78. Women's Crafts & Bible Study Class

 

Roza, brother Biyii and Nancy

The winter in Rostov lasts for six months, and the average woman has nowhere to go, there is nothing to pass the time, so I open my office to women's crafts and Bible study classes, if only Bible study classes did not attract women to participate, plus handicraft classes, I could find more women to participate, and if they went to craft classes, they had to go to Bible study classes, because there was no interruption in between.

In the winter, we hooked woolen hats, cross-stitch, etc., and the Bible study was based on the book of Genesis, and after the Bible study there was a time for refreshments, and during the four months of winter, my house became the most popular place for women to come. I also led some young girls to do crafts, and with the word of God, a teenage mother met me outside the church and said to me repeatedly, "She loves me." She was so grateful from the bottom of her heart for all I had done for her daughter.

My African friend, Brother Biyii, was the only man in the Bible study and became a favorite of his sisters, mothers-in-law, and his girlfriend, Nancy, they were both medical students, and their encounter became a story.

Sister Nancy waited for Brother Billy for three years when God said to Sister Nancy, “Brother Billy is your future partner.” Brother Billy had other girlfriend at that time, and three years later, until God spoke to Brother Billy, and Nancy had doubted for an unknown number of times and continued to walk in faith. They have been married for many years, they have children, and they are now doctors in Uganda, which is Nancy's country.

Crafts and Bible studies disappeared under melting snow. In the spring, the women began to be busy with outdoor activities again, Brother Billy went back to medical school for an internship, and there were fewer and fewer women, and finally the classes turned to the end, but God continued to be with these women, but I was missing from them in their lives.

After that, we went to the countryside with the leaders Larry and his wife Elsie to preach to children and adults, and every time we went there, people asked us to pray for the rain, and they sat outside every day waiting for it to rain, but the sky was blue and white, and it was pouring rain during each meeting, and after the meeting, when we were about to drive home, the car got stuck in the mud and couldn't move, and we would push the cart in the mud in the middle of the night, and our feet would slide in the mud, and finally the car finally got out of the mud, and the shoes were broken, but the joy in our hearts was so satisfying. For God has done a great thing in us.