Marcus and Tamara Throup

Message

Marcus writes from Recife: "For all the ‘development’ which is taking place, people remain people and it’s much harder to change the human heart than it is the physical landscape. In the last 30 years Brazil registered 1.1 million homicide victims. To put it in perspective, from 1947-2000, 125,000 were killed in the Israeli-Palestine dispute, while 400,000 died in 24 years of civil war in Guatemala. Again, on the day that statistics boasted further growth in the Brazilian economy, I was distributing food parcels with a group of parishioners at our local church plant ‘El Shaddai’. The plant has about 30 members, and some were confirmed last year. Like many city slum dwellers, these people usually get just one meal a day, so the weekly material support from the Cathedral has been a life line." Give thanks for the ministry of the cathedral. Pray for Marcus, who is preparing to give a series of lectures at a Lutheran seminary later this month.

Author

Jeremy Woodham