Evangelization in Hertza

Greeting to you brothers and sisters from the USA. By God’s grace, we still alive, and we are able to serve people. The war is raging more from day to day, but we hope and lean on God and trust only Him.

We conducted evangelization in Hertza from house to house. Two evangelists came to us and we visited different households. We shared our testimonies, explained the plan of salvation and love of Jesus Christ. People were opened to listen to the Word and to accept us. We invited them to come to Christ and to come to the church. We pray so that seed planted in their hearts bear a good fruit.

Likewise, we had a special service in the House of Peace church in Chernivtsi with children’s choir. It is so moving to see how little hearts worship God with their talents.

We had a wonderful camp Candela where I served as cameraman and interpreter for Americans. We visited a lot of villages with the eyeglasses ministry and many people hear the Gospel. At this camp, teenagers were ready to accept the seed that teachers planted. And on the final day we saw how Holly Spirit touched them and about 50 people came to know Christ.

We are preparing for the next session of our Bible school. We plan to conduct it in the mountain location. So please pray so that many teenagers could come and learn more from the Bible.

Prayer request:

• For people in Hertza who heard the Gospel so that they come to Christ.

• For teenagers who repented in camp so that they join to the local churches.

• For our Bible school

• For our health and strength to serve God despite anything.

Thank you for your participation in our ministry. Thanks especially for your prayers and financial support. God bless you and your families.

With prayer for you,

missionary in Chernivtsi and Hertza Alex Pastushak.

He is sick but worships God

Greetings to you brothers and sisters from the USA. May God bless all of you for your kindness and merciful hearts to us Ukrainians, for your prayers and support.

In Hertza church one brother Ruslan who is about 30 years he likes to serve in the service with songs. He has such a good voice and sing in Romanian. When he was 11 he had a fever for a couple of days and when he got to the hospital doctors diagnosed meningitis. It affected on his mind and his left arm and leg. So he began to lame, and his brain is on teenager age. But he loves God and want to glorify Him through his talents. Almost at each service he sings two songs. Members of the church love him and let he feels acceptance.

In the church of "House of peace" in Chenivtsi there was a youth meeting with topic "Ask pastor".

People were able to give any questions to pastors openly or anonymity. That was good possibility to ask something important to you when you're shy to ask openly. I served there as photographer.

We had a scaled conference on volunteers from whole Ukraine. There were 350 volunteers from different regions of Ukraine, and they shared with their experience how they help people during the war. That was good meeting of worshiping God and exchanging of experience. I served as photographer.

We had sisters meeting of Chernivtsi where were more than 50 young ladies and women. The subject was what God expects from the Christian women and wives. That was nice and pleasure time for them to study the Bible and to get to know each other.

We visited widows and mothers of died soldiers in Chernivtsi and villages of our region. They are in despair and don't know how to live further. We comforted them and granted packages with products. They thanked us that their relative are not forgotten, and we remember about their input in our victory. We distributed about 37 packages.

That is a brief report of what we are doing here. Thank you for your prayers and support that you are not apart from our problems, and you help us in our situation and ministry.

With prayer for you, missionary in Hertza and Chernivtsi Alex Pastushak.

New City for Gospel

Greeting to you brothers and sisters from the USA. We are glad of being partners with you in the ministry of God. I`d like to share with the blessings from God in this month.

1. Praise the Lord, we could to complete the renovating the exterior of the House of Prayer in the town of Hertza. The building looks very nice. We plan also to make a concrete pavement around the building and the concrete path from the gate to the building of the House of Prayer. We thank for your finance participation to this activity.

2. I had the opportunity to attend the First Baptist Church in Ivano-Frankivsk City. They heartfelt accepted me and gave me the possibility to preach. I encouraged people to trust God despite the circumstances, and one woman had repented at the end of service.

3. Our radio ministry got a new frequency of 102.0 FM in Ivano-Frankivsk City, so about 300,000 people have a chance to hear the Word of God.

4. God especially blessed our Bible school. We had a session with teenagers, and we were concerned who will come because a lot of families moved abroad cause the war. But God gave us 24 teens, and 7 of them were refugees. We observed with them a few books of the Old Testament and also talked with them about sexual purity and resolving conflicts.

5. My wife lead meetings for teenagers girls and I help her with everything. They meet in a volunteer center in the downtown of Chernivtsi. Among girls are unchristian teens and refugees. This time the subject was “How to tame a wrath?”.

Please pray for the growing of the church in Hertza and for completing the reconstruction work there.

Please pray for evangelization in Hertza that we planned on June.

We share with only a part of that God is doing here every day. Thank you so much for participation in our ministry.

With a prayer for you,

missionary in Chernivtsi and Hertza Alex Pastushak

Celebration of the victorious day

We greet you with a Christian greeting, Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! We are grateful for God that He rose His Son from the death, and also for that we are His Holly Body as a Church.

God blessed us richly this month, and we could show His love to many people.

In the church of Hertza city we celebrated the victorious day of the Light, Life and Goodness. Jesus conquered hell, evil, darkness, and death. Our church glorified God for such a great victory. And we are looking forward to seeing our King on the cloud descending on the earth.

We started to reconstruct our exterior of our House of Prayer. We need to buy a lot of material and to pay for work. With God`s help, we hope to start that in a week. We want to invite people into a warm and pleasure place.

I visited a widow, Olya in Chernivtsi City. She is a member of the House of Prayer church. She is very sick and she lives alone. It is hard to move and walk for her. I bought her necessary products and supported her spiritually. She has no children here and only niece visit and care about her.

I visited the church in Borivtsy village. It is quite open and sincere church. They genuinely accepted us and I served them with Word of God.

Prayer needs:

1. For reconstruction of house of prayer in Hertza so that God gave us finance and good workers

2. For widow Olya, so that God care for her through different people

3. For our ministry, may God strengthen us and lead us wherever He wants.

We are grateful to everyone who support our ministry spiritually and financially. May God bless you and return you in hundredfold.

Missionary in Chernivtsi and Hertza, Pastushak Alex.

She remained alone

Greetings, brothers and sisters in faith in Jesus Christ. By God's grace, we are all still alive and able to serve His church. We thank you for your cooperation, that together we can spread the Gospel in Ukraine.

On the first Sunday of April, we had a service commemorating the suffering and death of Jesus Christ in the church of the city of Hertza. We had a special time for sanctification and union with Christ and each other. Two women started attending our services, we pray that they will come to know the truth. After the service, we visited an old sister, her name is Lena. Together with her, we also received bread and wine as symbols of the body and blood of Jesus Christ. She was very happy that she could take part in this commandment.

We visited the church in the village of Vikno. More than 50 unbelieving immigrants gathered there and I preached there about the storms of life and inspired them to seek protection and refuge in the boat of Jesus Christ. Then we distributed medicines and food to them.

One widow, Agnesa, from the House of Peace church in Chernivtsi, had a birthday. She turned 73 years old. She is sick and cannot come to the service. I went to her house, wished her a happy birthday and brought her a box of essentials.

In our church there is also another widow Alina, she is a young woman about 30 years old, her husband died in the war. She stayed with her daughter, who is 4 years old. I visited them, supported them, and also brought them food.

We continue our ministry with teenagers. My wife, Nadiya, leads a group of teenage girls studying the Bible. They meet once every 2 weeks. The last time there were more than 10 people and they were talking about envy.

We plan to hold the next Bible School session on April 27-29. We expect that many more young hearts will come to study the truths of the Holy Scriptures.

Prayer requests:

1. For sister Lena, she is old and alone, her husband died, and her son is at war.

2. For our widows and orphans in our churches. May God become their father and guardian.

3. For service with immigrants, so that these people see good deeds and glorify God, so that they see the light in us and come to the One who is the Light.

4. For our physical and spiritual health, so that we have the strength and inspiration to continue serving God.

Thank you all for your spiritual and financial support. May God bless your families and your ministry.

With prayers for you, missionary in the city of Chernivtsi and in the city of Hertsa Pastushak Oleksandr.

Service for widows and orphans

I greet you dear brothers and sisters in the Lord. We are such happy people that we know God, who brought us together even though we are so far from each other. We feel how you worry and pray for us. We are grateful for your financial and spiritual support.

I want to share with you how God leads us in service and what blessings we experience.

- Every month we hold a holy dinner together with our church members in the city of Herts. This time we once again praised God for His grace and gave thanks for His Son Jesus Christ. We had a special time to repent and purify our souls and to participate in the Lord's Supper.

- One woman who used to go to Jehovah's Witnesses started visiting our House of Prayer in the city of Herts. We communicate with her, create an atmosphere of acceptance, and invite her to further services. She is open to communication and we pray for her repentance.

- In the House of Peace church in Chernivtsi, there was a special service dedicated to widows and orphans. I preached about the widow from Sarepta of Sidon, I supported and blessed all our widowed sisters and orphan children. After that, a delicious table awaited them all and they were given food packages.

- On the radio waves, we announce the good news to people and that protection and consolation can be found only in Christ. We support people in this difficult time, pray for them and cry with those who have suffered the loss of loved ones.

- My wife and I are consultants on the hotline, where different people call from different parts of Ukraine. Some of them ask for prayer support, others for psychological support, and others for spiritual support. We respond to all their needs and conduct soul-care conversations.

- In the House of Peace, there was a festive service with the participation of a children's choir. Children's voices glorified God and sang prayer songs for peace in Ukraine. It was a very moving and blessed service. I served by photographing this holiday.

Prayer requests:

1. For our church in Hertsa, so that God will give the awakening of the city and repentance in the church.

2. For our service on the radio, so that more people can learn about God.

3. For God's protection of our family and strengthening of our health after the accident.

4. For spiritual strength and God's providence in service in the Lord's field.

Thank you again for your support during this difficult time. May God look upon you in a special way and fulfill your every need.

A missionary in the city of Hertsa and in the city of Chernivtsi, Pastushak Oleksandr.

Meeting with refugees

Greeting to you brothers and sisters from mission PIE. May God bless you by His generous and riches. We wish you grace, peace and favor of God. We are grateful to you for your support and prayers.

Despite the war, we continue to serve God even more diligent and zealously. Regardless the circumstances, people need Christ and the Gospel more than before.

On the first Sunday of February, we had a holly communion with our church in Hertza. All members tested themselves and concerned about their spiritual purification. We want to be ready and worthy to take bread and wine.

We visited our old sister who is sick and can not to come to the congregation. She was happy to have a service at her house. She is godliness and devoted to God. Her son is in the army, and she left alone at home.

We have a street evangelization in Chernivtsi city. We hold this ministry in different points of city. People come to us to drink a tea and cookies, to receive some literature, and to talk about a war. We show them God in these conditions and share the Gospel and invite to the House of Prayer.

We have various ministry with teenagers. Regularly we meet with them at the church of House of peace. Girls come here to pour out their problems and feelings. My wife Nadia is a counselor for them who helps them to solve physiological problems and to get closer to God.

Likewise, we have regularly meetings with teenager girls at the downtown of Chernivtsi. We have a room to gather with them and to hold some program. This meeting is organized for unbelieving teenagers. Last time there were about 10 girls. They had a food table, hot drinks, various games and spiritual topic to discuss.

Praise the Lord for such possibilities to serve people in this terrible time.

Prayer needs:

1. For our health. May God heal us completely from pain and consequences of the wounds.

2. For God give us wisdom and right words what to say to people in need and in grief.

3. For our strength to serve refugees who live among us.

4. For our listeners so that they grow spiritually through our programs and become closer to God.

5. For refugees in Chernivtsi, may they come to Christ through street evangelization.

Gratitude for your spiritual and prayer support, we feel it and that is a great blessing for us.

Missionary in Chernivtsi and Hertza Pastushak Alex.

Ministry with teenagers

We welcome you, our dear employees at God's field. May God bless you this year even more than the previous one, may His grace and mercy always accompany you on all roads.

God has wonderfully guided us through 2022 and we believe that this is just the beginning, there will be even more wonderful events.

On December 25, we celebrated the birth of Jesus Christ with the church in the city of Herts. We had a wonderful Christmas program where we thanked God for His Son who came into this world as a baby.

We met the new year with a reminder of the suffering and death of Jesus Christ. Each member of the church thanked God for the past year, that we are all still alive and prayed to God for blessings for the coming year.

Our old sister Lena was left alone because her son was taken to the army. We visit her and help her with food and medicine.

We held another Bible School session with teenagers. We were very impressed and blessed by God. Due to the war, many families left the country and we expected that there would not be many teenagers. But God gave us twice as much as in previous times. There were about 25 teenagers in total. We conducted various spiritual and practical disciplines so that they would receive a basis for their spiritual development.

In the House of Peace Church in Chernivtsi, we had festive Christmas services with the participation of various choirs. I served by preaching the Word of God and photographs.

We also held a youth ministry for displaced people and gave them gifts. They really liked it and we planned to hold such meetings twice a month.

We thank God that we have the opportunity to serve Him with our gifts and talents in such a difficult time.

Thank you for your prayers and financial support. May God reward you and fill your hearts with his joy and peace.

With prayers for you, Alex Pastushak

Haverst day

Hello dear brothers and sisters from the USA. May God’s peace and glory descend upon you and your ministry.

We are contented that God can use us for His Kingdom. We are instruments in His hand, and by His grace, we are who we are.

October conducts very saturatedly on many events.

On the first Sunday, we had a great holiday in our church in Hertza - Thanksgiving Day or Harvest day. We worshiped God for everything He gave us this year, material and spiritual goods. We had gratitude to God for the harvest in our gardens and fields. God continues to feed us despite the war and that the enemy stole a lot of food. We had a long and profound service that day.

Also, we had a communion of remembrance of the suffering of Jesus Christ. The church glorified God for such a great gift to us sinners. Everyone was humbled and remorseful before God.

We attended one old sister, Lena, who is 96. She is sick and can not come to the congregation. So we shared Holly's supper with her at her house. She was happy to be a part of the church, even though she is at home.

Our family got into a car accident. A car exceeded the speed limit and hit our car. My wife and I got severe injuries, we had a concussion of the brain, I broke my knee, and Nadia got hurt in her back and knees. By the grace of God, we are survived and still alive. We could die. Right after the hit, we lost consciousness for a while, and we thought we died. But God rose us up, and we are able to continue our ministry. Our son Mark was with us in a car, but God protected Him, and he didn't get any wounds. Praise God for this miracle.

Prayer needs:

Pray for our church in Hertza may people grow up spiritually and bring a lot of fruit.

Pray for our bodies, may God treat us and strengthen us in our needs.

Pray for our spiritual war. The enemy doesn't sleep and attack us a lot.

Thank you for your prayers and financial support. May God give back a hundredfold.

Missionary in Chernivtsi and Herts Pastushak Alex.

Meeting with refugees

Greetings brothers and sisters of the PIEI mission. We want to share God's blessings with you!

We had a great opportunity to talk with our immigrant brothers and sisters and have a good time. My wife Nadia and my sisters were going through the book of Ruth and talking about mistakes in life that lead to serious consequences. Elimelech and Naomi's family's choice to leave Israel was a mistake, for which they paid a very bitter price. But God can use even our mistakes for His glory and through all this he brought Ruth to Bethlehem, she believed and she became David's great-grandmother. We make such meetings regularly.

And my brothers and I analyzed the topic of depression and the way out of it based on the story of Ilya. Even such a great prophet, through whom God performed great miracles, fell into depression due to fear and panic. But God fed and strengthened him to continue his work. The atmosphere was warm and pleasant, God touched the hearts of everyone present.

We held another session of our Bible School in the Carpathian Mountains. A lot of new teenagers came who really wanted to study the Bible and spend time with us. We had sports and interesting pastimes, hiking and studying various useful topics. All children would like to stay even longer and continue their studies. There were more than 30 of us.

We thank God for protecting us all and blessing our entire camp.

Prayer requests:

- For displaced persons who have lost everything and do not know what to do next.

- For teenagers who are still being formed, so that they become true Christians and good people.

- For Hertz, may God wake the city from sleep.

Thank you for your prayers and financial support. May God give back a hundredfold.

Missionary in Chernivtsi and Herts Pastushak Alex.