We greet you with the love and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ, our dear brothers and sisters from the USA - our partners in evangelism here in Ukraine. Christ is risen! Christ has truly risen!
I am very grateful to the Lord for His protection this month, during this period of difficult war in Ukraine. This war has been raging here for 790 days now. Missiles arrive in different cities of Ukraine, so many deaths of civilians and children. And only the mercy of the Lord protects our Bukovina region from these missile attacks - Thank God! I am grateful to God for what He has given me, this month, success in evangelism.
1.Blessings of children
-This month, 2 young families brought their babies for blessings. Roger and Sorina brought Timur's second son and the church prayed with me for the blessing of this child, and also for the Lord to bless their entire family. Youth and the church congratulated the couple on their newborn son.
On April 14, the next Sunday, the second couple, Vitaly and Esther, came to church and brought their third child, Miriam, for blessing. We prayed for Miriam's blessings and for the Lord to bless their entire family. Also the youth had a wonderful welcome and blessing program for these young families. Also, these days, our church services were visited by people - guests from the world. We pray for them that they will repent.
2.Meeting with missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission.
-We had a meeting with the missionaries of our PIEI Ukraine mission at the Emmanuel Church in Novoselitsa. These meetings inspire us all because each brother missionary gives an account of his work on his mission field of service and we learn from each other and support each other in prayer before our Lord. We also pray and thank God for our sponsors, for our evangelistic partners from the USA, who support us both spiritually and financially in serving the Lord here, in this difficult time of war for us. We also prayed that the Lord would bless us further in our missionary service. We have children’s camps in every church of our mission, as well as a teenage camp in Boyany, and we pray for them. We hope in the Lord that He will help us and we will continue to have a peaceful sky and tranquility for serving in these Christian camps. We also had a table of love with our missionaries and trusted in God's protection as we parted ways. We promised to support each other in prayers and if anyone needed help, we would help each other.
3.Visit
-I visited churches in the village of Balkovtsy and in the village of Podvirnoe, and also helped those in need financially with packages of food. They were very happy to receive this help. I also distributed seeds to sow their garden. And people again thanked for this good deed. Thank God for the fact that I had such an opportunity to help people who need help.
4.Church classes
-In Nesvoyskaya church I taught the book of the prophet Isaiah. This month I walked through 6 chapters of this book with the church. Everyone in our church loved this beautiful book of Isaiah.
5.Work with youth and young families
-Once a week, young families and youth gather for Bible study and also prepare a worship program for Sunday church services. We are very glad that our church is visited by new people for whom we pray that they will repent.
6.Thanksgiving.
-We are grateful to God that He gives us spiritual and physical health and we can serve in our churches during this difficult time for us.
-We are very grateful to God for you, dear brothers and sisters from the USA, our partners in evangelism here in Ukraine, for helping us and supporting us in your prayers.
-We are grateful to God for protecting our region from bombing and we can safely serve here where we are.
7.Prayer needs
-Continue to pray for peace in Ukraine and Israel.
-Pray for us missionaries that the Lord will continue to protect us, our families and our churches from bombings, from all evil, so that we can calmly serve the Lord here in this difficult time of war for us.
-To turn back our captured soldiers who are being held captive by enemies.
-So that the Lord preserves our young brothers from all evil. Now is wartime, there are military posts everywhere, and it is difficult for young ministers to move around to serve in other churches.
-Pray for our summer Christian children's camps.
-Pray for repentance among our displaced people. They listen to the Word and receive packages of help, but so that they understand and accept the call of Jesus Christ to repentance.
-Pray for ministry among orphans. On May 18, our church will again organize a ministry for 200 orphans on Kovelskaya 25, where we will feed them all day and engage them in sports, Bible lessons and various interesting games. So that the Lord would give us a peaceful sky and good weather so that the children would rejoice all day long.
-Pray for our church evangelism on May 5th where we invited many friends to church. So that the Lord awakens these people to repentance.
And we pray for you, brothers and sisters from the USA - our partners in evangelism here in Ukraine.
May the Lord bless you richly. Greetings from my family.
With love to you, the Petikhachnyy Pavel & Larisa family.
