Lush Tomatoes
The interior of the Brazilian northeast is a very dry and arid region making it very hard to prepare the land for plantation. For that reason, water reservoirs are built…
Like Salmons
It is fascinating how Salmons as anadromous fishes go back from the sea to the rivers where they were born to spawn. They swim up the river in the opposite…
Load Shedding
Load shedding is the rotative limitation of electric power supply by its provider due to its incapacity to deliver energy to all. This measure is usually taken when the demand…
Jesus in our Town
Some years ago my wife and I fulfilled a long awaited dream to visit Israel. What a privilege to walk where biblical figures did and specially to walk through where…
Rustless Church
In the last book of the bible God defines himself as the “Alpha and the Omega”, that is, the beginning and the end. In other words, God is the past…
Neither Ostrich or Emu
Once visiting the city of Chiclayo in the North of Peru, salvationists took us to see a giant bird farm. There we were able to learn about the habits of…
Power Struggle
My parents pioneered the work of the Salvation Army in Portugal, so I lived in Lisbon exactly in the period of the “carnation revolution”. This is the revolution that on…
Other Ways
I acquired my first driver’s licence in the United States where driving happens in the right side of the road and the driver seats on the left side of the…
Dancing with the music
When our first daughter was born my wife and I were divisional youth secretaries of the Salvation Army in Rio de Janeiro, the marvellous city. It was common to have…
Paris Easter
On 31 May 2009 the Air France flight 447, going from Rio to Paris, fell in the ocean near the northeast of Brazil. Junior dos Santos, a crew member and…