Pr. Daniel Alencar - Curumim Action

1st 2014 Photo Update

LONG OVERDUE!

Hey all! Man it sure has been busy these past few months! I pray and hope all is well with each and the everyone of you!

The hightlight of this year is the Lunar Eclips! It is an amazing event to watch!

In my last update I did a video...but for somereason not many watched it (I can tell by the views on the video). But though my blog many more people seen to check out the pictures...so for now I will go back to just posting pictures! 

This is the church building where we meet! Just this past weekendo now we are starting the construction! Praise the Lord we finally have most of the material (lacking a few things but God has been faithfully providing!) so we have started it! Next weekend 15 to 20 men will be going out to work on the floor and put up the walls (mostly half walls)! Pray for us that God will protect us and that work will not be hindered!

 After 2 years meeting in this building we will doing it permant! Many tears have been shed and many prayers have been said and it is finally coming to past! Thank you Lord!

 The hardest part was leveling the floor!

The first brick laid! Next weekend it will go up fast!

This year we have received several groups which has been a joy for my wife and I as we live in the jungle and miss having personal contact with friends...

We get together with the kids every now and then to play, sing and tell a Bible story. Pray for us so we can develop this ministry with the Kids in other tribes because they are the future generation of the tribe. WE must teach them and bring them up in the ways of the Lord so when the get older they will teach and train their kids!

As the years go by they are losing more and more their culture and costums...but they still have a few cultural festivals that they do. The main one is log races!

The ending of a festival...it is only the older ones that do it...most of the younger generation don't have any interest in their culture...it is sad because little by little they lose their Idenity...they still speak in their language but mixed with a lot of Portuguese. Most of the little kids speak in the dialect but with the invasion of TV and tecnology they lose interest in their own culture. We share with them, that which is not good must be left behind but that which is good doesnt have to be forgoten...only teaching them and sharing with them the Word of God will they know what is pleasing in God's sight and what is not. Who are we to tell them?

The end of the Mat festival where they fatten the kids up so they can be prepared for adult life...

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Me with my name sake's...we all have the same name in the Language...Crowareh!

Here is a beautiful family who has a desire to know more of the Lord and constantly seek Him, through the Word, getting toghther with the believers....

Oli and I making round around the village...

Another beautifl family... =)

An Indian lady making Indian food...

A tipical Inidna house...simple...

This year we had a lovely wedding of a young couple who are believers...during the day they had a cultural wedding and at night a religious wedding....

Preparing the decoration!

Dad and I...

Oli was in charge and did the planning and decorating...

The bride!

The groom!

Simple and Lovely!

They both love the Lord, sing and have a desire to serve Him...Pray for them that God will guide and direct their paths.

After the cultural wedding there was a soccor turnament.

A friend of mine is working on a chicking production project! Pray for him that God will be albe to bless him because one of the greatest struggles in this place is the poverty leval! They have so much land but they produce almost nothing...but gardens that last pretty much only 6 months! It is sad to see so many missing out and depend heavely on Government funds to help them get through! I have been working on teaching them that we must be faithful in what is God's, tith...but if we have nothing invested how can God bless us? If we have no production how can we increase? For many generations the Indians have been depending on the jungle life and they never lacked anything...but with the invasion of white man, Indian land has been come limited and the unability to keep moving to new locations when resources run out have cause a hard impact on Indian life....with the 'globilization' and the economy the past generations are so use to never lacking food that when the deal with money they have a hard time comprehending that money has a limit! So working with principles and learning to say no and living with what you have is really hard for them! Pray for me to help them to become prosperous and for them to be able to grow and learn the Truths of God's Word!

Another hightlight of this year is the youth confrence! We hosted once again the Teens at my parents house but this time over 70! We doubled from last year to this year! Pray with us because we do not have a structure to really be able to host these events with this size of a group! We need more sleeping space, a place to cook...a place to be able to sell snack (it is a holiday and most stores are not open).

A little glimps of our structure on the front porch!

A lot of work!

Devotional time!

With small groups! A great time to help them grow and desire to read more of the Word!

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This was a big investment that we did so we can host 50 people in hammocks in the back yard but it still is not finished...

We covet your prayers in every area of our lives...health, safety and wisdom and all that God has given us. We are stewards of that which God has given us and are blessed to have many people like you in our lives that have been praying, contribuiting and encouraging us in this Calling God has called us which is not always easy!

Blessings!

Denis and Oli for the Bailey family!

January 2014 Video Update

I decided to do something different this time! A video update! Hope you like and enjoy it! Be blessed!

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Stories of the Indian Tribes Real Life facts and a small Request!

David Bailey shares a little of what life was like back in the days when he was a little boy! Along with pictures and facts so you can see!

Pedro Krikati shares the strugles and difficulties in simple way that shows his heart and the beauty that I find in this man of God! Also in both videos we have a small request.

Both videos are in Portuguese but they also have subtitles!

Children's Day

This Children's we have taken a Big HUGE STEP! God has birth in Oli and my heart to take this to a whole new level! This year not only in our tribe are we doing going to be having a Children's Day event but in 4 other Reservations, and 3 States! That leads us to raise support to have toys, snack and and fuel for over 1500 Indian Children. To get the children and leave them again in neighboring villages!

The video has subtitles...if it is not showing then activate it on the pop-up menu in the video on the right hand side. (It probably doesn't work on Ipads.)

Check out our new logo that our Bible Translator, Stan made for us!

I am excited with this Project called "Ação Curumim" meaning Action Indian Children. I went to 2 cities this past weekend to Wake up the brother's in Christ on the importance of how we as the Body of Christ need to take an action part in Missions right in their own country! Many have lit up and been so excited at the idea of getting to take an Active part in helping making Children's day a happy one by taking the Love of God to them! In each city they will be taking a group out and doing an event in a tribe. I will not be in these other tribes on the day as I will be in the one I am in now.

I remember when I was a kid when I went to the US and it was Christmas time and at the place we stayed there was a missionary gathering. We didn't have much money at the time. After the supper they started calling kids names to come get a present. I looked at my dad and asked him what they were doing, (I didn't comprehend very well because of my hearing lose.) I thought to myself, "Are they going to call my name?" I didn't want to get my hopes up so I convinced myself that they didn't even have my name, "By the way who knows me?" I thought. Lo and behold! They called my name! "Denis! Is Denis here?" I was shocked! "ME?!" I didn't show a lot of emotion as I didn't even know how to react as I went up to receive my present with my name written on it!

That experience has forever marked my life. I have no idea who bought it. I will never know until I get to heaven but all I know I was so happy that night. These children too will be receiving presents and will never know who sent it but it will forever mark their life!

I am asking you, if you can do anything from the list of 3 things I will be grateful. You can do one, two or all of them...I know I can never do this on my own. I will never have the money, and time to pull this off by myself. So that is why I am here to allow you to partake in anyway you can through Praying, Announcing and Donating!

Pray that God will give us wisdom on how to receive all these gifts! I have no idea if we receive over 1000 toys how we will get them out to the tribes! We don't have enough vehicles to do all this. Also in orientating the snack and getting enough to feed everyone, not just the kids! We have many people who really want to go out and help and see the event, we need wisdom allowing the right people to go and not to go over board with to many people that it gets out of control.

You can take this video and share it with your friends on Facebook, E-mail and even in your Church!

You can also donate to by sending a donation to my parents or my account with Paypal or Bank of America....

Paypal: denisbailey@gmail.com

Bank of America

Denis Bailey

Account Number: 1131669180
Routing Numbers:
121000358 (paper & electronic)
026009593 (wires)

Shoot me an e-mail so I know if you sent me something @ denisbailey@gmail.com!

Thank you! 

Denis

Childrens Day 2013 Event!

Hey all! Hope your Summer went well or is still going good! We all had a good one and a busy one too! I am just getting a quick video out right before I head out to the tribe with Oli, my wife and my mom! Mom will spend a day or so until dad goes out and leaves my motorcycle and gets the truck. He is letting us take it out to take our buying and visit a few tribes while out there.

We are in the process of doing a Children's Day event. This time we want to do it in 4 different tribes and need help raising up resources for this event. The first part of this event we are out looking for people who knows of people who can and want to help! The next video we are going to do, (Coming Soon!) will be for those who want to represent this Project and take the video and show it to potential contributors! The video is subtitled. We have two months to prepare ourselves!

Blessings!

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May Update!

May Update! The days fly by and before we know it we are caught in the middle of the year! It seems like each passing year causes the years to go by faster than before! (Does anyone else out there feel the same way?)

Well to our surprise when we went back this month we found our house out of order, not bad but enough to know that someone had invaded our house!

After we called our friends to help pray for us (as it was quite hard for my wife, Oli) we discovered little feet marks over the wall and only stayed up in the upper part of the house. The monkey opened lids, got oil and poured it all over my motorcycle! Prolly thinking that it was gasoline and wanted to fill my tank up! Got into the chocolate and tried the different ones, got a glass candle and stuck up top! Well you know, it seemed like the work of some skilled person who was trying to make us discouraged, especially after being broken into once and an attempt again. Well thankfully Oli's two cats kept a good eye on things and didn't let the monkeys get to the lower part of the house! =D

Here is the English version of the CONPLEI video! Over 400 Indians from 10 tribes getting together, here in Brazil, to have a time of communion and hearing of God's Word! We are needing your help! If you can't give anything, there is one thing you can do! That is watch the video and share it with at least 5 people!

This month we had a big worship time over in Amarante and it was a blessings as many people from different tribes came together to sing and testify and sing to the Lord!

It went till 1 in the morning as there were many singers! You got to give them all an opportunity! =D

Missionary João did a great job!

We started Bible studies in our tribe! There are about 12 students! Pray for them that they will be able to comprehend and for the teacher! They will be doing it Saturdays and pray that there won't be many interruptions as there is constant interruptions, events that go on that we have to cancel and postpone it for another Saturday!

This month was our friend and brother in Christ Birthday. We did a little surprise for him. He cried as he shared that he never had a BD party and at 22 years of age it was his first! Most of them never had one!

We got together with the teens...

To study Proverbs and...

Cut out the letters and past them on papers....

It took a while but it was a nice time as we had fun doing it!

Oli playing with the kids while it was raining!

Teaching them to make little boats...

Oli got a teaching position to teach out in another tribe 5 km away. Pray for safety as we go and come every day....

It will be a blessings for them because most of them at 10 12 years of age still can't read or write. Plus a little extra $$ will be nice.

We had a visit from a Missionary from Africa! His testimony and story was inspiring and Challenging! I hope you and your church constantly invite Missionaries to share and show what they are doing in the ministry and what God is doing!

A picture afterwards....

Ahhhhh...this man here. If you don't know him yet, my! What an inspiration he is! At 78 he is still carrying on the work. A linguistic, who learned Portuguese in 2 1/2 months and learned the Indian Language in 6 years. Translated the Bible in 40 + years, he is back to to correct the Bible translation he did over the past year. He comes once ever year or 2 to check his work with the Indians. This man speaks and sings fluently in the Indian language and when he does you think it was an Indian that was.

He came along with his daughter, Andrea and her husband Mike! They have left and he will stay on in another tribe to continue on. Once done he will come and spend his last week in June with us!

Lunch time! Along with our co-workers Fernando and Ms. Louis.

I went to Amarante to drop them off...along the way we went to visit some old friends of his in another tribe!

Love this picture!

The work continues!

We got together with over 80 kids so U. Stan could tell them a story in the Language! That night we had 2 more church meetings! It was tiring but lots of fun!

Blessings and thank you for all of your love and support in our lives! We pray that God will bless you and encourage you in every way!

Denis 4 the Baileys in Maranhão