Friday Oct 23rd Report # 5
We had several things to do today that took a lot of running around. As I wrote before, we got the Meeting Room back but everything had been piled into boxes and the room was in a mess.
The first thing we did was go looking for a folding table for the ladies to sort clothing on. We went to three stores before settling for a drop leaf table for about $35.00. We then went to meet the banker and pay the room rent and talk about the situation with the room. It seems the building was rented by the local government and they have now found them government property, so the place is empty except for us. He says that we can stay until the end of the year as they are doing a total renovation of the building.
We then went to the Meeting Room and took out boxes of garbage that had accumulated and sorted out the bibles and the many Seed Sowers. We had also bought a wall hanging ceramic heater for the room as we can’t expect the ladies to work in a freezing cold room.
As we were going into the market to buy me some slippers (very expensive, about $5.00 ?) we met Ola one of the ladies who had worked at Solidarity ever since we had been coming. She told us she was no longer part of Solidarity nor was she or her husband going to the meeting at Solidarity. She had her own business now. We were invited to visit her and Oleg in the evening, but as I will relate, we never made it.
It might sound as if we are not doing much “missionary” work, but there are days when one has to get things in order and we do give out tracts and John 3:16 magnets as we shop.
Finale! After supper we headed out to visit Oleg and Ola in a nice Range Rover that Vadym had as he waited for some parts to fix it. We just got on to the main road and it ran out of gas, about 1,000 yds from a gas station. So we pushed it to the pumps and he puts gas in it. We went to leave but it won’t move.
The dash board reads “gear box not engaged” or something like that. We pushed it away from the pumps and after Vadym exhausting every possibility, we towed it home with his other vehicle.
Needless to say, it was too late to visit our friends as we didn’t get in until 10:45pm.
So went a busy day with many little but MOSTLY necessary things
Thank you for your interest and prayers.
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