Malcolm's Report #4

Tuesday October 16. We went out to a village that I had been to several years ago, but had lost the name of the village and school. It is called Pasichna and is situated in the foothills of the Carpathians. We arrived to find out that school was out, no kids! Everything is centered on and around the election right now and they thought they would have the week off so that they could save on heating the school. WE had a very nice time with the Principal; he remembered us from 6 years ago and welcomed us back. We will go back next Wednesday when school will be in.
All was not lost as I remembered a beautiful river ravine with 2 waterfalls, so we climbed down and took some lovely pictures. It was really a lovely day. We did leave 4 boxes of clothes for the poor children at the school.

Ukraine Report #4 Oct 19-21
Friday. We were off early to Virhovina on the Romanian border, two and a half hours away. It was a lovely run with some mist at the beginning but it turned into a clear warm day.
Oxana the director was waiting for us and at 10 am we went into the auditorium and spoke to over 200 junior students. They listened very well as I and Dan spoke to them. We gave out all the balloons we had brought and all the pens with John 3:16 on them.
We then went to see the Auditorium that we had paid to have new windows in. They had filled in the one side with plywood and installed good vinyl windows on the south side to let in lots of light. They needed to repair the hot water radiators and have come up with a unique way of doing it. Instead of them all being all hooked up as one, each one will be separate, filled with antifreeze and an electric immersion heater fitted into the radiator. They will be operated independently on each thermostat. We were able to give them the money to buy the rest of the heaters still needed.
After a meal in the dining room we headed home; stopping to make an appointment at a new school on the way home.
At 5:30 we met with a group of Christians, renting a room at Solidarity, where we first met on coming to Ivano. The meeting was very good with some very good questions and comments. We are to go again on Tuesday next.

Saturday. We needed to get a rattle underneath the van fixed and when this was done, we asked where there was a windshield repair place and were sent to a very busy place who said he could replace it in half an hour. We came back in half an hour and they started right away. In just about one hour, it was installed. Cost of each window and installation was $122.00? An amazing price.

We were invited to join Oleg and Olah for supper and went to the Black Castle restaurant and had a lovely meal. We had live entertainment while we ate, as some folks had paid for a disc jockey. Very loud for most of the time, no drunkenness or anything else though.

Sunday.
We had mentioned earlier about the church meeting in a nearby apartment and their invitation to attend their meeting on Sunday which we did. The reason being that we wanted to see how they held their meetings. They had told us that they had had no church teaching and were willing to hear us.
There were about 30 or 40 people present and there certainly seemed to want to do what was right in worshipping God .
I spoke first on 1John 3 and need to love since we have experienced God’s love in the giving of His only Son. Then Dan spoke on Romans 6:6 and the need to walk in the Spirit and see ourselves as crucified with Christ.
Howard was nursing a head plugged with a cold so did not speak. We later invited them to the Conference next weekend and about 10-15 men may come. Praise the Lord.

We had our meeting at 3:30 with a good number out. Howard and I spoke.

Please make specific  prayer for a situation with 2 families that come out to meeting. There is a “war” between them, mainly over their children. It is too complicated to share here but pray for Luba and Oxana, the mothers.
Thank you.
Malcolm, Howard and Dan.