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Give Me This Mountain - 40 years on Madeira Island
E R Potter
29 episodes
3 months ago
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.
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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.
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Episodes (20/29)
Give Me This Mountain - 40 years on Madeira Island
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.
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3 months ago
13 minutes

Give Me This Mountain - 40 years on Madeira Island
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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3 months ago
16 minutes

Give Me This Mountain - 40 years on Madeira Island
GTMT-14 1973 Brazil: Part I - A Car and a Kid
1973 was the first full year we lived in Brazil. In this episode, I take a car 250 miles into the interior, promising to come back and pay for it three weeks later; Abbie asks me to get in bed with her just hours after she had a baby. Then I had to get up in the night and bring a bottle of warm milk from a pan on the wood stove in the hospital kitchen. This story of 1973 is divided into three short segments, with other significant happenings being related in the following two episodes of this...
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4 months ago
10 minutes

Give Me This Mountain - 40 years on Madeira Island
13-P - 1972 - Brasil - Estamos em casa
Este episódio retoma a história de episódio 11, que foi interrompida pelo relato em Ep. 12, ocasionado pela referência aos eventos de 25 de Abril 1973, e sua influência sobre nós. Estes nove meses foram um teste decisivo que determinaria o nosso sucesso ou fracasso na chamada missionária. Se passássemos bem este período, seríamos capazes de passar por qualquer outro teste no campo missionário.O facto de que o português deste episódio está replete de expressões brasileiras é evidência de que a...
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10 months ago
29 minutes

Give Me This Mountain - 40 years on Madeira Island
13-E 1972 This is home
This episode resumes the story I left off in Episode 11, interrupted by the account in Ep. 12 of the events of April 25, 1974, and how they affected our lives. These nine months were a test that would make us or break us as missionaries. If we got through them, we would be able to get through any other test of our call to the mission field. Available in text version.
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10 months ago
20 minutes

Give Me This Mountain - 40 years on Madeira Island
12- E - The Call of God: Carnations, Communists and the CIA
The Bible is full of references to God’s intervention in the lives of individuals and empires, but do we recognize His intervention when it directly affects us in our day? On April 25, 1974, the 48-year-old fascist regime founded by António Salazar in 1926 in Portugal was overthrown in a matter of hours. Not one shot was fired, and this coup went down in history as “the Carnation Revolution”. Two years later, in 1976, we arrived in Madeira, and here are some of the things we witnessed as we a...
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1 year ago
20 minutes

Give Me This Mountain - 40 years on Madeira Island
12-P - A Chamada de Deus: Cravos, Comunistas e a CIA
A Bíblia está cheia de referências à intervenção de Deus na vida de indivíduos e impérios, mas será que reconhecemos Sua intervenção quando ela nos afeta diretamente em nossos dias? Em 25 de abril de 1974, o regime fascista fundado por Salazar em 1926 que durou 48 anos em Portugal foi derrubado em uma questão de horas. Sem um único tiro disparado, este golpe entrou para a história como "a Revolução dos Cravos". Dois anos mais tarde, em 1976, chegámos à Madeira, e aponto aqui algumas das coisa...
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1 year ago
26 minutes

Give Me This Mountain - 40 years on Madeira Island
11-E - 1972 - Brazil at Last!
It had been 9 years since I first knew God had called me to do mission work in Brazil, and I was still in high school. Now, at the “mature” age of 25, I was married and had two small children. We had just spent 15 long, challenging months on the road, staying with people we had never met, in places we had never been, the perfect preparation for our new life in Brazil. We had come to the crucial point where more ingredients were about to be stirred into the recipe of our lives: a new language ...
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1 year ago
11 minutes

Give Me This Mountain - 40 years on Madeira Island
11-P - 1972-Brasil, Finalmente!
Fazia 9 anos desde que eu sabia que Deus tinha me chamado para ser missionário no Brasil. Eu ainda estava no ensino secundário. Agora, com a idade "madura" de 25 anos, eu era casado e tinha dois filhos pequenos. Tínhamos acabado de passar 15 longos, difíceis meses na estrada, ficando com pessoas que nunca tínhamos conhecido, em lugares onde nunca tínhamos estado, a preparação perfeita para nossa nova vida no Brasil. Tínhamos chegado ao ponto crucial em que mais ingredientes seriam introduzido...
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1 year ago
13 minutes

Give Me This Mountain - 40 years on Madeira Island
10-E - 1972: Part 1 - WHEN THE LION ROARED
You can read this episode on my blog page here.In December 1971, we felt we were finally about to begin experiencing the joy of fulfilling God’s call to the mission field. Then within three months, right on the verge of our leaving for Brazil, there was a possibility that it could all come crashing down in the blink of an eye. We were less than a month away from our scheduled departure, when it appeared the rug was about to be pulled out from under us .
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2 years ago
24 minutes

Give Me This Mountain - 40 years on Madeira Island
10-P - 1972: Parte I - QUANDO O LEÃO RUGIU
Pode ler este episódio no meu blog aqui.Em dezembro de 1971, sentimos que finalmente estávamos prestes a começar a experimentar a alegria de cumprir a chamada de Deus para o campo missionário. Então, dentro de três meses, bem na iminência de partirmos para o Brasil, havia a possibilidade de que tudo pudesse desmoronar em um abrir e fechar de olhos. Estávamos a menos de um mês da nossa partida programada, quando parecia que o tapete estava prestes a ser tirado de baixo dos nossos pés.
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2 years ago
31 minutes

Give Me This Mountain - 40 years on Madeira Island
9-P - 1971: Parte IV - COMBATENDO O BOM COMBATE - O Elefante na Sala
Leia o texto deste episódio no meu blog aqui.Quando pensamos em elefantes, a primeira imagem talvez seja de um jardim zoológico. Ou de um circo, embora os tempos tenham mudado, e os elefantes vão perdendo o seu papel no espetáculo. Em various partes do mundo onde o equipamento mecanizado ainda não chegou, são animais de trabalho. E recuando ainda mais no tempo, antes de armas de fogo e canhões terem substituído lanças, flechas, e espadas, elefantes faziam parte do equipamento de guerra. Aníba...
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2 years ago
12 minutes

Give Me This Mountain - 40 years on Madeira Island
9-E - 1971: Part 4 - FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT - The Elephant in the Room
Read the text of this episode on my blog here.We usually think of elephants as zoo animals, and until recently as circus performers. Times have changed even for elephants. In certain parts of the world where mechanized equipment has not arrived, they are work animals. Further back in time, before guns and cannons replaced spears, arrows, and swords, they were military equipment. Hannibal brought his elephants over the Alps when he attacked Rome.There are other elephants that are invisib...
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2 years ago
8 minutes

Give Me This Mountain - 40 years on Madeira Island
8-P - 1971: Parte III- FINANÇAS - DE CROCODILOS A PEPINOS - Siga o dinheiro
Leia o texto deste episódio no meu blog aqui.O apóstolo Paulo é indiscutivelmente o missionário mais conhecido da história. Afinal, ele escreveu cerca de metade do Novo Testamento. Suas palavras à igreja de Filipos no capítulo 4 sobre sua situação financeira revelam que seu apoio variou muito desde não ter nada a ter abundância. Em Corinto (Atos 18), ele passou um tempo fazendo tendas para se sustentar. O nosso apoio também variou muito. Apesar de nunca termos feito tendas, ao longo dos anos ...
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2 years ago
22 minutes

Give Me This Mountain - 40 years on Madeira Island
8-E - 1971 -- Part 3 - FINANCES - FROM CROCODILES TO CUCUMBERS - Follow the money
Read the text of this episode in my blog here. The apostle Paul is arguably the most well-known missionary in history. After all, he wrote about half of the New Testament. His words to the Philippian church in chapter 4 regarding his financial situation reveal that his support varied greatly from having nothing to enjoying abundance. In Corinth (Acts 18), he spent time making tents to support himself. Our support varied widely, too. Although we never made tents, over the years we engaged...
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2 years ago
16 minutes

Give Me This Mountain - 40 years on Madeira Island
7-P - 1971: Parte II - LAR E FAMÍLIA - Os sem-abrigos em nada nos superam
Leia o texto deste episódio no meu blog aqui.Em 1968, os Beatles lançaram a canção, “Yellow Submarine” (Submarino Amarelo), e a única linha da letra que lembro é a frase, “Todos nós vivemos num submarino amarelo”. Penso que até hoje ninguém sabe ao certo o que eles queriam dizer com isso. Em 1971, tivemos a nossa versão, “Todos nós vivemos num Kombi amarelo.” Como família, estávamos muito chegados…fisicamente, pelo menos, e pela graça de Deus, ainda estávamos juntos no final do nosso ano de L...
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2 years ago
16 minutes

Give Me This Mountain - 40 years on Madeira Island
7-E - 1971: Part 2 - HOME AND FAMILY -The Homeless Have Nothing Over Us
Read the text of this episode in my blog here.In 1968, the Beatles came out with the song, “Yellow Submarine”, and the only part of the lyrics I remember is the phrase, “We all live in a yellow submarine”, whatever they meant by that. In 1971, we had our own version, “We all live in a yellow VW bus.” We were a close family…physically, for sure, and by the grace of God we were still together at the end of our year of Home Sweet Home on the Road.
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2 years ago
12 minutes

Give Me This Mountain - 40 years on Madeira Island
6-P - 1971: Parte I - O ELENCO DA PEÇA
Leia o texto deste episodio no meu blog aqui.Quando alguém vai ao teatro para ver uma peça, recebe um programa que inclui a lista dos personagens e uma breve descrição do seu papel na história. Sinto a necessidade de introduzir os personagens principais neste ano da nossa história, pelo menos. A história que estou prestes a contar estende-se por 45 anos, e a lista de personagens em si encheria um livro. A propósito, Guerra e Paz de Tolstoi detém o recorde do maior número de personagens ...
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2 years ago
16 minutes

Give Me This Mountain - 40 years on Madeira Island
6-E 1971: Part 1 - THE CAST - You can't tell the players without a program
Read the text of this episode in my blog here. When one goes to a theater to see a play, they are given a program that includes the list of characters and a brief description of their role in the story. I feel the need to introduce the main characters in this year of our story, at least. The story I’m about to tell spans 45 years, and the list of characters alone would fill a book. By the way, Tolstoy’s War and Peace holds the record for the most named characters in a book…600! For fiction wr...
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2 years ago
11 minutes

Give Me This Mountain - 40 years on Madeira Island
5-P - Alinhados para a partida (1970 - Ano -1)
Depois de anos de preparação, chegou o momento. O tiro da partida foi dado. Mas a corrida não foi de 100m ou 400 metros de estafetas; foi uma maratona de 45 anos, que incluía barreiras- Mal demos a partida quando apareceu uma.
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2 years ago
16 minutes

Give Me This Mountain - 40 years on Madeira Island
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.