Our new church – ‘The Cave’

We have found a church to go to! This is good news as we had been looking for a while. We felt it was time to move on from the English-speaking service we had been attending to join a Brazilian-speaking community.

The guys at ‘Caverna’ (The Cave – See 1 Samuel 22:1-5) are a varied bunch. They are predominantly young and the church was formed as a result of people who didn’t really fit into the typical Brazilian ‘mould’ of a church community – hence the name. We kind of feel left out not having tattoos or facial piercings (OK – slight exaggeration) but the guys there are really welcoming and have a real heart for the poor and marginalised. A number of them live in shared houses or apartments in various favelas and work amongst the people there to try and meet their spiritual and material need.

They also have a group who go into a prison and these guys are hoping to come to the Rescue House some time to give us the low-down on the prison ‘scene’ in Belo Horizonte.