Tony and Laura Lewry

Look what we found at the farm where we will be living soon!

Exciting day yesterday when we officially signed to start the new charity With Open Arms.

With moving to a new property we also need to renovate a basement so we have somewhere to live! The basement area is about 7.5m by 7.5m but as it is a basement it has lots of tricky features! Work is to start imminently on refurbishing this space so it can become our 2 bedroom apartment home before baby number 2 arrives in the beginning of December.  It will need a new bathroom, a kitchen fitted, tiling, partition walls as well as walls plastering and painting! The total refurbishment with cost about £6500 and if you would like to help in anyway making this possible we would be so happy!  Please email for more info. We hope to have all this done in three weeks time so watch this space and FB to see the transformation! Here are the before pics!

We are so excited about the next chapter of our lives here in Brazil. A group of us who have been working together for some years now have set up a new charity called “With Open Arms”. This charity will be exclusively focussed on serving children in need and their families. Our first big goal is to open a girls’ home. Currently in our district of 144,000 people there is no provision of residential care for girls, but there is such a great need! Tragically one of the girls we worked with on the streets was murdered after demanding that her customer pay. She was 14 and her life was worth £3. This new chapter comes with many new challenges but we are excited to be working with a great team. So after 4 years, our time here in YWAM Recife is coming to an end. These past years have been filled with amazing times for us to see children grow and developed in ways they never thought possible. We have had the honour to see kids come off of the streets and live in Hope house and back into...

This amazing bunch of people came to serve here on the YWAM Recife base for two weeks. It was an awesome time and they were such a blessing to everyone they met and especially us. They painted, cleaned, visited families, favelas and streets, played football, worked  in the boys house and taught crafts to local ladies.We had great times of fun together too. Bridge team you made us proud! Thank you and well done!