tWiNs oN tHe LaNd...

Yep, my sister Edna and Paulo came to visit with the twins, Nelson and Joshua, and the proud sister Pamela...
It was such a nice time...and the babies are getting more and more beautiful...of course !!!
They came twice and the second time they brought my cousins from Castelo Branco, Nela and her daugther Ana...sorry, I didn't take pictures :-/... it was nice coz they could stay for the opening of our 24-7 prayer week... we had a nice time sharing the Bread and Wine around the fire place...remembering the body and the blood Jesus offered in our behalf...
Thank you Jesus for forgiving all of our failures and welcoming us all into your family...Thanks for settings us free, and for accepting us just the way we are...
Your Love is amazing and I guess never fully understood by our human minds and hearts... I'd like to grasp it more ...

DiReCtIoNs 2 tHe mOuNt oF oAkS...

wow, more and more people start to arrive... Anne and Jonathan from Germany are on their way now, and also Lucy and another one I forgot the name now, they come from UK...Emma is also somewhere around Barcelone and will get here hopefully soon...Lyna and Cami already arrived from France and we already had a fun night yesterday around the fire together with Judith and Simone, and of course Anne who's still here till September...
It's so nice to have "da famaly" back together...most of these I already have a deep connection for previous trips and gatherings for the past 2 years...
But anyway, I just want to let everyone now about the directions to come to the land, coz it's getting almost impossible to walk back and forth to the train station to get people :-)

So, for all those who will be coming in the future, keep this post in your favourits :-)


If you come BY TRAIN, you have to leave in CASTELO NOVO, this is between "Castelo Branco" and "Fundao" or "Covilha"...
coming out of the train you go to your right and start walking...you will cross the car road and you should keep walking beside the rail track on the right side...soon you'll see a sign hanged on a tree saying "Mount of Oaks" (red letters on a black flat stone)... you keep walking...after maybe 10 minutes you will see another sign on your right, both in portuguese and english, turn there...
a bit ahead you will find another sign next to some stone houses for you to keep going on the road....you'll be almost there, but you still have maybe 10 minutes to the next sign...this will point to your right and right after you will see another one pointing left...you go through some tiny pine forest till you get to a fence...you will see the signs pointing right, but you have to cross the fence...you have to lift one of the ends and please, live it closed the way it was...
so, then you just need to follow the fence till you get to the land, you will see from afar the water barels that stand on a little tower, and once you see our big pond go down to the house to your left...
Easy, ne ?!!!


If you come by CAR, you have to get the high way A23, between "Guarda" and "Entroncamento", and you leave on the exit "CASTELO NOVO" (but you don't go to Castelo Novo, we are on the oposite side), follow the directions to "ALPEDRINHA" and you will eventually turn left, entering on a national road, the N18, towards "Alpedrinha"... you don't drive much there, and you will see a sign next to an old house with "MONT OF OAKS" and "MONTE DOS CARVALHOS" (we'll put that one soon)...
you will enter a country side dirt road full of wholes :-) and you keep going... you'll pass the rail tracks, PLEASE DO STOP AND LOOK, and you keep going...then you will find different signs on your way , but if you have doubts the turns are always to your right... The last turn is almost a "turning back", so , be aware so you don't miss it :-)... then you'll go down hill and up hill (to the left side), and you're in the land already...


WELCOME HOME !!!!

O.k, I hope now it's clear :)

If you get lost, don't stress out, maybe it's part of your journey...you might meet someone on the road, maybe on a donkey cart, who will lead you on the way :-)

PEACE to ALL...

here Whitney and Anne, who helped me to make and put up some signs:-) Thank you girls :-)


And we're also making some signs on the land :-) Just in case you are in an emergency and you're ashamed to ask where you can shit :-) eh, eh...

24-7 pRaYeR cAmp @ mOuNt oF oAkS

we're gonna have a 24 hour week of prayer at the Mount of Oaks...
we'll not have a room to pray , but we'll have a nice place in one of our little forests...Anne, Oona, Whitney, Lopes, Silvia and Joel are some of those who have been helping to make the forest a nice cozy place for us to meet God around the clock for one week...
It will happen from the 22 to the 29th, this month...well, next week...from wednesday to wednesday...
we'll have a shelter for coorporate times of worship and we'll have some discussion groups under some trees about prayer...
I'll ask your prayers for this... I know it's too on time, but I haven't been having much time to organize things...
Anyway...we just need to provide the place for people to pray...

there are some portuguese young people coming and everyone will come ready to camp and seek God...
we'll also serve the village in different ways, like visiting some old people in a day centre or at their homes... we might make a party for the young people in the "Club", but we'll see how things go :-)

IF YOU ARE AROUND...COME !!!
IF YOU'RE NOT, JOIN US IN PRAYER !!!
I feel we'll not be too many, but it's just a first step to make this place "a safe place to pray for this nation"... that's what I felt God telling me when we were about to buy this land... I'm noty totally sure of what He meant by that, but I do feel he wants to meet people here...and He wants to lead people here to pray ...
TEACH US GOD !!!!
AWAKE US HOLY SPIRIT !!!!