Dear brothers and sisters from the USA, we greet you with the love and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ.
We thank the Lord for the fact that, although we still have a war in Ukraine, for 713 days now, but by God's grace we can still serve here in Bukovyna.
We hope in the Lord as King David hoped when he wrote Psalm 19 verse 8 and 9: Some with chariots, some with horses, but we boast in the Name of our Lord. They wavered and fell, but we got up and stand straight. Thank God for everything. In Christ is our protection and our victory.
For us, the Church of Jesus Christ, January was a blessed month, because God gave us, missionaries, success in evangelism: working with children, teenagers and youth.
1. In this month, they worked a lot and diligently with orphans. But we were asked to visit the military wounded from the war, with contusions. They are in a mental hospital in Chernivtsi. We organized a mini-evangelization for them with one chaplain brother and at the same time gave them good gifts. They were very pleased and asked us to visit them more often with such evangelization and gifts. We prayed with them there, and we continue to pray for these wounded in the hospital. Unfortunately, we are not allowed to take pictures of them. We have such a time now.
2. Young families and our youth study the Bible every week. They also learn and rehearse songs and verses for the worship program for the church service. With these programs, they enrich the ministry in our church. Many people from around the world who visit our church like the program of glorification of our youth. We pray for all who visit our church, that the Holy Spirit will awaken them to repentance.
3. At the Bible Institute, we are currently conducting 1 Thessalonians, and from Monday, February 5, we will conduct the book of Exodus. The book of Exodus is a very blessed book that shows all people living on earth how they should get out of this slavery of sin. And the One who helps us to get out of the slavery of sin is the sacrifice of Christ, the Blood of Christ and only Christ can free us from sin.
4. News from Ukraine:
- February 24 marks two years since the full-scale war in Ukraine with Russia. And more and more destruction and human deaths. Young men and children, old men and middle-aged people are dying, and mostly men from 18 to 60 years old, those who protect Ukraine.
A siren sounds every evening and during the day, which means an air alert. Drones and rockets are flying somewhere. And we, the children of God, are always praying at this time that the Lord will save us and protect us from these enemy rockets. We missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission are also praying and fasting so that all these horrors will end soon. With God's help, we go forward and preach the Gospel to people.
5. On Friday, February 2, we had a meeting with our missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission in Novoselytsa at the Emmanuel church, where we had fellowship and prayer for our service here. They also thanked the Lord for the fraternal support from the USA. We prayed for our partners from the USA that the Lord would bless them, their families, their churches and their country USA. We also prayed for an end to the war here and in Israel.
6. Thanks:
- We are very grateful to the Lord for His mercy and grace to us, for the fact that rockets have not yet arrived in our region, for the fact that we can safely serve God here.
- Thank God that you also prayed for the team of Brother Chioresco Grigory who had an accident on the road to Gostomel, but thank God that they are alive and are recovering a little. Of course, there are still pains, but everything is already on the mend.
- We thank God for you, brothers and sisters from the USA, for your support and for your prayers for us.
7. Prayer needs:
- Pray, together with us, that the Lord will stop this dirty and aimless war between two brotherly peoples.
- We pray that the war will end in Israel as well.
- We pray that there will be no enemy missiles and drones. May the Lord protect us from these horrors.
- So that our missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission could continue to perform their services in this difficult time for us, the time of war, and so that we have God's protection over us.
-Pray for our wounded soldiers, that God heals them, for their spiritual wounds that they have from this war.
-Pray for our prisoners of war who were captured by the enemy, that they may be released. We continue to pray for Serhiy Suga, our brother in Christ who is a prisoner of the enemy. The second exchange of prisoners of war was yesterday, January 31. And Sergey was not among them. And his family is hoping and waiting for him.
- Pray for our churches that the Lord would strengthen us spiritually and that the church of Christ from Ukraine would be ready to meet our Lord in every second of our lives.
We are also praying for you, our dear brothers and sisters from the USA. May the Lord bless you and return to you a hundredfold His blessings for your sacrifice and support.
My family sends you heartfelt greetings in the Name of Jesus Christ.
With love to you family Petikhachnyy Pavel & Larisa.
