CUBA COMMITMENT

CUBA COMMITMENT

Strange that men would risk their lives to come from Cuba to America. It was reported this week that three Cuban rafters who arrived last week near Lauderdale-by-the-Sea was discharged from Holy Cross Hospital Thursday afternoon. Villavicencio, one of the men traveling by raft, who organized the trip, expressed his dislike of Cuban President Fidel Castro's rule in interviews throughout the past week. He said he was part of a dissident group, the Civic Movement of Jan. 6. ''The Castro government wasn't going to stop me,'' he said last week. Antonio Rodríguez Pantoja, who died on the voyage, also was in the dissident group and served four years in Cuban prison for speaking against the Cuban government. These men risk their lives to get away from Cuba and we are praying for containers and materials to get in. They risked their life because they believed in something. I wonder if we believe in our command to go to the “uttermost part” so much that we would travel by raft and risk casualties. Put feet to your prayers. Get out of your comfort zone this week and experience the ministry for Cuba. Pray publicly for these things and watch the Lord work. God may have a Cuban in your neighborhood that you can train and send back with the Gospel. Remember – “yet ye have not, because ye ask not.”

In HIS Service,

Travis A. Jones

travis@metrobc.org

cuba@metrobc.org

Metropolitan Baptist Church

6051 Azle Ave.

Ft Worth, TX 76135