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the morning, and when we'd get to the place to perform, they wouldn’t let us. We had to be flexible. Some days we’d wander around all day and perform once.”
Billielee said that there was an effort to follow-up on the people who had been reached. “We’d get their names and addresses and give them to the churches which were our contacts.” She said there was also a “dos amigos" program. They would invite people to attend services with them and write to them.
At the end of their month they flew back to Miami for two days of “debriefing,” Billielee said. "They were telling us how to take what we had learned out into the world and use it.”
She said the best food she had during her trip was on the airline. In Venezuela they ate a dish called “arepas,” a pocket bread stuffed with meat and deep fried. “At first it was good," she said, “but we had it for breakfast, lunch and dinner."
She said crime was a large problem in Venezuela. “There were bars on all the windows and doors; in the villages there were concrete walls with broken glass embedded in the top. My camera was stolen from my room, and one girl had her purse slashed, but nothing was taken. ”
Billielee said her experience had “brought me closer to God. He’s like my closest friend now. There were a couple of days when the whole team was sick. We performed three times a day, and only God’s strength got us through.” She said her role called for her to sit motionless on the ground during much of the play. “You had to be on the hot bricks being burnt. You have to just pray,” she said.
She said the experience had also brought her close to the other members of her team. “It was like a family, everybody was really close. If anything was wrong, they would help you out with problems. I want to go back next year, and I think I want to spend the rest of my life in the ministry,” she said.
Farmland value up
According to statistics released by the USDA’s Agricultural Statistics Service, the value of Virginia’s farmland increased 13 percent in the last year to its highest prices ever. The average price of $1,292 per acre ranked 14th in the country, up from 1,143 last year. New Jersey leads the nation with an average value ol $7,241 per acre.
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