Worshiping God with refugees

Dear PIEI brothers and sisters, we greet you with the love and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ. I praise the Lord for taking care of us wonderfully and helping us in all the affairs of our church.

1. On every Sunday we have a service in our church together with our brothers and sisters refugees who live among us. Among them there are preachers and singers and together we rejoice and glorify our Lord Jesus Christ.

2. This month we started Bible studies for candidates who want to enter into union with Christ through water baptism.

3. We, the ministers of our church, help other small churches because some pastors are absent there and there is no one to conduct services there in these churches.

4. Thanksgiving:

-I thank the Lord for the fact that in our area we can freely proclaim the Word of God.

-Thank God for the fact that unbelieving people also come to our services in the church.

5. Prayer needs:

-Pray with us for the candidates who will be baptized this summer.

-Pray that the war in Ukraine will end and peace will finally come.

-Pray for me that the Lord would strengthen my health and spiritually so that I could preach the Gospel in the power of the Holy Spirit.

We are grateful to you and always pray for you. You are a support for us and a great help in serving here in Ukraine, especially at this difficult time for us. May the Lord give you a hundredfold blessings and all help in your ministry for God.

With great love for you, the Gortopan family.

Escape from Irpin and torments

Dear brothers and sisters, I greet you with the love and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ. I praise God for the fact that He is a God of love and loves us with His eternal love.

1. Services of worship and glorification of God are regularly held in our church, together with believing refugees who have taken refuge from the war in our village. Our church choir, youth and children glorify God through singing, and sermons are translated into Ukrainian so that everyone would understand the Word of God .

2. Two weeks ago, an elderly believing family from the town of Irpin, Kyiv region, arrived in our village of Tarasovtsi, brother George and sister Valentina. George was our fellow villager and lived with his family in the city of Irpen. He is already 89 years old. We visited them with the breaking of bread and rejoiced together around the Word of God. They testified to us about their torment in Irpen during these months of the war. How they lived without light, without heat, without gas and without water. How shells flew over their house. How all the houses around them turned into ruins, only the mercy of God saved them, glory God! The elderly and the sick cooked food in the garage on a homemade brick stove. They lit a fire and prepared something to eat. And the Lord miraculously saved them and they were able to evacuate to us in safety. We prayed together and thanked the Lord for the miraculous salvation and also entrusted this family in the hands of God.

3. On April 24, our church celebrated the Feast of Easter - the Resurrection of Christ. Two days in a row we had festive services to the glory of Christ crucified for us, and on the third day He rose from the dead - Glory to Him! He trampled down death with His death and gave us eternal life in Christ! Our youth, choir and children had an excellent program of Praise of Christ prepared and together with the church rejoiced and glorified the Lord Jesus Christ.

4. Thanksgiving:

-We thank God for giving peace and tranquility in our area and we will be able to help those who need this help.

-We thank God for your help that comes to us from brothers from Romania, from the USA and from other countries.

5. Prayer needs:

-Pray, together with us, for the refugees who are among us. There are those who have gone through great suffering, are very stressed and have health problems. We pray for them and help in any way we can and financially, but there is a need to help them spiritually. Pray and speak them from Holy Scripture.

-Pray that the war in the South East of Ukraine will end. There are terrible battles. But we believe that the Lord will defeat all this evil.

-Pray for us too so that the Lord will help us to be with open hearts for all who need our help, so that we always lend a helping hand to people and that we work as for the Lord, so that the Name of the Lord would be glorified among these people.

For us, brothers and sisters from the USA and from the PIEI organization, you are a blessing, help and support - Thank God for you! We thank you from the bottom of our hearts and wish you blessings from our Lord. May it never be far from you and always the blessings of God have been with you and over you. We love you and pray for you.

With love to you, the Gortopan family.

Evangelization for kids

Dear brothers and sisters of PIEI, we greet you with the love and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I praise the Lord for the fact that even in difficult moments of our lives, He is always with us and helps in everything.

1.Together with the church, we help refugees in whatever way we can. Our members of the church accepted refugees, both believers and unbelievers, in their homes. It is good that even these unbelieving refugees come to worship at our prayer house and pray, together with us, to God. We try to translate the sermons in their language through an interpreter so that they understand the Word of God. We also help them with groceries.

2. We also had brothers from Romania from the PIEI Romania mission, mission director brother Timothei Stanea and brother Mike Dima with whom we had good communication. They brought us humanitarian aid for refugees, and we told them about our ministry here among the refugees in this time of war.

3. In our church, we held a children's evangelism. Each of the children who go to our Sunday school called their friends or classmates to this evangelism. Refugee children also came to the evangelization. There were about 50 children. The Word of God was taught according to their concepts, there were also different games for them and at the end they each received a gift.

Thanksgiving:

- Many thanks to you, brothers and sisters from the USA who take care of the needs of Ukraine in this difficult time. You are the help we need.

-Thank God for the fact that in this time of war we have this privilege to proclaim the gospel.

Prayer Needs:

-Let's pray together for our country, especially for those places from the East and North of the country where there are heavy battles.

-For those who hear the Word of God at this time, so that they repent.

-For me and our church, so that the Lord gives us wisdom on how to behave in this difficult moment.

We are grateful to you, dear brothers and sisters, that you are a necessary help for us when we go through suffering and problems. And we pray for you and love you with the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.

With love to you, the Gortopan family.

Ministry for refugees

Hearty greetings from the Gortopan family!

Greetings in the love of Jesus Christ to all of Steph's family and to all of the brothers and sisters of PIEI America.

Thank you for praying and supporting us in this difficult test that our country Ukraine is going through.

Although in our area you don’t hear the terrible sounds of bombs that bombard the big cities of Ukraine, and thank God that at least it’s quiet here and we can help refugees who come to us more and more every day. In our area where they live safely and have shelter from terrible bombs and bullets.

On Sunday 02.27 we had two families from Luhansk who testified about the ministry they have in their churches. One brother is the pastor of the church, and the other brother is responsible for the rehabilitation center from Luhansk. Two days later they left their families in the care of our church and these brothers went back to serve there for the Lord.

Refugees also came and our church members took them into their homes. A good example is one family from our church, Mihai Bukatovich and Dora, who are now visiting children in the USA (Chicago), and they provided their home for refugees. They have a big house and fit 18 people from refugees. Our church provides them with food and other supplies.

All members of the church buy food and bring it to the church, and from there we distribute it where necessary. We have volunteer brothers who serve specifically in this area.

I always thank God for the wonderful work that is being done through our brothers and sisters of our church.

Thank you also, brothers and sisters, for your financial support. Keep praying for us. And we love you and pray for you.

With love to you brother Gortopan Mihai.

Evangelistic service in the kindergarten

Dear brothers and sisters, we greet you with grace and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. I magnify God because He takes care of us every day in His works.

1. We spent a blessed time with the church when we gathered together for fellowship, prayer and other ministries for the Lord. We spent many times special prayers for peace in Ukraine.

2. This month we made a special donation which was sent to Kyiv to support God's ministry throughout Ukraine.

3. Conducted an evangelistic service in the kindergarten, where the Word of God was presented to children in an accessible and understandable way for small children. At the end of the program, each child received a gift from us.

On February 14, we had a meeting with the missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission, where we met in ZOOME with the family of Popa Rodik and Alex. I am very grateful to God and to them for this meeting, because they encouraged us a lot through this communication with them. We prayed together for peace in Ukraine.

Thanksgiving:

-I thank the Lord for His preached Word this month.

-I am very grateful to God and for you, our evangelistic partners, brothers and sisters from the USA, because through your financial help and support in prayers you are a good support for ministry here in Ukraine.

Prayer Needs:

-Pray, together with us, for those patients who go through pandemics, that they have a mild form of the disease, that they are cured and come to church.

-Pray for peace in Ukraine.

-Pray for me and my family so that the Lord keeps us healthy both physically and spiritually.

- To you, dear brothers and sisters from the United States, we sincerely thank you for taking such wonderful care of us and wish you all God's abundant blessings.

With love to you, the Gortopan family.