Sunday, April 30, 2017

Eric Fowler's report #7 April 24th

#7

April 24 background
       Where No Vision is the people will perish ..... Look unto the FIELDS they are ripe to Harvest.
       Our Last week here and we are both tired after the weekend, but in a good way.
Little later rising but our manna which is light to eat in the morning, is much different from the food people give you here. Our normal time of prayer and reading together  to get direction for the day.
      Igor came and we went to change money. The exchange is going lower every day and we've had to go to the street to exchange the last few times.
Igor's mom, Anna, came to look at clothing and she had soup. Igor took me to the Barber to get my hair cut.  I have used the same one many times.first time one has cut my hair that could speak English.  She is a girl from the East part of Ukraine where the war is going on. Always give them literature and they seem to appreciate it. 
We went to the Army Base to see if we could meet with the soldiers and give them Bibles. This took some time and they wanted us to write a letter about who we are, stamp it, and pass to their office to see if they would receive us.
We had another 100 bags made with Matt. 11:28 embroidered on them, they are black with red letters.  Then we went to pick up tracts that Heather had printed.  I also ordered 9 big vinyl song sheets last week to be able to sing with the children at schools and other places.  We gave the final go ahead on the way they are to do them. 
We did up the bags with the Bible in them...tracts also and a pen and chocolate bar. We got 20 Bags ready to go to hospital tomorrow to see more new babies and their mothers.
Leanna came for a visit and Ira also came and she took Leanna home after the visit. Marichka's baby was taken to ICU in the Baby's Hospital today. Margie made Banana Muffins for tea.  The day is now over ... trust lives were touched for the Glory of God.

April 25
         Sunny, warm, and bright. A new day and new opportunities to bring the LIGHT of His word to this large nation.   We like to start the day in His word and power for the day ahead. One never knows the way the Lord will guide but we know He will guide. We went to the Soldier place again to give the letter and see if it will be possible to give the Bibles.  They will call us back to tell us when it is decided if we can give the bags to the soldiers also. Igor's wife wrote the letter and stamped it with the stamp we have made up for the Missionary work here in Ukraine. Then we went to the Baby hospital with Bags for the New arrivals.  We had a Birthday tea with Helena, the head nurse. Then we all went to the street and gave out some gospel tracts. After that, we went home and got 9 boxes ready for the trip tomorrow to the Mountains to visit the large school near Romania.  Heather went to get candy and few other things for the school trip  tomorrow. I prepared for meeting and Igor's Dad said he will come again tonight.  This is a miracle for sure with him not drinking.  There were 35 at meeting tonight. That is great as well considering it is planting time and some are sick. Deanna and her two neighbors came to meeting again and came after for a short visit. Dema came to help get all the boxes ready and in place for tomorrow.  The Lord gives strength for the days and their labours.  To bed and need it....

April 26
        Awake early for sure and the final touches to go today.  It is a 3 hour drive on rough roads up the mountain.  Breakfast as normal for me .... Manna.    Heather likes to eat pizza, salads, and Ukrianian leftovers for breakfast. Our reading and prayer for the long hard ride. 
Dan and Igor came and loaded the van.  It is full for sure and then away we go.  It is great to have the van here for the work...we had to do some major  repairs on it when we came, but it's ok now with new tires and some new rims.  The ride went ok and we arrived on time. We were happy to see no snow along the way just high into the mountains as we were told we would have snow there. The first day almost over and it's very sunny.Thank God for that.  The children were out to meet us ..this year the number of  children is down to 390 from over 400 last year.  They tell us people are going out of the country when they can get papers to do it. We spoke to three classes of about 39 children ....Grade 1 , grade 7 and grade 11.  The psychology teacher took us to the classes (and she heard the gospel given in each class too). It is her first year in this school to teach.
We went to Lēla's home where we are to stay and we dropped our things off.  It was a joy to see her family again. They were so happy to know we came to them again.  A German lady is staying there with them as well. Oksana, the Principal of the school, was happy to see us again too. Oksana served us a little lunch in the room we helped to construct to teach the girls how to cook and then supper at the place where all the children eat. I talked again to Oksana about replacing the tables for the children to eat since the ones there are very poor.  We met the German lady and had little talk to her. Dan and Igor had talk to her after some of us went for a walk.  We are off to bed after a long day and yet a good day.

April 27
      It is great to be in Verkovena in the fresh air of the mountain. We were awakened by the crowing of a rooster and the call from Lēila for a mountain breakfast.  (Lēila is also a teacher at the school.)  An original Hootsoo? local breakfast. Cornmeal mush and mushroom sauce and mountain tea with a mountain cabbage salad.  The German lady ate with us and was quite happy to be with us since she knows very little of the Ukraine language and was happy to speak the English that she does know.
Oksana gave us food for the trip back, and we were happy to have it because we planned to stop and have a picnic along the river on the way back into the city. 
 We called Peter, the man from the Baptist in town, as we had clothing and literature for him.  He was very happy as it was his day for having the people come for clothing and wanted us to preach the Gospel to them.  We gave the school their boxes of clothing and the school material we had for them and then went to where Peter was giving out clothing.  He allowed us to speak first to about 150  people plus 50 children and Dan used the two roads chart. It was a great privilege.  It was amazing as his boxes were to be given out for Christmas, but they were very late and he was giving them out for Easter instead. The boxes came from somewhere in Canada, and he was happy to say we were from Canada who were to speak to them even though Dan and Heather were from America. We helped him give out the boxes for all the children first and then to the adults. He said he was alone and was wondering how he was going to do it all and God was so kind to send us to help him.  Then we gave him the clothing we had for him and 20 New Full Bibles and lots of extra literature. He was so thankful for all.
Then the long ride home and we went a different way which was a little longer, but the road had been redone some of the way which gave a little better ride home.  We stopped and had a picnic as it was sunny and warm. We went to Leanna's for supper - she cooked a supper for us in her new place that she is trying to fix up. The man who we visited last week with clothing and shoes was there as well. It was a nice supper and afterwards we went and got a blood pressure cuff for a lady who works in the Baby Hospital.  Then we returned to the apartment and did 25 of the new bags with Matt. 11:28 on them to take to the hospital tomorrow.  We got two lady boxes of clothing ready to take to the hospital tomorrow as well.  A day finished again ....Praise the Lord.

       Value much Prayer
              Eric and Margie Fowler

                     and Heather Anderson

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