Dan's Reports: #15

Sunday, the 4 of March #42

We headed up to Lviv early this morning with 3 from Ivano, one of them was coming
for the first time.
We had a good time with the Lords people. Two young men are visiting from the
States, Steven and Josh. Would be nice to see even more interest from a younger
group of people with a heart to reach the people of Ukraine!
With the roads as bad as they are, we cannot stay too long so left soon after the
breaking of bread. We made it back to Ivano in time for our meeting with a total of
21 people out. After the meeting we had cake and ice cream to welcome Louis back
to Ivano!
Monday made a few calls to some schools but because of the holiday later in the
week they recommended to call the following Monday to plan our visits. The holiday
is called, Women’s Day, all government buildings are closed on this day (anything for
a day off!).
Tuesday we met with the man to get permission to have meetings at the prisons
while Louie and Malcolm are here; then came back to the apartment and revised the
document needed.
We then met for dinner with those coming from Lviv to help in the meeting. It’s
always great for the people here to hear a new voice; Josh and Steven and then
Edmond spoke at the meeting. Afterwards had cake and ice cream to welcome these
visitors to Ivano and was great to see Flo from Canada out too, she just arrived on
Monday. There were 23 in total at the meeting.
Wednesday we had our first visit of the day with a woman name Oksana. She has
been in the hospital for the last 2 months, I think for some kind of mental problems
she has had for years. Later her father came and had a good talk with us both. He
share a little with us how he got his first Bible during communism; it was nice to hear
them both and it seems that they both know the Lord.
Then visited a woman name Antilina at the hospital who was coming to the
meetings. The Bible is very new to her and it was good that Louis gave a breakdown
of how to read and understand the Bible. As Louis prayed before we were leaving
there was a young girl in the room and I notice she bowed her head also, later I ask
her if she speaks English, she said she did and that she was a Christian and knows
Jesus Christ as her Savior. This was great to hear and a rare find here in Ukraine.
Then visited with a women name Natalie who has M.S., though she is severely
handicapped, she is a very pleasant person. Her mother is a music teacher and
played for us a Ukrainian song on the accordion.

We would value prayers for meetings we plan to have at a village on Sunday and
Monday and for our meetings here in Ivano. Also for the home visits, that in all there
would be blessings of salvation for these dear people! Thank You!

In Christ our Lord!
Louie, dan