God has granted us various opportunities to serve and  to achieve the great commission that He has sent us to do in Venezuela. We have continued to build relationships, strengthening an ongoing children's ministry and had opportunities to lead and participate in the worship ministry at Shalom Baptist Church in El Vigia.

We were also sent to Tabay, Merida, for four days (about three hours away from El Vigia), the main goal was to evangelize in the town. This was truly a learning experience because I had to think about the best way to share God in a short amount of time and to stay focused, I was a messenger to the person who opened the door and I knew it was crucial that I said what God wanted me to say. We knocked door after door everyday to share God with people, we were able to minister to youth, adults and elderly, some people were interested to know more and we were able to arrange second visits with a Tabay missionary that would visit again to share more. Tabay was wonderful, as well as Mucurutan which was about 15min away from Tabay, Mucurutan was the location of our four day host home, mountain scenes surrounded the home, seeing the view was overwhelming beautiful. Here at Mucurutan was the first time in 10 days that I finally got to shower in warm water, it felt great. Our hosts were also kind enough to take us in a Jeep excursion to Sierra Nevada where we were able to walk the mountains and taste the water of Rio Chama.

This week we have began to serve in Jesucristo El Salvador Church (Kilometro 9, Merida), we will be serving in this church for a week through children's and youth ministry, visiting a Mission that the church has, evangelizing and much more, our group has already had an opportunity to lead worship and deliver a message and helped lead the ministries, its amazing how God has worked in this church when they have only been established as a church for 7 months. The people have been very welcoming and are excited to have us serve there. I feel blessed that we have been surrounded with people that have been hospitable to us and want to provide us with the best that they have through out this journey.

There's more work to do! I pray that I continue to have the motivation and strength to continue to wake up early and work hard for His glory.

Shine in Venezuela,