Give Me This Mountain - 40 years on Madeira Island

About Give Me This Mountain - 40 years on Madeira Island

A bi-lingual podcast, each episode is presented in English and in Portuguese. /////////////// ER Potter tells the story of 44 years of mission work in Brazil and Madeira Island, Portugal, and the challenges ("the mountains") he and his wife faced under often-difficult conditions, raising their 4 children in a foreign culture. But each of us have mountains to climb and their story can encourage listeners to conquer their mountains. ///(Port)/// ER Potter conta a história de 44 anos de trabalho como missionário no Brasil e na Ilha da Madeira, Portugal, e os desafios ("montanhas") que ele e a sua esposa enfrentaram em condições muitas vezes difíceis ao criar 4 filhos numa cultura onde eram estrangeiros. Mas todos nós temos montanhas para escalar e a sua história pode encorajar outros de maneira que conquistem as suas próprias montanhas.

Publisher

E R Potter

Category

kids & family · religion & spirituality · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 Mar 2022

Latest episode

26 Mar 2026

Latest episodes

30 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   26 Mar 2026

   GMTM-17 1974-Brazil On-the-Job Training

   In the last full calendar year we were in Brazil, we experienced an entire gamut of situations with no missionary colleague close at hand. It was on-the-job training at its fullest. The video version includes many photos and additional information to illustrate the narrative.

2. 

   18 Jul 2025

   GMTM 16 - 1973(3) - Brazil - When God Slammed the Door Shut

   I had spent the whole year looking for a place to work. So far, none of the doors had ever opened, but now at the end of the year, there was a real opening. We signed a contract on a house and arranged for all our things to be taken 750 miles further south. Everything was packed and ready to ship, but 4 days before the move, God shut that door, too. In a manner of speaking, He slammed it shut in our faces.

3. 

   9 Jul 2025

   GMTM 15 - 1973(2) Brazil - I Didn't Know Where I Was Going

   In this first full year on the mission field, we knew Brazil was our home. With the birth of our son, Jeff, we were fully integrated in the country and the culture, but there was one major question to be resolved: where was God's place for us in this vast country? This episode describes an exploratory trip I made in February. For most of the 4 days on this trip along Brazil's border with Argentina, through some of the most undeveloped territory I ever visited, I didn't know precisely wh...

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