Dear brothers and sisters from the PIEI America mission, our partners in evangelism here in Ukraine, we greet you with the love and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ!
Luke 2:13-14
-And suddenly there appeared with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, glorifying God and crying out:
-Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men!
And on behalf of all our missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission, we want to congratulate you all on the Nativity of Christ and the New Year 2025!
We wish you much health and a peaceful sky above your heads. It is very wonderful and very good when there is peace in the country, and in every family and the peace of God in every human soul.
Here we are, by God's grace, have lived another year in our lives. And although we are still at war in Ukraine, we are kept by God - Glory to Him for everything.
We are very grateful to God for you, brothers and sisters from the USA, for your support in your prayers for us and for your financial assistance, so that we can continue to help others in need who live near us.
We believe and hope in God that the Lord will help us and this terrible war in Ukraine will end. God has everything under control.
1. Bible study
- With God's help, in the church of the village of Nesvoya, I conducted a Bible study from the book of Mark. I conducted a study about the ministry of Jesus Christ, how He, being in people's homes, we can learn from Christ, based on these events, how to conduct evangelism at home with our loved ones, with relatives, with children. And all those who listened to Jesus Christ thanked God for this wonderful teaching when He walked this earth teaching people and preaching the Gospel.
2. Bible Institute
- I taught students Revelation 1, Philadelphia church. The students had many questions and studied the history of this church. So they received answers to their questions.
- The students thanked God for having such textbooks that reveal such deep truths.
- They all promised that they would continue studying this book until they finished it. There are 4 textbooks in this book of Revelation.
3. I held the breaking of bread in 2 churches and at the same time visited many sick people from the church. I held mini-evangelism in their homes.
- In Chernivtsi, I visited one sick disabled person and helped him understand the medical equipment that he could not use. We pray for him that the Lord will help him, because it is hard for disabled people in a wheelchair to live. We help him as much as we can, and we buy medicine and meet other needs.
4. Meeting of missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission
On December 20, 2024, we held a meeting of missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission. This is the last meeting this year. Our missionaries are always happy to meet such people. We pray together, thank God for His mercy to us and study the Word of God. Brothers and sisters from the USA, our partners in evangelism here in Ukraine, also prayed for you. May the Lord bless you with health, peace and joy in Christ Jesus. We thanked God for the past 2024, for His protection and safety during this difficult time of war in Ukraine. Also, all missionaries reported on the services done this year and planned services for the next year, 2025, if it is God's will. The main thing is for the war to end. We all hope in God. So says Psalm 19:8. Some in chariots, and some in horses, but we glory in the name of the Lord our God.
5. Thanksgiving.
- We are grateful to God that in our region, Chernivtsi, there are no enemy missiles yet and we can calmly serve God here, helping people in need and the displaced people who live among us.
- We thank God for your help and support. - We thank God for health and strength and for the fact that we can work in the Field of God sowing the Word of God among people.
6. Prayer needs:
- Pray for the war in Ukraine and Israel to end.
- That the Lord blesses the evangelism in connection with the holidays of Christmas and New Year. That the Lord blesses the hearts of people who will listen to the Word of God.
- Pray for the evangelism among widows and orphans that will be in early January 2025.
- That we continue to have a peaceful sky in the region, so that we can serve peacefully here in our missionary place.
- Pray for those people who heard the Word of God this month, that the Lord will test their hearts for repentance.
- Pray for my family, that the Lord will give us health, strength and wisdom to serve in His Field.
And we always pray for you, dear brothers and sisters from the USA. And we wish you abundant blessings from the Lord in this New Year 2025.
Once again, we wish you a Merry Christmas dear brothers and sisters from the USA - our partners in the Evangelism here in Ukraine!
With love to you, the Petikhachnyy Pavel and Larisa family.
