We helped one poor family from our village

Dear brothers and sisters of PIEI America, we greet you with the love and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ! We glorify and praise the Lord for the fact that through His mercy and grace we are alive and well and we can say like Joshua: “Until this place the Lord has helped us”!

1. This month we visited the sick and elderly members of our church, along with our youth. We rejoiced together, sang psalms and prayed together. Our patients were very satisfied and grateful, and the youth were glad that they could be useful to bring joy, peace and love to the sick and the elderly.

2. We helped one poor family from our village. The mother of 4 children had an operation, so some brothers and sisters from our church helped them financially. Then we came to their home and brought them food and vegetables, as well as other help for the whole family. They were very pleased.

3. Were at the funeral in the village of Kostychany, together with the choristers, and helped there at the funeral service. There is a small church there, so when such churches need help, we are always happy to serve for God.

4). On February 24, our church, together with all believers from Ukraine, were in fasting and prayer, so that the Lord would give us peace and victory in Ukraine. For God to help us and protect us.

5. Thanksgiving:

-We thank the Lord for His salvation and protection of our region from the arrivals of rockets that arrive so often in the east and south of Ukraine.

-Thank God for the fact that one family from Vanchikovtsy visits our church. We pray for them.

-We always thank God for you for supporting us both prayerfully and financially, so that we could help people here who need this help.

6. Prayer requests:

-Pray with us for Ukraine because only God can stop this war.

-For those unbelievers who attend our church, so that the Lord opens their hearts to Him.

-For me and my family, so that the Lord will protect us and strengthen us in His service.

We sincerely thank you, dear brothers and sisters from the USA, who serve with us, support us and pray for us. We also always thank God for you and pray for you. We love you and wish you much health and God's abundant blessings!

With love to you, the Gortopan family.

Evangelistic children's ministry

Dear brothers and sisters, we greet you with the love and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ! I praise God for the fact that through His grace and mercy, He takes care of us in His ministry.

1. We spent a blessed time with the church when we gathered together for fellowship, for prayer and other spiritual events. Recently, 2 unbelieving men from the village of Vanchikovtsy come to our church. They study the Word of God and are interested in knowing the Truth. When we recently had a meeting with the brothers to analyze the Word of God, these men also came to the brotherly meeting. We had a wonderful fellowship with questions and answers from the Holy Scriptures. We hope that the Lord will work in their hearts and in their lives.

2. Together with a group of brothers and sisters, we visited the elderly and sick members of our church. We praised God through hymns, prayed together and had wonderful fellowship. They thanked God and rejoiced with us for our group, which brought them the joy of fellowship . They said they felt like they were in our church meeting.

3. One Sunday we had an evangelistic children's ministry in our congregation. Our Sunday school children invited their friends and their classmates where they were introduced to the Word of God about the birth of Jesus Christ the Messiah in their understanding. They had wonderful fellowship with songs, games and lessons from Scriptures. At the end of the meeting, each of them received a Christmas present.

4. Thanksgiving:

-Thank God for the peace we have in our area.

- We thank God for you too, dear brothers and sisters from the USA, who are a great blessing, support, encouragement and help for us.

5. Prayer needs:

-Pray, together with us, for those 2 men from Vanchikivtsa who attend our church, that the Lord would test their hearts so that they would repent.

-So that we don't stop praying for peace in Ukraine. Only the Lord can stop this war and this evil. So that a peaceful blessed time will come again in Ukraine.

-Pray for me and my family that the Lord will give us health and encouragement to serve Him.

We thank God for you, brothers and sisters from the USA. We are very grateful for your cooperation, together with us in ministry here in Ukraine, for your financial assistance and encouragement. And we love you and pray for you. We wish the Lord to bless you, encourage you and help you in everyday life.

With love to you, the Gortopan family.

Chistmas Eve

Dear brothers and sisters of the PIEI organization, we greet you with the love and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ. I praise God that through His mercy and grace we have survived until the end of 2022, a year full of problems, war, and experience. But the Lord is merciful and took care of His children every day - Glory to Him for everything!

1. At the beginning of the month, we performed a funeral, where there were many relatives and friends of the deceased, from unbelievers, and who listened attentively to the Word of God. We praise God for the fact that this funeral also served for people to hear the Word, hymns to the glory of the Lord, and we pray for those people, unbelievers who heard the Word, so that the Lord would test their hearts, so that they would repent.

2. This year we celebrated the feast of the Nativity of Christ on December 25th. We had a blessed program in the church where everyone, especially children, youth and our choir, had the opportunity to glorify our Lord Jesus Christ for His birth on our earth, for His love for us, people, to take on all the sins of this world and to save all mankind from destruction and from hell.

-Together with us, almost all the migrants who live in our village came to this holiday, as well as non-believers from the village. We also pray for these people.

3. Our family has prepared gifts for migrants and for those in need from our village. We have prepared packages of groceries and other essentials for these people. They were very happy and praised God for being merciful to them.

4. Thanksgiving:

-We always thank the Lord for you, brothers and sisters from the USA, for the fact that through your help that you give us, you are the cause of many thanks and glorifications for God.

-Thank God for the fact that in our area is still calm and peace is maintained. Thank God that our region is not bombed as enemies in the regions from the South, North and East of Ukraine do. And we can freely proclaim the Word of God to the people.

5. Prayer needs:

-Pray, together with us, for those unbelieving people who have heard the Word of God this month.

-Keep praying for the long-awaited peace in Ukraine and the end of the war.

-For me and my family, so that the Lord gives us health, jealousy and love in the service of the Lord.

At the end of this year, we are sincerely grateful to you, our partner from the USA, who serve in the Field of God with us. This year has been a difficult year for us, but you have been a great comfort, encouragement and great support for us. Special thanks to the teams that, led by brother Cornel Stef, had great courage to come to Ukraine in the context of difficulties and war. Thank you for your support, for humanitarian aid, for your prayers and for being with us in these difficult circumstances for us.

Now times have come even more difficult, when we are not given sufficient electricity and heating, but we hope in the Lord that He will continue to take care of us, as He has taken care of us until now.

I, along with my family, wholeheartedly wish you a Happy New Year with many blessings from the Lord.

With love, the Gortopan family.

A national children's meeting

Dear brothers and sisters, we greet you with the love and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ! I praise God, because even in this difficult, crisis time for us, the Lord is on our side, He is with us and takes care of us every day. Despite the difficult times in our country, there is no electricity 3-4 times a day, but for us it is a blessing that we gather together in the House of God for fellowship and prayer. We appreciate these wonderful moments very much, because many of our brothers and sisters in Christ from our country do not have such an opportunity because of the war.

1. At the beginning of the month of November, our sisters had a conference in Chernivtsi on the topic "Peace in Time of War". Our sisters who were at this conference came encouraged and grateful to God for the wonderful lessons from the Holy Scriptures and for fellowship and prayer. These sisters, who were at the conference, called on our sisters from the church, so that they all together would rally even more to pray for peace in Ukraine - Peace that only the Lord can give.

2. A national children's meeting from Romanian churches was organized in our church. The children were given classes by a well-trained team of leaders from Romania. They had a blessed time, wonderful lessons from the Scriptures, and interesting games.

3. When I have the opportunity, I lovingly help small churches. This month I was at a funeral in the village of Kotilevo, where brother Igor Dzyadik ministers, and there I preached the Word to many unbelieving people.

4. Thanksgiving:

-I thank the Lord for the fact that in our area it is calm and we are protected by God. Therefore, we can also help the migrants who live among us.

-I am very grateful to God that we have you, brothers and sisters from the USA, who are a great support and help for us. Special thanks to Sister Martha Hauck, who was with us this summer, for her financial help. My wife shared this money with our grandson Maxim and with her daughter and son-in-law, whose salaries do not exceed $100 for each. Our whole family wishes Sister Martha blessings from God from the word from 2 Corinthians 9:10-14. We want her to know that she made us want to pray even more for her, for the teams from the USA that visited us this summer and for all our partners to the gospel from the PIEI America mission.

5. Prayer needs:

-Pray, together with us, for our country, which is going through very difficult times.

-Pray for the spiritual growth of our church.

-Pray for me and my family so that the Lord will strengthen us to serve in His Field.

-Thank you, brothers and sisters from the USA, who work with us in God's Vineyard, and who support us financially and are a great blessing to us. May the Lord bless you and take care of you every day of your life.

With love to you, the Gortopan family.

Humanitarian aid from different countries

Dear brothers and sisters, we greet you with grace - and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. I praise God for serving in His Field, He takes care of us every day.

1. I spent blessed days with the church when we gathered together for fellowship, for prayers and for other events. In recent weeks, almost every Sunday, there were guests from the USA and from Romania who came to Ukraine with humanitarian aid, and visit many churches. And we also had a Word of encouragement and comfort. Praise God for His Word in which we find all comfort and support in all situations.

2. Every Monday our brothers have prayer meetings, and every Thursday our sisters also meet for prayer. The main need for prayer is the difficult situation of the war in Ukraine. We go through this war and, as children of God who know the Word of God, we understand that only we need to turn to the Lord, call for help, and only expect deliverance from Him.

3. Together with brothers and sisters from the church, we visited many sick and elderly members of our church, where we had wonderful fellowship with them: we prayed, sang psalms and rejoiced in the Lord.

4. Thanksgiving:

-I praise and thank the Lord for the fact that we have brothers and sisters in the Lord everywhere who pray for our country and help with humanitarian aid.

-We thank the Lord for the fact that He hears our prayers and we can calmly gather for fellowship, for prayer and for other world events in our church.

5. Prayer needs:

-Pray together with us for Ukraine. Because rockets are already flying into the Chernivtsi region. Power plants are blowing up. They want to deprive us of electricity.

- For us believers from Ukraine, so that we do not despair, but more so that we unite to pray for the difficult situation in Ukraine, because we understand from the Word of God that only God can change these circumstances and bring victory to Ukraine.

And to you, brothers and sisters from the USA, our PIEI mission partners, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your support and prayer for us. I wish the Lord to protect you every day. You are a great blessing and great support for us at this difficult time. Be blessed!

With love, the Gortopan family.