Report #2 From Thursday 12th to Monday 17th October.
Well I thought we had got over my Jetlag rather quickly but found it took longer than I had anticipated. I was not so much tired as not feeling “with it”, so to speak. (And no smart remarks from any of you).I don’t remember much of the days until Thursday. I know we went to Vileky Lubin and took some shoes and boots as well as to Lopartin, where we fitted 125 children with either shoes or boots.
Flo got some amazing deals on boxes of shoes and boots from Canada.
On Thursday we went somewhere local and then picked Howard Pratt up from the airport. He will be here for about 5 weeks. We had the first Bible Study for the fall, in the evening. The van came up from Ivano and brought Louis Smith up to Lviv, as he was to leave for home on Sunday.
The Bibles reading went well with good participation from most of the brethren.
I had planned to go back that night with Dan, but Edmund constrained us to abide with them as fast fell the eventide. I didn’t need any convincing and so we packed my bags in the van and with the help of a GPS, got hopelessly lost in down town Lviv. We eventually found a spot near to Edmund’s apartment and phoned him to come and rescue the perishing. We had a great lunch and a great night’s sleep. We headed off at 9:30am with the same GPS and couldn’t find our way out of town this time. We passed Edmund’s apartment about 3 times, then he phoned us and asked if we were doing ok. We were out of town by then.
Saturday it poured with rain and sleet and I felt of all men most miserable. Dan was determined to go and see if there were any children at the place he had the meetings. The rain had stopped but no kids except for one who came by just as we were leaving. Dan talked to him and told him to come next Saturday if the weather was better.
We then went for lunch and then came home to prepare for meeting: Dan in ministry in Lviv and me in gospel in Ivano Sunday afternoon.
Sunday morning, sharp at 9am we loaded up with 6 plus ourselves and headed to Lviv for the Remembrance Meeting and Ministry to follow. I was great to see everyone again, that I had not seen on Thursday. 22 people broke bread and 6 looked on. It was very encouraging to see.
That reminds me that we had a tour of the newly acquired meeting room that is well on in the renovation. It will be a real blessing, as Flo’s apartment is now far too small.
The meeting room will need flooring and chairs, plus the fixtures for the bathroom and kitchen. This will be done as the Lord supplies.
Today we went to a town Kosiv to visit a young lady Marianna, who is the daughter of Danna and Ivan, the folks from Chernobil, who is a student at college in Kosov, who was hit by a car while crossing a cross walk. She has a fractured, either hip or pelvis and two breaks on the leg, poor girl. Her mother was with her and is sleeping in a 4th bed in the room. The driver couldn’t stop on wet pavement but is paying all their expenses.
We then visited a large School/orphanage and had an interview with the Director who had many questions about us and will make enquiries of some of the school etc we have visited. We hope to get back there.
Back home very tired and now getting ready for meeting tomorrow.
Please keep praying for us and some difficulties we have to address.
Malcolm and Dan.
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