Sabbath (Blessed rest)


Our days are usually filled with preparation for the evening meetings and even though this is a very spiritual work it can be tiring. Yesterday we worked extra hard and prepared two days worth of presentations so that today we could truly have a day of rest. And it has been a wonderfully relaxing and restful day. I can see that the Lord really knew what He was doing when He gave us the Sabbath.

For the past week it seems like I speak only with Natasha. She is my channel to the other people in my world. But today my horizons expanded somewhat and I was able to talk to Natasha also. She is an English-speaking friend of the pastor and his wife and lives about 4 hours by train due west of us. She came last night to visit and will being staying until tomorrow. Now don’t get me wrong, it’s not that I don’t enjoy talking to Natasha. It’s just that from time to time it is nice to have some variety and so it was a real pleasure to speak to Natasha as well. She, of course, has some different perspectives from Natasha because of her vastly different background. Natasha was born in Russia, whereas Natasha was born in western Ukraine. Natasha is unmarried while Natasha has been married for several years. Natasha is an economist and Natasha is a pastor’s wife. Both Natasha and Natasha sing semi-professionally and that is what brought Natasha here to visit. She sang two songs for us at last night’s meeting. Natasha, on the other hand, hasn’t sung for the meetings yet because her voice is just coming back after her cold but she will sing at the baptism during our last meeting next Sabbath. It really is a great blessing to have Natasha here.

Tonight’s meeting was one of the best so far. Everything went very smoothly, we had beautiful music, the tone of the meeting was solemn, and I felt good about the presentation. The topic was baptism and afterwards we gave out response cards so that visitors could indicate their desire to be baptized. Seven people responded and we are praising God. We had over 150 people attending last night, many of whom are visitors, and we will continue to offer them the opportunity to be baptized as the meetings progress. Keep praying!