Dan's Reports: #18

Thursday the 15 of March  #45

Headed out early morning to a town called Dolenna, we should have been there at 8:30 as the plan was to speak to 5 classes but as we were leaving I noticed the van was tipping to one side so I got out to take a look, it was a flat tire. It must of happened on our way back from Lviv last night, was very thankful to the Lord that kept if from going flat till the morning where there was light which made it much easier to change!

We missed our first class but had three others, the last class wanted to stay so we had them twice. The Christian Ethic’s teacher said all the students we spoke to would like us to come again, this was very good to hear! All the students received an N/T, bible text and a gospel tract and before leaving we gave a few boxes of clothes for the poor. Dolenna has over 10,000 people, it’s about an hour away from Ivano and we hope to continue good relations with this school and speak in other areas of the town.

We then had our evening meeting, about 17 out and listened well!

Friday  we went to a village called Olesha, where we were planning to speak to three classes but they forgot we were coming. They still gathered up about 50 teens plus 2 teachers and the principal all in one class room. After our messages and after the bell rang they continued to sit and wanted us to continue speaking, so we spoke for more than an hour and they all listened well. Having been there recently they have already received N/T and text, we gave a few boxes of clothes and were asked to come again, this is good!

Saturday we had another day of practicing new hymns, 5 came out and are slowly picking them up. Then we met with Oleg and Ola for dinner. Louie and I invited Tania to come with us (she works at the hospital and the bible is all new to her). We had a good time together and had a brief but good talk about salvation.

Sunday we met with a family from Hgrushka for lunch at their house. Uri (the husband) talked about some of his struggles. Louie and I were showing scriptures on knowing God’s salvation is sure and certain once you receive it you have it forever, you can never lose it!

We then brought him and his wife to our meeting, 18 were out. Louie spoke on the miracles of Christ and I on “Never man spoke like this man.” On the way back to his house one of the things Uri said was that the meeting was about Jesus, not about our lives. Not sure what he meant by it but am glad that what he could see was that Jesus was the focus of our meeting!

Pray for this family and for Tania and for all our visits! Continue to pray for Svetlana our interpreter and her husband for their Salvation, Thank You!

In Christ our Lord

Louie and Dan