Report #9 for November
4th and 5th
Beautiful day to start
with bright sunshine and promised temperature of +12 or more.
Usual breakfast of manna,
which is a cooked porridge like fine grain and is a staple breakfast for many
over here. Then some toast, peanut butter, jam and banana. We really suffer
over here?
At 10 am Dema arrived
and we had our joint devotion time before beginning the day.
Our first visit was to
get some product to give away later in the day and then go to see our dear
friend Natalia, who we first visited with Flo Kancir in 1993 and have visited
on each visit since. She was diagnosed with MS just before we first met her and
is still at home under the care of her mother, now completely paralyzed. We go
to cheer her up but we come away blessed by her faith in Christ and joyful
spirit. This time we took her a treat that she loves, pizza, she was so
excited. We take her medication and
other needs.
We then had to leave
and go straight away to a village to meet with a group of older women for a
bible study of a kind. Not verse by verse but highlight by highlight in each
chapter in John. About 7 ladies, including the school principal sat around the
big dining room table and listened and commented on each passage. We were there
almost 2 hours (including a lunch) and I felt it was very profitable.
We came home for a
short respite and some pasta and then headed out to speak to some men at a
homeless shelter in, of all places, the basement of the police station. It had
been designed and furnished by the police –chief and was a lovely facility, big
enough for 12 men. There were only 6 using it last night, with one sleeping but
the others very much awake with questions and real interest in what the bible
had to say. Two of them had Gideon new testaments and used them as we talked.
Altogether, a very profitable end to a long day.
Quite tired but glad
to be able to sleep for 7 or 8 hours.
Please keep praying,
we need the presence of God in each situation of the the day.
Nov 5th
A nice bright day. Devotions
with Dema when he came to the apartment.
We went to the box
warehouse to sort some boxes to take later for parents of the poor families,
whose children come to children’s
meeting, but had been absent for some weeks. We eventually sorted 3 boxes as
well as several bags. We found a piece of grass in the area where they live and
let them know we were there. About 5 women came, with their children and sorted
through the boxes on the grass. They managed to get plenty of nice things and
each family packed bags or boxes with these clothes. I then spoke to them all
about gifts, and how we love a free gift, but told them of the Greatest gift
that was available to them, Jesus Christ. I was so impressed with how they
quietly stood and listened. None of the adults have been to a meeting yet. We
then packed half of the group in the van and took the home.
It was then after
lunch so we went to the famous “Carpathian Kitchen” that brother Louis Smith
always liked to eat at when he was here and had a light lunch.
We shopped for a
family we are to meet in a village tomorrow and prepared for the gospel meeting
tonight.
The brethren from Lviv
came up to be with us for the gospel meeting, and Ruslan was to preach with me.
By the time meeting was ready to start we had 25 people with some to come in
later. Ruslan gave a good message and I followed. Several people remained to
chat and renew old friendships. Altogether a rewarding day as we look to God to
touch the hearts of the many yet to be saved.
And so to bed later, weary
but rejoicing.
Thank you for praying.
Malcolm
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