For the last one and a half
years our swimming pool looked like this:
Thanks to your donations we
were able to repair the swimming pool. After such a long time of having an
empty pool, it felt like a party to see our swimming pool filling with water.
It is great to have a
swimming pool in your backyard, but it´s even better to see it used in the ministries
here. Several groups of children, teenagers and adults are using it on a weekly
basis. The girls, radical boys and photography there are other groups that use
the swimming pool occasionally these are the floorball, basketball, jiu-jitsu
and soccer groups. It’s a fun activity for all of them.
The kids are very enthusiastic.
They even want to swim when it is raining or cold, that really means something.
Normally when it rains in Brazil you stay inside. It even can be a reason to
not go to school or come to our groups.
Besides these children’s
groups we have a two groups twice a week that practice water aerobics. Each
group consists of fifteen women, a total of thirty and we have a waiting list
of over thirty women who are waiting for a place in the groups. For many of the
women they have medical issues that require them to do light exercise, but not
only is it good for their health it’s also a fun activity.
A church has use our pool
for baptisms and we expect more to happen here in the future. It’s amazing to
see in how many ways the pool is being used!
We are so glad to have
our swimming pool functioning again!
