Testimonies from camp

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

1. We are very grateful to the Lord for you and for your support in our Christian mission camp PIEI CANDELA, which was held from July 24 to 29, in Boyany. Since we wrote in the previous news, we had 150 people in this camp. Among them were 30 leaders, a team of 9 people from the USA and 10 children, 100 teenagers. We thank you again for sponsoring this camp, because without you, we don't know how we would have managed. There were many displaced children and we had to pay the full cost of this camp. Praise God for all that He has done for us through you, our dear evangelistic partners from the USA.

2. The US team was divided into 2 groups. One group stayed in the camp each day: Gabi, Ashley, David and Grace, and the second group: Cornel, Debbi, Will, Stephen, and Skip, traveled for the whole day, all 5 days, to our churches for evangelism with glasses. Since the eye doctor Debbie had a large number of points, she saw almost 50 people a day. The brothers Will, Stephen, Cornel and Skip were soul guardians. We are glad that more than 100 unbelievers received not only eyepieces, but had the opportunity to hear the Word of the Gospel, the Word of Salvation. Thank you very much for the work of our consigliere brothers and for the service of Sister Debbie. May the Lord reward your great work and donation. And also thanks to all the translators for their service: Alex, Ira, Alina, Naomi, Joni, Grace and Erika. May the Lord bless them all abundantly!

3. In our camp there was a very rich program of studying the Word of God, sports games, swimming in the pool, and in the evening there was a worship program. There were 4 groups studying the Word of God. The first group of teacher's brother David from the USA. The second group is teachers Gabi Stef and Tatiana, the third group is teachers Ashley and Tamara and the fourth group is teacher brother Pavel Petikhachny. Each group taught good spiritual topics for every teenager who was in those classes. After lunch, each of these 4 groups had drawing lessons led by Grace, a girl from the USA. She taught the children how to put their feelings on paper as a drawing. So they put on their papers the topics of the study of the Word of God that they were studying. Each group had its own topics. For example, Brother Paul had a theme from the Epistle to the Philippians, Rejoice in the Lord always. And they very beautifully outlined this theme in the drawings. Grace and Gabi's sister Steph helped with this. We are glad to hear that every teenager liked our camp and they would like to stay even for 2 more days. There were rich sermons every evening in the camp, and at the end of the camp Brother Will from the USA preached. We prayed a lot for this pastor brother, and the Holy Spirit touched the hearts of these children Friday night. Thank God that almost 50 teenagers and children came out and repented. Now we pray for them fervently that the Lord will strengthen their faith. And now we want to write you a few testimonies of the repentance of these teenagers:

1. Bryabin Evelina, 15 years old, Tarasovtsy

-I am grateful to God for getting into this Christian camp. This is my first time at this camp. I have unbelieving parents. It's for me, well… I don't know how to describe it… It's just a miracle in my life God did. I liked everything in this camp, and the leader, and teachers, and sports, and worship evenings. I found new friends, but the main thing is that I found the Savior Christ in my life. God bless! Thank you all for such a wonderful camp.

2. Vakaruk Alina, 13 years old, IDP from Lugansk.

- I have no words to express my deep gratitude for such happiness - to get into such a cool camp. It is also a great happiness for me that in this camp I came to know Jesus Christ as my personal Savior. I never could have imagined, a year and a half ago, even before the war, that I would go to a Baptist church now. But this is how the Lord controls that through this war people come closer to God and seek Him. I am very glad that I found Jesus as my Savior and thanks to everyone who helped me in this. God bless!

3. Tkachuk Artem, 16 years old. Malinovka.

- I am very glad that I got to this wonderful camp. To be honest, I was upset when I found out that the tours in the camp had already ended and I was looking for all sorts of ways to get this ticket. At the last moment I got a ticket because someone could not go to the camp. There are no words to describe how great this camp was. Everything was beautiful, and the Word of God that touched me was the most beautiful. I was in Ashley and Tamara's teacher class. They are very good and instructive spiritual lessons. And on Friday evening. After Brother Wil's sermon, I made the decision to repent. An interesting fact is that a year ago my brother Arthur also repented in this camp. And now he serves God as a leader in this camp. Thank God and you for this wonderful camp. Be blessed!

4. George Yanosh, 14 years old, Marshintsi.

-I am grateful to God for being in such a camp. I liked the lessons of Brother David from the USA. I also liked the whole program of the camp. It just seems to me that there was not enough time. We need a couple more days. Although 7 days. I didn’t have time to make friends with new friends and I had to say goodbye already. But thank God that the main thing did. This is my repentance. May the Lord bless you all!

5. Denis, 14 years old, from immigrants.

-I am grateful to all of you who organized such a wonderful camp. This is my first time at this camp. It was like a bonus for me against the backdrop of such a terrible war that is happening in Ukraine. I learned a lot here. Get to know God better. Learned how to read and study the Word of God. How to pray to God. We had a prayer every morning with our leader, and for the first time I learned how easy it is to turn to God with your own words, and not some memorized words. And when I prayed with Pastor Will on Friday, it became so easy on my soul. Thank God for all this and thank you for the camp.

6. David Skitsko, 14 years old, Zhilovka

Thank you all for a wonderful camp. I am very glad that I have come to know the Lord Jesus as my Personal Savior and God. It was wonderful both at the lessons of brother David and swimming in the pool, and at sports games. It was very cool to start the day with a prayer to God. This was something new for me. I have unbelieving parents. Now I understand that our daytime blessing by God depends on our morning prayer. Thank you for the camp!

7. Kirill, 15 years old, migrant.

- I liked the camp. The main thing I realized is that without God I am nobody. How God brought me and my family, and we left everything and came from afar, to these places where I had not even heard of them. There is a church where people worship God. And people accepted us well and always help, thank God. Thank you for the invitation to the camp. When I watched the scene about the prodigal son in the evening, I said out loud that I would never be like that. One woman, a leader, heard me and said: - You will not be like this only if you accept Jesus in your heart. The Lord will help you and strengthen you on the narrow path. I did not understand it then, but when there was a call to repentance, on Friday evening, I still accepted Jesus Christ in my heart. Now I feel very light in my soul and I praise my Lord.

8. Burlaka Nadia, 14 years old, Kotilevo.

-Thank God for the fact that I had the opportunity to visit this camp. Thank God that the Word of God touched my heart too. Thank God and you for a wonderful and very organized camp.

9. Amelia, 15 years old, Tarasovtsy.

- I really liked this camp. I was delighted for 5 whole days from this camp and from the organization of this camp. My parents are non-believers, but I like going to church for believers. I don't know what my parents will do with me, but I accepted the Lord Jesus in my heart and am very glad. Pray for me and my parents to let me go to the Baptist church. I pray to my Jesus and I believe that He will not leave me. Thank you all for a great camp.

10. Mariana, 15 years old, Odessa.

-I am very grateful to God that I came to visit Chernivtsi from Odessa and I was invited to this Christian camp. It was my first time in such a camp. I would never have thought that it would be so interesting for me in a Christian camp. And that I would be so interested in studying the Bible. Here I felt exactly how the Spirit of God works through every minister, through every leader. I liked everything here. Sports games, contests and food were very tasty. But the most important thing was on Friday night, when I felt the call of the Lord to repentance. Thank God for brother Will from the USA. I am very glad that I accepted the Lord in my heart. I am now free, saved and belong to Jesus - Praise Him! Thank you for a wonderful camp.

11. Vanya Sprinchinat, 14 years old, Novoselitsa.

-Thank you very much for your camp. Thanks for the invitation to the camp. My parents are unbelievers and my father died 2 years ago. I was so unhappy before this camp. Here I learned how to trust God and that only God can comfort me in my suffering. Because Christ, innocent, Holy, suffered and died on the cross for me and the whole world. I realized this last Friday during Brother WILL's sermon. I didn't come forward like the others, but I was overwhelmed with emotion and broke my heart before God, And repeated the prayer of repentance after Brother WILL. I believe that I am saved by God. Please pray for my mother, so that she will know the love of our Jesus Christ. Thank you for your great work. Be blessed!

These, and many more testimonies of repentance and thanksgiving for the camp, there are many more. Please pray for all the children and teenagers who were in our camp. Then almost 50 people came out to repent, but we saw tears in their eyes and those who did not have the courage to come forward. For the Holy Spirit to work in their hearts after this camp.

Thanks again to all the sponsors of this camp, and to everyone who prayed for us. May the Lord bless everyone abundantly!

Thank you for the team from USA who worked hard among us. Keep praying for us and for peace in Ukraine! Be blessed our dear brothers and sisters from the USA!

With love to you, the PETIKHACHNYY PAVLO AND LARYSA family.

We had a blessed camp

Praise God for a blessed camp!

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

A week has already passed, and since we wrote to you about our Christian camp Candela, from July 24 to July 29, in Boyany, at the end of this week is over.

There were 150 children and teenagers, leaders and teachers, there were our friends from the USA, a team of 9 people. We all had a wonderful week at this wonderful camp. Students learned the Word of God every day and still had the opportunity to make friends with each other, play sports, swim, have blessed evenings around the Word of God and, together with the worship group, praise our Lord. And at the end of the week, Friday night, the Holy Spirit called these teenagers to repentance. And thank God for the fact that more than 50 teenagers and children heard the voice of the Holy Spirit and accepted Christ in their hearts.

We want to thank the Lord from the bottom of our hearts for His mercy and grace to us, for the fact that these days it was calm and not a single rocket flew at us. We praise God for the fact that He heard both your prayers and our prayers, and protected us from all evil. Praise God for the fruits of repentance among children and teenagers. In the next news we will write you the testimonies of these teenagers and children who repented.

We thank you brothers and sisters for your prayers and for sponsoring this camp. May the Lord return a hundredfold blessings to those who donated money for our camp.

We are grateful to God for the fact that He protected the team from the USA and they, who are among us, worked fruitfully for the Lord.

Keep praying for peace in Ukraine.

-Pray further that the team of 9 people from the USA, led by Brother Cornel Stef, who is the president of the PIEI mission, will return home safely. They go on Tuesday, August 2 to the USA.

-Pray for those teenagers and children from the camp who repented, that the Lord would strengthen their faith, so that they would serve the Lord all their lives.

We wish you abundant blessings from the Lord. We love you and pray for you.

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

Attending sick

We greet you with the love and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ dear brothers and sisters from the USA - our partners in evangelism here in Ukraine!

I am grateful to God that He helped me this month to go through such circumstances that were for success in the gospel.

1. In the church from the village of Nesvoi, where I am a pastor, we

they collected social assistance and money to buy everything necessary for people who suffered as a result of the accident at the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, in the Kherson region. There was a terrible flood and people suffered greatly. These food and drinking water, our brother pastor, missionary Kyoresko Grigory and his team, as well as another team from Transcarpathia with buses, went to Kherson to distribute to people who are waiting for help from us. This social assistance was collected by many churches from the Chernivtsi region. People there they praised God and thanked our brothers with tears in their eyes.

2. I conducted Bible lessons from the Gospel of Mark with our church and with two neighboring churches of Balkovtsy and Podvirne. I also held communion with these churches.

-After these lessons, I visited the sick from these villages and preached to them the Word of God to the sick, as well as to those who live in their homes.

3. I visited, together with my wife Larisa, a church from the village of Malinovka. There I preached about the Sermon on the Mount of Jesus Christ. Larisa sang a couple of psalms and the church was very encouraged. After the service they invited us to visit them more often.

4.News from Ukraine:

-All Christian churches from the Chernivtsi region collect social assistance for people from the Kherson region, where many settlements were flooded. Every week our brothers go there in buses with food and drinking water.

-In Ukraine, the war continues. For 490 days this terrible war has been going on, which kills people and children every day. Every day and night, rockets arrive on our cities and villages. Yesterday a rocket hit a residential building in the city of Kramatorsk. Under the rubble of the house, 11 dead people were found. It is very scary and painful, but this is a war. There are so many destroyed houses, but it hurts us a lot that people are dying. Houses will be built more, but you will not return people's lives.

-All our churches, from our region, are now fasting and praying for the war to stop, for the arrivals of these missiles that bring destruction and death among peaceful people to stop.

5. Thanksgiving:

-We are grateful to God for the fact that in our region it is calm and there are no such arrivals of rockets. It's just God's mercy on us. And we can serve God by helping other people who are in trouble, thank God!

-We always thank God for you, brothers and sisters from the USA, for praying for us and for Ukraine and for supporting us financially and we help further where help is needed. And people really need our help now.

-We thank God for the fact that through helping people financially, we have the opportunity to preach the gospel among these people.

6. Prayer requests:

-Pray, together with us, for our missionaries of the PIEI UKR mission who are working hard in the field of God in this difficult time for us, so that they do not get tired and get sick doing these good deeds. For the Lord to protect them and guard them, their families and their churches.

-Keep praying for this terrible war to end.

-Pray for our PIEI UKR mission camp from 24 to 29 July. Pray for our leaders, for our teachers, for the children and teenagers who will be in this camp. So that the Lord protects everyone and protects from all evil. So that there are no missiles coming at us.

-Pray that the Lord will bless the Word of God that will be preached to the children, so that the sown Seed of Truth in the camp will bear fruit of repentance among children and teenagers.

-Pray for a team of brothers and sisters from the USA who will come to us in Ukraine, led by brother Cornel Stef, and will work both in our camp and outside the camp. May the Lord bless their journey and stay among us. And also on the way back home, so that always and everywhere there was the protection of the Lord over them.

-On Sunday, July 2, we are again gathering with our leaders to work on our camp program. Pray for us that the Lord will help us organize everything well, because our time is not very easy, but we want us to do everything in the best way, as for the Lord. We believe that the Lord will be with us and that He will help us in everything in this ministry.

And we pray for you brothers and sisters from the USA. And we are very grateful to the Lord for having you. We pray that God will bless you abundantly, and your families, and your churches, and your country USA!

With love to you, the PETIKHACHNYY PAVEL and LARYSA family.

Preparation for a camp

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

1.Today, June 15, we are writing our two-week report of our work done in ministry in God's Vineyard for the gospel of the Word of God in our area. I am grateful to our God that He supports us here and protects us from all evil. For a peaceful sky above us and for health. Although we have added even more work in ministries for people. Today is already 477 days since this war began, and last week the enemies broke through the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station in the Kherson region across the Dnieper River. More than 80 settlements were under water. The water flooded everything and a lot of people and children died. This is a massive environmental disaster. Thank God that at least a few people managed to escape and take them to a safe place. And those who did not have the opportunity to climb on the roofs, especially the elderly or paralyzed, could not be saved. We do not even know the number of drowned people in this disaster, not to mention animals and birds. Even fresh graves from cemeteries were carried away by water into the sea. Now the water is receding a little and it is very dangerous there because some kind of epidemic or cholera may break out. Therefore, our Christian churches collect money for the population who find themselves in this terrible situation. There is a great need for drinking water. And our brothers carry drinking water there for those people. We pray for these people and for those volunteers who bring water, food and clothing to people, as well as mattresses, pillows and blankets. We pray for those people who have been saved, so that through these merciful deeds they will see the light of Christ and accept God in their hearts.

On June 2, 11, we gathered with our leaders in a church from the village of Kotileve, where our pastor, brother Igor Dzyadik, is a missionary. We were 22 leaders and we organized a program for our camp in Boyany from 24 to 29 July. We also prayed that the Lord would help us in organizing and holding this camp. We have created our website for all our leaders and we always get together online to discuss all the issues that arise. We also study the Word of God at these meetings and pray.

3. In the afternoon I visited the church from the village of Rokytne, where our pastor is our missionary brother Gregory Kioresko. My sermon was about the love of our Lord Jesus Christ. About the fact that without love we can do nothing and nobody. Our deeds are done without love, it's just a ringing brass or a cymbal sounding.

After the meeting, I had a meeting with the brothers of this church and I encouraged them to serve God.

3. At the beginning of the month, he held communions in 3 churches: in Nesvoi, in Balkovtsy and in Podvirna. On this Sunday, we also celebrated the feast of the Holy Trinity "Descent of the Holy Spirit", the creation of the Church of Christ. At this evangelism there were many people from the world who were listening to the Word of God. We pray for them. Also visited 2 sick people from the church with the communion. They rejoiced greatly and glorified Christ through their prayers.

4.News from Ukraine:

- We wrote at the beginning of this report about the explosion of the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, which is located in the Kherson region, and this brought great misfortune to both people and the environment. We try to help these people in any way we can and pray hard for them. We are gathering everything we need and soon our brother missionary Kioresko Grigory and another team of brothers will go there to deliver humanitarian aid in those places where people are in great need of it. They need drinking water, food, clothes, and shoes. We pray that the Lord will bless the brothers on this difficult journey and protect them from all evil.

- In Ukraine, our cities are bombed every day. Krivoy Rog has been bombed for 3 days in a row. They destroyed a residential multi-storey building and again many people died and many were injured, and the enterprises of the city are being destroyed. They also bomb Kyiv, Kharkov, Kherson, Zaporozhye and other small towns. And night and day sirens are buzzing and we only pray that the Lord will protect people from bombing in their cities and villages. We pray for these people who live in danger zones so that the Lord will protect them from death.

5. Thanksgiving:

-We are very grateful to you, brothers and sisters from the USA and from Romania, for your support, both prayerful and material. Thank you for the food and clothes from you, which we received through brothers from Romania and from England. We can continue to help others in need of this help.

We are grateful to God for the fact that we are still quiet and calm during this terrible time of war in Ukraine, and we can serve God by helping people who need our help.

6. Prayer requests:

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

-Pray for the people who suffered this disaster in the Kherson region through the flooding of their homes and the loss of their loved ones.

-Pray that we can help them and that we can preach the Word of God there too.

-Pray for our camp, for our leaders and for the team that will come from the USA, led by brother Cornel Stef. May the Lord protect and protect everyone. And that during their stay we did not have any bombings.

We believe that the Lord will protect everyone who will be in our camp and the Name of the Lord will be glorified through many teenagers who will accept Christ in their hearts.

And we pray for you, brothers and sisters from the USA. We pray that the Lord will bless you abundantly.

With love to you family PETIKHACHNYY Pavel and Larisa.

Humanitarian aid from Romania

Dear brothers and sisters from the USA, we greet you with the love and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ!

We thank God for His constant protection and mercy to us during this difficult time of the war in Ukraine. For more than 460 days this war has been going on and so many people are being killed, both young and old and children. So many crippled people and destinies! Only God can stop this war and bring His peace. We all hope in our Lord, in His mercy and in His protection.

1. Humanitarian aid from Romania.

-Thank God for the fact that on May 26 2 brothers from Romania arrived: brother Timofey Stanya and brother Benjamin. Also 2 brothers from England arrived: Emmil and Arnold. They came to us and brought humanitarian aid for the needy and refugees in Ukraine, who have lost their homes and do not have water, gas or electricity in the places where they now live. And they don't have daily food.

-On May 26, these brothers came to us in Chernivtsi, and after dinner Emmil and Arnold from England had the opportunity to have an interview on the radio, and then, in the evening, they had a meeting with the teachers of the Bible Institute. Also a meeting with the youth pastor in the Chernivtsi region. They had a friendly conversation and planned how to further cooperate together.

-On Saturday, May 27, brothers from England and brothers from Romania had a meeting with missionaries from the PIEI Ukraine mission and with their wives. They had the good and edifying Word of God for all of us.

-After the break, brother Timothy Stanya had the Word for the sisters, the wives of our missionaries, separately, and our sisters were very encouraged to continue to serve zealously in the Field of God next to their husbands. All the sisters said later: - This Word was just for us - Thank God!

-After dinner, our brothers from England stayed to speak to the refugees in the Emmanuel Church in Novoselitsa, and in the evening they preached to the church from the village of Rokytne.

And the brothers from Romania, after dinner, went to preach in the church from the village of Nesvoia. All the brothers had encouraging sermons and all praised God for helping our guests to come to us to support and encourage us with the Word of God.

- Sunday, May 27, the brothers from England spoke to many migrants and at the same time helped them with social packages. The settlers were very pleased to listen to the Word of God, and also for social assistance.

-After dinner at 4 o'clock, in the church premises, Emmanuel, Arnold and Emmil had a meeting with the youth of the Novoselitsky district, where again the youth were encouraged by the Word of the Lord through the sermons of the brothers.

-Brothers from Romania Timothy and Veniamin, on Sunday, preached in two churches: in the morning in Dynivtsy, and in the afternoon in Kotilevo. Praise God, these brothers delivered very powerful sermons.

-May 28, the Petikhachny family, brother Pavel and sister Larisa, accompanied our guest brothers from England and Romania to the border with Romania and they returned safely to their countries -Thank God!

2. Thanksgiving:

-We are very grateful to God for the time spent with our brothers, guests from Romania and from England, for the fact that God protected all of them, and us, and we all worked fruitfully in God's Vineyard. Thank God for the fact that there were no arrivals of missiles and drones in our area, although the sirens sounded both night and day.

-We thank you all for your prayers for peace and for your prayers for the brothers from England and from Romania.

- We thank all those who helped our brothers to buy various products and other supplies for refugees and the needy, and they were able to bring all this to us.

-We thank the Midwest Bible Church for the packages of warm clothes for those in need. We will try to distribute them to those people who need it. Thank God that these packages have already been delivered.

3. Prayer needs:

-Pray with us that this war in Ukraine will end.

-Pray that there will be no further arrivals of cruise missiles, drones to us.

-Pray that the Word that our brothers preached during these 3 days in Ukraine, so that it touches many hearts and bears the fruit of repentance.

-Pray for our Christian youth camp in Boyana, for the leadership team, for the teachers, for the children who will come to the camp.

-For the fact that it was calm and peaceful with us at this time. May the protection of our Lord be with us.

-Pray for the team that will come from the US with the family of Steph Cornell and Gabi. So that the Lord protects them from all evil and they safely arrive and stay in Ukraine, and also safely return to their homes.

-Pray for our missionaries and their families, so that the Lord will help us to serve here.

-Pray for me and my wife so that God strengthens our health, so that we zealously serve God here.

And we pray for you all brothers and sisters from the USA. May the Lord bless your ministry and your work in the Field of God. May the Lord bless your families, your churches and your country. We love you and always thank God for you. Please accept sincere Christian greetings from my family.

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

Help for needy

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

We are grateful to God for His support and protection this month as well. Already 450 days have passed since the start of a full-scale war in Ukraine, and we, all the churches of Christ, are in prayer and fasting for peace in Ukraine. Yesterday, on Wednesday, a rocket hit a prayer house in the Zaporozhye region. There our brothers held humanitarian aid for those in need. This house of prayer has already been bombed twice. This is the village of Orekhovo, in the Zaporozhye region in the South of Ukraine. We pray for all our brothers and sisters who are in danger.

This month, the Lord has helped me to do a ministry for God, in many churches, for orphans and for migrants.

1. Ministry with orphans:

-As we wrote to you last time, we ministered to 200 orphans, where we fed them all day and conducted Bible lessons with them.

- And in the following days we brought food to orphans from the village of Orshivtsi, which is located near Chernivtsi.

- We also brought them clothes, suits, hats, brushes and toothpaste. We also conducted Bible lessons and games for children with them. They were very grateful that the Lord does not forget them and through believers visits them in their boarding schools. We pray for orphans.

2.Serving soldiers:

- We also helped 50 soldiers who are in a psychiatric hospital in Chernivtsi. We brought them food, also toothpaste and brushes, socks and other needs. We did mini-evangelizations with them. They listened attentively to the Word of God and prayed together with our brothers.

Thank God that they have a desire to listen to the Word of God. We pray for these soldiers that the Lord heals their soul and body.

3. Breaking bread:

He held bread service in churches: in the village of Nesvoi, in Balkovtsy and in Podvirnoye.

-After the communion in the church, I visited the sick and helped them with the help they needed.

-They ask with tears of gratitude in their eyes that we visit them more often and that we pray for them.

4. Bible lessons:

-In three churches I conducted lessons from the textbook Romans (first part), on the topic:

"All have sinned and come short of the glory of God."

-If everyone has sinned, then everyone needs reconciliation with Jesus Christ.

5. Thanksgiving:

-We are grateful, and all orphans thank you for your help. They are very satisfied and happy.

- 50 soldiers say thank you, who are being treated in a psychiatric hospital for rehabilitation, for the help provided.

- And we, the missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission, are grateful to you, brothers and sisters from the USA, for the fact that through your help we can help those in need here in Ukraine.

-We are grateful to God that we do not yet have arrivals of enemy missiles, although the air raid sirens are ringing 2 times a day or at night. Praise God for His mercy on us.

6. Prayer requests:

-Pray for an end to the war in Ukraine.

-Pray for the orphan children, so that they will be encouraged after this help that everyone has given them.

-Pray for all our missionaries so that we will not get tired of serving people always, with such love that we have now.

-Pray for the meeting of our missionaries with 2 brothers from England from May 26 to 29. They will visit us in Ukraine so that we can share the gospel with them here. So that we would be calm and there would be no arrivals of enemy missiles. So that the Lord protects our brothers from all evil both when they come to us and when they leave home.

-About those soldiers who are being rehabilitated in hospitals so that they can restore their health.

-Pray that we will be able to hold a summer teenage, Christian, camp from July 24 to 29. We hope in God that He will help us to conduct this seminar in a blessed way during the war.

And we always pray for you, dear brothers and sisters from the USA. Thank you for your prayers for Ukraine. We feel your prayers. Thank you for your support. May the Lord return you a hundred fold blessings over your families, churches and over your country. May the Lord send Peace to you and to us. Be blessed!

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

Merciful action for orphans

Dear brothers and sisters from the USA, we greet you with the love and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ!

We are grateful to God for His protection, which we feel every minute of our lives here in Ukraine, where there is a danger of missiles coming from the enemy side. Throughout eastern, northern and southern Ukraine, there are such arrivals of missiles and drones every day. Innocent people and children are dying, and we are very worried about these people who live in these cities and villages. We are very grateful to God that He protects our region and we can serve God here in safety. And we always pray for our brothers and sisters who live where the fighting is going on. For the Lord to protect both them and our soldiers who defend the country.

1. Merciful action for orphans.

-We are grateful to God and to all of you who prayed for this day - April 29th.

God gave us and orphans a wonderful day. It was sunny and peaceful. Most importantly, there was a peaceful sky above us and there was not even the sound of an air raid siren.

- In the morning, Larisa and I met these children and fed them with sandwiches, tea and coffee. Thank God that there was a wonderful team of leaders who worked with these children. There were over 200 children. There were children from a boarding school for minors, as well as families that bring up 16-17 children from boarding schools. There were also widows from this war with their children.

- A rich program for the whole day was prepared for everyone. After breakfast, everyone was divided into groups. The children had Bible lessons, games, applications and sports.

-Foster parents also had an hour of prayer for each other and study of the Word. And also the testimony of each family, what they face every day, what difficulties, and how to ask God for wisdom and love to go through various trials and temptations.

-Widows also go through hard trials and temptations. I had a Word from the Lord for them and together we prayed that the Lord would bless every widow and their children. Through this war, the number of widows and orphans multiplied. The heart cries when you see how many orphans suffer from this war. And how to console them? Who can comfort us? Only God. Through His children who are numbered in His Church. We are His Helping Hands for those in need on this earth.

-A bus from our church, the village of Nesvoya, arrived at lunchtime, with food for everyone. There was a very tasty lunch: Rice with meat, casserole and pie, Olivier salad, compote and delicious bread from the bakery of our village. Everyone was satisfied and were grateful to God and our team for this wonderful day in which they rested both in body and soul, Thank God for everything!

Thank God for our sisters from our church, for their hands who prepared such a delicious dinner. And the children from the orphanage said: Thank you Jesus and you.

Once again, we thank everyone who prayed for us and for this action for orphans, and those who donated money so that we could prepare such a blessed action-Glory to God!

2. Finished teaching students the first part of the book of Revelation. Now I am getting ready to teach the second part of the book of Revelation.

3. We begin to gather with the leaders to prepare for the Christian camp from July 24 to 29. We pray that the Lord will help us in this ministry.

4. We continue to help the soldiers on the first line with ready-made food. Our young families from the church bake them bread, buns, cookies, and also prepare meat stews and close them thermally in jars.

5. Thanksgiving:

We are very grateful to God for helping us here to serve God by helping the needy, migrants, orphans and widows.

We also thank God for you, brothers and sisters from the USA, for your support and prayers.

6. Prayer requests:

-Pray with us for this terrible war to end.

-Pray that these arrivals of enemy missiles will end, because innocent people and children are dying.

-Pray for all the orphans and widows who listened to the Word for this evangelism that they will decide to repent.

-Pray for our camp from July 24th to 29th that everything will be blessed.

- For our leaders.

-Pray for the team from the USA that will come to us in the summer so that the Lord will protect them from all evil.

-Pray for the team of brothers who will come to us from England at the end of May, so that the Lord will bless their arrival.

-Pray for me and my wife that the Lord bless us with health so that we can serve God zealously this summer. We are weak, but the Lord strengthens us. I can do everything in Jesus who strengthens me (Phil. 4:13).

We also pray for you always and thank God for you and for your support.

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

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.