Bike trip – August 24 – Obluchie town
29.08.2007

Bike trip – August 24 – Obluchie town

At 07:00 a.m. all members of the Expedition came together in the church house. Christian sisters prepared breakfast. We prayer to God and went off. We were to cover almost 200 kilometers, and 70 of them without asphalt.

Bike trip – August 24

Obluchie town

 

At 07:00 a.m. all members of the Expedition came together in the church house. Christian sisters prepared breakfast. We prayer to God and went off. We were to cover almost 200 kilometers, and 70 of them without asphalt. It is hard to travel along such road by cars to say nothing about bikers. Praise God for providing us with special bikes with wide tires. It is harder to travel on them, but it would not be possible to go by road bikes along such “roads”. We could hardly cover half of the way.


God blessed us with weather. I would like to thank all of you! God answers your prayers! There is a saying - «do not ask God to give rain, but ask for harvest». It seemed to me that we needed only sunny and dry weather. But God gave us drizzling. What a blessing drizzling is! I never liked such weather. It seemed to me very dull and monotonous. As soon as asphalt ended we found ourselves traveling along a gravel road. The very first car, which we met, left after it such a cloud of dust that it that no earth or sky was visible. Somewhere in the dust there was our road and cars. It was possible to see opposing cars when they came very close to us even with their lights on. How was it possible to see the bikers in such a dust! Opposing cars did not know about our existence and moved very quickly.


And suddenly drizzling began and dust disappeared. Before the rain our big trick KAMAZ tried to cope with opposing cars, trying to stop them to let us go. But it failed to help us as car deliverers moved on the left and right and there was no opportunity to stop them. The big lorry could do nothing. But small drops of rain solved the problem. Praise God, it was not raining hard. Otherwise we could have puddles on the road. But it was just the kind of rain we needed most of all. I asked the Lord to forgive me for grumbling at such rain before, as I thought about it as a bad weather. Once again I realized that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

 

Certainly we did not move too quickly. We try to stop seldom. Besides we did not put into consideration the fact that Obluchie town is located in the Jewish Autonomous region, which means a new time zone and plus one hour forward. Besides the meeting downtown was fixed for 18:00 p.m. not 19:00 p.m. as it was planned originally. It meant we did not have time at all, so our bikers tried to do their best and wheel as quickly as possible. Local church Pastor Alexander N. Vitvenko and regional Senior Pastor Victor N. Lokaichuk met us in the vicinity of the town. They accompanied us to the town where some people already arrived.


It took us only a few minutes to prepare sound equipment and to start the meeting. There were many people in the square, to be exact – there were many kids. Our sisters and a brother «Sharik» invited kids got a separate meeting, where they showed a puppet play and told kids about salvation and eternal life. A kind atmosphere filled the place of the meeting. When brother Albert sang a very drunken man came up to him. Albert took the man by hand and continued to sing and man was standing by him. When Boris Berezhnoi sang a little boy came up to him. Boris took him in his arms and continued to sing. It created a special atmosphere of trust. Singing, testimonies of the members of the Expedition and preaching were accepted with attention and were followed by personal talks with people. After the service we had dinner and a meeting with local young Christians in the church.

 

Leonid Kartavenko

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