Marilia, Sao Paulo, Brazil

... life starts again. How can this be? That when Deb and I first learn of Tim's tragic death we had just arrived in Marilia and were sitting in the pastor's house next to the very church that Tim Maland's father started and built when they first came ...

... , accompanied on the guitar by a wiry physically strong quiet man, the young dedicated lay catechist Bento. The community in Marilia has dwindled greatly but with these three in the lead, it is bound to grow and flourish. Worship is liturgical, no ...

... Brazil in 1962. We stayed one short year in Campinas and then moved to city in the northwest corner of the state of Sao Paulo called Marilia. Marilia was the place of family. Mar ília had become my place of safety, my anchor, the place where I played with ...