Malcolm Report #8

Ukraine report #8 Nov 1-3rd.

Thursday, we visited a lady who professed to be saved some time ago but has many doubts and home problems. She has a very sparse apartment and a 20 year old son who is a concern to her, they both sleep in the one room.
We had a good talk about eternal security and told her she did not need to confess to a priest, once Christ had forgiven her. People are so tied to the church here and find it hard to just trust Christ and His finished work.
At 4 pm a lady Lena and her 13 year old daughter came to the apartment to talk. She was a delightful Christian lady who wanted to let her daughter hear what we said about the gospel. Anyway they finished up staying for supper. I made them soup and then they stayed for our next meeting at 7pm.
A new man turned up who Dan and Volodia met at the Sports Complex and was really interested as we talked about the Bible and its history. He promised to come out again next week.
Friday. We went to the Half-Way House Internat or orphanage and spoke to about 15 children and gave out candy and balloons texts and calendars.
We had picked up 6 chalkboards for Peter Village School and plan to take them out on Saturday.
We were invited for lunch to a man named Ruslan and his wife Anya, who had come to Lviv with the other group of people we had met and who then asked to meet with us. We were so impressed with this couple (especially her cooking!) that we stopped and talked for 2 hours. He was saved as a teen but went to the USA and became a citizen and started a very profitable business that took him away from The Lord. He has since repented and come back to the Lord but has suffered a real setback. It seems he has been either wrongly convicted of a felony in the States so had his passport taken as he headed home to Ukraine. He is now stuck with no passport to do any business in Ukraine or the States. He cannot get any help from the US Consulate as to what he is supposed to have done. Very strange but Dan knows some Christian lawyers in the US and is taking all his paperwork to them when he returns.
Out for coffee in the evening and home to bed.
Saturday. We took the chalk-boards out to the school in Petriliv and the staff was delighted with them. The old Communist boards were warped, scratched and had holes in them and were shiny and could not be written on any longer.

While we ate lunch we talked about the future of the school and what would happen if they closed it down. The Administrator said that it would probably be made into a rehabilitation home for troubled children and it would be a wonderful opportunity for us to work with them in this project. She said they may not close the school but rather shut of the second floor and have the school all on the lower level and the rehab upstairs. It sounds interesting and needs much prayer. Nothing may happen soon but the child population in Petriliv is dropping each year.

Spent the rest of the day getting ready to leave for Lviv tomorrow. Went out to a swanky restaurant for supper and could not believe it only cost 100R each.

God bless and thank you for your prayers.
Malcolm, Howard, Dan and Volodia.