Dan's report No 8

Dan’s report #8

Monday the 27^th of May

  Made a visit today to a Village called Olesha. While Howard and Malcolm were here there were attempts made to try to contact this school but they were unable to so I thought I would go and visit them and see what happened. When we got there the school was over and most of the students along with the principal were all eating. Their lunch room was in another building and we were asked if we had time to wait as they were coming back soon. They heard that a foreigner was there and they said they thought it might be me. Met briefly with the principal but he had to leave, but two of the vice principals who we had spoken to were there. The first thing they said to me was that they were wondering what happened to me; that maybe my mission was over and they would not see me again. The problem was that the vice principal that we had contacted had changed his phone number and his was the only number we had.

This is a school of about 230 kids and school year is now over, but now they have a couple of weeks of summer camp.  I then asked them if they would like us to speak to the kids during summer came, they said sure come anytime!

On our way back we stopped by another school in a village called Harushka. Last month Malcolm and Howard spoke here but now that school was out and so I thought I would ask the same question to the principal here. The principal was not in but the assistant told us to please come anytime, they will be happy to have us! I counted thi as a good day!

Tuesday)    Taras ( the man that works in the government building) stopped by in the afternoon, not planned. We had a good long talk about salvation once again. He listend very well and shared some thoughts and asked questions. We talked about reincarnation for a while, I assured him that our soul will live on but only in one of two places. As he left he thanked me for the talk.

We then had our evening meeting, Yaroslav and I spoke, my thoughts were, not by our works but according to his mercy (Titus 3:5), Yaroslav thoughts were, our works should be to the Lord and not unto men (Col. 5:23). After the meeting we went to the store with Yaroslav and I bought food for the family and pampers for his granddaughter. Yaroslav is the only one working now, Vitalic, Yaroslav’s son has turned down one job because it would take him too far from his family and another job opportunity fell through. He is still hoping to find something soon but needs some help meanwhile! This is a good family and was happy to be of some help!

Wednesday)  Did some errands in the morning then with Luba, visited the young lady in the hospital. We are trying to be of help and an encouragement to her while she is in this place and hoping we can help her in finding a better place for her to be. This is not an easy situation and needs much wisdom and prayers! We left the hospital and saw a man that comes to the meeting from time to time at the bus stop and gave him a lift. He was going to see his brother at another hospital who I have been wanting to visit also, he is the one who had his leg amputated. Tania the brother’s wife came to the meeting a few times but hasn’t lately because of the two little girls. It was already late so we just had planned to say hello and come back at another time.

Today was Svetlana’s day off day from interpreting, she has final exams for school this week, but she was willing to help me out!

 Thursday the 30^th of May

  Had a large delivery from Meest this morning, came quite unexpectedly but very thankful that they came! It came one hour before leaving for a nursing home. I helped bring in the boxes and rushed to get ready to pick up Svetlana at school, from there we will go to the nursing home. This place was on the way to Lviv but was not so easy to find, Howard visited it last month but this was my first time there. The place is in a small village that is surrounded by beautiful landscape! We went into one building, and there were some medical equipment in each of the rooms but no one to talk to. We then heard some voices at the end of the hall and found out we were at the wrong building, this was the clinic for the village, so we called the Director of the nursing home and she brought us to the place. There she gave us a tour of the building, very small about 25 to 30 patients. Only those who have no children to care for them can come to this place. We had a small meeting with them and they listened well and ask some questions. Brought some boxes and a wheelchair and walker for them, they were thankful!

Came back to the apartment to arrange these boxes, I had to just leave them in the middle of the room before I left this morning, my time was still short because we have meeting tonight. Once I got this in some order I got ready for our new Thursday meeting. All went well; only six were out but had very good discussions I though. We were going to talk about God ‘s Justice but some came that were not in last meeting so I did a review and just start this topic  so will continue it next week Lord willing!

Friday)   Went to Steri Lisets(Lube’s village) this morning to speak to the kids in summer camp. The lady in charge was very glad to have us to talk to them and play some games together. About30 kids were there of all different ages, made it a little harder to organize but we were outside and the sun was out the weather was good and it looked like the kids had fun! I gave a little message at the end and though some was restless they all listened well!

 Then met with Lube and her neighbor to talk about how we can help this young lady in the mental institution. Then took them to see her and I went to another place where they care for kids to see if for a few weeks they can keep her until we find a permanent place for her but this did not work out.

Saturday)   This day was a cleaning day, I still had to arrange the boxes and prepare the apartment for Eric and Margie’s arrival.

I took a break from all the sneezing I had been doing from the dust that are on the boxes and went to visit Oleg. . While there we took some boxes to his garage to keep there for about a week, to make more room at the apartment.

While at his garage we welded the bracket of the exhaust pipe that was broken off on the van. Thank the Lord it seemed successful!

Sunday)  We left Ivano with a van load to go to Lviv for the remembrance of our Lord. We will be bringing Eric and Margie back with us. The roads are still in bad condition and though we left in plenty of time we were 40 minutes late for the meeting due to having to change a flat tire.

We had a good time with the Christians there and Eric had a good word about Holiness.  On our way back we tried a different road to Ivano. The first part of it was as smooth as butter, I did not know that there were roads this good here but the second part was not as smooth as I hoped. We made it to Ivano safe and in good time and had a good meeting.

Eric and I spoke, and then went for dinner with Oleg and Ola.. I’m sure Eric and Margie were tired however they looked well and many were happy to see them!

 Please continue to pray for our time here together, your prayers are much needed and much appreciated! Eric will be sending reports from time to time while he is here. Thanks to you all.

In Christ our Lord

Eric, Margie, Dan