Help for orphans and widows

Greetings, dear brothers and sisters, with the love of Jesus Christ!

I praise and thank the Lord for His help and protection in the service in the Field of the Lord and at the beginning of this year.

1. Evangelism:

-With God's help, we did 2 evangelizations on January 7 and 8, where together with the church we celebrated the feast of the Nativity of Christ in the old style. This is how people in our village celebrate and we also decided to organize evangelizations this way. The youth went home with carols and gave people calendars and an invitation to evangelism on January 8. Thank God that few people responded and came to evangelism. We pray for them.

2.Help for orphans and widows:

-For 2 weeks we, together with our church, collected and bought food for orphans and widows. Prepared special packages with products, vegetables and fruits. We wanted to prepare a table of love for them, that is, a delicious dinner. Gather them all and feed them deliciously. We have been doing this for many years in a row. But now again because of the quarantine could not do it. Thank God that it turned out to be a very good and useful help for them. Although we could not enter a couple of such houses because the children there had the flu, we left the packages near the doors and they took them away. Then we texted us thanksgiving. On Friday, January 14, we were at Kovelskaya in 5 orphanages. In one of these houses, a father who brings up 10 children from a boarding school thanked us and said that he wanted to visit our church from Nesvoi. He plays the guitar himself and organized a good worship group from those children from the boarding school, those that they bring up together with their wife and their housemates who are also children from the boarding school. Of course, we gladly invited them to our church, although the distance is 75 km from Chernivtsi. But he said that they have transport to come to us. Thank God that these parents raise these children in love for the Lord. Each child was also given a package of sweets and tangerines. Children are always happy when they are given sweets. Pray for these families because they have their own difficulties.

And on Saturday, January 15, we were at the orphanage on Golovnaya Street and in Sadgora. How happy all the children were! There are no words to describe it. We thanked God that the Lord does not forget about them - Praise God for helping us serve Him through this service! We pray for orphans and widows that they all know the Lord Jesus Christ.

3. Thanksgiving:

-I thank the Lord for protecting us from diseases and helping us to work in God's Vineyard.

-We always thank God for you, brothers and sisters from the USA, for supporting us missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission, in your prayers and materially in our ministry in Ukraine. Thank you for your prayers because the Lord helped us to work for Him this month as well .

4. Prayer needs:

- Pray with us that the Lord will continue to protect us from all evil and disease, so that we can still sow the Word of God among the people around us.

-Now after these holidays, many people got sick with just the flu, so that the Lord would heal the members of our churches, the children who attended Sunday schools from Covid and from the simple flu.

-Pray for orphans and widows, that they may know Jesus Christ as the Savior of their souls.

-To stop the war in the South-East of Ukraine.

-To repent those people who attended our evangelizations on these holidays. So that the Lord would touch their hearts.

And we pray for you brothers and sisters that the Lord bless you and protect you and your families from all sickness and from all evil. That the Lord bless you with health and peace in Christ. My family sends heartfelt greetings to everyone in the Name of Jesus Christ.

With love, the Petikhachny family, Pavel and Larisa.

Merry Christmas and Happy New year!

Greetings, brothers and sisters from the United States, with the peace and love of Jesus Christ!

First, I want to praise the Lord for the fact that He is our Great God Who helps us serve Him and works in His Field on this earth.

1.So the month of December passed and we, with God's help, found ourselves at the beginning of the New Year, 2022. At the end of the year, on the last Sunday of December, we had a reporting meeting in the church, where I reported to the church for the work done throughout 2021 Together with our church we carried out services in 3 churches: in Nesvoi, in Balkivtsi and in Podvirna. Every month they held cereal breaks, visited the sick and helped the poor.

2. I was at a funeral in Novoselitsa. Alla Popov's father, the wife of our pastor missionary brother Valeria Popov, died, and I preached the Word of God. After the funeral, one person who lives in Novoselytsia asked us, me and my brother Valery, to visit him and to communicate with him from the Word of God. After our fellowship, this man, on the basis of the Gospel, repented, Glory to God. It turns out that this man is from the village of Zhilovka, where I have been helping in the ministry in this church for many years in a row. But now he lives in Novoselitsa. We pray that the Lord will strengthen the faith of this brother.

3. Evangelism:

-At the beginning of the New Year, 2 large evangelizations were carried out in the church in the village of Nesvoi. At these evangelizations, a choir from young families sang and there were edifying sermons. After these meetings, many prayed a prayer of repentance and asked God for forgiveness with tears in their eyes. At the moment, many unbelievers are attending our church for whom we are praying.

4.Help orphans and widows:

-After January 7, we want to help orphans from boarding schools, and widows, with food and gifts for the children. Now we are already preparing sweet gifts (200 bags) and collecting food from vegetables. We will also buy fruits and various cereals, pasta, sunflower oil and other products. At the same time, we want to help large families who took their children from orphanages to foster care, as well as widows who were left without husbands, and their children without fathers after this war, which has been going on in the South East of Ukraine with Russia for 8 years. They constantly ask us for help so that they do not go hungry and have everything they need for school and other needs.

5.Thanks:

-We are grateful to God and you for helping us with your prayers for us and for your material support which helps us to expand the work of God here, in Ukraine.

-Thank God for the fact that all our missionaries and their families are healthy and they can work in the Field of God in the Power of the Holy Spirit.

6.Prayer Needs:

-Pray, together with us, that the war in the South-East of Ukraine ends, and that a new war does not ripen on the part of Russia in Ukraine.

-So that the Lord will protect us and our families from a pandemic.

-So that in the churches of our mission, PIEI Ukraine, in 2022, more people will repent and make a covenant with the Lord through water Baptism.

-Pray for the action of mercy with orphans and widows that we will hold in January. May the Lord help us in this and that the Name of the Lord be glorified among these children.

-Also, our church will celebrate the feast of Christmas on January 7 and 8. Pray that many people from the world will come to these evangelizations and that they will repent.

We also pray for you, brothers and sisters from the United States, our partners in ministry for the Lord in Ukraine. May the Lord bless you abundantly and protect you and your families from any disease. We wish you success, peace, and much health in 2022. Be blessed!

With love, the Petihachny family, Pavel and Larisa.

Annual PIE-Ukraine meeting

Greetings to you, dear brothers and sisters, with the love and peace of Jesus Christ!

Thank God for the month of November, for the fact that I was successful in preaching the gospel to the ministry before God.

1.Annual meeting of missionaries of the mission PIEI Ukraine:

-4 December, 2021, together with the missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission, we held an annual meeting where each of our missionaries could report on the work done in 2021. Together we praised and thanked the Lord for the fact that He protected us all from all evil and strengthened us to serve for Him. All missionaries worked with all dedication for the Lord throughout the year. In all the churches of our mission there were repentances and baptisms of repentant souls.

In all our churches there is a Sunday school where leaders work with children, as well as teenagers and youth gather to study the Word of God. We also prayed together and thanked the Lord for our brothers and sisters from the United States - our partners in evangelism here in Ukraine. For the fact that they always support us in our ministry in Ukraine. We prayed for everyone that the Lord would bless them all and protect them from any disease.

2. Bible Study:

- I taught the book of the prophet Ezekiel, part 2, for 30 students. At the beginning of this session there were few students, and then every day new students were added who wanted to study this blessed book. During these sessions one person began to visit our house of prayer, Glory God!

3.Mini Evangelism:

- I conducted a divine service in the family of one disabled person (Dima), at his request. A few weeks ago, his wife died from Covid and he is now experiencing major depression and has been unable to sleep for so many nights, he was very afraid that he would soon leave for eternity. And I taught him classes on the topic from the Philippians. 1:21-For me, life Christ, and death is an acquisition. After several such studies, he felt better and began to pray and serve God.

-I had evangelism with 5 families who asked me to help them. Larisa and I taught them Bible lessons and helped them with the food they needed. They were very happy with this help and thanked God for it.

4. Serving with young families and youth.

-In our church, we hold a service once a week with young families and youth. They study the Bible, and also prepare a worship program for Sunday services in the church. This group of young people has great success both in worship in the church program and in visiting sick people to help them and for their excitement.

5.Breadbreaking:

We also had the breaking of bread with the church - we remembered the death and suffering of our Savior Jesus Christ. This is the last communion this year, and we thanked the Lord for the opportunity given to us to fulfill His will. We also visited one family (sick) with the breaking of bread.

6.Thanks:

- We always thank the Lord for you, dear brothers and sisters from the USA, our partners in evangelism in Ukraine, for always supporting us in missionary service both financially and with your prayers. Thank God that thanks to you we are successful in evangelism.

-Thank God for the fact that we are healthy and God listens to the prayers of His Church. Glory to Him for the answers to our prayers.

-Thank God for 5 people who regularly attend our meetings. We pray for them so that they know the Truth and repent.

-Thank God for the fact that all Sunday schools in our churches are functioning.

7.Prayer Needs:

-Pray, together with us, that a large-scale war does not start in our Ukraine. The Russians are again preparing to attack us. They put military equipment along the entire border with Ukraine and led their troops. The people are in panic, but we are children of God hope in the Lord .Only the Lord can protect us from aggression and war. And this is how people suffer in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine. For almost 8 years there is no rest there, the war is still going on and young people are dying. We pray for them and we help these people as much as we can. ...

-Pray for us that our families and our churches are not infected by this Covid 19 virus.

We always pray for you, our dear brothers and sisters, and we wish that the Lord would bless you, your families, your churches and your country, that the Lord would protect you from all evil and from a pandemic. And we also want to wish you all Happy Christmas and Happy New Years. 2022! May the Lord bless you all, dear brothers and sisters, our partners in evangelism here in Ukraine!

With love to you, the Petihachny family, Pavel and Larisa.

Blessings of children

Greetings, brothers and sisters from the United States, with the love and grace of Jesus Christ!

I am grateful to the Lord for this month, October. Although it was a difficult month for evangelism, because in Bukovina, Ukraine, Covid 19 was very much raging. But despite this, believers look with faith at Jesus Christ and are not afraid of anyone or anything, because their Shepherd is Jesus Christ. He guards His church and the church with the power of the Holy Spirit testifies of Jesus Christ!

1. Session in Zoom.

-I conducted and passed, with the students of the Bible Institute from Ukraine, a very blessed session where 30 students studied the book of Ezekiel-the second part. All students promised to teach these lessons further in their churches and in this way we want to raise the spiritual level in our churches and attract and other believers to study the Bible.

2. Evangelism:

-We held a blessed Evangelization in the church of the village of Balkovtsi in connection with the Thanksgiving holiday in this church. At this evangelization, a group from our church in the village of Nesvoya sang. Everyone thanked the Lord for a wonderful harvest this year, I preached the Word and again, together with the elders of this small church, thanked for bread, water and for the Word of God. This evangelism lasted more than 2 hours and those present did not want to let our singers go. They also wanted to hear songs to glorify our Lord. I realized that, in this difficult time, people are very eager to hear the spiritual psalms and spiritual sermons; these are consolations for your soul.

3. Blessings of children:

-My son Andrey and daughter-in-law of Revveka had a daughter Emima and they brought her to church for praying. They already have two children (son Mark and daughter Emima) and they wanted the Lord to put His blessed Hands on them and bless them so that they were under the protection of the Highest God. Andrew and Revveka want their children to love Jesus Christ and praise Him from a young age.

My brother Kioresko Gregory and I conducted this service to the church from the village of Rokitne. They were congratulated by both the youth and children of the Sunday school by this church. We pray for our children that they will be protected by the Lord from all evil, sickness and the temptations of the devil.

4.Funeral:

-In the village of Podvirnoe, I, together with a group of our choir, held the funeral of my cousin Mila. The Word was preached and sang songs for the glory of the Lord and consolation of relatives. There were about 30 non-believers who heard the Word. We pray for them.

5.World Sisters' Day of Prayer:

On November 1, all our Baptist sisters reunited in prayer, with all the sisters of the whole world, for a prayer of thanksgiving and petition before the Lord. The theme of the prayer was "Courageous life" of a Jew 13: 6. - So we boldly say "The Lord is my helper, And not I will fear: What will man do to me? ”In all our churches, our sisters gathered to pray to God. Thank God for our sisters who support our ministries in their prayers.

6.Bread breaking:

- I held a baking ceremony in the churches of the village of Nesvoya and the village of Balkovtsi where about 100 people were present. After the service, we visited the sick at home with the breaking of bread. They rejoiced and thanked God for being able, together with the church, to take part in the breaking of bread and remember the sufferings of our Savior Jesus Christ.

7.Thanks:

-Thanks to God for the fact that we can get together and hold services.

-For the fact that we can conduct the breaking of bread in the churches and visit the sick from these churches so that they too can participate in the service of the breaking of bread.

-Thank God for the fact that there is a Sunday school in our church.

-Thanks to God for the fact that my family and the families of our missionaries are healthy and all serve the Lord in His Field.

-Thankful to God for all our partners in the gospel, brothers and sisters from the USA, for your support and your prayers for our missionaries in our ministries here in Ukraine. Thank God for the fact that the Lord healed Brother Cornell and Sister Gabriella, as well as Brother Walter from USA. From illness, in Romania. We prayed very much for them. Thank God that they got safely home, in the USA.

8.Prayer Needs:

-Pray, together with us, for those unbelieving people who heard the word of God, that the Lord would reveal the Truth to them.

-So that the Lord will open new doors for us to preach the gospel.

-So that we and our children have protection from Covid 19 with our Lord.

-Pray further for the family of Steph, Cornell and Gobriella and for Brother Walter from the USA, so that the Lord will restore their health after illness. We also pray for all our partners in the gospel in the USA from the PIEI America mission that the Lord will protect you all from this pandemic and healed all those who were already sick.

We love you very much, brothers and sisters, and we pray for you. Accept sincere Christian greetings from my family! The Lord will bless and protect you, your families, your churches and your country from all evil!

With love to you, Pavel and Larisa Petihachny.

Thanksgiving day

Greetings, dear brothers and sisters, with the peace and love of Jesus Christ!

I am grateful to God, from a pure heart, for the fact that He helped me to glorify Him in all my circumstances of life through which He led me this month.

1. Thanksgiving:

-Thank God that he helped us to gather in our church from Nesvoi, in order to celebrate and thank the Lord for all the fruits of the earth and for the spiritual fruits that God blessed us with this year. Our youth prepared a beautiful program especially for this holiday. After the meeting of this holiday we have helped the poor and sick in our church with the necessary help.

-At this holiday there were also unbelievers who listened to the Word of God and the singing of young people. Invited them to visit our meetings. They promised to come.

-October 10, they also prepared a program of thanksgiving and worship to the Lord for spiritual and earthly fruits to the church in the village of Podvirnoye. The choir from the church in the village of Perkvtsi was also invited and they glorified the Lord very beautifully through psalms and poems. And we preached the Word of God and offered prayers of gratitude to God for the Bible, for our daily bread and for the clean water that we drink every day. We thanked God for the blessed harvest of this year, 2021. We also pray for this little church that the Lord would bless it.

2.Help for the sick:

- We helped, this month, my eldest daughter and her family who fell ill with Covid 19. We helped with all the needs for 2 weeks. Thank God they are already better!

-We helped the preachers from the church of the village of Nesvoya who also got sick and had a high fever. I took them, with the bus of our mission, for an X-ray in Novoselytsia. After the X-ray, the doctor prescribed treatment for them and thank God they are already better.

3.Social assistance:

-Two churches from the Chernivtsi region donated clothing and other aid for those in need. We found a place and a person who is engaged in this mission and gave him these donations. Then we received letters of gratitude from these needy people - thanks for our help.

4.Thanks:

-I am grateful to God that all our missionaries are alive and well and all are working in the power of the Holy Spirit.

-Thanks to God for the fact that in all churches there is a Sunday school where children study the Word of God.

-Thanks to God for the fact that there are still people in the church who in the near future want to receive water baptism.

5.Prayer Needs:

-Pray, together with us, that everyone who attended our services for our past evangelizations would come back at our meetings and that the Lord through the Holy Word would reveal himself to them.

-For me so that I can hold a session at the Bible Institute at the end of the month, from October 25, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

-Pray that I and my family will be saved by God from a pandemic, so that we can work in the Lord's Field.

We always thank God for you, brothers and sisters from the United States, for your support in our ministry here in Ukraine. May the Lord bless you all and give you a hundredfold blessings for your sacrifice in serving in our area.

We love you and always pray for you. With love Pavel and Larisa Petihachny.

100th anniversary of the church in the village of Nesvoya

I am grateful to God that in the month of September, all the circumstances of my life were for the success of the gospel.

1.Baptism:

-With God's help, I baptized in the church of the village of Nesvoi, on September 5, where 2 souls were baptized.

We are glad that these were my wife Larisa's classmate - Sima Cretu and my wife's cousin, Leonid Chebotar. Leonid worked as a French language teacher for 25 years in a secondary school in the village of Verinchanka. We prayed for him and his family for a long time and thank God for the fact that he repented. We continue to pray for this family, so that the Lord will induce both his wife Nadia and children to repentance.

We also prayed for Shema. Her parents were believers and she attended our church from childhood, but she married an unbeliever and so she lived her life in remorse for leaving the Lord and going into the world. After the death of her husband, we repeatedly spoke to her about Christ and prayed for her. Thank God that she came back and heard the voice of the Holy Spirit. She repented and now serves God through chants (she has a beautiful voice) and prayers before God. She is now praying for her sons (there are 2 of them), daughters-in-law and grandchildren.

This baptism was a blessed evangelistic meeting in our church, where many unbelievers who attended our church heard about Jesus Christ and about His love for us sinners. We pray for those who are baptized so that God would strengthen their faith in the path of Christ and for the unbelievers who visited us, so that the Lord would awaken them to repentance.

2. 100th anniversary of the church in the village of Nesvoya:

-At this holiday there were many pastors from different churches and they all had 10 minutes to congratulate our church on the 100th anniversary.

I read the history of our church over 100 years of its existence, how the Lord miraculously led our church both through trials and through blessings, and brother Sergei Moroz from the Kiev Chancellery of the ECB, had a blessed sermon for 20 minutes and also read a congratulatory letter from the Baptist Brotherhood of the Chancellery of the ECB Ukraine. Brother Kioresko Gregory read a congratulatory letter from Viorel Yuga, the president of the Baptist brotherhood from Romania, and brother Manoliy Dannik, the regional clerk of the ECB of the Chernivtsi region, had a congratulatory word from the regional brotherhood of the ECB.

A choir from the Zhivaya Loza church from the city of Chernivtsi was invited to this holiday. All the compositions and psalms that they performed had an effect on all those present, guests, church members and non-believers who visited us. All 300 people who were at this holiday sang and glorified God with hymns from collections of Christian songs. The meeting lasted more than 3 hours and it was not even felt that the time passed so quickly. All people were still waiting for the singing of the choir, which performed the psalms so beautifully. Thank God for everything!

At the end of the holiday, everyone was given bags of sandwiches and other sweets to strengthen the flesh, and a table of love was prepared for the guests from afar. We pray that the Lord will bless our church in the future, that in the future our church will be successful in work for the Lord and that all members of the church will be ready to meet with our Bridegroom Jesus Christ when the Rapture of the Church takes place.

3. Visits:

-This month I visited the church in the village of Podvirnoye and the church in the village of Balkovtsi. I conducted ceremonies in the churches of the village of Nesvoya and the village of Balkovtsi.

-I also visited the church of the village of Dynivtsi, where Pastor Alex Pascar, our missionary, and we held the blessings of his granddaughter Naomin. This is the 4th child of his son David with his wife Inga. We prayed that the Lord would bless Naomin and David's entire family.

And also 2 brothers from this church were chosen for the service of the deacons.

4. Thanks:

-Thank you, brothers and sisters from the USA, for your prayers and financial support that help us in our ministry in Ukraine.

-For the fact that you prayed for us and the Lord blessed these services that were in the month of September. I thank the Lord for the fact that no one got sick after the service, although we were very afraid.

-Thank God for the fact that I and my family did not get sick from this virus because the pandemic began to attack people again.

-For the fact that the Gospel is spreading successfully here, in the Chernivtsi region.

5. Prayer requests:

-Pray for those unbelieving people who heard the Word of God at our Evangelization, so that the Lord would test their hearts and that they would repent.

-Pray that during this pandemic we can successfully spread the Word of God.

-So that no one gets sick after our September Gospel meetings.

We also pray for you, brothers and sisters from the United States, that the Lord will bless you with health and success in work and give you hundredfold blessings for your contribution to the work of God in Ukraine.

We love you and pray for you! With love to you, the Petihachny family, Pavel and Larisa.

Baptism in Dynivtsi

Dear brothers and sisters from the USA, our partners in evangelism in Ukraine, we greet you with the love and peace of Jesus Christ!

I am very glad and grateful to God for what the Lord helped to accomplish, and this month, my ministry before God in the power of the Holy Spirit.

1. Baptism in Dynivtsi.

-With God's help, I visited the church of the village of Dinivtsi, where the pastor is brother Alekh Pascar, and there was performed water baptism of 6 souls. Husband and wife, the brother of this wife and 3 other young people. All these 3 young people Katerina, Venya and Margarita were in our camp and repented. Thank God that the sown Word bore the fruit of repentance and baptism. I preached the Word at this evangelization, thank God that there were many unbelievers and listened attentively to the Word. We pray for these people.

2.Pastor's Conference:

-After the baptism in Dynivtsi, we organized, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, a pastor's district conference in a church in the village of Mamalygi. At this conference we decided how to help small churches. Therefore, we appointed big churches to help small churches. Every big church knows who they need to help and when to provide this help. This is how we did so that there would be growth in small churches.

3.Pastor ordinations:

-I attended and preached at the ordination of the pastor in the churches of the villages of Forosna and Zhilovka, brother of Alik Hrab.

It was a blessed ministry for the glory of God. Brothers and sisters from these churches were pleased with this brother who was ordained to this ministry.

4. Regional nursing conference:

-21 August, in Chernivtsi, in the Zhivaya Loza church, a regional nursing conference was held where about 300 sisters from all churches of the Chernivtsi region were present. Our sisters studied the Word of God, prayed, and the responsible sisters in all districts of the Chernivtsi region gave a report on the work done in for almost 2 years. During the pandemic, we did not hold such large-scale conferences and now the sisters were very happy about this meeting, they missed such meetings. They prepared with a program of songs and worship. They actively participated in these programs. My wife, Larisa, also gave a short report about the ministry of sisters from the churches of the Novoseletsky district. There was a blessed meeting for our sisters. Our brotherhood has now, in August, all regional and district meetings, because in the fall we do not know what will happen with this pandemic. We hope that it will not happen again Lockdown. For churches this is not very good, but the most important thing is that this pandemic stops and people do not get sick. We pray for that too.

5. Layouts:

-In September, on the 5th, we planned, with God's help, to conduct baptisms in the church in the village of Nesvoya. We pray that the Lord bless this ministry. Also, on September 19, our church is preparing to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of our Evangelical Christian Baptist Church in Nesvoi, Glory to God ! May the Lord help us in this ministry.

6.Thanks:

-I am grateful to God that I was able to conduct these services in August and did not get sick with Covid.

-I am grateful to God for the fact that 3 young people who repented to our camp of the PIEI Ukraine mission, in 2019, received water baptism this month, Thank God!

-Thank God for the fact that every missionary from our mission performed water baptisms in their churches.

-Thank the Lord for helping our brothers and sisters from our church to carry out major repairs inside the church and change the roof of the meetinghouse during these months (July-August).

-Always thank the Lord for you brothers and sisters for your help and for your prayers for us. For helping us make the Christian camp last month. May the Lord bless you and return you a hundred blessings.

7.Prayer Needs:

-Pray for the baptisms that we will conduct in September in the church of Nesvoi, where I am a pastor, so that this ministry can be carried out in the power of the Holy Spirit.

-Pray for our feast of Jubilee of the 100th anniversary of the founding of our church in the village of Nesvoi. So that this feast is held in the power of the Holy Spirit. There will be many guests invited to this holiday. So that no one gets sick with Covid. And most importantly, that more people hear the Word of God and repented.

We always pray for you, dear brothers and sisters from the USA. Please accept the heartfelt greetings from my family. Be blessed!

With love to you, the Petihachny family, Pavel and Larisa.

Christian youth camp Candela

I want to praise God for helping us, last month, to organize and conduct a youth Christian camp of the PIEI Ukraine mission, called Candela (Lamp), and other spiritual events.

1. The session with the leaders of the Bible Institute:

-At the beginning of the month we had a session with the leaders of the Bible Institute throughout Ukraine and we held it at ZUM where 100 teachers of the Bible Institute were present throughout Ukraine and taught the book of Ezekiel. It was a blessed session and after this session, we teachers created 30 study groups Bibles all over Ukraine, Thank God!

2. Christian youth camp Candela:

-With God's help, we held a Christian youth camp, non-stop, called Candela, from July 26 to July 31 in Boyany. In this camp of the PIEI Ukraine mission, there were 120 teenagers and one group of children from 8 to 11 years old. Thank God that 50 teenagers and children have repented! I taught one group of teenagers the book of the Apostle Paul from Jacob. This practical book led to a spiritual awakening in the souls of these young people - Thank God!

In our camp, there were 3 groups for the study of the Word. My group for the study of the Book of Jacob, the group of Kioresko's brother Gregory for the study of the book of Genesis, and the group of sister Tamara from Dynivtsi - the youngest group. We had 21 excellent leaders and thanks to them we had a complete order in the camp, May the Lord bless them. They helped us a lot in this difficult service. The Pastushak family Alex and Nadia also helped us a lot with photos and videos for the camp. This is a huge work for which we are very grateful to God and them. Blessed family- Thank God! We are grateful to God that no one fell ill with Covid 19 in this camp. The Lord protected us wonderfully and we saw many miracles in this camp where the Lord saved us all. We just do not have enough words of gratitude for the Lord for all His mercies and wonderful deeds to us sinners. He is Great and All-Powerful, Loving and Merciful, Protector and Savior-Glory to Him forever and ever Amen!

All children and adolescents expressed their gratitude for having the opportunity to relax in this camp. They also thanked all the sponsors who sponsored this camp. May God bless you all and give all sponsors a hundredfold blessing.

3. Baptisms:

On August 1, I was invited to the village of Rokitne, where brother Gregory Kioresko is a pastor, to the church where the baptism of 3 souls was carried out - Thank God! I also preached to this evangelistic meeting. Thank God that many non-believers came and heard the Word of God. We pray for these people.

4.Thanks:

-We are grateful to God that in this camp, the PIEI UKRAINE mission, no one got sick.

-We are grateful to God for 50 young people who repented in this camp.

-We are grateful to God and sponsors from America who sponsored this camp.

-We are grateful to God that there are souls who want to make a covenant with Jesus Christ through water Baptism.

5.Prayer Needs:

-Pray for those who repented that they would continue to learn the Word and grow spiritually.

-Pray for those who were baptized so that they will continue to burn for Christ and for His glorification.

-In other churches, our missionaries will have baptisms, pray that they can lead them in the power of the Holy Spirit.

-Pray for my health and the health of my family.

We always pray for you, dear brothers and sisters from the USA - our partners in evangelism in ministry in Ukraine. May the Lord bless you, your families, your churches and your country with peace and health!

With love to you, the Petihachny family, Pavel and Larisa.

Testimonies of the children

Dear brothers and sisters from the USA, our partners in evangelism in Ukraine.

As we promised in our last report about our Christian camp, which was held from July 26 to July 31, in Boyany, we will tell the testimonies of those children and adolescents who were in our camp and repented. Recall that there were about 100 children and adolescents in this camp plus 21 leaders who worked hard for the Glory of our Lord. Almost half of these children were from unbelieving families and we thank God very much that they had this opportunity to hear the Word of God and 25 children from unbelieving families came to repentance. We pray very much for them and for those children that from believing families that also came to repentance, also for all the children who spent 5 days in our camp but have not yet decided to come to the Lord. We believe and hope that these 5 days were not in vain for them. The Holy Spirit will work on their hearts and will always remind them of the Holy Word that they have heard.

As previously written, these children were divided into groups (3 gr.). 1 group of brother Pavel Petihachny (the oldest) for studying the book of the Epistle of Apostle Paul to Jacob, group 2 (middle) with brother Kioresko Gregory (topic: Righteousness Noah and the righteousness of Lot from the Old Testament) and group 3 (the smallest) with sister Tamara Bozdugan from Dynivtsi (Bible lessons for children). Everyone liked the analysis of the Word of God, games, sports, communication with leaders, communication with each other, evenings worship, swimming in the pool and many other activities that we had in the camp. Everyone thanked us, from the bottom of their hearts, for such a wonderful camp that was held through the PIEI Ukraine mission.

Now below I will write you some testimonies from those who repented. Our leader tried to ask them about their feelings after repentance and wrote us a small report and we want to share this joy with you so that we all pray together for these children.

Georgiyesh Yana, 14 years old, Novoselytsia. (Parents started going to the meeting)

-I am very grateful to God that I was able to spend 5 whole days in the Christian camp in Boyany. I studied in Brother Paul's group very wonderful lessons about how the Lord tests his Church and how he helps his children to overcome evil by doing good. This topic is very relevant in our time, the time of a pandemic. To be honest, I was a little afraid not to get sick in this camp, but thank God everything went not only well but also perfectly. All remained alive and well. But the most pleasant thing for me is that I received the salvation of my soul through repentance! Thank you all who worked tirelessly for such a blessed camp to be held!

Zhurat Yulia, 14 years old, Novoselytsia. (From a non-believing family)

-Thank my dear ones for such a wonderful camp. I liked everything here. I am very glad that I got into the Christian camp. There were very instructive lessons for young people. Especially in our time, when it seems that everything is crumbling around us, God gives us all a chance to be saved through Son of God Jesus Christ, through faith in Him and repentance we have forgiveness, salvation and new life in Jesus. I am glad that I accepted Christ in my heart. And although my parents are not yet believers, I made this decision for myself and I will also pray and for my parents so that they too will know the love of Christ. Please pray for me and my parents.

Skitsko Valeria, 15 years old, Marshenets (from an unbelieving family)

-I want to thank for the permit I got to the Christian camp Candela. It was very cool in this camp. I was in the Romanian group to study the Word of God with Brother Gregory Kioresko. I enjoyed studying the Bible and everything was good at this camp. This was the first time I got into such a camp. I never thought that it would be so interesting to go to a Christian camp. But the most important event for me was that I realized that I had to accept Jesus Christ in my heart as my personal Savior. I also pray for my mother so that she will come to know the Lord. Thanks again to everyone for such a great camp.

Paola Borzdova, 16 years old, Vanchikovtsi.

-Although I went to this camp many times and went to repentance, but now I realized that I need to restore my repentance. I had a very good leader and, in general, very good girls in the room where we lived all 5 days. Learning the Word was also great I also liked sports games, competitions, swimming pool and evening worship. We had good communication with friends, new friends appeared. Thank God that the Lord opened up to me in a new way and I want to serve Him and glorify His Name. Thank you for the camp! Be Blessed !

Erika, 11 years old, village of Koshuleni,

-I praise God and thank you all for getting a ticket to this Christian camp. And when there was a call to repentance, I could not help but answer this call. I have never been to such a camp. My parents are unbelievers, but thank God that they allowed me to spend 5 days in a Christian camp. I heard so much about God during these days, but the Lord revealed to me that I need to repent. And when the pastor was called to repentance, and that we ourselves would choose the path and purpose in our life, on the last day camp, then I could not sit indifferently to the call, I chose the path of Christ through repentance! May God help me on this path!

Sergey Vyntu, 12 years old, Novoselitsa.

-I was for the first time in this camp and I really liked it. And the Word of God penetrated into my heart. Thank you all who organized such a cool camp. Thank God that I accepted Christ in my heart! Pray for me so that I can serve Him with all my heart.

Denis Vyntu, 16 years old, Novoselytsia.

-I am from a believing family, but the Lord spoke through His Word in a special way in this camp. Thanks to everyone, both the teacher and the leaders for understanding us and treating us with love. Everything was fine in the morning, talking with the leaders and prayer in the morning , and exercises, and lessons from the book of Jacob. Also competitions and sports games, worship evenings and skits. I really wanted to have 5 more days in this camp. I am glad that I repented on the last evening of this camp. I pray that the Lord will strengthen me on this path.

Gorobchik Maxim, 17 years old, Novoselitsa.

-I was back in 2019 in this camp. I also went to various meetings organized for teenagers in the Emanuel Church, in Novoselitsa. I even repented then in the year 19. But 2 years passed and due to this Pandemic, I cooled down and my faith weakened. And the Lord did so that I again ended up in this camp and again to the teacher of brother Paul. And I rose as if from the ashes, the Word of God overshadowed me and reinforced me and I realized that I need to renew my repentance and serve only the Lord. Thank you all for this wonderful camp. The Lord works miracles in our days, Glory to Him!

Gorobchik Pasha, 16 years old, Novoselitsa.

-And I, like my brother Maxim, also not the first time in this camp. And I also renewed my repentance. Indeed, the time of the Pandemic left a very bad mark in my life. I just did not go to church for a long time because of the Pandemic and it affected badly in of my life. Then in the camp I realized that I did not need to deviate from the Word of God a single step, but every day to feed on the Word of Truth. And only the Truth will set us free. Thank God that Jesus Christ lives now in my heart! Thank you for this camp!

Andrey, 10 years old, Novoselitsa.

-I live with my mother, I do not have a father. Mother really goes to the Orthodox church and I sometimes go there, but I never understood the Word of God as I heard it in your camp. I went to the group of sister Tamara and she explained the Words to us in a very accessible way Bible. And I realized that I need to repent. And now, together with other children, I went forward to the call of the preachers to repentance. I believe that the Lord forgave me and is glad of this. I have already been invited to a meeting of children of believers in Novoselytsia. I am glad that I have contact with believing children. I want to serve the Lord, and I will read the Bible. Alla Popova gave me a Bible and I will read it. Thank you for such a wonderful camp.

Popov Timofey. 10 years old, Novoselytsia.

-I seem like the son of a pastor, and I realized that without repentance there is no real life in Christ. Although I always pray with my parents, but this time it was real repentance. I felt it in my soul. I am grateful to God for such a wonderful camp. I know from parents that sponsors, brothers and sisters, from the USA paid a lot for this camp, and I am very grateful to you for that. May the Lord bless you and return you a hundredfold blessings.

Denis Krigan, 14 years old, Tarasovites.

- I am very glad that I ended up in such a camp. I studied with the teacher Gregory Kioresko and the Word of God was very accessible and understandable to me. I liked the games and contests, swimming in the pool and various activities that were in this camp. I also liked the evenings of worship and scenes interesting. Thank God that He spoke to my heart and I realized that I had to go out and repent. And although my parents are unbelievers, I will pray for them too, so that they will know the Lord Christ. Pray for me and my parents.

Andrey Kitik, 13 years old, Tarasovites.

-Thank everyone for such a camp. It was very good. I liked the whole program from the camp. And the study of the Word was very accessible. I also liked the evenings of worship and fellowship with Christian youth. Although my parents are unbelievers, I really liked the worship in the morning with the leader of our group. It is a very strong feeling to have communication with God from the very morning. It kind of encourages the soul and then you walk cheerful all day. We had a very good leader and a good teacher. Thank you to them. Praise God for the fact that he was revealed to me through His Holy Word and I accepted Christ in my heart. I pray for my parents and for myself too that the Lord will strengthen me on God's path.

Raja Tsyganesku, 14 years old, Tarasovites.

-Thank God for finding me and forgiving all my sins. Thank you for the camp. Thank you for the trip to this camp. Thank you to all the sponsors who sponsored this camp. Thank God for the fact that He loves me and the whole world and waits for every person so , through the blood of Christ the Son of God, people were reconciled with God. And I pray for my parents so that they would know Jesus Christ and accept Him in their hearts as a Personal Savior. Pray for me too.

Dasha Budnikevich, 14 years old, Balkovtsy.

-I am very grateful to God and to all of you who organized this Christian camp and for the fact that I got a ticket to this camp. This is my first time in this camp and I really liked it. My mother is a believer, but my father does not like to go to the meeting. He does not forbid us to go to services and we pray for him, together with our mother, and the church in which we go. And yet, it was a great joy for me and my sister Masha (13 years old) that we accepted Christ as our Personal Savior in our hearts. We pray that the Lord will help us to walk confidently on His path.

Vatamanitsa Daniel, 16 years old, Nesvoya.

-And I want to thank everyone for this wonderful camp. Thank God for the Word sown in our hearts and I felt that I needed to repent. Although my father is a minister in the church, I realized that I must necessarily repent in order to become a child of God. Thanks for the trip, everything was very good. May the Lord bless you all!

Daniley Katya, 12 years old, Kotilevo.

-Very wonderful camp, I liked everything very much. And I am grateful to my mother for getting this voucher. Although she herself goes to the Orthodox church, she considered it necessary for me to go to this camp. And I am very glad that I ended up in such a Christian camp. I was in a Christian camp for the first time. The Word of God was very accessible to all of us. I was glad that the teacher, Brother Pavlo, taught us in Russian, because many of our group did not understand Romanian. Then brother Pavlo told us - Ok, I'll speak Russian. And the problem was solved by itself. These lessons were impressive for me. The most important thing is that I was able to reconsider my life and the life of Jesus Christ, and realized that I am a sinner and only in Jesus Christ through repentance I can have the Salvation of my soul. And I am glad that I took this important step on the last evening of our camp. I really enjoyed communicating with new friends and at the end had a wonderful bonfire where we glorified the Lord through songs together. Thanks again to all of you.

Nastya, 14 years old, Novoselytsia.

-Thanks everyone for this wonderful camp. It was my first time in such a camp, although my parents were not believers. But I felt very good here. The most important thing is that I have heard the Words of the Bible so much that I have never heard it in my entire life. These lessons were clear and accessible for me. And I am glad that the Lord revealed himself to me through His Holy Word and I repented and accepted Jesus Christ the Savior in my heart. I am forgiven and saved now!

Nystrean Emma, ​​11 years old, Tarasovites.

-I was at the lessons in the group of teacher Tamara. I really liked her lessons. And in the camp it was very fun and pleasant to meet new friends. I already have a lot of friends with whom we correspond. My parents are not believers, but I understood that believers very kind and nice people. I also realized that I need to repent and Thank God I took this step. Thank you all for such a wonderful camp.

Preutesa Valeria, 11 years old, Tarasovtsy.

-I also thank you all for such a wonderful camp. I went to the lessons to sister Tamara. Thank God that He opened up to me and I accepted Christ in my heart. I pray that the Lord will help me to walk on His Holy Path.

These and many more testimonies are from children and adolescents who repented in our camp. The parents of these children also expressed their gratitude to all of us and our sponsors of this camp. May the Lord bless you all brothers and sisters from the USA who have prayed and sponsored our Christian Camp Mission PIEI Ukraine, Candela. We ask you to pray for all these children and adolescents, there are many more of them than on this list, that the Lord bless their lives and their nonbeliever parents, so that these parents understand their children and visit the Houses of Prayer together. Pray for those who did not come out to repentance, so that the Holy Word sown in their hearts will bring forth the fruit of repentance.

Thanks again to all of you - our partners from the USA and may the Lord bless all of you, your families, your churches and your country USA!

With love to you, the Petihachny family, Pavel and Larisa.

Camp in the Boyany

Dear brothers and sisters from the USA, we greet you with the Love of Jesus Christ!

Last week, from July 26 to July 31, we had a blessed Christian youth camp, in Boyany where 120 people, teenagers and children were present. The Lord miraculously blessed this camp, where 50 people repented. Thank God!

This camp was divided into 3 groups where children could study the Word of God. All children and adolescents studied the Word with love. Our teachers were: Petihachny Pavel, Kioresko Gregory and Tamara Buzdugan from Dinivtsi. Brother Pavel Petihachny taught his group in Russian, the book of James, Brother Kioresko Gregory taught in Romanian about righteousness Noah and the conduct of Lot from the book of Genesis. Sister Tamara Bozdugan had lectures for younger children from 8 to 11 years old. It was a favorable time, it was warm.

We are very happy and grateful to God that no one got sick, Thank God! Children swam, went in for sports and games. Every evening we had a praise program. There were inviting sermons from pastors who came to visit us and praise songs, skits, contests and games. 50 children and adolescents repented in the evening. We saw tears of repentance and we thank the Lord for this and pray further for these children.

Thank you all for funding this camp. May the Lord return all of you a hundred times more blessings. Thank you for praying for us and the Lord blessed us wonderfully. Then we will write the testimonies of those souls who repented. With love and gratitude to you, Paul and Larisa Petihachny.