Happy new year everybody! Yesterday (Dec. 31) was my last day on staff at Saylorville Baptist Church. It was filled with lots of mixed emotions. It is exciting, scary, sad, and exhilarating all at the same time. This week I start my new part-time job cleaning carpets. I have never been so excited to work an hourly job doing something like carpet cleaning. It is not that the job in-and-of-itself is exciting, but it is a constant reminder to me that this whole Brazil “thing” is for real. We are continually striving to schedule more presentation dates. Every phone call, every contact, and every presentation gets us one step closer to personally joining the church planting work in South Brazil.

I want to pass along some current prayer requests:

• Pray that the Lord continues to lead us to the right churches and people who we can minister to and potentially partner with.
• We are planning to put our house on the market in April and there is a lot of work to be done. We need to pack all the things we are taking to Brazil into a storage shelter, sell or give away the rest, plus do all the normal fixing up that needs to be done before selling a house. Please pray all of that gets done and that our house sells quickly in this slow market. A huge financial burden will be lifted when our house sells.
• Pray for the bible study I am preparing to start up again in the dorms at the local community college. There is only one more semester for us to impact these students with the gospel and I need the Lord to open many doors in the dorms.

Thank you again for your prayers! May the Lord bless you and use you this year to make an impact for His Church. Your Brother in Christ
Lucas Bair
Acts 20:24