Tuesday Oct 27 Report #9
We headed out to a neighboring town to visit a man who had attended meetings for some time and used to live in Ivano. He has a severely mentally handicapped boy of over 30 years old. He has cared for him all his life and is paid a pension to do so. His wife obviously did not want the responsibility and went abroad to work and then came back and divorced him. He has now married a lovely lady who shares in looking after the boy, who of course is no longer a boy. He just lies in bed looking at the wall and making a sound now and then. It is very sad to see.
Vacilli is a saved man and told us that he was saved after Howard and Eric Fowler visited him over 2 years ago. He has read and studies his bible very well and was very good to talk with. He had visited several churches and was confused that they all said they were the right church. His most recent visit was to a large charismatic church in Ivano. He was not at all impressed but wanted to know what the bible said about their form of worship etc. We had a good time showing him the scriptures and left for home in the pouring rain that didn’t stop all day.
The big van that we were hoping to use on Wednesday was still in the garage while they tried to see why the battery would not keep charged, they charged the battery and said we could try it. More later!
We went to the market for some things, met Oleg who invited us again to his home for tea, we agreed for 8pm.
We went home and got ready for Meeting at 5pm. About 20 people came again and we had a good meeting. I spoke on prayer and Howard on baptism. We are hoping there will be a break with those who are saved and not baptized, that they may want to be baptized in Ivano on the 9th of Nov with 2 or 3 others.
The rest of the story. The van was waiting for us after meeting; the mechanic had brought it over. He shut it off and it would not start! Battery flat again. We push started it and Vadym drove it home, I drove the little van. The rest is too long to relate but the mechanic and Vadym worked until 1am replacing a slipping pulley only to get it running and find the alternator was not charging enough either, this will be fixed today God willing !
While this was going on, we went to Oleg’s one and a hour late but had a good visit.
Frustrated? I suppose I could say that. Please pray for us that we will get to the places we want to get to with many boxes of clothing and bibles.
Keep praying that the home visits will bear fruit as well as the meetings.
Malcolm
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