Monday, September 29, 2008

The work continues.

Flo Kancir returned to Lviv, Ukraine on Sept 17th for another 3month spell. She reported that the weather is wet and cold and the heat is not on until October, hopefully.
She has not been too far our of town yet as the van needed some work done to it, it is giving more and more trouble as the bad roads take there toll on it.
What she has seen are fields still flooded and the rain still coming. It certainly looks as if the winter will be very tough for the poor people who rely on produce from their gardens.

I talked th Vadym, our man in Ivano Frankivsk on Sunday morning and he told me that Flo was coming to Ivano Frankivsk on Monday the 29th, today. They were hoping to go to Petriliv, a village on the edge of the Carpathian mountains which was devastated by the raging river in the flood of last July.
Houses that had never been affected by the swollen river in times past, were swept away this year, including the Mayor's house. She has been so kind to the people and even hosted some of our missionaries. Flo intends to bring produce to distribute to the people in the village.

Howard Pratt of Kapuskaping and myself will be heading to Ukraine on the 8th of October, for one month. We will help Flo in Lviv for a week and then go to Ivano and try to have meetings there again. Vadym is finding us an apartment to rent.
We will try to keep this blog current once we get there but much depends on the availability of phone lines.