On New Year's Eve 2020, while a church was climaxing its end of year celebrations, there was a declaration heard from the preacher of an impending eruption of the La Soufriere volcano located in the island St. Vincent off the coast of Venezuela. The preacher had witnessed one week earlier, the early signs of a volcanic eruption when he had gone on a hike to the volcano with some of his friends. That expedition reminded him of familiar signs that he had seen on a similar hike in 1979 when he had alsoclimbed to the summit before the volcanic eruption of that year. The popular and amusing cliche, "me nah go back ah Soufriere," echoed from his lips - and the congregation chuckled - but his facial expression betrayed the gravity of his thoughts. Beforethe end of his sermon, he declared a more precise prediction that was seemingly based on his previous experience. He boldly declared that sometime in April 2021, there would be a volcanic eruption. And it was so. The preacher, being one of the persons who ascended to the summit and had made his own verifications, offered special prayer that night on New Year's Eve for the nation that there may not be any loss of lives, and that the destruction of the volcano, if any, would not be as expansive and devastating as the previous 1902 and 1979 eruptions.
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