Sunday Worship in South America

Many of us learned today that Sunday worship in South America, while similar in many ways to worship in North America, is quite different in many ways. The team divided up today and attended about 15 different churches across the city of Caracas. We have heard many wonderful testimonies from the different team members as they have returned to the hotel tonight. One of our teams was on their way back to the hotel after church and Rogelio led the taxi driver to the Lord! You never know when the Lord will put an opportunity to lead another soul to heaven...whether you are in Caracas or at home! Another team member left his Bible in a taxi, with money in the Bible...within a half hour, the taxi was back and the driver, who found the Bible, returned it and the money! Many saw people come forward in the church services this morning although we do not have a total count. Kerry and I went with Buck and our interpreter friend, Ladimiro, to a park where over 200 volunteers from all over the country are coming in to help in the churches this week. They come to the park to register and get their assignment. We saw many friends whom we have met on our previous visits to Venezuela. Then we went to Emanuel Baptist where they have 3 services, each one TWO HOURS LONG! Gloria a Dios! as they say here! We also had a group of young people come in to serve as interpreters for us...about 15 of them. They come from all over the country and part of a ministry called E-3 or Global Missions.

While so many wonderful things are happening and the Lord is working miraculously in big and small ways, Satan is also at work, bringing up petty little things to have to be dealt with...such a bother! Please pray that Satan be bound and that he will have no power whatsoever in the midst of this huge city this week.

We are excited as our team members will be going out tomorrow to visit in the neighborhoods and as we begin our baseball clinics. We agreed as a team on Saturday to claim 1000 young souls for Christ through the baseball clinics...won't you join with us in praying this? Pray for our team members. Continue to pray for Kerry and me as we oversee all that is going on...it is a huge task which we have never done before, but an exciting task that God has given us to do.

It is late...I will report back tomorrow!!!

Love to all,
Diane