Dan's Reports: #16

Thursday the 8 of March

Met with a woman name Maria, she has some disease that keeps her from walking. She has been visited for years by the Christians who come to Ukraine. She said she would like to come to the meetings and ask if I could pick her up one day, I said no problem! (When she was able to walk she came to the meetings but not since I have been here) We also had a good talk as she asked about Marry having other children. Louie gave her a few verse showing Jesus step brothers being mention, this was helpful to her and new to Svetlana our interpreter. Then had plans to meet with one woman that lives in the apartment building where we have the meetings but no one was home. We then had our meeting, 17 in total.

Friday took Louie to a pool in the morning where he went swimming, down one of the slides, whirl pool and sauna. I think it did him good, he came out looking 10 years younger! Then invited those at the meeting to come and practice singing some new hymns, about 5 came (no one called the police on us for public disturbance which was good!).

Saturday got ready to distribute clothing to those that come to the meetings, about 16 came, though it got a little crowded and stuffy it went well! Then met with Oleg and had a good talk over dinner at a pizza place about understanding Bible verse on marriage. He then invited us over his house for dessert and then continue talking about the Bible. There is a real thirst that can be seen in Oleg in wanting to understand the Bible and grow in his relationship with the Lord, we pray it continues!

Sunday, we were invited to speak at a town called Hgrushka. We spoke to the people after their special event. It was in a village hall with no heat, during their event some were coming and others started to leave because of the cold. We waited longer than expected; they were singing songs about one of their famous poet’s and reading their own poems. By the time we spoke there were about 50 in the hall. We then gave to all N/T bible text and a gospel tract; some had questions about what we teach and said they would like to hear more. The mayor asked if we can have coffee but we had to get back to Ivano for our meeting. We rushed back barely made it on time but there were still some waiting, about 23 in total and after the meeting had a nice talk with Yaroslav.

Thank You all for your prayers!! Continue to pray for all the meetings here in Ivano that we would see fruits in salvation and spiritual growth, and in all our visitations! We are also waiting permission to visit the prisons while Louie and Malcolm are here in Ukraine.

In Christ our Lord

Louie, Dan