tomorrow we begin visiting orphanages, which we’ll be doing all day. We’ll update again later. Please leave us a comment. God Bless.