Tony and Laura Lewry

Last week Tony was working out in Recife for 2 days. He would come home filthy and smelling quite bad.. nothing unusual.. It was a busy week so we didn't a lot of opportunities to talk about the work that he was doing..so from our conversations all that I understood was that he was mending a floor, and something about a family living over the river, oh and that he came home thirsty and hungry (and a little smellier than usual!) That's nice.. I thought to myself. I didn't realise until he showed me the video what he had actually been doing.. Click to see the video They were helping a family that we have a good relationship with. The street team have been working with this family for a while with a long term goal of helping them improve their living and economic situation. But was an emergency situation as the level of the river was going to rise drastically in the next month and somebody had stolen the supporting beams from underneath their house and it was b...

It was a Thursday afternoon. Tony had come home from work a few minutes early so was sat writing emails and I was sat on the floor entertaining Tess or pulling bits of fluff from her mouth, I can’t remember. The loud thumping on the door indicated that Beto was in need of some attention. He was in the middle of a Youth Camp type thing here on the base, so we hadn’t been seeing him as regularly that week.  He came in and threw himself on the Sofa..so sprawled out that his feet almost touch the table on the other side of our small apartment. We chat for a while and we have a Coke together. Tess was playing with the syringes that I use to give her medicine in and Beto asked me why she had to take medicine. I explained her problem with reflux and maybe an allergy that we are getting tests done for.  He was quiet for a minute and then asked if he could pray for her. I told him that would be great.  He got down on the floor and prayed for her. It’s such a tough process wit...