E R Potter

Give Me This Mountain - 40 years on Madeira Island

Society EN ↓ 30 episodes

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...

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E R Potter

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Mar 26, 2026

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Episodes

GMTM-17 1974-Brazil On-the-Job Training 26.03.2026

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.

GMTM 16 - 1973(3) - Brazil - When God Slammed the Door Shut 18.07.2025

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...

GMTM 15 - 1973(2) Brazil - I Didn't Know Where I Was Going 09.07.2025

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 wit...

GTMT-14 1973 Brazil: Part I - A Car and a Kid 02.07.2025

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 shor...

13-P - 1972 - Brasil - Estamos em casa 20.12.2024

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 f...

13-E 1972 This is home 20.12.2024

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.

12- E - The Call of God: Carnations, Communists and the CIA 05.05.2024

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...

12-P - A Chamada de Deus: Cravos, Comunistas e a CIA 05.05.2024

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 Rev...

11-E - 1972 - Brazil at Last! 07.01.2024

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 po...

11-P - 1972-Brasil, Finalmente! 07.01.2024

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 pa...

10-E - 1972: Part 1 - WHEN THE LION ROARED 06.09.2023

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...

10-P - 1972: Parte I - QUANDO O LEÃO RUGIU 06.09.2023

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 pr...

9-E - 1971: Part 4 - FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT - The Elephant in the Room 02.08.2023

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 brough...

9-P - 1971: Parte IV - COMBATENDO O BOM COMBATE - O Elefante na Sala 02.08.2023

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 t...

8-E - 1971 -- Part 3 - FINANCES - FROM CROCODILES TO CUCUMBERS - Follow the money 01.08.2023

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 hi...

8-P - 1971: Parte III- FINANÇAS - DE CROCODILOS A PEPINOS - Siga o dinheiro 01.08.2023

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 su...

7-E - 1971: Part 2 - HOME AND FAMILY -The Homeless Have Nothing Over Us 01.08.2023

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 t...

7-P - 1971: Parte II - LAR E FAMÍLIA - Os sem-abrigos em nada nos superam 01.08.2023

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 cheg...

6-E 1971: Part 1 - THE CAST - You can't tell the players without a program 31.07.2023

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, To...

6-P - 1971: Parte I - O ELENCO DA PEÇA 31.07.2023

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...

5-E - On your marks, get set... (1970: Year -1) 01.01.2023

This was the culmination of years of preparation. The starting gun had been fired and the race was on.  But it wasn't a 100m dash or 400m relay race. It was the start of a 45-year long marathon that was specially adapted. This marathon included hurdles, one of them right out of the starting block.

5-P - Alinhados para a partida (1970 - Ano -1) 01.01.2023

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.

4-P - Hineni 03.09.2022

Recentemente, uma das nossas noras mencionou que uma sobrinha dela e o marido se preparam para ir para o campo missionário no estrangeiro e perguntou se estaríamos dispostos ou capazes de lhes dar algum conselho?  Este podcast conta a história de mais de 40 anos de vida no campo missionário, mas ainda nem chegámos lá nestes episódios.   Quanto maior for a montanha, mais preparação é necessária.  M...

4-E - Hineni 03.09.2022

Recently one of our daughters-in-law mentioned her niece and husband are preparing to go on the foreign mission field and asked, “Would we be willing or able give them any advice?” This podcast tells the story of over 40 years on the mission field, but in our narration we haven’t even got there yet.    The bigger the mountain, the more preparation that’s needed. But there is one quality that’s ess...

3-P - Meditações sobre uma geração que acaba de passar 16.06.2022

Dito de uma maneira mais simples, a história é a narrativa da passagem de gerações. Obviamente, esta passagem nos toca mais diretamente no seio das relações familiares e está mais visível nas pedras que marcam sepulturas nos cemitérios. Mas esta passagem também acontece no âmbito comercial, profissional, e político. Contar a história desta passagem é uma forma de meditar sobre o impacto que a gera...

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