Representatives of Baptist Global Relief (BGR) and the International Mission Board are seeking ways to help Venezuela as most parts of the country are coping with the nation’s second round of power outages in less than a month.
After a week with no electricity, water shortages and food spoilage is a way of life, while hospitals, businesses and schools are closed.
For the vast majority of Venezuelans, believers and nonbelievers alike, life is strictly about survival. Yet Baptists in the devastated nation are looking for and finding ways to share the light of Christ as they minister to those around them.
Baptist work is going forward in 23 of the nation’s 24 states. At an associational/regional level programs have been in place since last year to help pastoral families with basic pantry items once a month through The RaVenz Project. Additional programs are providing food for church feeding centers directed to the most vulnerable in the community such as children, pregnant and nursing mothers and the elderly.
To give to help relief efforts in Venezuela go to gobgr.org. (BP)
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