The day before I left for my river trip we attended the first service that the Muturão church met in it’s new building. You may remember the Muturão church as the “garage” church were my dad (Tom Pflederer) spoke when he was here. As a church plant, in a neighborhood in Altamira, it has outgrown the garage of the pastor where they had been meeting. With only limited seating, the standing-room-only crowds would usually pour out into the street where most people had only an obstructed view and were vulnerable to rain.The “move-in” date is not necessarily synonymous with the “completion date”. The building is still without running water and a bathroom, the floor is only half completed and the lights are comprised of two temporarily hung bulbs.
None of this, however, stopped the congregation from celebrating what they surely viewed as nothing short of God’s miraculous provision. The 3-year-old church is made up of a mostly under 25-year-olds, with limited to no income. Although most of the financing for the project came from North America, they certainly sacrificed what little resources they did have.
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