Warm days have come to Lviv and we hope you too are enjoying some nice spring weather wherever you are. We took a week of vacation during our border crossing trip earlier this month which was very refreshing. But it is also good to again be back home in Lviv.
The most exciting news this month is that after many months of prayers (ours and yours), it seems like God really got hold of Mrs. Tanya. I (Tomasz) had a chance to preach this Sunday when Pr. Bendus was gone and Mrs. Tanya came to church because of that.
After the service she thanked me for the sermon and said she would call me later that day. She did and when we talked she told me that during the preaching she realized that she was a dead person (spiritually) but she said that it was not the case any more! She kept saying, “You know what I mean...” Saying that she was referring to our many talks about how a person can be saved... She knew everything she needed to know but in the past she always refused to accept Jesus as the only way to God. So I asked her, “Does it mean that you accepted Jesus into your heart as your Savior?” and she said, “YES!” What an exciting moment! I know there was joy in Heaven that day (Luke 15:10) and we too were rejoicing here on earth.
We realize that this is the first step and it is now really important to follow up with regular discipleship so that what God had started in her life would continue to grow. She has a scheduled surgery tomorrow, will be in the hospital for a week and after that she will only be able to either stand or lie (no sitting) for some time so we will see what that means for our opportunities to meet. But God knows and we believe that He will provide for that too. Please continue lifting up Mrs. Tanya in your prayers. She also said that before Sunday she was reading “Our Daily Bread” because it was interesting but she did not read the Bible passages. When we asked if she was reading her Bible now, she said, “Oh yeah!” It is also exciting to see her natural way of sharing God’s things with others. On Sunday she was invited to her friend’s house for lunch and that friend was actually telling her not to go to church (so that she could come for lunch earlier). Mrs. Tanya told her friend she needed to go to church because she told me she would come. But the exciting part is that after church, Mrs. Tanya retold the whole sermon to her non-Christian friend, in detail!
