Report #1 dated Tuesday March 15th 2011.
Everything went well on Sunday morning as David, my middle son, drove me to Winnipeg at 4:15am for my 6:20am flight to Toronto. God graciously gave us clear roads after the roads had been closed until Saturday noon with ice and blowing snow.
The wait in Toronto was long and boring except for a very nice talk with a young lady from Newfoundland, on her way home from teaching in Soul Korea. I was able to give her my testimony and God’s plan of salvation. She was very interested and it passed a good 1 ½ hours.
Dan arrived and we got the LOT Air plane in good time. It was not full and we both got an outside seat with an empty one in the middle. Good for stretching long legs in. We arrived on time in Warsaw and made a good connection to Lviv. Only one snag, Dan’s one and only bag did not arrive and was not in Warsaw either. A tracer has been put on it and he should get it on Thursday when the next LOT flight comes in.
We were met by Flo and Ruslan and were glad that the Customs didn’t ask anything about my bags. We were worried about the seeds we had brought to give away, but no problems.
We were able to have a nap before supper but thankfully were still able to get 7 hours sleep.
Tuesday we had to change our Canadian or US money. The exchange rate is good for us but not for the Ukrainian economy. Canadian was 8.2Rhivney and US was 7.94Rhivney per dollar.
We then picked up some sewing material for one of the orphanages then headed out to deliver some goods to Vileky Luben (Great Love), one of our favourite orphanages since we first came here. It has about 120 children, some of which are mentally challenged. We had a very nice time talking over the Scriptures with the Director and then we spoke to most of the kids and staff in their auditorium. After a light lunch with the director we headed home.
To say the least, our jet-lag caught up in the evening and Dan didn’t get to sleep until about 3am. I slept like a log.
Wednesday we woke to a heavy foggy morning but what turned out to be a lovely sunny warm day.
We left at about 10am to travel to the orphanage in Lopartin. That is also one the orphanages we have visited and helped for years. It is the one that we helped build a bathhouse for, many years ago. We were to take the material we got yesterday but we forgot it, as we were taking a box of clothes as well as toilet paper and other necessities as well. We had our usual great reception. After lunch with the director, a lady, we met all the children in the auditorium and Dan spoke very well on the Lost Sheep. There are 125 kids there and most of them were in the meeting and many staff.
We headed home for supper made by Flo, cabbage rolls with chopped beef. Time for a quick nap before meeting at 7pm. Just 12 of us out as quite a number either working or sick. We both spoke and there seemed to be good interest. After a time of fellowship and a small lunch, they went home, but want a meeting on Friday as well as the meetings on Sunday.
Malcolm.
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