Dan’s report for the Second half of December 2014
Sasha and I have been working
on a few flyers, one for our regular meeting and another for a meeting for
young people, a meeting that I have wanted to have ever since my first visit to
Ukraine. We did get the flyers done and printed now need to find the young
people!
I have been trying to work out a day for a
public distribution of invitations to our meetings within the town of Ivano-Frankivsk.
I hope it will go well and introduce us to more of the locals in our area. The
need is definitely there since the second hand stores’ prices continue to go up
even matching the price of the new clothes and products here.
I was hoping to distribute
clothing one day this year but the place where we will have the distribution
recommended that we do it after their holidays next year so we worked out a
date on the 10th of January, I’m
praying for God’s help!
We left early one morning to head up to the
mountains to visit one school/orphanage where a man is the Director, his mother
started the school many years ago. They brought in two class rooms together and
I spoke to about thirty plus teen that listened very well. N/T, bible text and
tracts were given out along with some sweets. Then had lunch with the Director
and talked about future plans for the area, before leaving gave them a few
boxes of clothes and bedding. We left in good time to make it to the next
school/orphanage in Verkovena, the Director was not there because she was sick
but we met with the other teachers that we know and it went well. Here we
normally speak to the kids in the auditorium but since the Director was not
here we went to one of the class rooms, my first time doing this here. There we
spoke to 50 or more teens that listened very well and 5 or more teachers that
listened even better! N/T, bible text and tracts were given out to those who
did not receive one last time. As we left the class room there were a group of
kids smiling and staring at me, I didn’t recognized them at first with their
winter clothes on but these were the kids I spent time with during the summer
at the summer camp here It was great to see them and talk with them again. They
asked me if I will come back again for their summer camp, I told them I will
try and hope it can be possible! Left them boxes of clothes and bedding for the
poor and needy!
Visited the Men’s Home and had
a good talk with the Director, he has been having some health problems but
seems to be doing well now. But one sad thing is he might lose his job at the
end of the year because of government cuts. There was a higher official that lost
his job and now he wants to be replaced in this type of job like the director.
The director has been there for about 25 years and even has put in his own
money for improving the home but his said they don’t take this in
consideration. We then went to speak to the staff, the nurses and doctors who
were there and it looked like they were listening very well. Then came back for
more coffee and tea and I started to ask him about God’s salvation, his said he
is not sure but think he does not have it, so I talked on how he can now have
God’s salvation. The talked went well and we left them some boxes of clothes
and bedding and medical supplies and headed back to Ivano to get ready for our
Thursday meeting.
One of the ladies at our
meeting showed me a prescription for glasses for her young son Andrei and asked
if I can help, I said I would. Sasha and I went to several places to get some
quotes; there were big differences in prices. The one we decided to go to was
the one where the prescription was filled out and the woman there said we
needed the boy, so I came back with the mother and the boy and, as they put the
glasses on him they said “show your daddy! I had to let them know that I am
only a friend not his daddy. It is sad because the dad is a drunk and they live
very poorly so I was happy to help them.
We will be moving to a new
apartment next year and have been moving things into it throughout the
week. It is an old Austrian-Hungarian
building with walls 15 to 20 inches thick with high ceilings. The reason for
the thick walls they say, was once the walls were heated the rooms would stay
warmer longer in the winter and I guess vice versa for the summer. I have been
trying to make it comfortable and livable for us visitors who will be staying
here for a time while in Ukraine. Moving, cleaning and arranging and buying new
things is not as easy as it seems and take time but I think I’m getting good at
it! If anyone needs advice in arranging or designing their place just let me
know(only joking!)
Pray for the ongoing work and for this coming
distribution, Thank You for all your prayers!!
In Christ our Lord!
Dan
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