PRAYER REQUEST for Flo Kancir. Flo has been a faithful worker in the Ukraine and is not at all well, please remember her in your prayers as she goes through many tests. Thanks you.
Report # 5. Monday April 9th.
I haven’t said much about the weather lately, but it is not very nice here yet. It snowed in the rain yesterday and rained all Saturday night, so the feeling is a very moist cold. Thankfully our apartment is warm and the vehicle as well.
Today we went to visit in the local prison. We were very surprised when 14 women walked into the room. It is a men’s prison but women are kept their awaiting court hearings.
They listened very well as we both spoke. Then two women came forward to ask questions. The one said she could not read, so how was she to know how to get to God, a very sad young woman. The second lady had killed her husband in self-defence, so she said and wanted us to pray for her two children. I prayed right there for her and we took their names and Dan would like to make contact with them, if it would be allowed. We gave them all N/T and John 3.16 and a pen. Then the guard came back to get us and we talked with him and invited him to our meeting.
We went to a village that Dan had been to before. It is the village where Luba’s 79 year old mother-in-law lives; she still walks her cow to the pasture each day, Luba is one of our ladies in the meeting. There is a school of 400 students in the village and they have made us very welcome to come and speak. We spoke to the younger children first and then a student drama was acted out by some older students. Then we spoke to the older students. Both groups gave very good attention and the want us back again next week or even sooner.
Altogether a very good day as the seed was sown in the ears of both older sinners and with the younger ones.
Tuesday April 10th
We picked up the 2 prison officers; both named Igor and headed out for a long trip to the women’s prison we had been to last week. We spoke once again to about 100 women in the old monastery church. It was just as cold as the last time and I suppose never warms up. The women all wear parka’s but listen very well and some say “thank you” in English and ask us to come back.
I was telling Igor, one of our escorts that I had been to this prison some years ago, but he could not understand how I could have, as he was a director there for 7 years and didn’t remember me. He said the only Canadian he remembered was a woman named Flora. I told him I came with her. He said she came twice but he was not there for one of her visits and that must have been when I came. Quite a memory!
We headed home and got ready for the meeting. One of the largest, with about 18 out.
Still two more prisons to visit.
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