Guess where we were in the picture? You bet, we arrived here in Venezuela! We couldn't thank God enough for letting Alicia and Lisa to enter the country without a hitch. Praise to our loving heavenly Father for His protection and provision. Thank God for being in our team as our great translators together with Muling. Wait a min, where is Muling in the picture??
After starving for hours (just kidding, we actually enjoyed a late night meal in the plane), we enjoyed our first breakfast in Venezuela. See how hungry Alicia, Lisa, and Vivian were :D
We were actually worrying about Muling when we were having breakfast because we lost touch of her. She landed in Venezuela in the evening of 6/19 but our friends missed her at the airport and couldn't find her till 3:30 AM. We couldn't get a hold of her nor heard from her. We decided to head to the hosting church. After an hour, Muling called us and we united, yay!
After our first lunch in Venezuela, we had a meeting and prayed together before we visited our brothers and sisters in Christ in downtown Caracas.
You might wonder how Venezuela looks like. I had the same question too before I came. Here's a picture of some housing of the needy people in the society. These houses aren't structurally sound and many of them collapsed during a landslide a few years ago. When our car drove close to these hills, we could see tons of bags of trash were on the hills. Thanks to Minister Chan and Fernando for helping us know more about this country and the life of people. They also told us traffic could be very bad (I mean, VERY bad) here so people might be real late for meetings (well, no one is considered late, it's all the traffic's fault, right?:)
We were divided into two teams and each team visited a few people who were working in different stores. They all welcomed us. We're learning a lot about their life and challenges facing them. Some of them showed strong faith in Christ and they're our encouragers. We're blessed to hear how Jesus has changed their lives and continues to lead them to live an abundant life. God is an awesome and God of everyone! We were also thankful for some brothers and sisters in Christ to take the day off to accompany us the whole day. They're great hosts!
In the evening, Dr. Wan gave a talk on "3 secrets of coworking" based on Paul's coworking experience with his brothers and sisters in Christ. There were about 30-40 attendees and the presentation was well received. We're so encouraged to see so many people at the workshop.
After the workshop, we had a briefing before bed. It was an eventful day filled with God's joy and peace. Time to go bed now, zzz.
4 comments:
Wow, wonderful!
When I read Vivian's excellent report on what you have done so far, I wondered why God loves us that much. The diversity of your team is so amazing and is definitely God's doing.
Last night, during the prayer meeting, I was touched by someone's prayer about the missions trip to Venezuela. It made me cry.
Well, enjoy the fruit! Eat more and keep healthy!
I guess I should post on your 1st day not day 0.So.. I post it again.
Love you all.
God accomplishes in his own ways. Beyond what we can imagine. I kept praying for the visa to arrive in time but God answered the prayer in a different way. HE is good. Just trust him! I will be praying for you from Asia soon....
Betty
Great journalistic job in writing up the trip and mission work. I specially like to see the photos as I can go with you and pray to God for the people there.
Samuel Ng
PS - I put these comments on the wrong date. I hope this is the date.
great posting of the events so we know what to pray for you warriors of the gospel!
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