Malcolm' Final Report
for November 2015.
Since my last report,
we did a lot of local visits as well as a few out of town. As we were
out of touch because of internet problems, I got behind on making
daily records and so the following will not necessarily be in
sequence.
Each meeting we had
seemed to bring out someone who had either not been out before, or
who neither Howard or I had met before. One night we had a couple who
had fled from Kiev, who we believe are saved and who have two little
girls. I'm not sure what their intentions are but think they are
going back to Kiev.
We visited in some
homes of different people who had been attending our meetings. Some
of the apartments are pathetic, when you see what they have to live
in. We are so blessed. We visited one lady named Halina, who lives on
the 5th or top floor. She has had 2 strokes and lives
alone with a cat and not much else. Her daughter comes over to help
her each day. She use to be able to come out to meetings but cannot
move out of the flat now. Her daughter came out to all the meetings
while we were here.
We went to visit a
friend named Mihailo, who was an administrator of the home we have
reported on many times, as the Home for mentally challenged men in
Sniatin. We always enjoyed the visit and helped in many ways over the
years. Early this year he was replaced by another director, for no
reason and left without a job.
He had built a house
next to the home property where he planted fruit trees and grew
vegetables for the home for men.
The new director
brought in liquor for the patients. Some have got drunk and at least
one fell out of a window and was either killed or seriously injured.
I will not say more but the government does this regularly here. A
good administrator build up a good home and then another government
man is given the position as a “gift”, and the original man let
go. It is so corrupt and sad.
Well it seems they
celebrate the angel of our friends name ?? So, all the family would
come during the day and the meal would continue. Well we were the
first to eat, and did they feed us. His 4 grand-daughters acted as
waitresses and really looked after us.
After we were fed we
were loaded with lovely apples from their orchard and we said tearful
goodbyes. His wife has a little store in their house and also does
massage, so they still have an income.
We made a visit to see
an old lady in Hospital, about an hour away. She is the mother in law
of Yaroslav, who is in the meeting in Lviv and travels with us each
Sunday. His wife Halia has been looking after her mother in her
village home for years, now they are both sick but only the mother is
in hospital. She was very glad to see us and seemed quite bright but
may have had a stroke. We prayed with her and for her and left fruit.
We had a little scare
when we heard that Lufthansa was going on strike the day we were to
leave. Much prayer was offered and thankfully the strike was called
off.
We had a birthday party
for Volodia in the apartment, with pointed hats and a birthday cake.
He is 27 years old.
We cleaned up the
apartment for Dan who is to arrive after we have gone. He has spent
the 3 months necessary to be out of the country, in Moldova and
Slovakia helping in the assemblies in these countries. Please pray
for him as he will be working alone.
We got to the airport
in good time and had Andrei, Ruslan and Volodia to see us off. We
had no problems for out total flight from Lviv to Munich and then to Frankfurt and onto Toronto and then me on to Winnipeg and Howard on the bus
for 7 hours to his home.
Thank you for your
prayers and support while away, God's presence was a continual
experience for the whole month.
Malcolm, Howard and
Volodia.
