Report #10 for
November 6 and 7
Wednesday Nov 6th
Another bright day but
always a threat of rain or drizzle Up at 7:30 as usual and a good breakfast of
either Manna or porridge or toast and peanut butter and jam and banana. We do
have some hard boiled eggs, but Keep forgetting them. Just to let you know that
we can have normal breakfasts too,??
Well we started out on
a visit to a couple we met several years ago, even Jean visited them before
they moved to another village. Their names are Uri and Oxana. The last time I
met them they had 3 children they had 3, they now have 5. All lovely children
and the parents as well. Both profess faith in Christ. Uri is happy to tell you
how he was awakened to his need of Christ, while serving 8 years in prison. He
was an alcoholic and as he said, not a good man. He had quite abattle for a
while with the liquor, but got victory at last. He has to work away in Poland,
but would love to get work closer to home. We had lovely talks about the Lord
and the power that is available to overcome sin.
The farm home they
have now is a lovely litte place, through a forest and in the valley. They have
a pig and chickens and turkeys. Oxana is very able to keep the home going, when
Uri is away. The children were a joy to meet, enjoying each others company with
no arguing!!
We left after a good
meal and took Uri to a nearby town to buy a ticket back to Poland.
We headed home to get
ready for our Wednday meeting at 7pm.
Thursday Nov 7
After breakfast we had
joint devotion with Dema, out interpreter Brother, as we have done each day
here, and then went up town to buy medication for one of the Sisters coming to
the meeting and had to go to 2 different pharmacy’s to fill the order. Not too
expensive but quite complicated. Then MEEST arrived with boxes so we had to
wait for them at the storeroom. After that we loaded some boxes to take to
Lviv in the afternoon.
We got away to Lviv
after lunch to attend a meeting arranged to meet a number of family members, of
a sister Daria, from Lviv. She along with Dan, had arranged this meeting in a
gorgeous restaurant in down town Lviv. It was quite eventful as we made our way
to the restaurant. we were walking from
our car, and loud crowd caught up and passed us yelling a loud chant as they
marched on. When we got to the restaurant and were seated, others arrived and
asked us whether we had see the fuss outside. They said that 2 groups of men
were fighting and the police were trying to break it up. We missed the
excitement but were told it was two groups of football fans fighting, one from
Ukraine and one from France.
We eventually started
with 17 of us around a row of tables. Tea and cookies were served continually but to say the least, it was not a quiet
venue. There was a large room attached to ours and a man with a trumpet
greeting guests throughout the evening. Any way, the design of the meeting
was for each or any of the guests to put a question in a box and we would
seek to answer it from the bible. It didn’t matter what they asked. We finished
up with more questions than we could answer so the group will meet again next
week. The greatest result was that Daria’s parents were there who had seemingly
not been happy with her conversion and had never been to any church meeting, however they really seemed happy with the meeting.
Anyway, the meeting went very well with good questions and plenty of input.
Edmund and Agnes and Ruslan were there as well as Dan and Dema and myself.
We closed the meeting
off at about 9:30 pm and headed home. I think the trip back home was one of the
worst trips I have had in Ukraine. Thick fog all the way back home. Dan driving
very well with often 2 car lengths or less in view of the road. This is not the Trans Canada highway but a winding 2 lane road through little villages. We arrived at home after 1am, very relieved and thankful to our God.
So ended a busy day
with a good nights rest.
To God be the Glory
Than you for praying.
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