Venezuela (MNN) — This July, pastors and churches in Venezuela received a shipment of scripture booklets and Bible studies from World Missionary Press for the first time since 2022.
Protests in Caracas against the re-election of Nicolás Maduro, July 2024.
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With current crises in Venezuela, like election disputes, intensified repression, the growing influence of false religions, and the fear of Marxist guerrillas, the dangers can seem all-consuming.
However, Helen Williams with WMP says, there is a hunger for the gospel, and the Word is still going out into these regions.
Booklets are entering the country to meet needs.
Many Christians in Venezuela are first-generation Christians, so there is a need for discipleship and growth in the Word.
“We send [materials] for these pastors to be able to evangelize in their region as they can, but also to disciple and strengthen the new believers,” Williams says.
“We have opportunities there that we are taking as long as there are [open] doors [and] pastors that are willing to take a stand and continue the work.
Excited about the potential of the booklets, many pastors and churches have reached out to WMP in thanks, sending pictures of their street work and street fairs that they are doing to engage the community, sharing food and literature.
“There’s just such a great need and hunger for the Word, and the pastors and the churches, when they see that response, when they see people that are responding to outreach, or Christ’s love, or people caring and sharing the word, it energizes them,” Williams says.
Sometimes these materials are handed out directly, and other times they can be tools to leave so that people can engage with materials if there is no opportunity to meet.
Williams says, “The Word of God can be given and left and put in somebody’s pocket, and we know the Spirit uses that.
“Once the Word gets there and it’s received by someone, then the work begins [and] the genuine work of regeneration and salvation begins and is accomplished in the heart.”
Please pray that WMP will be able to fill the many requests they are receiving from countries around the world.
“We need prayer, our production people particularly, to be able to get the material out to these countries because there are believers in all of these countries waiting for something,” Williams says.
Pray that as people are reached in the country through discipleship and evangelism, it will promote genuine growth in their lives. Pray also for pastors who are beginning street work with the new supplies and opportunities they have.
Header Photo provided by World Missionary Press
