Report #9
Sunday 18th of April.
We were up at 6 am to leave by 7am to go to Lutsk for the morning meetings. We eventually got away with 2 vans and 13 people. It takes just under 3 hours to get there, so is a little tiring but the roads are certainly better than a few years ago.
We all packed into the small room that is useable in their “being renovated” building. Things really take a long time to get done in Ukraine but the building is progressing and is going to be very commodious once it is finished.
The men we had baptized on Saturday, wanted to break bread, so Timothy Sloan interviewed them 10 minutes before meeting and they were received into fellowship. They were very happy and have been told what the assembly is and what the responsibility is to part of one.
Right after the B of B Nick and I ministered the word. We then all went for pizza and headed back home again.
Monday 19th of April..
Because of an invitation to a school in Chevrongrad, where we were last week, Flo wanted us to stay and speak there, so we headed off as early as possible. We were well received and spoke to the whole school in 3 groups of about 100 each. Nick suggested I speak to all three groups which I did. The teachers were very happy and one asked some very interesting questions.
We headed back home so as to be ready for Vadym, Louis and Daniel coming in time for supper and then Nick and I going back to Ivano Frankivsk. Sveta, Vadyms wife came along too as they used her car.
They arrived at about 7pm and we had a good chicken dinner prepared by Flo.
After talking for a while we managed to pack our 4 bags, boxes of bibles and several bundles of adult pampers into the car. Vadym drove in driving rain most of the hour and a half home.
We went round to the new meeting room to unload the bibles and were really impressed with the apartment, it is totally renovated and has all the latest heating and fixtures. Nick and I decided we would move in there in a couple of day and give Vadym and his family their home to them selves. We will come to eat supper with them.
Tuesday 20th of April.
We woke to a miserable rainy day with heavy overcast skies.
We received news from Lviv that owing the volcano catastrophe, Louis & Dan could not leave on Tuesday and not be able to get out for two weeks. This is bad news for Louis, as he needs medication twice a day and he is out of pills already. I think they are getting some in from Kiev. I guess they will stay and work with Flo until they can get home.
We were invited to visit a blind lady Maria, who attends all the meetings and is saved. For the first time for me, she had cooked borsht and chicken and potatoes. Well the bowl of borsht was so large we could have bathed in it, but we struggled through it and the chicken but did not have any potatoes. Maria has two children, an 11 year old boy with a problem, maybe a.d.d or the like, his older sister is in university studying tourism, a nice girl but not saved. We talked with her for a while.
We decided to shop for the things we would need in the new meeting room as Nick is going to try out his culinary expertise on me. (I’m glad I have health insurance!) It took longer than we expected, to shop and we were late for an appointment with a lady who is house-bound but always wants a visit. We rushed in and found bowls of borsht sitting steaming on the table and a massive bowl of mashed potatoes and meat cakes. Well I could only eat half of my borsht and one meat patty.
We ate and ran, as we only had 50 minutes until the meeting in the new room.
We arrived at 4;55 and some people had already arrived. About 16 eventually came and we had a good meeting. They are so glad to see me back and really enjoyed their first “taste” of Nick.
We gave them a challenge to learn the books of the Old Testament, last year many of them learned the New Testament. We’ll see how they do.
Sorry this will be bunched up but I cant get on line until Thursday.
God bless and please pray for Louis and Dan.
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