Dear brothers and sisters of the PIEI organization, we greet you with the love and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ! In all our prayers to God, we remember you with joy and pray for you that you participate, together with us, in the gospel of the Gospel here in Ukraine.
1. This month, I, along with a team that came from the USA, sisters Martha, Elizabeth and Sarah, visited several families from immigrants who live in our village. We had a conversation with them and each migrant told his story of wandering during this war, painful and difficult stories, from which we cried with these people. People left everything: their houses, and some of them had no houses left due to the Russian bombing, and fled from the war in our area, where it is calm, in order to save their lives. After our conversations with them, and we told them about the love of Christ for all people, gave them each a book of the New Testament to read, invited them to our meetings, and their children to our Christian day camp, and then we gave everyone a package with those that we received from the brothers and sisters from Romania. These settlers were very happy and praised God that He does not forget about their needs through good people. We promised them that we would continue to help with food, and they promised us that they would contact us to us, to faith for help when they need it. We are grateful to God for being able to comfort and help unfortunate people, and we also pray for them to accept Christ in their hearts.
2. Then, in the afternoon, Sisters Sarah Steph and Sister Elizabeth had a special program with our children from the Sunday School, in the premises of our church. There were different games and they were told about Jesus Christ from the program "Bible without Words." There were also several children from the settlers whom we invited in the morning, during visits to their families. Especially one boy from them was very active and boldly answered questions from Sarah. They said that they would come to our camp, which we will hold from 11 to 16 July, also in the premises of our church. We also pray for these children.
3. This week we also had the funeral of one woman who recently repented. There were 2 pre-funeral services, and at the funeral, many unbelievers who had the opportunity to hear the Word of God. We are now living in difficult times, during the war and I am glad when I see that people are willing to listen and attentively listen to the Word of God.
4.Thanks:
-I am grateful to the Lord for helping us, together with a team from the USA, to spend a blessed time where the Name of God was glorified.
-Thank God for you, dear brothers and sisters from the USA, for the fact that you, at this difficult time for Ukraine, help and care for the displaced people who live among us. This is a great help for us to proclaim the Word of God among the displaced people, and also among people who live in poverty because of their illnesses.
-I thank the Lord for the fact that we have the opportunity to freely proclaim the Word of God to people.
5. Prayer needs:
-Pray with us for those people who listened to the Word so that the Lord would test their hearts for repentance.
-For our children's Christian camp which will be from 11 to 16 July.
-For the Non Stop youth camp, which will be held from August 1 to 6 in Boyany. So that the Lord protects all children and leaders, all teachers. So that the Lord protects the team from the USA that will come to us. there were bombings in Bukovina. We believe that the Lord will protect us all from everything bad.
-For me and my family, so that the Lord would support us spiritually, so that we would work for His Glory.
We are very grateful to you for everything that you do for us and for the fact that by doing this you help us in serving for God here. We pray for you that the Lord bless you and return you a hundredfold blessings for your families, your churches and for your country where you live. My family sends their heartfelt greetings to you in the Name of Jesus.
With love to you, the Gortopan family.
