Wed April 6th
We had a lovely warm sunny day at last with daffodils in bloom as well as many wild flowers. We loaded up 3 boxes of children’s clothes and headed for a large school that we have helped for several years now. It is a long way, through the Carpathian Mountains and is a lovely trip. The Town is right on the Romanian border. It has no gas line to the town; everything is heated by either wood or electricity. The school has 402 students, 250 of them board there from Monday to Friday because they live up in the mountains and cannot get there every day. Oxana, the director has a teaching staff of 70 and support staff of 60. She got 102 of the younger children into the auditorium and I spoke. They were very well behaved. The 6 or so teachers were there too. We gave them all a laminated picture text and left the teachers with colourful bible story books.
We then headed to the market and bus depot and gave out over 100 new testaments. We then went on to another town on the way home and gave the rest of the new testaments out. This cleaned us out so we will get more testaments from Lviv, when Flo comes tomorrow with Max Mc Mclean and his wife.
A good profitable day, we trust. Only eternity will reveal the results.
Thursday April 7th
Another lovely day although it had drizzled a little first thing. As I write this, it is thundering and raining steadily.
We were expecting Flo and the folks from Lviv to spend part of the day with us and so wanted to get some things done and so went to our friendly wholesale shoe warehouse to see what they had.
We had a list of shoe sizes that we had agreed to supply for the orphanage in Yablunov. They sorted them out for us but were a few sizes short; however they were getting a truckload in this afternoon. They said they would phone us when they had them and did so at about 6 pm.
Our original contact in Ivano was Andre Miketin and we knew max McLean wanted to visit him, as it was Max who Andre first met. The traffic was inexcusably terrible today and we knew we would have some problems keeping schedules. Flo and the people from Lviv were late arriving in time to visit Andre and so I with Dan and Vadym went to visit him. We had a very cordial meeting with coffee and cookies and an invitation to have supper with him on Saturday evening.
We had to rush away to speak to the children at a “half-way home” for children who have either been taken off the streets or away from their parents. We have visited this home every time we have visited Ivano and have a standing order to provide help with their foot ware. We were able to take several bags of good shoes from our boxes as well as two boxes of clothing. We spoke to about 15 teens and younger who listened very well. They have one child who is 18 months old.
We left there and went to the apartment to get ready for meeting and wait for Flo and Max and his wife and Edmond Johnson and his wife as they were still with Andre.
A good number of people arrived for meeting, several who had not been, either for a long time or not at all. There were over 30 of us once everyone got there. Max started by giving his testimony and Edmond followed. It was a very good meeting and we trust will meet the need of several unsaved ones present.
Flo and crew headed back to Lviv right away. We went to pick up the 53 pairs of running shoes, ready to take them out tomorrow and then went for supper.
A good day, thank You Lord.
Thank you for praying for the work here.
Malcolm and Dan.
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