Saturday, November 4, 2017

Eric Fowler's report from Ivano Frankivsk #1

Tuesday Oct 31

Our Interpreter came and we had our reading time together .  

We then went a picked up Tanya and her two girls to take them to Graveyard, as it's three years today that their father died. Tanya had two ladies with her as it was the first time the girls went to see the grave of their dad.  One lady had two of her children as well.
I prayed with them all and explained that it is important to be saved and ready to die as it can't be changed after you die.  It was windy and very cold. They put flowers on the grave. We took them home and after lunch we picked up the two ladies and let them pick up groceries.

 Heather and Margie went through boxes to get things for the baby bags. We did find two boxes of bags already done to give out,so put a text, New Testament and children story book in each one. We went to the city Hospital and gave white sheets to them. We had 6 boxes of sheets come in the 19 boxes that came yesterday. They came just in time for sure. The nurse almost cried as they have been cutting up pillow cases and sowing them to make sheets. We will bring them more next week.  We also left them pain killers and gravol to help some sleep.  

Then we meet Rulsan and Doug and Debbie Yade for supper and went to meeting. I spoke with Doug and Dan opened the meeting. We had 31 in and this was a nice crowd but there was some of the regulars missing. We went for tea to Marie's after the meeting.It would be nice to see her in the meeting. She would be if there was a breaking of bread here in the city. 

  A long day and it was nice to get home to go to sleep.

             Nov. 1 Wednesday
                 
                             Igor came and we had reading and prayer time again. This is great for Igor and for all of us.  We took clothing to the cleaners to get washed.  They wash and dry it for you at a very small price and this will save much time for us here.  We do have a washer but no dryer and with winds out side hard to dry in side. 

 We finished off the bags and went to the hospital to give to new mothers. We met 31 mothers with new babies, the most we ever did at one visit. The most of the mothers were from the city of Ivano Frankivsk, two were from villages outside. We had a nice visit with them and with the head nurse.  We gave bags with bible verses on them to most of the nurses and workers there. The nurses reminded us that the desks we bought and put together were working good for them.  We also gave them sheets for the beds. They needed them but not like the city main hospital.

 We then took another lady who has three children to pick up her groceries . We do this to allow them to enjoy picking it up, they don't get that joy very many times. We went tto her house and had tea with her husband and mom and brother .
         value much prayer
            Eric and Margie and Heather Anderson 

                      With Dan Parez

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