We’re Here! – Team Venezuela

Thank you for all of your prayers! We got here safely and hit the ground running. We left McAllen at 6:15 PM on Monday, June 22nd, landed in Houston around 8 PM and were welcomed by Belinda’s family who then took us to eat dinner. We left Houston at 11:59 PM and landed in Caracas, Venezuela around 6 AM on June 23rd.

We visited the Mision Ultimo Frontera – Caracas (M. U. F.), a ministry for college students that meets in what used to be Figuras (a women’s gym). They took us to visit the Universidad Central de Venezuela (the oldest university in Venezuela) where we prayerwalked the campus. Keila sang and played guitar while we distributed tracts with information about M.U.F.’s activities to students who came to listen. After lunch, we talked with a group of college students who are looking to start a Christian ministry on their campus. Several of our team members talked about Free Lunch, Choice, Campus Outreach, and other BSM activities and we answered the many questions they had about our ministry.

We then drove to Valencia, about 180 km (112 miles) away and ate dinner at Iglesia Bautista El Trigal, where we met our host families.

Today, we are at Primera Iglesia Bautista de Valencia, where we met with a group of about 20 young musicians, shared a devotional with them, and then talked about the essentials of being in a band. Although the “talk” ended about 45 minutes ago, there are still students talking to the band members about music and their instruments! =)

We are now preparing for the three concerts in which the band will be performing tonight, tomorrow, and Thursday evening. The concerts make up La Semana de la Paz y de la No Violencia, sponsored by the Convencion National Bautista de Venezuela, The Union Nacional Bautista de Jovenes, the M.U.F. de Valencia, and other Christian groups. Given the current political situation, the organizers changed the band’s original name of Red Door to “Del Valle de Texas.” We’ll try to post up a picture of the posters soon.

Please continue praying for our team and our ministry.
Pray for:

-Our team’s health (6/9 of us are sick)
-Venezuelan Christian college students (There is a lot of political unrest happening on the actual campuses.)
-The MUFs in Venezuela (who are actively seeking to reach college students with the Gospel)
-La Semana de La Paz y de La No Mas Violencia (We’ll be at the Universidad de Carabobo in Valencia tomorrow and Thursday)
-The college students we will be sharing the Gospel with these two weeks

We’ll post again soon.