Well we had a good day on Saturday. We went about 40minutes to an orphanage of about 85 kids. We had not been there before but one of the ladies who comes to the meeting, Diana, the lady who is Hepatitis C. She is a sweet Christian lady and knows one of the lady teachers at this orphanage. We were well received but there were only about 20 children at the home as the ones with any relatives at all had gone home for Easter. We took bibles and clothes and spoke to them in the dining room, then we met the director and he was very appreciative of our visit. God willing, we will go back in the future.
We rushed back (Vadym doesn't waste any time in his old Mercedes !!) because our meeting was at 3pm and Flo and the folks were coming from Lviv for the meeting. Vadym's wifewanted us for lunch for one last time so we hurried over and ate our borscht, fish, varneniki (perogies) and rice. Sveta it a wonderful little wife and cook.
While we were eating Ruslan called and said they had arrived but had not eaten so they went to eat and we finished and headed to the Meeting Room.
As we had received so many boots from Eric Fowler and his friend, we thought we should send some to Lviv and so sorted out some sizes to take back with us. About 15 or so people came to meeting and Gilles Plourde and I spoke. We then had a nice lunch together, fitted some more people with boots and began to say our tearfull good-byes. We can only trust that God will keep this little company together, Vadym is committed to do his best to keep the meetings going with subject helps from us in Canada. Pleade pray for help in this area.
Sunday morning came early as we had planned to go to Lutsk for the morning and we planned to start at 7am, but did not get away until after 7:30 am. There were 13 who went along and so we needed a car as well as the van. It was very nice to see the improvements being done to the highways to ready them for the 2012 World Soccer matches to be held in Ukraine. Also one of the stipulations that was required to be in the European Union was to improve their roads. It is really showing in beautiful blacktop highways. Some of the little towns still need a lot of work on their roads.
We arrived at 10:05 but they had not started but the room was packed. Anyway they found seats for us as well as another 10 or so unsaved who arrived later. Wall to wall people but quite a nice meeting with good participation. There were two men also visiting from Ireland but Timothy asked Howard and me to speak, Howard gave ministry on 2 Cor. 5 and I spoke in Gospel at Timothy said there were 17 unsaved present.
As this was the sixth aniversary of the Assembly, a lunch had been prepared for everyone and was a regular feast, even hot chicken pieces. We had taken food with us so added it to theirs.
After lots of picture taking for and with the brethren from Ireland we headed for home in a lovely sunny warm spring day. The storks are perched on their nest all along the trail ,very interesting to watch.
Well we settled here in Lviv with Avrell in Flo's apartment. Gilles and Helene stay in another apartment but sometimes eat with us, it is all very cozy.
Good night. to all.
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