Worship in Caracas

Today we worshiped in two churches. In the morning we attended the worship service at "Iglesia Bautista." We only had to sing two songs. Joining us was another church from Canada that had another STM team. Their pastor gave the message. After service the members of the church cook lunch for everyone. This church has about 40-50 people including children. Mostly are women. But in spite of the lack of man (or woman) power they whipped out food very quickly. That is thanks for the commercial wok stove that puts out mega btu's that cook things very fast.







In the afternoon, we went to "Iglesia De Cristo" which is the other Chinese church in Caracas. Our team took over their entire service. Our team split up and we taught 3 separate Sunday Schools. Their Sunday School normally starts at 3pm and their service at 4:0pm. I taught their young people and I had a marvelous time. These guys/gals were so right on and we had great time sharing and learning on 1 Sam 26.





After the Sunday School we lead worship and Pastor Stanley gave the message. I translated to Spanish. I think I did better than last time because Stanley used more conversational Cantonese. This was the second time I translated this message, but I still got a blessing from it.





After the service, they gave us hats and again: food. They cooked dinner and we again had a great time talking and sharing.






When we got back to "Iglesia Bautista" we had our last briefing. However, Kenny and I tried to play a prank on Dr Wan. We wanted him to sing a song and do hand movements for "InRight, OutRight, UpRight and DownRight." He very smoothly talked out of singing, but we got him to do the hand movements. We had a lot of laugh and we also took a video which we will post later.


So here am I, typing these last words from Venezuela. Hope that we had a safe trip back home tomorrow and after that, we are going to have to discuss and evaluate our long term missions strategy. However, we owe this trip to Dr Wan. Without his leadership and help we would had never have this experience and for that we are thankful. So here's is to Dr Wan.





Vincent