Malcolm’s #2 report April 17Th
and 18th
It is still a little cool here,
freezing over night but up to 8C or better in the day.
On Thursday we went to a town named
Rosedeal to a home for mentally challenged children and young men. It is an
awesome place in an ancient catholic monastery. Once, when we were there, they
were putting in a new water line and digging up human bones! They had no idea
why they were there as it was a road, not a cemetery. We had gone to the Metro
store to buy cleaning supplies and pampers, as there are no funds for these
items. The administrator was not there as he had been in a car accident and was
still in hospital. We met the assistant director who got some of the higher grade
men together and Howard spoke a simple bible message to them.
The reception these men give you is
overwhelming, they are so happy to see us.
We came back to Lviv and went to the
Bible House to stock up on bibles for Ivano. We bought some large print bibles
for meeting and one special one as a gift for a deaf lady. Then home to a good
chicken dinner prepared by Nadia and Lubchic, our “house keepers”.
On Friday, Good Friday, we went to
the Metro store to buy supplies once again, to take to a young mother’s centre
we have visited since its inception 8 years ago. The town is called Truscavets
and is about an hour away. We are always well received and remembered, even
though I was their several years ago with Flo Kancir. The supplies we take are
the items that there is never enough money supplied by the government to
purchase, such things as cleaning supplies, toilet paper, pampers, shampoo etc.
We met with 5 of the 7 mothers, 4
with babies and 1 expecting any day. They listened to the Pasca (Easter)
message very attentively. We were able to leave some funds to help one mother
get accommodation, due to the death of her husband and the loss of accommodation.
She has 2 little children. New Testaments and tracts were also left.
We left there and went to visit a
young couple named Ruslan and Tatiana. We met Ruslan years ago in the same
town, he was instrument in introducing us to the mother’s home. They gave us a
light lunch; a sweet Christian couple.
We came home and went to our driver
Ruslan and Tania’s home for supper and then to a prayer meeting, specifically
for the situation in Ukraine, then home and late to bed because of too much
talking to our “housekeepers”. Up to plus 20 today. Flowers out and people cutting
their grass!
Still quiet here, but things happening
in the South and East; we trust for the better.
Please keep us in your prayers.
Malcolm and Howard.
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