Puerto Cumarebo, VENEZUELA
- Bruce & Rhoda Cumming
- Oct 8, 2011
- 2 min read
We have received five phone calls from men in the Puerto Cumarebo, Venezuela assembly telling how the Lord is continuing to bless His work there. When we first lived in Puerto Cumarebo, in 1948, the small company of believers met in a rented house. Then a gospel hall was built and enlarged several times. About forty attended the first annual conference in 1950 and the Lord has graciously blessed His people at the conferences each year.
Last month was the largest conference; ten thousand and thirty meals were served. On Lord’s day around one thousand believers broke bread; there was no room inside the hall for those not in the fellowship.
Before the conference, after two weeks of prayer meetings, the local Christians had four weeks gospel meetings when a number professed to be saved. Then during the conference some who were visitors, and others from the town, professed faith in the Lord and during the "praise meetings" after the conference, still more said they came to Christ.
Very profitable ministry was given at the conference by eleven of the Lord's servants. However, for four years there have been no full-time workers preaching in gospel meetings, only the younger men of the assembly themselves. Most of them we remember when they were boys in the Sunday School.
On the Saturday after conference, twenty-two Christians drove three hours in the old truck Bruce bought in 1980, to a village where they have seen some saved. They cleared a piece of land where they plan to build a gospel hall. Some of the townsfolk there remember a tall white man distributing gospel literature about twenty years ago. That would have been Bruce. God's Word accomplishes that which He pleases and we praise Him for times of visitation.
