Sam McDaniel Update

Samantha McDaniel is making final preparations for her outreach to Brazil with YWAM. She is scheduled to leave June 17th and writes on her blog Hands and Feet:

We will be spending 3 1/2 weeks in Manaus, serving in the Amazon Jungle tribes, a local orphanage, local churches and with the youth. Manaus will prove to be the most challenging living conditions for our team. (Living on the floor in village huts, sleeping on a river boat, no running water or functioning restroom, etc...)

We are equipped to share Christ in these areas and we will do so in the small river tribes and the city of Manaus. In addition to these tools, we will also take with us skits used to teach about basic hygiene and sickness prevention methods.

After this, we will fly to Fortaleza (East) and spend 3 1/2 weeks working with a local Ministry called, “My Father’s House”. My Father’s House workers spend the majority of their time working to help the aid poor communities (Favelas) and the drug addicted youth of Fortaleza and surrounding villages.

We will spend our weeks in Fortaleza serving along side this ministry. We’ll work in their “rehabilitation farm”, teaching music and life skills to to the kids who are enrolled in their rehab program. We plan to build a skate park and work on another building to be used for future team housing.

In Fortaleza, we will also be working with the local church to do outreaches and drama presentations for the local people. In addition to this, we will strive to spread the vision of local and world outreach/missions to those in the local church; especially the youth! Please pray that a passion for God will spread like wildfire!