Donald J.Trump amplifies missionary Cory Kilgus crossing into Venezuela to deliver aid
shared a post from Calvary Chapel pastor Cory Kilgus showing his team entering Venezuela at a border checkpoint on June 28, 2026.
shared a post from Calvary Chapel pastor Cory Kilgus showing his team entering Venezuela at a border checkpoint on June 28, 2026.
WHITE HOUSE — Donald J.Trump amplified a post from missionary Cory Kilgus announcing his team had entered Venezuela to provide aid on a Truth Social post on June 28, 2026 at 9:16 PM EST.
Here is the full post (see truthsocial): “Cory Kilgus @CoryKilgus Our team is in Venezuela and on the way to help! >PP 120 OED 3:20 PM · Jun 28, 2026 · 245 Views VENEZUELA”
The post included two photographs. The first showed roughly five people seated inside a vehicle, smiling at the camera, with one person holding an open passport. The second depicted the team’s vehicle approaching a border checkpoint with large blue letters reading “VENEZUELA” and Venezuelan flags flying overhead, consistent with a major Colombian-Venezuelan crossing point.
Cory Kilgus is the director of Calvary Bible Institute Peru and a pastor ordained in 2015 by Calvary Chapel Fort Bragg in California (see ccphilly.org). He and his wife Danielle have served as missionaries in South America since 2013, planting Calvary Trujillo in Peru and launching a full-time discipleship program that now enrolls more than 50 students from eight countries (see Google). The couple has four children, all born in Peru.
Missionary Cory Kilgus posted an update on Truth Social on 06/28/2026. The post announced his team's entry into Venezuela to deliver aid amid the country's humanitarian crisis and was amplified by former President Donald J.
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Calvary Trujillo has drawn many Venezuelan immigrants to its congregation amid Venezuela’s ongoing humanitarian crisis. The church started a discipleship house specifically for Venezuelans and has trained church planters who have expanded into other South American cities (see ccphilly.org). Kilgus also serves on the Calvary Chapel leadership team for Latin America and sits on the board of Christian Surfers Peru.
The nature of the aid Kilgus’s team plans to deliver in Venezuela was not specified in the post. Venezuela has faced years of economic collapse, food shortages and mass emigration that have drawn international concern and prompted various religious and humanitarian organizations to mount relief efforts in the country.
In the last 30 days, 89 of 617 Trump posts on Truth Social addressed the topic of foreign policy.
Source: Zenger real-time database of all Truth Social posts.
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