Saturday, September 27, 2014

September/October News from Western Ukraine.

            Western Ukraine news from Lviv and Ivano Frankivsk Regions. September 24th.

Dear Friends.

We would like to bring you up to date with happenings in the above regions, as there has been a long gap since Western visitors have been in the area. With the fact that no one can be there for more than 3 months on one passport, there are bound to be sometimes when no visitors are present.

Edmund and Agnes Johnston, working in Lviv have had to be away in Ireland for some time but have returned to Lviv several weeks ago. They have been working in the Lviv oblast, visiting schools, orphanages and poor families as well as having a weekly meeting in Ivano.

Dan Perez, who spends most of his time in Ivano when in Ukraine, decided to spend some of his 3 month away from Ukraine in Moldova, helping in an Assembly there and attempting to contact University. He went home to Chicago for a month and will be helping in his home assembly until he can return to Ivano in early November. He has now been officially commended from his home assembly to the work in Ukraine.

Howard Pratt from NW Ontario and myself hope to return to Ukraine on October 16th for 4
weeks. This will be my 20th visit to Ukraine. A week of Gospel meeting has been arranged in Lviv for our first week there. We are also to be with them for their Conference during the last week of our stay.

We are praying that the situation will soon settle politically in Ukraine and peace will soon come to the East of the country. Thousands have died in the conflict and, many men from Lviv and Ivano who either volunteered or were called up to fight in the Ukrainian army have also died.

Your prayers will be much appreciated as we go back; not knowing what particular needs will be evident. We know that the economy has suffered terribly and we are sure that many will be experiencing very big financial difficulties.

We are hoping that another brother and his wife will be able to come in the early winter months.

Your Brother in the service of the Best of Masters.

Malcolm Stanley.

mj@thestanleyshouse.com