An Encouraging Trip

    Our trip to Belarus was most encouraging in every way. We were well received in four different churches where Bill Clark and I preached. In one church I preached about 40 minutes, and they informed me that some of them came a long way to hear the word; so we sat back down and I preached again. We had some good fellowship and response from several pastors and elders. It is true that most of them, pastors and people, know so very little of the word and scarcely anything of God's covenant mercies, but we found some people who want to hear.

    Our young missionary-publisher, Valery Grigorik (29), and his wife, Irena, are such talented people. They love the gospel of grace and are working with Bill Clark and Evangelical Press to publish some good, solid grace books. Valery and Irena translate, set the type by computer, and see that the books are printed and distributed among preachers and people. They both are fluent' in English and Russian. So far, they have four titles in Russian; our “Gospel of John,” “Old Testament Pictures,” “The London Confession of 1689,” and a good hymnbook. Two more books by T. Watson and H. Bonar are almost ready. “The Sovereignty of God” by Pink is also on the agenda.

    We had very good meetings in Welwyn church in England; and the entire trip was an encouragement to the missionaries, pastors, people, and to us. Thank you for your prayers.