February 1 2021
Believe it or not, the work of God goes on in Ukraine.
Because of the lockdown of travel to and from Ukraine, visitors and commended workers have not had total opportunity to visit some areas of Ukraine. There are two assembly works in different cities, one in Lutsk and one in Lviv. Our main interest has been in Lviv as well as the city of Ivano Frankivsk. There is no operating assembly in Ivano yet, but there is an ongoing work with brother Dan Perez from the USA.
Dan is a single man who is very busy, working with a young Ukrainian brother, Dema. Dan and Dema have brought a good group of young children to meetings, most from non-Christian homes in apartments. They pick up the children on most Saturday and take them in one or two vans, for a fun time in the park or hills. They give them a meal and a word in the Gospel. Then they pick them all up again on Sunday and bring them to the rented room Dan has, and have Sunday School. After Sunday School they take them home again, after a light meal.
Dan just wrote to me the following.
"As we shared over the phone that God has been showing his kindness and helping us each and every day and has been helping us with Children’s Meeting‘s as well as the adult gospel meetings. The children are still listening to the gospel and they seem to like the time that we spent together, this is a big blessing! With the gospel meetings there are new people that show good interest and we hope and pray that the word of God is working in their hearts!
The schools opened up last week and we visited one school plus we had a used clothes distribution last week as well. Both went very well and I’m hoping to make more appointments to visit more schools although some schools are still not allowing outside people to come in because of the virus, we’ll see how this continues."
Dan does take a van load of adults and children to the assembly in Lviv, occasionally, about 2 1/2 hours away, to share in the worship and the Sunday school. He is very excited about a group of teen-age boys who have been attending meetings for the last month or so and are very interested to know the Bible.
The brother and sister, Edmund and Agnes Johnston, commended to Lviv, have not been able to get back to Lviv from Ireland for over 3 months, and would value prayer for this matter.
The other assembly in Lutsk has a good website for those interested in this work. www.nta.lusk.ua.
We are thankful to have some news to pass on. Once the World opens up again, I'm sure there will be visitors to Ukraine and more reports of the work.
Malcolm Stanley
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