Meeting of the missionaries of the PIEI

Greetings, dear brothers and sisters from the USA, with the love and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ!

Christ is risen! Christ is truly risen!

We are very grateful to God for the fact that He protects our region of Bukovina and we are here quietly and calmly during this storm of war in Ukraine. Thanks to this, we can serve God here by helping refugees, conducting evangelizations, and prayer services.

1. Before Easter, which we celebrated on April 16, we had a series of services and on Thursday we remembered the death and suffering of Jesus Christ with the church. Two more neighboring churches attended this Holy Communion: Podvirnoye and Balkovtsy. In these churches, as I wrote earlier, there are no pastors. And now we help them until we find someone to put there. We also visited the sick from the church with holy communion where they rejoiced that they took part, together with the church, in this holy communion - the Remembrance of the Death and Suffering of Christ.

2. Evangelization on the feast of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

- On April 16, our church had an evangelistic program and we celebrated the feast of the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. There was a rich program where both youth and our choir participated. The good news is that our church is visited by 10 listeners from the world. We pray for them that the Lord will test their hearts for repentance.

On Tuesday, April 18, we also organized an evangelistic Easter meeting in the village of Balkovtsy. Listeners from the world also came there and we pray for them.

3. Meeting of the missionaries of the PIEI UKR mission.

-April 20, Thursday, our missionaries of the PIEI UKR mission had a quarterly meeting in Novoselytsia at the Emmanuel Church, where each missionary gave his quarterly report on the work done in the field of God. We had a blessed meeting, prayer and gratitude before God for His mercy and love over us. We planned together how best to program our summer time for holding a Christian camp, for serving among the settlers, for holding evangelistic meetings.

4. Studying the Word of God:

-In the last two weeks I have been teaching at the Bible Institute:

-The book of Daniel was taught to 20 students, thank God, there were very interesting testimonies:

-I never thought that in the book of Daniel I could find such deep and beautiful truths. I realized that this inductive method of study is very useful for us who have never studied this book of Daniel.

-In their church they studied the book of the prophet Zechariah, chapter 13. It was a very blessed lesson.

-The Bible Institute also taught the book of James from the New Testament, showing students how to go through trials and temptations, and how to overcome it all.

5. Preparations for a meeting with widows and orphans.

-April 29, we have an evangelistic meeting with 200 orphans from Chernivtsi on Kovelskaya 25. There our church will prepare a delicious dinner for them, and my family will prepare a breakfast of sandwiches, tea and coffee. Pray for us so that we can bring these children and that they were able to relax all day with us. The main thing is that there is peace and there are no missiles flying over us.

6. Thanksgiving:

-We thank the Lord for peace and tranquility here in Bukovina and we will be able to serve God here.

-Thank God and for you, brothers and sisters from the USA, for your support and prayers for us. Thanks to you, we can serve here among the settlers, helping them with food and other necessary needs that these settlers need. Thank you for sending us humanitarian aid in Ukraine, so that we would also help people in need here - Thank God!

7. Prayer requests:

-Pray with us for the end of the war here in Ukraine.

-Pray for our meeting with the orphans on April 29, so that everything will be blessed.

-Pray for our Christian camp from July 24th to 29th to have a good team of leaders, teachers and up to 150 teenagers in this camp. In everything we hope in the Lord and believe that He will help us in everything.

-For the Lord to give us all health and protection from all evil in this difficult time.

- May the Lord bless the team from the USA that will come to Ukraine this summer for greater success in evangelism. And to protect and protect these people from all evil.

We also pray for you, brothers and sisters from the USA, that the Lord bless you, your families and your churches. May the Lord return you a hundredfold blessings for giving so much here in Ukraine.

All our missionaries of our mission, as well as my family, send you heartfelt Christian greetings in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

With love to you, the PETIKHACHNYY PAVLO & LARISA family.

A family came to Christ

Dear brothers and sisters from the USA, we greet you with the love and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ and heartily congratulate all of you, on behalf of all our missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission, on the Bright Holiday of the Resurrection of Christ - Christ is Risen! Christ is truly Risen!

We are very grateful to God for you, dear brothers and sisters, and with all our hearts we wish you abundant blessings from our Lord Jesus Christ!

This month, God helped me to do the following ministry in the Lord's Field:

1. For two weeks in a row I helped a church from the village of Balkovtsy with a sermon, because there is no minister in this church due to the war. He went abroad with his family.

We also organized communal celebrations to take place in Balkovtsy, Podvirnoe, and in our church, in Nesvoi. Praise God for helping us in this difficult time to serve and preach His Word.

2. I was invited to preach at an evangelistic meeting in the church of the village of Tarasovtsy, where the pastor of the church is our missionary brother Gortopan Mihai. At this evangelization, one sister from a neighboring village repented. Thank God that the Lord touches the hearts of people. At the morning service, her husband Andrei repented. And in the evening she went out to repent. We had wonderful fellowship with this family and we pray for them that the Lord will bless their family and their two children, and also that they will strengthen their faith.

3. I visited all the pastors of the Novoseletsky district and gave them packages with seeds for sowing into the ground for their members of the churches. These packages were given to us from the regional office of the ECB of the Chernivtsi region for all the churches of the Novoseletsky district - Glory to God!

4. With the students of the bible institute I conducted bible lessons on the book of Daniel. Thank God for the fact that, with God's help, we have completed the study of this wonderful book. There are very good reviews after this study - Thank God!

5.Our church from Nesvoi, again last week, prepared delicious food, baked cookies and buns for the soldiers who are on the front line. We received many letters of gratitude from these soldiers for the fact that our churches do not forget about them. Our churches pray for these soldiers and cook delicious food for them from the bottom of their hearts with love. And these soldiers feel it - Thank God!

- Also, our brother missionary Kyoresko Grigory, with his team, traveled with help to the ruined cities of the Kiev region, and brought there a lot of delicious food and everything necessary for these people who lost their houses and apartments.

At the same time, they conducted an evangelization in the city of Gostomel, where they founded the Church of Jesus Christ.

6. Thanksgiving:

-We are very grateful to you, brothers and sisters from the USA, for praying for us missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission, for supporting us in our ministry here, for praying for brother Kioresco and his team, who carries 1 time in 2 weeks food and humanitarian aid products for people in need in Gostomel and other cities that have suffered greatly from this war.

-We are grateful for the students who have completed their study of the book of Daniel. We pray that they will also be included in the ministry in churches where there are no ministers.

-Thank God for the fact that in our Chernivtsi region there were no rocket arrivals, for the fact that there is no destruction, as is done every day in the cities of Ukraine. Especially in those cities that are closer to the front. This is just God's mercy to us, and we thank God every hour for this mercy. And we pray that this war ends soon and that so many people do not die senselessly.

7. Prayer requests:

-Keep praying for peace in Ukraine.

-Pray for our missionaries that the Word that was sown by them will bear much fruit of repentance.

-About the students of our institute, to get involved in the ministry in churches where there is a lack of ministers.

-Pray that we will be able to sow our fields, so that the Lord will bless this seed with a harvest, so that we can help those regions of Ukraine where they now do not have the opportunity to sow their lands due to this war. And so that we do not have enemy missile arrivals and that did not destroy our homes and our infrastructure.

-So that the Lord blesses us with health and zeal for labor in His Field.

-So that the Lord blesses us with peace in our area so that we can hold children's and youth Christian camps this summer. Keep praying for our NON STOP camp in Boyany. For the team of leaders. For the teachers.

-On April 16, we will celebrate Easter and hold evangelistic meetings. Pray for people to come and repent at these evangelizations.

We always pray for you, brothers and sisters, and we are always grateful to God for your support and for your prayers for us. May the Lord be with His Grace and Peace over you and over your families!

Once again we congratulate you - Christ is Risen! Christ is Risen indeed! To Him be glory forever and ever, Amen!

With love to you, the Petikhachnyy Pavlo and Larysa family.

Food for needy

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ who live across the ocean in the United States, we greet you with the love and peace of Jesus Christ!

I am grateful to God for the fact that so far, during these 2 weeks of this month, He has helped me to be successful in the gospel.

I praise God for the fact that it is still calm in our area and there are no rocket arrivals. Although they are bombing all over Ukraine. It’s scary to think how many of our people are dying under these bombings. We pray that God will calm down and stop all this evil.

1. Meanwhile, here in the rear, our church from Nesvoi again turned on preparing food ready for the soldiers who defend Ukraine, on the front line, together with other churches from the Khotyn region. They baked bread and buns, as well as cabbage rolls, cutlets, meatballs , rice with meat and other sweets. There are volunteer brothers who carry, on beads, all these products to Kramatorsk, Bakhmut, Zaitsevo and other cities of the Donetsk region where there are fights. There are 4 soldiers from our village and from a neighboring village in Bakhmut Balkovtsy. One guy, his name is Marian, was once in our camp in Boyany and even went out and repented. Marian went to the lessons with sister Marilyn Rosema. His mother is a believer. But life twisted him and he cooled down a bit. We believe and pray for him, that God will help him restore his faith. When he ate this food, he said that he did not even know that he ate buns prepared by our sisters from our church. We pray for him and his family. He has a wife and 2 children at home.

2. I taught the book of the prophet Daniel at the Bible Institute. There were many questions regarding Daniel's 70th week. Students want to know everything right away, but I told them that throughout this course, we will learn more and more every day. Thank God for the fact that they regularly come to these lessons and they are very interested in studying the book of Daniel.

3. Also, our missionary brother, brother Kioresko Gregory, loaded a whole bus with food and other humanitarian aid and also took it all to people who had lost their homes and so that they could have everything for daily food. He traveled to the city of Gostomel, where the Church of Christ was recently founded. He helped them carry ministries to the church and preached Jesus Christ.

3. I did mini evangelizations in houses where people who need spiritual help live.

-I preached there that God knows in advance about our difficulties. He sends us trials, but He also gives us a way out of these difficult circumstances, so that we would trust God more and hope in Him.

-At these meetings there were prayers of repentance and glorification of God.

4. I preached in 2 churches the lessons from the Sermon on the Mount of Jesus Christ. In these classes, there were many students who diligently studied these beautiful lessons. After the lessons there were many prayers of repentance of people who realized their guilt before God.

5.News from Ukraine:

-This month, all the churches from Ukraine were fasting and praying for the end of the war in Ukraine.

-All the sisters of our churches have prayer meetings where they not only pray and study the Word, but also plan how to prepare food and feed people in need, how to help them.

-They not only plan but also in practice prepare food for volunteers to take this food to the soldiers on the front line, they also help the displaced people who live among us-Thank God!

6. We plan:

- In the church of the village of Tarasovtsy, where our pastor, missionary Gortopan Mihai, organized an evangelization on March 26. Pray for this evangelism, that the Lord bless His Word through the preachers, and that this evangelism be successful in the gospel.

7. Thanksgiving:

-We are very grateful to God for protecting us in these parts and we can preach His Word to all people.

-We thank God for you, brothers and sisters from the USA, our partners in evangelism here in Ukraine. Thank God for your help and support, for your prayers for us which we feel them here.

-We praise God and thank Him both for the blessings and for the trials. Because through these trials of the war, many people came to God and repented. God works in mysterious ways…

8. Prayer requests:

-Pray, if it is the will of the Lord, that the war in Ukraine will end.

-Pray for those cities of Ukraine that are in danger of rocket arrivals, Kharkiv, Zaporozhye, Kherson, Odessa, Kyiv and other small cities of Ukraine. Innocent people and children are dying. For the Lord to stop these bombings.

-Continue to pray for our volunteers who are bringing food and everything necessary for our soldiers on the front line. Also pray for our missionary brother Kioresko and his team that is carrying humanitarian aid and food in Gostomel and in other cities where people are in need. For God to protect all our volunteers on the way from all evil.

-Pray for success in evangelism at the evangelizations that will be in our churches and at the evangelizations among the settlers.

-Pray for those 4 soldiers from our village and for all our soldiers that the Lord will protect them. For Marian Palamaryuk and his family. May God help him to survive there in the war and when he comes home to repent with his wife.

-Keep praying for our Chernivtsi region, so that we are not bombed and that there are no rockets coming.

-For the Lord to strengthen our health, so that we would zealously serve Him here, where He placed us in the service.

We also pray for you, our dear brothers and sisters from the USA. May the Lord richly bless you and give you a hundredfold blessings for your sacrifice and love for us and for Ukraine.

We wish you to celebrate the Bright holiday of the Resurrection of Christ: Blessed, peaceful, happy and inspired! Please accept the best wishes and blessings from my family!

With love to you, the PETIKHACHNYY PAVLO and LARISA family.

Prayer meeting with sisters

We greet you with the love and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ, dear brothers and sisters from the USA, our partners in evangelizing the Word of God here in Ukraine.

-I thank the Lord for His protection, which we feel every day and every hour during this difficult period of the war in our lives. For more than a year there has been a war in Ukraine, and only the Lord protects us and our region from bombing. Every day and night, sirens howl and we understand that there is a danger of rocket arrivals. Then we pray hard and believe in the protection of the Lord. In the East, North and South of Ukraine there are rockets and destruction, unfortunately, and loss of life. We pray that the Lord will console those who have lost their loved ones either through the arrival of rockets, or through the loss of soldiers who defended our borders.

1) By the grace of God, we were able to participate in Holy Communion of the Breaking of Bread in our church from Nesvoi. There, 2 more churches gathered with us: Balkovtsy and Podvirnoye. Since there is no pastor of the church in Balkovtsy and their pastor fell ill in Podvirnoye. They were brought to us by our church bus, as there are few members of the church there. They were very happy that they could, together with our church, have Holy Communion at this communion. On other Sundays, our ministers from the church go to these churches to strengthen these brothers and sisters with the Word of God.

-One sister from Podvirnoe who recently repented invited me to prepare her through the lessons for Baptism. I am glad that her husband also comes to our services. We pray for this family.

-I also performed the Breaking of Bread for 2 sick people from our church. We also prayed for them so that the Lord would heal them.

2) We organized prayers for all the sisters in all the churches of our region on Monday, March 6. The theme of the prayer is "Live worthy of God's teaching" James 2: 8. We also prayed for peace in Ukraine, supported in our prayers those who go through the loss of their loved ones. They prayed that these arrivals of missiles would stop, which not only destroy people's houses but also take human lives.

3) At the moment, all the missionaries of our PIEI Ukraine mission serve many migrants. At the beginning, we found houses for them so that they would have a place to live, helped them with clothes and food, and after that we conduct Bible lessons with them and many migrants come to these lessons.

4) In February, brother Kioresko Gregory, our missionary, brought humanitarian aid to Gostomel 2 times. Thank God there is already the Church of God there and regular services are going on. In the beginning, they preach the Word to people and then distribute humanitarian aid to them. They rejoice for the Word of God, but this help is also necessary for them.

5) Our church continues to prepare food for the soldiers on the front line. This food is very necessary for them to refresh themselves in those without conditions where they have neither electricity nor water. We also pray for these soldiers.

6) In February, I taught the lessons from the book of Daniel to the brothers who wished to study this book in more detail. After these lessons, the brothers said that they themselves would teach these lectures both in their churches and among the settlers.

7) We plan to assemble a leadership team for the Non Stop Christian summer camp in Boyany. We pray for this project, our camp, that God bless us with Peace and Health, so that we can conduct this camp blessedly and fruitfully (repentance of many young men and gain them for Christ).

8) Thanksgiving:

-We thank God for the fact that in our area, by His mercy, it is still calm and we can fruitfully serve all the needy migrants and our churches here.

-We thank the Lord for your support that you give us, from the USA and from Romania, and we can help people in need here.

-We thank God for all our missionaries who work and serve the Lord here. For the fact that the Lord gives them health and protects them from all evil.

9) Prayer needs:

-Pray with us for an end to the war.

- About the brother of the missionary Kioresko and his team, who travels 2 times a month with humanitarian help to the destroyed cities near Kiev. About the new Evangelical Church from Gostomel so that it grows in faith and love and bears the fruits of the Holy Spirit.

-Pray for all our missionaries who are working among the migrants, that the Lord would protect them and their families from all evil.

-For the Non Stop camp from Boyana, for the team of leaders, for the team of teachers, for the children who will come to this camp, for the team from the USA who will come to us this summer to serve, and for us to be calm so that we can conduct this camp.

- For the day camps at the church that our churches will hold. May all be blessed.

-For students from the Bible Institute who help us preach the gospel in churches where there are no pastors.

We also pray for you, dear brothers and sisters from the USA, our partners in evangelizing the Word of God in Ukraine, we pray that God will bless you with health and return you a hundredfold blessings for your sacrifice, for your support and for your prayers for us. We feel your prayers for us. Thank you for everything!

Please accept sincere Christian greetings from my family.

With love to you, Pavel and Larisa Petikhachnyy.

Humanitarian aid from the mission brothers PIEI Romainia

Dear brothers and sisters from the United States, we greet you with the love and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I am grateful to God for His protection. For the fact that peace and tranquility are still observed in our region during this time of the war in Ukraine. For a year now, this terrible war has been going on with us, and the Church of Christ has been praying earnestly for an end to this war. On February 24, an all-Ukrainian fast and a prayer to God so that all our churches, our families pray and fast for peace in Ukraine. We hope only in God and expect from Him Salvation and Victory for Ukraine and its people.

We are very grateful to God for you, our dear brothers and sisters in the Lord who live across the ocean and support us in your prayers. We pray that the Lord will bless you abundantly.

1. Humanitarian aid from the mission brothers PIEI Romainia.

- On January 24, missionary brothers from the PIEI Romania mission came to us, headed by brother Timofey Stanya and brother Mike Dima. 3 full trucks arrived with various products and other useful things for the settlers here in Ukraine.

- My wife Larisa and I met our brothers and accompanied them to their destination in Novoselitsa. From there, our missionaries had to load this help (very tasty bread, butter, rice, flour, canned meat and vegetables, apples, potatoes, carrots, onions, toilet paper, shampoo, soap and other necessary substances), and took our settlers who live among us. And brother Kioresko, our missionary, had to load his cargo bus to transport this help in Gostomel (Kiev region).

- We were very grateful to God and our brothers for their sacrifice that they rendered for us. We talked together, prayed. We fed them and then again accompanied them so that they could safely reach the border. We were very glad to hear that they got well to their homes - God bless.

-We are grateful to God and to you brothers and sisters from the USA for your donations, because on these donations, our brothers from Romania were able to buy both food and various needs for our migrants who live among us.

2. Meeting of the missionaries of the PIEI UKR mission.

-January 26, all of our 9 missionaries of the PIEI UKR mission gathered for the meeting of the 1st quarter, 2023. Each missionary gave a report on his missionary activities in his missionary field of service. We had blessed communion to pray for each other, prayers for your churches from the USA that support us here in Ukraine, prayers for the end of the war in Ukraine. We thanked God that brothers and sisters from the USA and from Romania support us in this difficult time for us time. They thanked God for the humanitarian aid from the brothers from Romania. Each missionary was loaded with this help, and taken to our migrants and the needy who live near us.

-My wife and I visited 4 people and brought this help. One of them, a disabled person in a wheelchair, called us and thanked us so much that he even cried with joy. He said that very tasty bread was from Romania. And that he prayed and thanked God and for those who baked this bread, and for those who brought all these sweets in Ukraine. Just when we visited him, he did not have bread in the house, and we arrived on time with bread. Thank God that He leads us all in a good direction so that we can help where help is needed.

3. We had communion with the church on February 5th. 2 neighboring churches (Balkovtsy and Podvirnoye) also gathered in our church because their pastors fell ill. They were brought by bus to our church, since there are a small number of church members there. So they had good fellowship and remembered the suffering of Jesus Christ together as before. Previously, these churches all gathered with us, because they did not have their own house of prayer.

4. At the end of January, our young families from our church, together with the youth of our church, organized themselves to cook ready-made food for the soldiers who defend Ukraine on the front line. They somehow agreed with 10 more churches in the Khotyn region to cook such food for our soldiers. Then there is a special bus that carries this food for these soldiers to the front line. Our people cooked meat rice, pasta casserole, baked pies (it was all cooked in a special oven, and it turned out very tasty), and marinated vegetable salads. Also, bread and compotes. Then they packed it in a special container so that it was convenient to carry all this food to the front line in the city of Kramatorsk near Bakhmut, where the fighting is going on. This is only a very small part of what we can help these soldiers. We all pray for all these soldiers that the Lord will protect them from all evil because it is very difficult for them now. May the Lord save them all and may the Lord give us peace!

4. Thanks:

-We thank God for the fact that we are still quiet and peaceful and the Lord helps us to serve here and the refugees, and to preach the gospel in our area.

-Thank the Lord for you, dear brothers and sisters. For your prayers. Thank you for praying for the soldier Yulis and he was found. He is now in the hospital and will come home soon. He was in captivity, but the Lord saved him. Our sister Nina, his mother, thanks God very much for him. We pray that Julis and his wife Lyuba repent.

-Thank you for your prayers for the missionary brother Kioresco, who delivers food and various needs to refugees from Gostomel (Kyiv region) twice a month. Thank God that God protects him and his team.

-We thank God for the fact that He still gives us health to serve Him.

5. Prayer needs:

-Pray that this terrible war in Ukraine will end. We believe that only our Lord can stop all this. Those who came with the war are all planning big plans to harm Ukraine more. But God has everything under control. He knows how to protect us. And we believe that the Lord will not leave us. Do not stop praying for peace in Ukraine and for God's protection for us here.

-Keep praying for peace in our area, so that we don't have rockets, so that we can serve here calmly preaching the Word and helping those in need.

-The enemies want to turn all their aircraft on us, but pray that the Lord will protect us. We believe that only the Lord will help us and only God will stop the enemy.

-For the Lord to give us health in our ministry.

-For Ukrainian soldiers who defend Ukraine on the front line. For the Lord to protect them. For the chaplains who serve the Word among these soldiers so that the Lord protects them from shells and from all evil.

-Keep praying for our brother missionary Kioresko Gregory and his team, who carry humanitarian aid 2 times a month to the displaced people in Gostomel. For the new Evangelical Church that was recently opened in Gostomel. With His Mighty Hand.

-Pray for our non-stop Christian camp from July 24 to July 29 this summer. May God give us everything to be fine, peaceful, calm, so that we make this camp and everything to be blessed.

-We really want groups of teachers and spiritual guardians from the USA to come to us in the summer. For God to bless this desire of ours, and again, it is necessary that it be peaceful and calm here. May the Lord see this need and bless this project with the arrival of our brothers from overseas.

We are grateful to you and God for your sacrifice for us, dear brothers and sisters from the USA. We always pray for you, for your families, for your churches and for your country. May the Lord bless you with His Peace. So that you never have a war. War is evil and it is very hard. May the Lord bless you a hundredfold for supporting us here in our service for the Lord!

With love and gratitude to you, the Petikhachnyy Pavlo & Larisa family.

Christmas holiday for orphans and widows

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

I am very grateful to God for the fact that during these 2 weeks He used me to preach the gospel and serve Him.

Dear brothers and sisters, it will soon be a year since this war began in Ukraine. And we praise God that He protected us and helped us in this difficult time for us. We also thank you for praying for us all this time and helping us so that we would help other people in need.

1. Christmas holiday for orphans

- As we wrote to you in the last report, we organized a holiday for orphans on January 14 and 15. Thank you for your prayers. The Lord heard prayers and helped us to make joy for orphans and widows during these two days. True, we were not able to collect them in order to feed a delicious dinner, as we did in past years. Because now there is quarantine everywhere because of the pandemic. But we have already promised them that lunch will be postponed after the Easter holiday, when it will be warm. But we prepared good gifts for them, and we ourselves took these gifts and gave them to everyone in their hands. On the first day, January 14, we visited the Orphanage. When we arrived, an air alarm was just sounding, and together with these children we went down to the basement. There we gave everyone a Christmas present, sang Christian carols with them and told them about God's love for people. How God sent the only Son of Jesus Christ to earth to die for us and take upon Himself the sins of the whole world. How He resurrected on the 3rd day and ascended into heaven so that he would prepare a place for us there with Him. The children were very happy and thanked saying: - Thank you Jesus Christ and you! We told them - Thank God for everything! When the air raid ended an hour later, we visited the smallest orphans from this shelter (3-6 years old). They also spoke to them about Christ and sang along with them praising the Lord. They were also very happy with the gifts. Then we visited families who took 15-18 children from the orphans of the boarding school to bring up. We brought them great joy by giving them gifts.

On the second day, we visited a boarding school in Sadgora where the widows of this war live with their children. They also thanked God that the Lord does not forget about them through the believers who visit them constantly helping them in all difficulties.

2.Humanitarian aid from brothers from Romania

-Thank God for the fact that on January 24 our brothers from the PIEI Romania mission arrived and brought us humanitarian aid. My wife and I met them at the border and unloaded this aid in Novoselitsa to the Emmanuel Church, where the pastor is brother Popov Valery. We thank God for brother Timothy Stan and for brother Mike Dima, as well as for their team that came with them. We had good communication with them, praised God for the protection on the road and for this Humanitarian aid that they brought, so that we could distribute this help to our parish settlers and even take this help further for people living near the front line. We thanked God for the brothers from America who donate funds so that our brothers from Romania bring this help to those in need in Ukraine during this difficult period of the war with us. We are glad that we already have something to go to people who live in zone where people suffered more from this fierce war. Our missionary brother, brother Kioresko Gregory, together with his team, goes there 2 times a month and distributes this help to people.

After that, we fed the brothers from Romania, we handed these brothers in the hands of the Lord and sent them home. We are glad that they have already reached their home safely - Thank God!

3. Ministry with ordination to the pastor.

-With God's help, I participated in the ordination of 2 pastors. One pastor in Chernivtsi, brother Pyslar Mihai, and another in the Romanian church in Novoselitsa, brother Grishka Andrei. These services were blessed by the Lord. Everyone prayed with joy and love for these 2 pastors and glorified God.

4. Thanksgiving:

-We are grateful to God and to you, brothers and sisters, for having received this humanitarian aid for refugees through our brothers from Romania.

-We are grateful to God for our missionaries who work with full devotion to serve here in Ukraine.

-Thanks to God for the fact that it is still peaceful in our region and there are no rocket arrivals. This is not our merit, this is God's mercy on us!

-We are grateful to you for your prayers for us and for your help that comes to us in time so that we can help other people who need this help.

5. Prayer needs:

-Pray with us for an end to the war in Ukraine.

-For the orphans and widows that we visited and with whom we work proclaiming to them the love of God, may the Lord search their hearts for repentance.

-For the families who have taken orphans from the boarding school to raise and support. They have their own difficulties every day. May God give these parents wisdom and patience in this hard work.

-For these 2 pastors that we have chosen this month, that the Lord bless them with wisdom, patience and humility to serve in the church.

-So that the Lord gives us and our families health and jealousy, so that we do not get tired of doing good to people in need who live near us. So that we are hands Christ on this earth and serve others with total devotion.

Thank you again, dear brothers and sisters from the USA, for your prayers for us and for your help. May the Lord bless you abundantly! We love you and pray for you.

With love to you, the Petikhachnyy Pavel and Larysa family.

Christmas evangelization

Dear brothers and sisters, PIEI AMERICA is our evangelistic partner here in Ukraine. We greet you with the Love and Peace of Jesus Christ!

We are very grateful to God for the fact that during this time of war, for 325 days now, on the territory of Ukraine, God protects us and helps us, the Church of Christ.

Now we all pray that God will help the soldiers defending Ukraine who are fighting for the cities of Bakhmut and Soledar (Donetsk region). Fierce battles are going on there. Only God can help us so that Peace finally comes to Ukraine. And the whole Church of Christ prays for this.

1. Thank God that our Church, not our own, was able to celebrate the New Year 2023 in prayer where everyone thanked God for protection in 2022 and asked the Lord for God's protection in 2023.

Also on January 1, our church had Holy Communion of the Breaking of Bread, remembering the death and suffering of Jesus Christ. Also, together with my wife Larisa, we visited 4 sick people with the communion where we brought great joy in these houses. There were also unbelieving relatives of these sick people who listened attentively to the Word of God. We pray for them.

2. On Saturday, January 7, our church celebrated the Nativity of Christ according to the old style. Since our village celebrates Christmas this way, we were pleased that the youth prepared for this holiday and even went around the village with carols distributing Christian literature and calendars to people. Everyone was very happy to hear the wonderful hymns about the Born Messiah Jesus Christ. They also went and visited those houses where the settlers live. They were also very happy for this visit. We pray for all the people whom we visited so that the Lord would test their hearts. We are grateful to the Lord that married couples from unbelievers came to our evangelistic meetings, along with their children. We also pray for them. The children received Christmas gifts and were very happy about it.

3. This week after Christmas, we were preparing to make packages with gifts for the Christmas for the orphans, scheduled for January 19th.

4. Visited our missionaries and distributed prayer calendars (2023) for the sisters so that they have topics for prayer and study of the Word of God every month of this year.

5. Thanksgiving:

-We thank the Lord for His protection in our region and we can safely serve here both refugees and other people who are in difficult situations.

-We thank God for you, dear brothers and sisters from the PIEI mission, for helping us both materially and spiritually with your prayers for us and for peace in Ukraine.

6. Prayer requests:

-Pray with us for peace to come to Ukraine. To end this war as soon as possible.

-Pray for all those people who heard the Word of God at our evangelizations and for those whom we visited and told them about the love of Christ. For the Holy Spirit to induce them to repentance.

-Pray that we can have a good Christmas for the orphans next week.

- May the Lord continue to give us, the missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission, health and strength to work in His Field and protect us all from the arrivals of enemy missiles.

-Pray for our brother missionary Kioresko Grigory, who went back to the city of Gostomel (Kyiv region) to carry and distribute humanitarian aid to people in need. In this city, the Church of Jesus Christ was founded, where people come to listen to the Word of God and at the same time receive humanitarian assistance. The Lord protected our brother and his team along the way.

-For the soldiers of the defenders who defend Ukraine. There are especially fierce battles in Bakhmut and Soledar (Donetsk region)

- Our sister in the Lord, from our church, Nina Kitar, lost her son, Kitar Julius, near Bakhmut. Hasn't been in touch since December 24th. If he was captured by enemies, so that the Lord would protect him.

We believe that the Lord is Almighty to help this son.

Our dear brothers and sisters from the USA, we are always grateful to God for you and for your sacrifice, and we always pray to the Lord for you so that God will bless you clearly and abundantly!

Please accept a heartfelt greeting from my family and be blessed our dear evangelistic partners in the USA!

With love to you, the Petikhachny family, Pavel and Larisa!

Happy New Year 2023!

Dear brothers and sisters from the USA, our partners in evangelism here in Ukraine. First of all, we want to greet you with a Happy New Year 2023! And with all our hearts, we wish you abundant blessings from our Lord for the whole year of 2023!

We are grateful to God for this past year - 2022. Although it was the most difficult year of our lives for us. For 311 days now, the war has been raging in Ukraine. The arrivals of missiles and drones over Ukraine do not stop. And we don't know where these missiles will hit. There are many people injured from them and dead. Even poor children are dying. Our soul hurts for our people and we pray for those people who live there, where such rockets often fly. We only thank God that rockets and drones do not fly to us. The Lord is merciful to us. And we pray that it will continue to be calm so that we can serve God.

1. We spent a week of prayers in the church of the village of Nesvoi where we prayed every day for peace and the end of the war in Ukraine. They prayed for an end to the arrivals of enemy missiles, for God's protection of children, young families, for ministers who serve in churches, for the sick, for orphans and for migrants from all over Ukraine. At the same time, they conducted church Bible lessons from the Gospel of Luke, which speaks of the birth of Christ the Messiah, who first suffered great suffering from the king of Israel, Herod.

2.Social assistance.

- With difficulty, we found the necessary help that a young family needed, where the wife is undergoing chemotherapy. They had already run out of all means and were already talking about death. But thank God that those people who we thought could help this family really helped, and this sister in the Lord can continue to undergo treatment. She had unbearable pains, but now these pains are gone - Thank God. We thank God for these people who helped this family.

-We helped people in need and orphans with food and medicine, and we really helped with the help that you, brothers and sisters from the USA, our partners, gave us to help such people. We are very grateful to God for you, our dear ones, who zealously donate funds for the Lord so that, with these funds, help people in need.

-We helped the family as much as we could to Alina, our translator. She had a successful operation on her leg, and she was even able to attend church with her family on December 25-Thanks to God! Thanks to everyone who prayed for her.

-In our church, in Nesvoi, there are young families, youth and our choir that helps prepare food for the soldiers of the defenders of Ukraine. And they take this ready-made food to the Khotinsky district, from there, this food, is taken by volunteers to the front line to feed these people. We cooked: cabbage rolls, pilaf with chicken meat, fried chops and froze them, baked cookies and buns. They need ready-made food because there is no place to cook on the front line. There are no conditions. You can only warm up a little food and serve them to eat. And since it is winter now and it is cold, the food does not spoil on the road in one day. Thank God that every month our church serves God through this good deed. Other churches in our region also prepare such food. May the Lord bless all who serve Him with bright blessings.

3. I taught classes at the Bible Institute on the topic: "How to Spread the Gospel to the Ends of the Earth." The students diligently studied these lessons to better know how to spread the Word of God.

4. Thanksgiving:

-I thank God for you, brothers and sisters, for your help that you gave us and we can help migrants and other needy people here.

-Thank God for my family and the families of our missionaries for keeping us healthy and protecting us from all evil.

-For the fact that our missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission tirelessly help people in need and migrants: both spiritually preaching the Word of God and helping them financially with humanitarian help.

-Thank God for our churches that are ready to serve God by helping other people in need.

-We thank God for the fact that, in our region, it is peaceful and quiet, and there are no rocket arrivals. This is only God's mercy to us - Glory to Him!

5. Prayer needs:

-Pray together with us that the war in Ukraine will stop. So that the Lord will protect us because without God we will be lost.

-Pray for the students who study at the Bible Institute.

-Pray for all the missionaries who are working in the Field of God here in Ukraine.

-So that we don't have enemy missiles arriving, so that we can serve God here peacefully and calmly.

-To those whom we preach or help socially this month, may the Lord open their hearts to repentance.

-Pray for our young families and the youth of our church so that the Lord will protect them from any trouble during this difficult time for us.

-Pray for our project: "Christmas for orphans" which we planned in mid-January. We are already preparing 200 gifts for the orphans. So that the Lord would help us to realize all this at this difficult time for us. Because we do not know what awaits us tomorrow.

-For all our evangelizations that we will hold both on the New Year and on January 7 with our church. For people to come and listen to the Word of God. And for the Lord to touch their hearts.

Once again we want to thank God and you for your sacrifice and for your love for us. May God bless you abundantly and give you a hundredfold blessings!

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

Teaching at the Institute

Greetings, dear brothers and sisters from the USA, with the love and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ!

Our dear partners of the gospel of the Word of God, together with us, here in Ukraine, on behalf of all our missionaries of our PIEI Ukraine mission and on behalf of our families and churches, we want to congratulate you all on the holidays: Christmas and Happy New Year 2023! We wish you all a lot of health, happiness, success, peace and joy in Christ Jesus! So that Christ the Messiah, who came on this earth in order to save humanity, bless you, your families, your church and your country!

I am grateful to God that in this year 2022, which was a difficult year for us, because we have been at war in Ukraine for more than 10 months. There were many obstacles to spreading the Gospels, but God helped us proclaim HIS Word in the power of the Holy Spirit and many people heard the news of Christ and accepted Jesus Christ as Savior in their hearts.

1. Teaching at the Institute:

-This month, the Lord helped me teach Missiology to 10 students at the Theological Institute. Through the Acts of the Holy Apostles, I showed them how the apostles spread the Gospel in the first century. Now, in the 21st century, we also have difficult circumstances, but God helps us spread the Word like the apostles in the 1st century.

2. I taught courses about the Living Faith in a church from the village of Marshentsy.

-Showed that true faith conquers the world and makes us righteous before God.

-Abraham was righteous before God and all the heroes of faith from chapter 11 to Heb.

-Many in the church prayed that they would have this living faith.

3. In the church from the village of Nesvoi, I taught the book of Joshua, chapter 2, and showed how a person can be a blessing for all his family, for the whole country, and for all of us. And we can be a blessing for other people.

4.News:

-Yesterday, December 16, 76 missiles were thrown at the cities of Ukraine and 60 of them were shot down by air defense. By doing this, the enemy wants to destroy our blessed country. In the city of Krivoy Rog (South of Ukraine), a rocket hit a residential building. There are killed and wounded. We pray for these people who live there. They live in a very dangerous zone. May God have mercy on them and may God give them to stop these missiles that destroy everything, and especially human lives.

-Our sister Alina Martsinyuk (translator of the PIEI UKR mission) had an operation on her leg yesterday, and we were fasting and praying for the operation to be successful. After the operation, Alina called and said that everything ended well - Thank God!

-Brother Gregory Kioresko, pastor missionary, was on the front line with a cargo bus and distributed humanitarian aid to all people in need.

- In Chernivtsi, in the Church of the House of Peace, brother pastor missionary Hryhoriy Pastushak performed water baptism. There were candidates for baptism both from the local church and from other churches in the region, who made a covenant with Jesus Christ through holy water baptism - Glory to God!

-All of our missionaries in our PIEI mission work intensively to serve the refugees, helping them and guiding them on the true path.

5. Thanksgiving:

-We thank you all for praying for our country and the people who live in it, so that peace finally comes to our land.

-We are grateful to you for praying for our translator Alina Martsinyuk, for her operation and thank God that this operation was successful.

-We are grateful to you for praying for our missionary Alex Pastushak, who also had an operation and now walks normally and works hard for God.

-We thank you for praying for all our missionaries and their families.

6. Prayer requests:

-Pray together with us for peace to finally come to Ukraine.

- About the students to whom I taught missiology, so that they could practice in life what they taught.

-About those who were baptized so that they would grow spiritually.

-Continue to pray for us missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission and for our families, that the Lord would give us health to work in His Field and continue diligently, as for the Lord.

We also pray for you dear brothers and sisters from the USA, our evangelistic partners here in Ukraine. May the Lord bless you and give you a hundredfold blessings!

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

Preparation of new students

We greet you with the love and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ, dear brothers and sisters of the PIEI America mission.

I am grateful to the Lord God for His protection and the support that I feel in every minute of my life. For a peaceful sky overhead to our region where we live, although in Ukraine it has been 285 days since the war has been going on. We now have electricity cut off very often at night, and during the day, so we often do not have the Internet, which means there are no connections with the world. Even mobile phones are muffled. But we thank God that we are not bombed and so far we are calm by the grace of God.

Now all our missionaries are busy helping the settlers who live among us. They visit them, bring food for them. Thank God that we have such an opportunity to help these people who are in trouble.

And of course we thank you, brothers and sisters from the USA, for supporting us in this ministry through your donations and through your prayers for us.

1.Preparation of new students

- I gave lessons at the Bible Institute on the topic: “The faith that God praises.” Through these lessons I want to prepare new disciples for churches in our area, because there is a need for young ministers.

2. Regional conference with ministers of churches

-I helped the brothers, leaders of the regional office, to organize this conference with the ministers of our region on the topic: "A book in the life of a minister."

This conference brought together about 30 ministers of our churches from the area who listened to wonderful lessons. At the end of this conference, each minister received 20 spiritual books. All of these books direct each minister to the Bible and its study.

3.Missionary visits

-I visited all the missionaries of the PIEI UKR mission in order to encourage them in this difficult ministry that they carry out among the settlers and at the same time with people in need from our region. I was interested in how we can help them so that they can serve in their villages in the power of the Holy Spirit, as they have served before.

4. He held communal services in three churches and at the same time visited the sick in these churches. Mini gospel meetings were held at each patient's home and preached about the sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ.

5. News.

-Recently, more than 100 missiles were thrown in Ukraine by the enemy, and then every day they throw fewer missiles in order to destroy the Ukrainian infrastructure and electricity. This is all so that we do not have electricity, the Internet, water, gas and phones. Of course, we have a very difficult time, but when we think about what our brothers and sisters in faith who live without light and water on the front line. We praise God that we have not yet been bombed and we can calmly serve God. And we pray for those who have a very difficult to adapt to the front line.

6. Thanksgiving:

-Thanks to the PIEI America mission for helping all the missionaries so that they can help others in need.

-Thank you for your prayers for the brother of the missionary Kyoresko Gregory, who travels 2 times a month on a microbus with humanitarian aid for people who live in cities where the war has destroyed everything. And there people need help.

7. Prayer requests:

-Pray with us for an end to the war and peace in Ukraine.

-Pray for missionary pastor Gregory Pastushak who will conduct water baptism in December in his church. Pray for this baptism.

-Pray for the missionary pastor Kioresko, who will go again with social assistance to the cities destroyed in Ukraine to help people who live there in difficult conditions. For God to protect him and his team from all evil along the way.

-December 5, 2022, Alina Martsinyuk, our translator, will have surgery on her right leg. She fell and broke her leg. Pray that everything goes well.

-Pray for all the families of our missionaries that the Lord will protect us, our wives, our children and our grandchildren in this difficult time for us.

We also pray for you, dear brothers and sisters from the USA, that the Lord bless you and protect you from all evil. We love you and pray for you.

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