a day in Rio De Janeiro

On our way home from our Vieira, Terasopolis outreach we spent two nights at a church in the heart of Rio De Janeiro. We had A BLAST at this church, we got there in the evening Tuesday March 1st and got to know some of the youth from the church right away. They are all ridiculously talented in music which resulted in many late night jam sessions and dance parties :) We had tons of fun with them in the short time we were there. All day Wednesday we toured Rio. We attempted to go to see the Christ the Redeemer statue but they advised us not to get tickets to take the lift up to see it because the fog was too thick anyways :( So we drove to a lookout point to see if we could see anything.. haha.. nope, nada.. it was so hilarious looking out at everybody starring at a giant white fog cloud :) The entire day was dreary and damp, not quite what you would picture a one day outing to the famous RIO DE JANEIRO to look like haha but it was still fun.
We also spent some time at Copacobana beach.. you know the song.. copa, copa cabana.. haha :) we then headed home to Sao Paulo Thursday morning.

Ooo I almost forgot, before going to the Jesus statue we went to see one of the largest Favelas (slums). There were two huge slums right next  to each other and these slums are rivals which causes lots of death and violence in the slums. A YWAM base is located right in the middle of the slum and has built health clinics, community centers, and offers schooling.

  (jamming out with our new friends)