Marilia, 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 ...

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... , 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 ...

... ago, my mother asked us boys, "Of all the places we've lived, which one felt most like home?" Without hesitation I replied, "Marilia!"   I was the oldest. It was my duty to show my brothers how to deal with it. I didn't want to go back to ...