THE NEWS
First of all, to put all your imaginative minds at rest, no, we are not pregnant again...at least not now. :o) We will definitely let you know as soon as that is the L-rd's plan.

We have been praying for a LOOOOOONG time now about what the L-rd wants of our lives as a family. We have always known that He has called us to ministry, but between moving to the states (the different language and culture for Al), changing directions and migrating to Texas, job changes and expecting Hava, we didn't know what, how, when or where. After quite a bit of seeking the L-rd, we have finally surrendered our feeble abilities to His service - completely.

Basically, the plan right now is for Al to continue at his job through the next year as we raise ministerial and financial support. About this time next year, with the L-rd's blessing, we should be able to dedicate our time solely to ministry. Our intentions, at present, are to direct mission teams to the amazon region of Brazil for evangelistic and discipleship purposes. We want to give mission teams a "fuller" cultural experience when they travel as opposed to a culture shock and sporadic evangelism/discipleship. We plan to prepare them through linguistic and cultural learning PRIOR to their trips, as well as travel with them to minister together. We would like to eventually extend this ministry to other regions/countries. Our desire for our child(ren) is that they would be able to travel with us and grow up learning how to dedicate themselves to service (no matter what area they choose). So, although it is in the relatively distant future, Rachel will be home-schooling the kid(s).

Over the past year or so, we have been working on our first project - which is really what has set this new direction into motion - Project AMO (Amazon Musical Outreach) is a group of American musicians and theatre artists who will be helping native musicians present an evanglistic musical in the city of Santarem as well as on the river (Summer'08).

Our decision to dedicate ourselves fully to ministry was an easy and hard decision at the same time. Easy because we know it is what the L-rd wants us to do, but hard because we have to submit our controlling spirits to His guidance and plan. We need your prayer now more than ever, especially since our family's very survival depends on all of us following the L-rd's leading.

*If you would like to know how you can support the Leite Family Ministry more specifically, please write to: leitefam@yahoo.com

*If you would like more information on Project AMO and how you can support this event, please write to : projamo@yahoo.com