The Rick & Bubba Message Travels to Venezuela


One of the things our mission team from Hunter Street Baptist Church was working on in Venezuela was the renovation of a playground in a park. Here I am with members of the newly elected park board from the community of Lecumberry.

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In addition to spiritual food regular food was important too. One of the places we ate was this really good hot dog (or perros calientes) stand.

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Another shot of me with the owner of the food stand.

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I had a hard time finding any big signs that read "Venezuela", so on our shopping day in Caracas I decided to use the handiest thing around -- an auto tag on this Jeep.

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Here is a shot of a typical hillside community in Caracas. Notice how the houses are built almost on top of each other.

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Here's a view of the playground on our celebration day showing kids playing on the newly restored seesaws and carousel.



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Sitting on one of a half dozen picnic tables our group built is one of the pi�atas that was later destroyed by the kids at the celebration. (They did a much better job than Granny in Mickey Dean's story!)



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