I am in BRASIL! Back HOME!!!

I am back to Brazil, I can’t believe! First day was very strength but as the days goes I am finding it easier than I thought, I am sure it is your prayers for my easy adjustment back here!
A bunch of people came to the airport and had a big sign saying: Welcome to your reality, we love you! They were loud and made a big party at the airport, everyone else was looking to us! Yes WE ARE Brazilians! Afterwards couple people came to my home and I had breakfast with them! Later my father made a BIG family lunch, with a beautiful table set up and at night couple friends came over for a barbecue! I was able to witness at the bbq with some non-Chritians family friends! Praise God!
Last Saturday we had a traditional event named "Noite Black" where couple gospel choir performance and many non-Christians come to see! I felt home! I was praising in my native language, in the language I first learned to praise my God! That was so special! On Sunday was great being at MY dear church!
Enoy my back home pics! God bless you!

People at the airport waiting for us!

Huging my father!

ITALIA!!!!!

my friend, Ariane!

Part of the crowd that came to pick us up at the aiport!

Fancy family lunch prepared by my father and chef, Carlinhos!

Braziian BBQ!!!!

Jonatas!!!

People praying for me!!!

FEIJOADA! Brazilian dish!!!!

"Noite Black" - Marquinhos singing!

D´noite singing!

Pastor William pretending being a homeless among people and all of the sudden he get up and preach! That  was a good eye opening for us, we tend to judge and not pay attention when God bring people that are needing us, even when they are right there!

My dear friend, Isabel - she works at the computer lab!

A lot people came to the event!

They surprised Wellington and invited him to sing..he couldn´t help and cryed...that was a special moment!

Homesick!

Countdown...8 days and I'll be back in Brazil! The last days are the hardest ones!!

I'm so happy for what God has done up here, He did amazing things that I didn't know! Please pray that the next couple days go smooth.

As most of you knows, I had a unexpected sirurgy, I had to take appendix out. It was a miracle how everything happened and God's hands was over the whole thing. I saw the doctor last Monday and he said I look good! He told me the recuperation would take 6 weeks and no lifting weight before it! It's been almost 3 weeks now!

Being away for so long from home and all the sirurgy thing made me very homesick!!! God bless you and Thanks for all your support and prayers!

A day before I get in the hospital, I was helping out with VBS at Oak Hills Church! Kids made a Brazilian chocolate dessert, brigadeiro!

Teaching a Portuguese children song in Portuguese for the kids at the VBS!

Visits at Home! Judy and Amanda!

More visits! Stefanie and her mom!

Evry Middleton made me a cake at Arts Camps! So cute!

More visitis, but this one is a special one, BRAZILIAN visit! Patricia!

Dear friends, Robert and Cathy, shared with Amy Middleton to take care of me after the hospital!

So spoiloed, breakfast outside!

Back to my life!!! (I was in pain that day!) Sharing at First Baptist of Aurburn!

Dear friends came to see us at FBA!

Lunch with Steve and Kim Clarson!

Becky and Patrina!!

Becky's family!

Becky's beautiful family!

My hospital experience with God and my friends!

It's Tati Time!

Here it goes some pats of my newsletter I recently sent out!

Hi!! Maybe you have wondered why I say “Tati’s time”??? Let me explain. In the summer of 2010, we were hosting a short term trip from Oak Hills with Pastor David Holcomb. Since I am so short and look more like one of the kids, David (being really tall and loud) starting catching everyone’s attention for me by singing “It’s Tati Time!” LOL Now that I have your attention, enjoy my newsletter!!!


It’s been 5 months I’m in the USA and I’m getting ready to go back home!!! God’s doing amazing things among the youth at our church, Pastor Heider Quintino, who has been attending our church for about one year is being used by God in amazing ways to reach those young ones. Pastor Heider is co leading our youth choir with Michael Pupo while Wellington is gone and building strong relationships with them. As a result of his dedication many of them are on fire for God and getting involved in leadership training, discipleship and evangelism! Praise God!


Although I am sad to be missing all the exciting things happening at home, I can see that God is growing me so much in this time away. He is using this time to shape me in certain areas of my life that being here have allowed me to see and work on with Christ. Thank you Lord for being so gracious to me!

Life is busy here, just like at home but in a different way. Raising support takes a lot of effort and the results take a long time to see, adding to that my own personal prob-lems and it gives space to worry. I’m learning to live by Prov 3:5-7 Trust in the LORD with all your heart; and lean not on your own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he will direct your paths. Do not be wise in your own eyes.

Sometimes, unless a big thing happens we don’t feel God is moving, we lean on our own understanding and trust what we “think” we are seeing...But check out what I learned: “There are times when there is no illumination and no thrill, but just the daily round, the common task. Routine is God's way of saving us between our times of inspiration. Do not expect God always to give you His thrilling minutes, but learn to live in the domain of drudgery by the power of God.” Oswald Chambers.

He is taking care of every little and big thing! He is the crea-tor, worthy to be praised! I’ve learned more than ever if I seek His face He will move in amazing ways that I didn’t know…. While I was busy with details He raised my support to 59% in May and He has brought me to 73% last month!!! At the same time He has also been working out vital aspects of our relationship! I didn’t real-ize how many BIG things God has been doing until I came to the place of worshiping Him and Him alone for who He is, not for what He is doing for me. When I do this I don’t give space to worry but in-stead sing a newsong to the Lord!!!

Praise the LORD, all you nations; extol him, all you peoples. For 

great is his love toward us, and the faithfulness of the LORD 

endures forever. Praise the LORD. Psalm 117:1

Prayer Requests...

. Please continue to pray for my mom, Adesia. 

They 

found problems with her 

thyroid. She is taking med

icines to see if it correct 

this. Also she has had back 

problems for a long time 

and she might need to 

have surgery because it’s 

not healing. 

. For all the 600 children 

we work with, for God to 

break their chains in Jesus! 

. Again, that God would 

continue to draw me closer 

to Him through my last 

month in the USA and forev

er!

For people and churches 

respond to the Holy Spirit 

as He touches them to part

ner with us!

Thank you a lot!!! God bless you,

Tati

Unexpected surgery! Praise the Lord!!

Wenesday, July 13th I read Pslams 130 and verse 7 called out my attention: srael, put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is unfailing love and with him is full redemption”. God’s love never fails, it is faithful. it was about 8 pm when I was going to meet my friend Emily (who has been to Brazil couple times) , I was having stomach pain so I decided to stop by Walgreens to get medicine, in the way I felt strong pain really low in my stomach area,  when I got to the drugstore I couldn’t barely walk or breath, I called Emily and she came to me cause I couldnt drive at all.  Emily is nurse, and she adviced me to go to the hospital, but I didn’t want to go cause I thought it was the stomach pain that I usually get from my gastrites, when I got home the pain was worse and she said to me I was having apendicites syntoms and she took me to the hospital. I haven’t had a chance to see much Emily while I’m uphere and that’s why we were going to hang out that evening. God’s love is faithful, in that day I was going to hang out with a friend who is a nurse!

In the way to the hospital the pain was getting worse, I never felt such a pain like this, when I got the the hopsital lobby I couldn’t stand that pain anymore and I was crying and shouting: Jesus resuce me! (in Português, probably nobody understood...). After 26 minutes I was seen by the doctor and the procedures started, doctor, exams, pain medication...when they gave me ‘morfine” I asked “Am I dying?” Everyone laughed! I said that in Brazil the yonly use morfine when someone is about to die! The ytold me taht in USA americans don’t like to be in pain!

After couple hours the doctor came back and said: you have apendicites and you will have sirurgery tomorrow morning. Very calm I asked 2 questions: why do I have it and how bad is it? He told me it is unluckyness and they would only find out how bad when they opened it.  The peace that surpasses all the understanding came upon me, the reason I was claiming Jesus in the lobby, was because I could feel in the bottom of my heart the Holy Spirit warning me about the sirurgy, so all I could do was cry out Jesus name! 

It was amazing how I handled in the Holy Spirit strengh with all that, I didn’t panicany moment and all the times I cryed I was reconizing tht I’m nothing and God has blessed me with so much!

I had 20 visits in the hospital, five of them didn’t leave the hospital until I had the surgery. Many people praying for me in Brrazil and in USA, I got many encouraging facebook messages through my cel phone.  Every time I looked to all my friends at the hospital with me I thanked them and cryed, cause with the Lord is unfailing love. He prepars everything, we only have to cry out to Him.

One of the times i went to the bathroom I needed help of two people, I was so dizzy and I cryed, cryed because we are nothing, we are doing well and all of the sudden we can be taken out of this Earth in couple secconds. But God is everything, above all and He loves us. The reason I was crying didn’t have to do with me and with my wekness but it had to do with Him and His love!

On Thrusday evening (July 15), before the sirurgery I was calm, no crying and ready, cause I knew that the Lord Jesus already had rescued me. Who knnows me would never expect I would be so calm in such a situation like that, but when we gave space to Jesus, we live out that verse:  I no longer live but Christ lives in me, also the other one: when I am weak then I am strong!

I witnessed to the nurses in the post op room (I don’t even know how cause I was was so loope). Received more God’s love through my brother and sisters who kept visiting me and I was discharged on Friday afternoon. I left the hospital with my debts mostly like forgave, as my insurance expired and I was unable to renew cause the insurance denayed since I’m not in Brazil, I would have to pay the bill but Jesus took care of it and because I’m a missionary and a doctor friend of us talekd wit hthe hospital they might covered it by the charity department. 

This testimony it’s for God’s glory, cause when I cryed out, He answered me;, He greatly emboldened me. This was the pslam I read in the morning after the surgery, 138. His loves endures forever,  He does not abandon the works of His hands...

God bless you,

Thanks for all your prayers!

Tati

Judi Lee, Diane Slusher and Cathy Sanchez - They stayed with me all day long on Thrusday. Diane spent the 2 nights with me at the hospital!

Colene Isaacs and Amy Middleton (my hosting mom!), they also stayed all day long in the hospital, Colene drove 3 hours all way from Morgan Hill to Folsom!

Robert Sanchez! I love him! Their granddaughter Angel got to hang out with me in the hospital!!!

Pastor Kent Carlson - Oak Hills Church

What a special treatment!

Dr Eslami, he did my surgery!

Salwa and Lynn, what a lovely visit!

Carol Henderson, great friend!

Stacy and her whole family! So sweet!

Finally leaving the hospital!

39 days left!!!

Hello!!!

39 days and I'll be back to Brazil! I enjoy A LOT being uphere with all my brothers and sisters in Christ but I'm getting home sick! I feel like those last days will fly out once I still got a lot going on my calendar! Meeting with different people, hosting desserts, seeing people that I haven't had a chance to see yet and get together for the last time with friends!

California it's beautiful! I got a chance to meet and visit with different people in couple different cities, I've been in Modesto, Reno, Los Banos, San Jose, Ceres, Morgan Hill, Gilroy, etc.

I thank God for this opportunity to meet His people all around, I'm very welcomed wherever I go and I know it's God working cause I couldn't do it on my own!!!

Thanks for all your prayers!!! Keep praying it isn't over!!! I feel like there is so much more to learn and see!!! God bless you!!!!

Very Tired!!!

It's been 4 months I've been up here, lately I've been so busy just as I'm busy in Brazil, which is good and keeps me on shape and prepared to come back! But I get really tired, there is a lot work to keep communication, trying to get new contacts and speaking in different places. But the Lord is good and I'm sure He had this time prepared for me....

I've have had stomach problems for many years and got worse here, I was in emergency room couple weeks ago, so I'm under medication and (trying) to be in a strict diet, when you travel it is hard...

Something really sad happened, my uncle, my brother's father passed away yesterday. He was 49. I felt really sad for not being there for my family, but I rejoice in the Lord that he is saved, he is christian and past week he told his family he was feeling that his end was approaching but he was ready to be with the Lord.

Being a missionary bring its challenges...raising support, being away of family in times like this, etc, etc, etc...but it is God who enable us to do His work and He takes care of us...Even if we do, we don't need to worry..."In the multitude of my thoughts within me Thy comforts delight my soul" Psalms 94:19


We all are called to show Jesus to this fallen world...so we can be an instrument in God's hand to bring as many people who we know to enjoy Heaven with us! God bless you, I really appreciate your prayers! Enjoy my pictures sharing in different places!!!

Sharing about Serving at Northwest Hills Community Church in Corvallis

Sharing at First Baptist of Salem

Easter with my hosting family!!!

Sharing at Bridge Community Church, Los Altos - CA

Sharing at a potluck lunch at Bridge Community Church - Good time with people who has invested in the ministry for so long and visited Brazil when I was 19....

We shared at Rolling Hills Church college group, with dear Pr Jake Larson!!! What a blessing!!! When the Lord first spoke to me about being a missionary I was in a hike that Pr Jake organized many years ago!!!

Sharing at Noland's family in Fair Oaks- CA

Sharing at Vanderlene's home!!!

We had a delicious feijoada at Vanderlene's house!!!

Sharing at San Francisco Worship Center, my first church to get on board!!!!

Sharing about the miracle God did in my parents life years ago!!!

Sharing at Women Missionary Circle in Los Altos - CA

Sharing at Morgan Hill Bible Church, a loving church who already partner with the ministry and will support me as well!!!