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Report By Larry Demejo
   
 
 

 

Report By Larry Demejo

 
As I write this, I am finally on my way home on board a United Airline flight from Madrid to Newark. I am so very grateful to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for protecting me and enabling me to get on this flight, as I tried unsuccessfully four times before today to fly out of Rome to the US as a  standby passenger. I am also particularly grateful to my wife, Debbie, and all the other prayer warriors back home and elsewhere, who faithfully interceded on my behalf during this trip. Finally, I thank my son, Michael, a United Airlines pilot, who graciously and persistently kept booking all my flight itineraries and played a major role in making this trip possible for me.
 
It was almost four weeks ago, on July 3rd, when I received an e-mail from Roger Oakland indicating his intention to travel to Rome, Italy this July. After praying about it and consulting with my wife I realized that the Lord wanted me to join Roger and a Christian team of Roger's neighbors from Costa Mesa, California. I had visited Rome, my childhood home for fifteen years, with Roger, on two previous occasions, when he was invited to speak at a prophecy conference and a creation conference.
 
During this trip we visited several sites in Rome, including St. Peter's Basilica and Square, the Roman Forum with the Arch of Titus Vespasian, the Column of the Immaculate Conception (a statue of the Roman Catholic Mary) near the Spanish Steps, the Pantheon, the Holy Stairs chapel and the Basilica of St John Lateran. All of these sites, among many more in Rome, remain vivid representations of the Babylonian influence of paganism in the current ecumenical church. We also took a day trip to the ruins of Pompei, where we witnessed the evidence and consequence of pervasive sexual sin and idolatry in an ancient Roman community of about 11,000 citizens devastated by a volcanic eruption in August of 79 A.D. All along, Roger and the team filmed footage and interviews that Roger plans to use in future video commentaries about the roots of apostasy in our culture and in the post modern church.
 
 
Another significant reason why Roger visited Rome at this particular time was to respond to an invitation to participate at an international conference on green chemistry and sustainable engineering. Roger had submitted an abstract of a paper entitled, "A Christian Perspective on the Environment and How Evolution Could Unite the Religions of the World to Save the Planet", but the conference organizers did not respond in a timely fashion. When we arrived at the conference site in Rome we found out that Roger's paper had been accepted only as a poster by the program committee, so Roger requested and received permission to publish his paper in the conference proceedings.
 
Our team also had an opportunity for sweet fellowship with our brothers and sisters from Calvary Chapel Rome, where, on Wednesday evening and Sunday morning, Roger delivered two inspiring messages from the heart encouraging us to continue to contend for the faith with so many who are deceived, even in the face of opposition from within the evangelical church.
 
I truly believe our Lord used this trip to sow seeds in Italy and back home in the USA and Canada (perhaps even in other places through different channels of communication, like the Internet) that will bear much fruit in the coming days.
 
I thank our Lord Jesus again for calling us on this mission and for giving us the opportunity and privilege to obey Him and serve Him wherever He wants us to go.
 
 

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