Meeting of missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission

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

By the mercy and grace of our Lord, we were able to work and serve for God for another month, although we still have this full-scale war in Ukraine, the arrival of missiles and suicide bombers from the enemy, many deaths and illnesses, many crippled destinies of people. We are grateful to God for protecting us and our region from missiles, and we pray for those other regions of Ukraine that the Lord will protect them from bomb and missile explosions.

1. Bible Inductive Institute:

-Last month I studied the Book of Exodus with students from the Bible Institute, and now I’m preparing to teach the textbook “Spiritual Gifts.” A very useful and responsible textbook in that everyone who studies it can understand what gift he has from God to glorify our Lord Jesus Christ.

2. Fasting and prayer.

February 24 was a day of fasting and prayer for all Protestant churches in Ukraine. On this day it was two years since a full-scale war began in Ukraine, when Russia attacked our country. All believing brothers and sisters prayed and fasted before the Lord and sought mercy, protection and salvation from the enemy from Russia. We rely only on God. Only He can bring us the long-awaited peace and only He can protect us from enemies. Psalm 91:7-8.-A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; But he won't come close to you. Only you will look with your eyes and see the retribution of the wicked.

3. Meeting of missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission.

On February 28, our missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission had a meeting in the Emmanuel Church, in Novoselitsa, in the church of our brother missionary Valery Popov.

-Each missionary reported on his service work for the month of February of this year. We also had a common prayer, where we thanked God for His mercy and love for us, for His protection during this difficult time of war in Ukraine. We also thanked God for our partners from the USA who serve the Lord with us here where we live, helping people who are in trouble and difficulties.

-I had a small analysis of the Word of God with our missionaries on the topic “Fullness of the Godhead” from the book of Colossians.

-We also prayed that the Lord would help us to continue to serve Him in this difficult time and that He would continue to protect us from missile attacks on our territories, so that we could serve God calmly.

4. Now I’m preparing to teach at the Theological Institute. From March 4 to 14 I have a Messiology session, where I will teach 4th year students.

5. Thanksgiving:

-We thank the Lord God for His protection this month and for the fact that we were able to serve God without any obstacles.

-We always thank God for you, brothers and sisters from the USA, our partners in evangelism here in Ukraine, for your service and prayers for Ukraine.

-We thank God for giving us still health and strength to work in His field.

6.Prayer needs:

-Continue to pray with us for the war in Ukraine and Israel to end.

-So that enemy missiles and bombs do not come to us.

-So that God will continue to protect us and give us health to serve Him.

-Pray for me so that I can teach the Missiology session next week. So that the Lord gives me health and wisdom.

-Pray that we will be able to bring summer Christian children's camps to our region this summer. So that we have peace for this purpose.

-So that we can organize a meeting for orphans in the month of May.

-Pray with us for our prisoners of war.

-For our soldiers who defend Ukraine. For the chaplains who are there with them and teach them the Word of God. May the Lord protect and protect everyone.

And we pray for you, our dear brothers and sisters from the USA. May the Lord bless you richly and reward you with blessings a hundredfold!

With love to you, the Petikhachnyy Pavel & Larisa family.

Regional conferences

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

We are very grateful to God for His protection during this time of war in Ukraine. February 24 will mark 2 years since this terrible war began. So many people, young and old, children and youth, died because of this war. This is very cruel. We only thank God that, by His grace, our Chernivtsi region has not yet suffered from missile attacks. And in other areas it’s terrible what’s happening. We pray and fast that these horrors of war will stop and that the Lord will continue to protect His children here in Ukraine, from bombs and missiles, and from all evil that comes to us from the devil.

I am very grateful to God that in such difficult times God gives us spiritual and physical strength to perform the ministry of evangelism here in Ukraine.

1.Bible Institute.

-This month, the Bible Institute students and I are studying the book of Exodus. In this book it is written how Moses and the people of Israel built the tabernacle according to the plan of the Lord, in the desert.

-We are now also building the Church of Christ from living stones (people), where we need to work hard and evangelize. It is necessary that the entire Church of Christ with its gifts serve people who have not yet accepted Christ as Savior, and only then will there be success in the gospel.

2.Breadbreaking

-I held the breaking of bread in the church from the village of Podvirnoe. To get there, Larisa and I had to go through 3 control posts, because now we are under martial law. I am not discouraged that I was traveling on this road, because 3 unbelievers came to this church and were able to listen to the Word of God. And on the next Sunday (02.11), these people again came to listen to the Word of God. We pray that these people understand the Word of God, the call of Christ and the love of God the Father, and that they repent.

3. Visiting patients with the Breaking of Bread.

-In Chernivtsi there are many sick people who are waiting for us with the breaking of bread.

I visited people who were suffering from serious illnesses and at one time held holy communion with them - the breaking of bread. They are very pleased with us because we preached good sermons in their homes about the death and suffering of Jesus Christ, and they were also able to participate in Holy Communion - Remembering the death and suffering of Christ. They prayed and thanked God for the opportunity to participate in this holy work together with the Church of Christ. And I prayed for them so that the Lord would heal these sick people if that is His Will.

4. Regional conference.

- I participated in a regional conference where the speakers, our guests, talked about false teachings in our time. Because some want to introduce such teaching into our churches, and in this way move the church away from the truth of Christ. All our brothers prayed earnestly for this, so that the Church of Christ would stand firmly on the foundation which is Christ.

5.Regional Committee of Sisters.

-February 17, my wife Larisa participated in the regional committee of sisters where our sisters reported on the work done in sisterhood, prayers, acts of mercy among widows, orphans, and assistance to our soldiers at the front. We also thanked God for the peaceful sky in our region, for our churches, for the pastors of churches, for the fact that God protects us all and we can serve God here in our region.

We planned to continue serving God with His help. After all, we have Christian camps in the summer and services to widows and orphans, and continue to help soldiers on the front line. We believe that our God is All-Powerful and will help us in these ministries, so that His Holy Name will be glorified among people and so that more people will come to God with repentance.

6.Thanksgiving:

-We are grateful to God that our region, Chernivtsi, has not yet been attacked by enemy missiles and bombs to destroy our houses - Thank God!

-We are grateful to God for you, dear brothers and sisters from the USA, for praying for us and supporting us financially.

-I thank God for protecting me on all the ministry trips I went on this month.

7.Prayer needs:

-Continue to pray with us for peace in Ukraine and Israel.

-Pray that the Lord will protect and preserve all our missionaries, that their families will remain alive and that we will preach Christ together during this difficult time.

-So that we may have success in the gospel.

-So that those three church visitors from Podvirnoe understand the Word of God and that they repent.

-Pray for Sister Jeta from our church. She is a cancer patient and was taken to the hospital again. If it is God's will that the Lord heal her.

-We pray for our soldiers who are on the front line, especially now we pray for the Avdeevsky Front, Donetsk region. There are heavy battles there.

-We pray for prisoners of war so that they return home from captivity.

We pray that the arrival of enemy missiles and bombs in Ukraine will stop. Our hope and trust is only in God.

And we pray for you, brothers and sisters from the USA - our partners in ministry here in Ukraine. May God bless you and reward you a hundredfold for your sacrifice for Ukraine.

Please accept heartfelt Christian greetings from my family.

With love to you, the Petikhachnyy Pavel & Larisa family.

Ministry with orhpans and soldiers

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

We thank the Lord for the fact that, although we still have a war in Ukraine, for 713 days now, but by God's grace we can still serve here in Bukovyna.

We hope in the Lord as King David hoped when he wrote Psalm 19 verse 8 and 9: Some with chariots, some with horses, but we boast in the Name of our Lord. They wavered and fell, but we got up and stand straight. Thank God for everything. In Christ is our protection and our victory.

For us, the Church of Jesus Christ, January was a blessed month, because God gave us, missionaries, success in evangelism: working with children, teenagers and youth.

1. In this month, they worked a lot and diligently with orphans. But we were asked to visit the military wounded from the war, with contusions. They are in a mental hospital in Chernivtsi. We organized a mini-evangelization for them with one chaplain brother and at the same time gave them good gifts. They were very pleased and asked us to visit them more often with such evangelization and gifts. We prayed with them there, and we continue to pray for these wounded in the hospital. Unfortunately, we are not allowed to take pictures of them. We have such a time now.

2. Young families and our youth study the Bible every week. They also learn and rehearse songs and verses for the worship program for the church service. With these programs, they enrich the ministry in our church. Many people from around the world who visit our church like the program of glorification of our youth. We pray for all who visit our church, that the Holy Spirit will awaken them to repentance.

3. At the Bible Institute, we are currently conducting 1 Thessalonians, and from Monday, February 5, we will conduct the book of Exodus. The book of Exodus is a very blessed book that shows all people living on earth how they should get out of this slavery of sin. And the One who helps us to get out of the slavery of sin is the sacrifice of Christ, the Blood of Christ and only Christ can free us from sin.

4. News from Ukraine:

- February 24 marks two years since the full-scale war in Ukraine with Russia. And more and more destruction and human deaths. Young men and children, old men and middle-aged people are dying, and mostly men from 18 to 60 years old, those who protect Ukraine.

A siren sounds every evening and during the day, which means an air alert. Drones and rockets are flying somewhere. And we, the children of God, are always praying at this time that the Lord will save us and protect us from these enemy rockets. We missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission are also praying and fasting so that all these horrors will end soon. With God's help, we go forward and preach the Gospel to people.

5. On Friday, February 2, we had a meeting with our missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission in Novoselytsa at the Emmanuel church, where we had fellowship and prayer for our service here. They also thanked the Lord for the fraternal support from the USA. We prayed for our partners from the USA that the Lord would bless them, their families, their churches and their country USA. We also prayed for an end to the war here and in Israel.

6. Thanks:

- We are very grateful to the Lord for His mercy and grace to us, for the fact that rockets have not yet arrived in our region, for the fact that we can safely serve God here.

- Thank God that you also prayed for the team of Brother Chioresco Grigory who had an accident on the road to Gostomel, but thank God that they are alive and are recovering a little. Of course, there are still pains, but everything is already on the mend.

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

7. Prayer needs:

- Pray, together with us, that the Lord will stop this dirty and aimless war between two brotherly peoples.

- We pray that the war will end in Israel as well.

- We pray that there will be no enemy missiles and drones. May the Lord protect us from these horrors.

- So that our missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission could continue to perform their services in this difficult time for us, the time of war, and so that we have God's protection over us.

-Pray for our wounded soldiers, that God heals them, for their spiritual wounds that they have from this war.

-Pray for our prisoners of war who were captured by the enemy, that they may be released. We continue to pray for Serhiy Suga, our brother in Christ who is a prisoner of the enemy. The second exchange of prisoners of war was yesterday, January 31. And Sergey was not among them. And his family is hoping and waiting for him.

- Pray for our churches that the Lord would strengthen us spiritually and that the church of Christ from Ukraine would be ready to meet our Lord in every second of our lives.

We are also praying for you, our dear brothers and sisters from the USA. May the Lord bless you and return to you a hundredfold His blessings for your sacrifice and support.

My family sends you heartfelt greetings in the Name of Jesus Christ.

With love to you family Petikhachnyy Pavel & Larisa.

Evangelization of orphans

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

We thank God for His mercy and for His protection in this very difficult time of war for us. Almost 700 days have passed since this full-scale war began in Ukraine. And despite this, during this entire year that has passed in our lives, we missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission were able, this year, to preach the Word in the Power of the Holy Spirit, in this time of war. I say that they preached in the Power of the Holy Spirit, because there are many people who repented and many souls made a Covenant with Jesus Christ through water baptism in the past year.

1. On January 7, our fellow villagers celebrated the Nativity of Christ, and our church also celebrated with them. Our youth walked around the village with carols and congratulated people on the holiday of Christmas, distributed spiritual calendars to them, as well as invitations to our evangelization. I preached a sermon in church on the topic: “What blessings did the Birth of Jesus Christ bring to us people of this world.” The youth choir sang beautiful psalms about the birth of Christ and recited poems about the end of this war. Everyone had tears in their eyes and the whole church prayed for peace in Ukraine and Israel. We pray for all those people who came to evangelize and heard the Word of God.

2. After this, our youth prepared 200 bags of gifts for orphans. On January 14, my wife Larisa and I took these gifts to a home for minor children, which is located in the center of the city, and in Sadgora, where there was once a boarding school. Now widows live there with children orphans from this war, we also visited 5 families who are raising 15-16 children adopted from boarding schools. All these disadvantaged people were very grateful to God and to us for these gifts. We sang carols with them where we glorified the Born Messiah Jesus Christ. We told them that if everything goes well and God helps us, then we invite everyone to a meeting for widows and orphans, which we planned in the month of May, this year. There will be good food for them and various children's activities. Only if God gives us peace and health. They were very happy about this and will all be praying for this meeting. We also pray for this action of mercy that we have planned for widows and orphans.

3. At the Bible Institute I studied the book of Hebrews. This blessed book surprises all who study it, because only Jesus can give true blessed peace to all people. Only Jesus Christ can stop the war.

-I’m also preparing for the next month, February, to study the book of Exodus together with the teachers of the Bible Institute. If only God would give peace, health and tranquility to our region where we live.

4.Thanksgiving:

-We sincerely thank you, brothers and sisters from the USA, for your support and for your prayers for us and for Ukraine. Thanks to you, we can work and serve God here successfully and for the Glory of God. Thank you for praying for us and we were able to carry out evangelization and charity campaigns with orphans and widows, glory to God!

-We thank God for protecting our Bukovina from missile attacks and we can serve God here peacefully and calmly.

-We thank God for giving us health so that we can work in His Holy Vineyard.

- Another thanks to God for the fact that the team of missionary brother Grigory Kioresko was not injured this morning, 18/01, in an accident on the road to Gostomel. Their bus was damaged by a collision with a large truck, but they are alive and well, thank God. God is Almighty! Thank God that the humanitarian products also arrived by another bus to Gostomel and people received the long-awaited help from the products. Our brothers simply loaded the boxes of food into another bus and it went further to Gostomel, and brother Kioresko’s bus was loaded onto a tow truck and taken for repairs. And thank God for the fact that these brothers who were traveling on this bus and who had an accident were left with only minor injuries. Only brother Grigory Kioresko has chest pains. We pray for him that nothing serious happens.

5.Prayer needs:

-Continue to pray for peace in Ukraine and Israel.

-Pray for brother Kioresko that the Lord will heal him from this chest blow, and that specialists will be able to repair his bus.

-Pray for the missiles to stop flying all over Ukraine.

-Pray for our soldiers who are there at the front defending our country, so that the Lord will protect them from death.

-Pray for our soldiers who were captured by enemies, so that they will be released or exchanged for other prisoners.

-Pray that the Lord will give wisdom to our president and everyone who commands our army so that they will make wise decisions for our country.

-Pray for our churches. Now we have a new flu epidemic and people cannot come to church. May God save us all from illness and from this flu.

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

Please accept my heartfelt greetings from my family. We love you and are praying for you.

With love to you family Petikhachnyy Pavel and Larysa.

Celebration of the Nativity of Jesus Christ

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

We are grateful to God that, even though we have been going through this terrible war in Ukraine for 684 days now, we can preach the Word of God with all our might to everyone who wants to listen to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We thank God that there have been no enemy missiles in our area yet, so we can preach the Word of God to all people here, and not only preach but also help our displaced people and financially give them bags of food. We are glad to help these people because more and more often we can hear from their lips - Thank God for everything! This means that the Name of the Lord is glorified among such people, and we pray for such people that the Lord will change their hearts to repentance before God.

1. We, together with our church and with the churches of the Novoseletsky district, celebrated the Nativity of Christ on December 25.

-First of all, I congratulated these churches with Bible verses and asked everyone to pray even harder for this terrible war in Ukraine to end in 2024.

-On December 25, I preached 2 sermons in our church where non-believers were also present, for whom we prayed that they would repent. The youth also had a beautiful program to glorify the Lord. We gave calendars to everyone present, and we are also preparing calendars and other Christian literature for people from the village who will celebrate Christmas on January 7th. Our youth will walk around the village and invite people to evangelize with us, and at the same time they will sing carols and glorify the Lord Messiah through chants. We also pray for this ministry.

-Our missionary wives also had one meeting, in Novoselitsa, at the Emmanuel Church, where our brother missionary pastor Valery Popov serves. I had a word there for them on the topic of Mary and Martha, two sisters from the New Testament. Our sisters were greatly encouraged by the Word of God and prayers before our Lord.

2. At the Bible Institute we are working on the Bible book of the Epistle to the Hebrews. I have already done 5 lessons from this book, Thank God.

-In the near future I will teach students the book of the Acts of the Holy Apostles, pray for me that the Lord will help me teach this book in the Power of the Holy Spirit.

3.During the Christmas holiday I visited many sick people and helped them with food packages, thank God I was able to help these people.

4.Currently, young families from our church are preparing 200 gifts for orphans from the Chernivtsi region. Together with Larisa, my wife, we will distribute these gifts to orphans in Homes for orphans in our region, and in the homes of families who have taken in raising orphans from boarding schools. Pray for us too, that the Lord will give us strength and health for this service, which will take place in mid-January.

5.News from Ukraine:

-Before the New Year, December 29, the enemies fired 158 missiles, as well as drones and suicide bombers, into the cities of Ukraine. Many missiles were shot down, and many exploded, destroying residential buildings and killing many people. On January 2, 98 missiles were fired again. We pray for those people.

Thank God that God had mercy on us and there were no enemy missiles arriving in our area.

6.Thanksgiving:

We are grateful to the Lord for His protection last month and from the beginning of this year, 2024. We hope for God's mercy and support throughout the whole year.

-We are always grateful to God for you, brothers and sisters from the USA, for your prayers and for your support for us.

7.Prayer needs:

-Continue to pray for the end of the war in Ukraine and Israel.

-Pray for our missionaries who are working to serve among the displaced. We have 2 missionaries who constantly travel and deliver humanitarian aid to people living near the front line. Those people are looking forward to receiving this help.

-Pray that it will continue to be quiet and calm here, without the arrival of enemy missiles, so that we can serve God fruitfully. So that the Lord opens the hearts of these people to repentance.

-Pray for those who listened to the word of God last month that they would repent.

-Pray for our further evangelizations, so that there will be success in the gospel.

-About evangelization among orphans.

And we constantly pray for you, dear brothers and sisters, our partners in the gospel, that the Lord will bless you richly and give you a hundredfold blessing for your sacrifice and support for Ukraine.

Please accept heartfelt greetings from our family. We love you and are praying for you.

With love to you PETIKHACHNYY family Pavel and Larysa.

Baptism of two souls

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

Before my small report for the half of the month of December, the last month of this year, we want to congratulate all of you, our partners in evangelizing the Gospel in Ukraine, from the USA, on the holidays of the Nativity of Jesus Christ and Happy New Year, 2024!

We wish you all that the Lord will bless you and your families, your churches and your country of the USA with abundant blessings: health, peace, success, happiness and much joy in Christ Jesus!

We are very grateful to God and to you, brothers and sisters, for not forgetting us and supporting us in your prayers and helping us in this difficult time of war for us. Yes, every day we hope in God that soon this war will end for us. But more than 660 days have passed since this invasion began in Ukraine, and the war is still going on. Every day and night there are arrivals of enemy missiles in the cities of Ukraine. Homes and infrastructure are destroyed and people die. For three days now, the telephone system of the Kyiv Star campaign has been broken, and people have been without communication. Three days later the connection was restored. But that's not the worst thing. The worst thing is that so many people and children are dying. We pray and hope only for the mercy of our Lord. He is our Protection and Stronghold - Glory to Him!

-Although it is difficult for us, the Lord helped me so that throughout this month I would have great blessings in my ministry.

1. Two souls were baptized in the church in the village of Nesvoi. For this baptism we prepared another sister who repented in our camp in 2022, but she went to live with her grandmother in another place and was unable to be baptized. We pray for her. Her name is Alina.

-In the church of the village of Podvirna, one woman repented. Her name is Maria. She also wanted to be baptized this month, but left it until the summer of 2024, when her children will arrive from abroad. We also pray for Sister Maria.

2. I took part in a regional pastoral conference where our brothers who are in the leadership of our brotherhood in Ukraine were also present. The pastor brothers from Kyiv gave us good instructions. Before this conference, I visited all the pastors in our area and sent them these invitations to this conference, as well as congratulatory letters for their churches, which are associated with the Christmas holidays and Happy New Year 2024.

3. In the church of the village of Nesvoya, an evangelization was held with the participation of guests from Moldova and the Zhernovey family, brother Andrei and sister Maria. The Word of God was preached in the Power of the Holy Spirit, and this family glorified the Lord with singing, singing blessed songs to the glory of the Lord. The good news is that during this evangelization there were also non-believers who listened to the Word of God. We pray for them.

4. I teach lessons from the book of Revelation, part 4, at the Bible Institute. This textbook is very interesting and everyone studies this textbook with love. There are many questions: - How are the events that take place in the book of Revelation connected with the events that are currently taking place in Ukraine and Israel. We try to answer these questions from the Word that is written in the book of Revelation and from Scripture.

5.Thanksgiving

-We thank God that He protects our missionaries and they can convey the Word of God to unbelievers and displaced people.

-We are grateful to our brothers and sisters from the USA for supporting us in their prayers before God, and also supporting us financially.

-We are grateful to God that there are no enemy missiles arriving in our region yet and we hope in God that He will continue to save us from these attacks from which our entire Ukraine is suffering.

-We thank you for praying for those 3 souls who should be baptized. Thank God, two of them have already been baptized, Lyudmila and Pavel.

6.Prayer needs

-Pray with us for those souls who have received water baptism. So that the Lord strengthens their faith. Lyudmila’s husband is an unbeliever and she is now going through trials. Pray for Lyudmila that the Lord will strengthen her faith, so that she will bring her husband George to repentance.

-Also pray for Mary from the church in the village of Podvirne. So that the Lord would help her enter into a covenant with Him through water baptism in the summer of 2024.

-Pray for all those who want to make a covenant with Jesus Christ in 2024. So that the Lord prepares them.

-Pray for the war to end in Ukraine and Israel.

-So that we can hold Christian youth and children's camps in 2024. May the Lord help us in this matter and in our service. We rely only on God and His help.

-Pray for the Bible lessons that I teach to students at the Institute. Pray that students will understand Bible truths so that they will be able to continue to proclaim the Word to others.

-Pray for all our missionaries, that the Lord will give us all strength and health so that we can serve God by helping people find the True Path.

-So that there are no further arrivals of enemy missiles into our region where we work for God.

-So that we can organize good holiday evangelizations for Christmas and New Year 2024.

-So that we can organize this at the end of this month the Christmas holiday for orphans, where we will feed and give gifts to 200 orphans.

We always pray for you and love you. May the Lord bless you richly. We wish you to spend the Christmas and New Year 2024 holidays blessedly, joyfully, in peace and harmony.

With love to you family Petikhachnyy Pavel and Larysa.

Regional pastoral conference

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

We are very grateful to God for His mercy and support this month too. For 650 days now the war has been raging in Ukraine and we live by the grace of the Lord - Glory to Him for everything!

I am grateful to the Lord that this month God has given us success in preaching the Gospel.

1. I organized a pastoral conference with pastors of the Novoseletsky district and with pastors of the regional office of the ECB, Chernivtsi region. Lessons taught at this conference:

Pavel Petikhachny taught from the textbook on Kolosyan, and Brother Grigory Kioresko and the regional presbyter, Brother Manoliy Vasilyevich answered all the questions that the pastors of the regional churches asked them. They also had good edifying sermons for our pastors. One group sang at this meeting, that is, one Zhernovey family, brother Andrei and sister Mariyka. They praised God with blessed songs.

-And a week later we had another meeting - the Annual Meeting of missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission. At this meeting, all our missionaries reported for their work for the 4th quarter, 2023. At the same time, we prayed for their prayer needs, and also prayed for our partners from the United States who help us with everything we need, so that we have something to help displaced people, orphans and other people who need our help.

2. We held the breaking of bread in two churches and after the service in the church I visited many sick people with the breaking of bread both in the village of Nesvoya and in Chernivtsi we have sick members of our church.

-We also helped two patients with cancer. We went to their house and my wife cooked food for them, and I spoke to them the Word of God and prayed for them so that the Lord would have mercy on them.

-I visited one brother in the hospital. He ended up there after a stroke. I brought him food and prayed for him to get better. Thank God that he is already better and I visited him at home. They prayed together and he praised God for the healing.

3.Nursing ministry.

-November 6, our sisters had a day of fasting and prayer since this day is a worldwide sisterhood day of fasting and prayer on the topic: Breath of Life from Job 33:4. Our sisters prayed and thanked God for His protection during this war. Prayed for the ministry of all Evangelical Baptist sisters around the world. We prayed for this bloodshed to end both in Ukraine and Israel.

-On November 11, we had a regional conference of sisters from our entire region on the topic: Bridges to Hearts. The theme is about God's love. God's love unites all hearts. Thank God there was a blessed meeting, blessed sermons and heartfelt prayers where almost 600 sisters united to pray to God so that the Lord would bless our Ukraine. So that the Lord will deliver us from this war. We prayed for Israel so that the war would stop. We prayed that the Lord would bless the ministry of our churches in Ukraine. We praise God for the fact that through the service of our believing sisters the Name of our Lord is glorified. They prepare food for soldiers on the front line, feed orphans, and help widows and displaced people. They are in our churches and Marthas and Marys - Thank God for such sisters. The Lord will reward all those who serve Him zealously and with love.

4.Thanksgiving:

-We are very grateful to God for the fact that not a single enemy missile from the missiles that are attacking our Ukraine hit our region, our Bukovina. This is the mercy of the Lord - Glory to Him for His protection.

-We thank the brothers from the USA for helping us with everything we need and our 2 missionary brothers regularly bring this help to broken cities, as well as where there are battles. And here we are helping all the refugees in Bukovina.

5.Prayer needs:

-Pray with us that this bloody war will end, where many children, young men, women and men are dying.

-Pray that the Lord will give us health and support so that we missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission do not get tired of helping those in need and so that we serve them.

-Pray for our 4 sisters who suffer from cancer (Emilia, Lydia, Tamara and Jeta) and for our brother George after a stroke. He is having a hard time recovering. So that the Lord would heal them and strengthen their faith.

-Pray for those unbelievers who heard the Word of God at our evangelizations, so that the Lord would test their hearts for repentance.

And we pray for you, brothers and sisters, our partners in evangelizing the Gospel here in Ukraine. May the Lord bless you and your families, your churches and your country USA. May the Peace and Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen!

With love to you family Petikhachniy Pavel and Larisa.

Harvest day in our region

We greet you with the peace and love of our Jesus Christ, our dear brothers and sisters in Christ from the USA!

We praise and thank the Lord for His mercy over us and His protection in this difficult time of war for us. The war in Ukraine has been raging for 623 days now. And the children of God serve God even in this difficult time, helping other people in need, always praying before the Lord so that God will protect his children.

This month we and our church choir conducted three large evangelizations. And at these evangelizations there were many people listening to the Word of God.

1. We held the first evangelization with the choir in the church of the village of Balkovtsy, where together with this church we thanked God for the wonderful harvest this year. There were good sermons, songs of praise and poems where we praised the Lord for His mercy and Grace to us. At this evangelization there were unbelievers with whom we talked at the end of the meeting. Through our conversations we directed their eyes to Jesus Christ. He is our Advocate with God the Father and He is our Savior.

In this time of war, our hope is Christ, we cannot rely on anyone, but only on God, who will give us His peace and healing.

-We held the second evangelization in a church from the village of Podvirnoe, which is located near the border with Moldova. There, too, we organized a Day of Thanksgiving to the Lord for the fruits of the earth and for spiritual fruits. Fewer non-believers were present at this evangelization, but at the end of the evangelization these people remained to ask us questions. My brothers and I who were with me answered their questions. We pray that they understand the Word of God and that the Lord will test their hearts for repentance.

2.Funeral:

-We also held the third evangelization in Podvirnoye, where we held the funeral of a 62-year-old man, his name was Peter. This was the husband of sister Mary, for whom we constantly prayed and who wanted to be baptized. Her husband drank heavily and got sick because of it. We praise God that before his death he repented at the request of his daughter. Now sister Maria says that I will not delay baptism. I will accept it in the near future, if only the Lord helps me with this. There will be baptism in Chernivtsi at the beginning of December and we are already preparing sister Maria to make a covenant with the Lord Jesus Christ through water baptism.

There were many non-believers at this funeral, almost 50 people. The Word was preached in the Power of the Holy Spirit. I also preached about the Divinity of Christ from John. It was interesting to me that all the people who listened to the Word of God at home, all went to accompany the deceased to the cemetery and there they also listened to the Word of God carefully. A choir glorified God through psalms and poems. After the funeral we had fellowship with these people and invited them to our meetings. We pray for these people that the Lord will touch these hearts and give these people repentance.

3.Teaching at the Bible Institute:

-My students and I teach the book of St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans in churches. This is a very useful and edifying book.

-In the church of the village of Nesvoya, I teach the book of Romans in order to establish the church in faith and in expectation of the Lord Jesus Christ, and when Christ comes, so that the church is ready to meet Him in the air.

4.News from Ukraine:

-On the South-Eastern side of Ukraine there are very fierce battles to liberate Ukraine from enemies.

-All the churches in our region have prayed and are praying for an end to this war. For peace in Ukraine. For peace in Israel.

-Our brother missionary Kioresko Gregory continues to bring humanitarian aid to the city of Gostomel, Kyiv region, and preaches the Word of God to the people there. People come and listen to the Word of God with love.

5.Thanksgiving:

-We, the missionaries of the PIE Ukraine mission, are grateful to our brother-partners from the USA and Romania for helping us financially and spiritually to carry out this difficult service in Ukraine during this time of war.

-We thank God for the fact that we, together with all our missionaries of the PIE Ukraine mission, carry out this service: we help those in need, help refugees, sow the Word of God in season and out of season, we pray and encourage all people to pray. We are grateful to God that our region is calm and not bombed by enemy missiles. Therefore, God gives us these good conditions to serve people in our region - Glory to God!

6.Prayer needs:

-Pray for the War to end in Ukraine and Israel, if it is the will of the Lord.

-Pray with us for our brother in the Lord who was captured by enemies. His name is Sergei Sugu. He has a family at home, a wife and son. We help them financially with food, but they need our prayers. So that God would help free Sergei’s husband from captivity and so that he could come to the family.

-Pray that there will be no more missiles arriving in our region, and also that the arrival of shells will stop in those cities of Ukraine where they are often bombed with shells.

-Pray for those people who attended these evangelizations and listened to the Word of God. So that they repent. Pray for the villages of Balkovtsy and Podvirnoe. These are large villages, but very few people are being saved.

-Pray for our missionaries of the PIE Ukraine mission so that they do not get tired of doing good by helping people in need.

-Pray for my family too, that the Lord will give us health, wisdom and zeal to serve in God’s Vineyard.

We are very grateful to God for you, dear brothers and sisters from the USA, and we always pray for you that the Lord will bless you and give everyone a hundredfold blessing. Please accept the most sincere greetings from my family.

With love to you family PETIKHACHNYY PAVLO and LARYSA.

Missionary service of the PIEI Ukraine mission for 2023

Missionary service of the PIEI Ukraine mission for 2023

This year, 2023, the PIEI Ukraine mission conducted the following ministry in Ukraine:

1.Baptism and repentance

-This year 2023, 25 souls were baptized and 85 repented in the churches of the PIEI Ukraine mission. Despite the war going on in Ukraine, the Holy Spirit encourages people to repent and make a covenant with God through water baptism.

2.Theological Institute

-Two of our missionaries teach at the theological institute. In 2023, the institute accepted 12 more students who passed the exams well, so that the institute has 42 students who are preparing to become ministers in churches in the Chernivtsi region.

3.Christian camps

-This year we organized one Non Stop camp in Boyany and 8 day camps for children and teenagers. 500 children studied in these camps, of which 50 repented, Glory to God!

4.Service with orphans

-The PIEI Ukraine mission was organized for orphans:

-one service at Christmas, when we gave gifts to 200 orphans and also taught them Christmas lessons.

-We also organized, in the month of May, a delicious breakfast and lunch for 250 orphans, organized games for them and conducted Bible lessons with them. We are also preparing to conduct lessons with orphans again at the end of this year and give them gifts. May the Lord help us in this matter.

5.Work with displaced people

-Twice a month, the missionaries of our mission help soldiers on the front line, and also help people who live in cities with houses destroyed by war. They help them all with the necessary humanitarian aid.

-In the city of Gostomel, Kyiv region, a Bible church was founded, where 220 people constantly gather. They are preached the Word and also given humanitarian aid.

- All our missionaries serve with love the immigrants who live in our region, and also help families whose husbands died in the war with everything they need.

6.Serving with children, teenagers and young people.

-Our Sunday school teachers from our churches constantly conduct Bible lessons with children and teenagers so that they grow in faith and are ready to be baptized next year.

-September 10, 2023, we elected brother pastor missionary from our mission PIEI Ukraine to be responsible for serving with children and teenagers in the Novoseltsy district.

7.Radio ministry

-One brother, a missionary from our mission, constantly prepares radio broadcasts for people from Bukovina. After these programs, very good reviews come, and there are many repentances.

8.Ministry of the Sisters

-This year, a sister came to us from the USA who gave eyepieces to people. In the beginning, pastor brothers from the USA evangelized people, and then these people received eyepieces. When this service was held, among these people there were people who repented.

-Bible lessons were held in churches with our sisters so that they would not get tired of helping orphans, immigrants, widows and the sick.

-Our sisters constantly pray, organize prayer meetings of sisters, had a 3-day camp for widows this summer, the sisters also prepare food for the soldiers who defend Ukraine and transport this food to combat zones.

9.Prayer needs:

-Pray for peace in Ukraine.

-Pray for our missionaries from the PIEI Ukraine mission that God will protect us, our families and our churches from all evil during this difficult time for us in Ukraine.

-Pray for those 50 teenagers who repented at the camp in Boyany this summer. Already 2 of them have received water baptism, but we pray to God that He would convince the rest so that they would grow in faith, and they too would take such a step.

-Pray for those who have heard the Word through the ministry with glasses, that the Holy Spirit will awaken them to repentance.

-Pray for the radio ministry that these programs will make many more people want to listen to the Word of God and repent.

-Pray for those new 12 students who have entered the Bible Institute that they will become good ministers.

-Pray for the camps that the PIEI Ukraine mission will conduct in 2024. So that through these camps many teenagers will come to know God.

10.Thanksgiving

-We thank God for the mission of PIEI America, and Romania for the fact that they greatly help our country with everything necessary. And with this help we help other people in need.

Difficult places in the Bible

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

I am grateful to God for protecting us and our Bukovina from the arrival of missiles, suicide bombers and drones. Thank God that we still have a peaceful sky, although we are very afraid, because everywhere, in other regions of Ukraine, rockets are flying and destroying everything, innocent people are dying. Last night a rocket arrived in the village of Groza, Kharkov region. 51 people were killed, including children. The Kherson region, Nikolaev region, and Odessa region are also being bombed. We constantly pray about this, so that the Lord will help protect people from these cities and villages from the arrival of these missiles. Only the Lord can help us to stop this terrible war.

1.Breadbreaking

-On October 1, the Lord helped me to break bread in our church and in the church in the village of Balkovtsy. We had a blessed meeting and at the end of this service we had the joy that one man about 70 years old repented. We have been praying for him for a long time, his name is Paul. Glory to God! We pray that the Lord strengthens his faith.

The Lord also helped me visit 5 sick people at home who joyfully received Holy Communion because the Lord also gave them the opportunity to remember the death and suffering of Jesus Christ. We also visited Sister Jeta, my brother’s wife, who is suffering from cancer and for whom we pray. Thank God, she stopped having severe bone pain that was simply unbearable for her to endure. She continues to undergo treatment, but she is already feeling a little better, for which she is very grateful to God and those who pray for her.

2.Bible Institute

-I conducted a session at the Bible Institute with 25 students: “Difficult places in the Bible.” This includes the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Together with them we went through 12 lessons, each of which is stronger than the other. I am very glad that all students are making every effort to understand this truth.

-At the end of the lesson, we prayed for each other so that each of us would be freed from the obstacles that prevent us from studying the Bible, and pass it on to others. These students are from different regions of Ukraine who want to prepare new students for the crying Ukraine.

-We donate a lot to people from Ukraine, but the greatest consolation is the Love of Jesus Christ and His Living Word.

3. Also, our missionary brothers from our mission help refugees who live among us, and brother missionary Gregory Kioresko brings food and everything necessary for living to the city of Gostomel, Kiev region. The Church of Christ was formed there and at these meetings there are always more than 200 people who need this help and also come to listen to the Word of God. We pray for such people so that they accept Christ as a Personal Savior. Also br. missionary Popov Valery works in his church, from Novoselitsa, with refugees. He gives them produce and everything they need, and they study the Word of God together. The good news is that there are many among the refugees who have repented and regularly attend church services.

4. On Sunday, October 8, we must go to church from Podvirna, where there is a small church. They invited us to celebrate the Harvest holiday together - Thanksgiving. People from the village were invited to this evangelization. We pray that everything goes well and that people respond to the invitation.

-We are also organizing evangelization in another small church on October 15, in Balkovtsy. There will also be evangelization in connection with the Thanksgiving holiday.

5.Thanksgiving:

-We thank the Lord for the fact that it is still quiet and calm here and there are no missiles arriving. Therefore, we can calmly serve the Lord here.

-We always thank God for you, for your prayerful support, for your help, through which we can continue to support and help people who are in material need.

6.Prayer needs:

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

-So that the Lord protects us and all people from Ukraine from missile attacks, because so many people and children die because of these missiles.

- Pray that all the people who heard the Word of God at our evangelizations would repent.

-Pray also for the two evangelizations that we will have in Podvirnoe and Balkovtsy. So that all those who were invited would come. And so that the Holy Spirit awakens people to repentance through sermons or through songs of praise.

-Pray for me too, that the Lord will bless me and give me health, strength and wisdom from above to serve the Lord.

And we very much thank the Lord for you, dear brothers and sisters from the USA - our partners in evangelism here in Ukraine. We always pray for you that the Lord will bless you, your families, your churches and your country USA. May you always have a peaceful sky and may the peace of God be in your country.

With love to you family Pavel and Larysa Petikhachnyy.