Cagua is a city of 130,000 people, only half an hour's drive from our home, but there is still no assembly. We've had an exercise to reach out with the gospel for the last number of years. Seven couples and a few single sisters live there and are in fellowship in several assemblies in neighbouring towns. For most of this year, we have had a weekly Bible Reading, gathering the saints together in the home of one of the sisters, considering the first epistle to the Corinthians. We're praying that the Lord will open a door to preach the gospel and see souls saved. There has been a Sunday School in the home of a sister for a number of years, and we trust that this work will also develop.

Samuel & Sharon Ussher and family

Last Saturday, the believers from the assembly in Coromoto went to a large city called La Villa, about half an hour's drive away. They gave out tracts and gospel texts, looking for a door to be opened for the preaching of the gospel. It is a city where my father preached a lot in the 70s and 80s, but it proved difficult to see any permanent result. We ask you to pray that the Lord will open a door and grant blessing there.

Calabozo is a large city in the neighbouring state of Guarico where much labour has been done over the years. My father preached there quite a lot, and later we went every Saturday for two years for openair meetings, but no permanent results were seen. But this year, a number of brethren were led by the Lord to try it again. Our brother Jorge Gomez, a commended worker, has seen fruit from the preaching of the gospel, and it has been an encouragement to know that fruit has been gathered in the areas where the gospel was preached years ago. This encourages us to continue sowing the Good Seed, knowing that it will bring forth fruit in the Lord's time. The brethren were encouraged to purchase a site to build a Gospel Hall. A group of brethren from different assemblies gathered there on Friday to pour the foundations, so we ask you to pray that the Lord will raise up a testimony to His Name there.

We've also been busy building a new Hall for the Palo Negro assembly, as the old building had become unsafe. We have appreciated the prayers of the Lord's people for ourselves and the Lord's work here, and we ask you to continue doing so that the Lord will guide us, preserve us, save our family, and help us in daily life. Pray for the believers here as many pass through difficult circumstances, but we look to the Lord who has promised to be faithful and who has proved to be so down through the years.