Our schedule

Here is a link to our schedule: link. Fair warning, it's in Spanish.

Basically, here is what I can make out.

Tues:
Phil and Wes arrive

Wed:
Others arrive
10-11 Phil gives a talk on space and the human body/physiology
10-11 Wes gives a talk on pornography
The rest of the team gives talks until 7:30pm

Thu:
Phil gives talks from 10-5:30
Other members of the team speak simultaneously throughout

Fri:
The team starts talks at 9:00
12-2 Phil speaks and in another room a couple of us give our testimony
3:30-6:30 Meetings encouraging Christian professors

Sat:
Meetings throughout the day (I can't understand the Spanish, sorry)

Sun:
Phil and Wes leave at 4:30am to fly home.

There are all sorts of meetings that I left off because I couldn't understand the Spanish, but hopefully you get the gist of it. Ole'

Posted by: Wes

Urgent request

We received the below email prayer requests today from the missionaries in Venezuela arranging our trip. It seems there has been some turbulence. Thanks in advance for any prayers offered up for us.

Please pray for the situation in the public university here in Maracaibo and in light of the team of US professors that were are arriving on Wed. to speak.
Last Thursday in Humanities and on Friday in the Medical School someone threw a gas-bomb. mostly smoke and fumes. this may be in protest to the university elections that are going on right now. these elections are just as political and volatile as the national elections. so today they are considering whether or not to suspend classes, possibly for a day or two or maybe longer.

Starting Wed. through Friday we have 8 evangelistic talks lined up in four different faculties, all pending on if there will be classes. The professors with “Faculty Commons” (CCC US prof. ministry) will be presenting great evangelistic material from a scientific perspective. Plus they will be attacking the issue of pornography here as well. Of course the enemy does not want these powerful messages to be shared and potentially to so many people.
and the Lord wants us to pray more so He can display His glory and power over the enemy and we can see Him transform lives from the kingdom of the Satan to the kingdom of His beloved Son. =)

please forward this to anyone who will also pray with us.
Thank you! In His power and grace, Sheri

Posted by: Wes

5/12 prayer request - Travel

Please pray everyone on our team will make their flight connections and arrive on time.

Thanks.

PS. I added the current weather info for Maracaibo on the right side of this page. Yesterday the “Feels like” peaked at 116.

Posted by: Wes

5/11 prayer request - Stamina

Please pray that the team will get rest. Phil, in particular, will be speaking for many hours each day, some talks are back-to-back-to-back-to-back.

Once the schedule is finalized for the last time, I will post it so you can see who is speaking when.

Thanks a lot for your prayers.

Posted by: Wes

5/10 prayer request - Attendence

Please pray that students and faculty will attend the talks.

The team in Ven is working to advertise and spread the word (and the Word). We hope all the talks will be well attended.

Thanks for your prayers.

PS. You don't have to post your name if you don't want to, but could you post a comment? I'm trying to see if anyone how many people are reading these requests. Thanks.

Posted by: Wes

5/9 prayer request - Health

Please pray that our entire team will stay healthy throughout the trip.

I've heard people say that traveling increases the chances of getting sick (e.g., organisms in the water, sanitation, unique viruses, etc.).

Thanks a lot for your prayers.

Posted by: Wes