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practiced the play for four hours a day.
They flew into Caracas, the capital of Venezuela late at night and moved into the dormitory of a Catholic seminary where they lived during their stay in the country, she said. They spent one more day rehearsing the play “over and over,” and then were ready to perform.
The first day they went to the major university in Caracas. After that most days “We took the metro to plazas and shopping centers and performed. After that we ministered to the people.”
Billielee explained that they had sheets of paper with “guidelines to salvation in Spanish” which they passed out to people. There was always at least one Spanish interpreter with each team, she said, and “I was able to say the guide to salvation in Spanish. In some places 100 people were saved, in some places only one.”
Asked why she was trying to bring the Christian message to the nominally Catholic Christian nation of Venezuela, Billielee said, “We were trying to get people to accept Jesus in their hearts; we were going to people who don’t know the Lord.”
Some days the team travelled by bus to more remote areas. “We went to a couple of really bad off villages where 15 to 20 people lived in oneroom shacks. We got a lot of people saved there. They accepted more easily. They really needed something,” she said.
Once her team did a performance on a platform that had been placed over a dump. “That was areally poor area. That’s where they held church services,” she said.
Her team did one performance at an all-male prison. “We were told they might strip search us, but they didn’t search us at all,” Billielee said. “We did the performance in the prison yard with the prisoners all around us. We weren’t harmed. If someone had wanted to harm us, the other prisoners wouldn’t have let him.”
At other places they weren’t so lucky. “At some places we got badmouth comments,” she said. “At one village tomatoes were thrown at us. At the university another team had two girls beaten by ‘communists.’ Sometimes we’d head out early in
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