Christmas evangelization

Hello to everyone who supports our missionaries by prayer and finance.

We celebrate Christmas on January 7 in Ukraine. And while we have religious freedom we can go from house to house and sing Christmas songs. Many families wait for us every year and some houses we visite for the first time. We can do this two weeks from January 7.

At this picture I with my granddaughters in one family in Vanchakauts village. They listened to us, asked us many questions, and they visited our church. The name of the husband is Alex, he is 50 years, and the name of his wife is Stella and she is 42. They have two sons and one daughter.

In the second picture, we visited another family in Vovchanets village. Her name is Valentina and she is 68 years old and her grandson Dmitriy 30 years and granddaughter Jana 28. I visit them very often and this young family came to our congregation several times. But they shy to come because there are no young families in our church. So, I pray for them for God to give them courage and bravery to come to Christ and stop looking at other families but only on their own.

I ask you, brothers and sisters, to pray about these two families, may God show them His path to His Kingdom. We continue the research of the Bible with questions and answers with our church.

As before I regularly attend many ill people who are Christians and not-Christians and we have discussions God in their houses.

I help the church of Marshintsi village. I preached the Word of God there because there are little preachers.

Please pray about me because I have an exacerbation of the disease of infection in my body. Every three month I need to have a course of treatment, I feel a hard pain, but with your prayer and God`s help, I will fight till the end.

I am appreciated Stef's family and to mission PIE for those packages that they had sent us. May God bless all of you Stef`s, Petikhachniy`s, Pastushak`s families and all brothers who work in mission PIEI.

My family sends to you a heartful and Christian greeting.

With love to you my precious brothers in Christ, missionary Vasiliy Preutesa.

This family is close to God

Greeting to all of you who works and supports mission PIEI.

I have a lot of friends and familiars in our village so I have the opportunity to come to many different families and homes. So, I can give them physical and spiritual help so they are often wondering who we are and why do we do that.

At this picture is family Nestorian Zinoviya she is a widow, her daughter Anjela and her son-in-law Ruslan, and her granddaughter Adeliya. For many years I come to them and help to make a greenhouse, reconstruction of her house, etc., in such a way I have a possibility to tell them a Word of God, about God`s love and salvation of Jesus Christ. They are ready to accept me in their house at any time. When their relatives come to them and I spread the Gospel for all of them. I invited them to the church and they came several times. Please, pray about this family, may God bless them and their relatives.

We continue to research all books of the Bible at our church.

I attend patients every month, I love them and console them.

I pray that God gives me the strength to fight my diseases.

Please, pray about awakening in the Vovchanets and Vanchakauts villages.

I am grateful for all my heart to the brothers of the PIEI mission for your prayers and financial support, and for your love of Ukrainian missionaries.

I love you very much!

Pastor-missionary Vasile Preutesa in Vovchanets and Vankachauts.

God attended one house

God bless mission PIEI and especially Cornel and Gabriela Stef, Pedy and Bob Golston! Thank all of you who pray about spiritual awakening in Ukraine and in our churches of Vovchanets and Vanchacauts.

I with my wife Valia and with two sisters attended one sister in her house. Many times we shared the Gospel with this family and visited them at Christmas Ave. Two families live in this house Georgiy 55 years old and Larisa 54 years old, and one young family Alina she is a chief-doctor in the hospital and her husband Ivan is a furniture-maker. They have two children. Their grandmother Eugine is 83 years old and she worked as director of Culture House. They accept and love to listen to the Word of God and ask many questions: why there are so many churches and confessions? Whom I need to believe? I replied to them that the most correct book in the world is the Holy Bible and it leads people to Paradise. There is written about everything: the creation of human, falling, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon, God`s love and Jesus Christ as the Savior of the world. We sang and declaimed the poems, prayed and invite them to the church.

We pray about their neighbors that are living close, Alexey and Valentina, may God reveals to their hearts. They told us that they would like to go on the right path and asked us to pray about them to get the strength to start this way and read the Bible.

We have the researching of Psalm in the church.

We attend the patients twice a week.

Many people are wondering how I am still living after 8 surgeries and continue to preach like healthy. I replied to them that we are nothing without God and only He gives us recovery, strength, and passion. Praise the Lord of that.

Thank the mission PIEI and to Stef family that you so long time pray of us and support our ministry.

God bless you all. I am appreciated God for Stef, Golston and Petikhaniy families and for Marilyn that gave us a car!

Pastor-missionary Vasile Preutesa in Vovchanets and Vankachauts.

Testimony of old man

Peace to you brothers and sisters of PIEI mission who are in the USA from our churches in Vanchkauts and Vovchanets villages.

In this picture you can see as I with sisters visited one family, they are very old, brother Zinoviy 93 years old, and sister Eugene, 88 years old. They are believed in God from the 1957 year when I was born. Many years I went with him to Vovchanets and Vankachauts from house to house and told people about God. I had started the conversation about their doing and health and do they thank God for that He gave them. Then Zinoviy told about his life when he was young, as went through war and famine, how he got married and how he met Christians. He wanted to have a Bible and to get to know God better. The price of the Bible was the same as the price of a cow at that time. So, he sold his one cow of two and bought a Bible and then he showed everyone to Whom he talked with. He took this Book with Him everywhere and whenever. He told everyone that there is no anything more worth than the Bible and told as he was repentance and was baptized with his wife in the 1958 year. He worked at a farm all his life as a simple worker and he did not steal anything from there. His name was on the board of honor of a farm and even now nobody in our village cannot say something bad about him. God help us to be like him because people saw in him Alive God. On his street, many neighbors had become believers. And now when he is 93 he still loves God as much as at young age.

I regularly attend patients who are Christians and not-Christians.

As for me, I can say that the mercy of God is upon me, I am still fighting with my disease and infection in my body. Every three month I need to buy expensive medicine.

Pray about our churches and about awakening in our villages. And pray please about me, may God give me strength, wisdom, and braveness to spread the Gospel.

Love all of you brothers from mission PIE, I appreciate you and pray about you.

We thank you for your prayers and support. God bless you all!

Pastor-missionary Vasile Preutesa in Vovchanets and Vankachauts.

Store preacher

Sincere greeting from my heart to all brothers and sisters of the mission PIE and to Cornel family that participated in Ukrainian ministry with spiritual and financial support.

During this week God had given me the opportunity to talk with people of different ages. When I visited the market of our village I talked with costumers about our time and how evil people are, a lot of alcoholics and drug addicts, robberies and murders, it became completely different world, they do not have a conscience and the fear of God. I asked a question to the salesclerk of the store, his name is Yuriy and he is 40 and he has a daughter and a son. Our church had visited his house many times every Christmas. “Who is God and where does He live?” Yuriy and other visitors were caught by surprise and couldn`t say anything. Our prisons are full of people that have an iron cross on the neck and kiss icons and they don`t have any changes in their lives, they were bad and still are. Alcoholics drug addicts, robbers they were baptized in their childhood, they kiss icons but they talk with filthy language, without conscience and shame.

Once I was like they, I wear a cross and kissed an icon but when I opened the Bible I realized that God is spirit so we can not kiss Him or touch Him. We need only believe Him with all our hearts.

I invited all of them to attend the church to hear a Word of God, to raise by their souls and to talk with Christians. They promised to come.

Please, pray of them Yura, Kolia, Ivanna, Masha, and others. May God lead them on His path.

In our church, we have the research of the book of Psalm.

I regularly visit patients at homes, our brothers and sisters.

My health is not very well.

I am grateful to mission PIE and to Stef family, to your support and your prayers. I thanks to Petikchachniy and Pastushak families that remember of our villages and help us.

Love all of you with all my soul!

Pastor-missionary Vasile Preutesa in Vovchanets and Vankachauts.

Neighbor would become sister

To all brothers and sisters who prays and helps to missionaries peace and grace of Jesus Christ to you.

I had a conversation with my neighbor, her name is Natasha, and she is 30 years. When she was 8, we visited her family on Christmas and I gave her the Bible and asked her to read it every day and you will find God in your life. She attended the orthodox for years and did not understand what the priest talk about. And now she told me I want to come to your church and to meet God in real. She liked being here and start to tell her brother and sister about God. I visit her home and talk to her about the Gospel.

I pray about Natasha, may God open her heart and all her family.

I visit old people and those who are sick and talk with them about Jesus Christ.

We have the Bible researches and now we read Psalm.

Pray about the success of sharing the Gospel in our village.

I thanks to mission PIEI for your prayers and support.

I love all of you and God bless you!

Pastor-missionary Vasile Preutesa in Vovchanets and Vankachauts.

Young preacher

Peace to you brothers and sisters of PIEI mission who are in the USA.

God give me meetings not only with elders but also with children. They need the right direction in life because they are elders tomorrow. I talked with a young boy his name is Artem. His parents and grandparents didn`t want to hear about God. But he is open for God, he is twelve years old and he is interesting to read the Bible and ask about God. He talks about Jesus with his friends and invites them to the church. When he heard about the camp in Boyan he had love to come there. When grandparents called him to the camp, he told them that he is happy about being there and he had found a lot of friends and doesn`t want to come back home. And now he tells everyone about how is great to be in such camp. His sister Nadia said that he would like to go to this camp next year.

Pray about this family. May God awake all them through this boy.

Pray about my health that God helps me to spread the Gospel.

My family and our church pray about mission PIE, about family Stef and Golston, Petikhachniy and Pastushak.

Pastor-missionary Vasile Preutesa in Vovchanets and Vankachauts.

Gospel on the street

We are grateful for your prayers and financial support. We try to share the Gospel at any time.

In this month I was not indifferent to our villagers who are dying without God.

I greet people on the streets and talk with them about God and the Bible. At that time I had worked at the church and was mowing the grass when I met one man and I asked him: why do you always go by the church and never come into? Because I invited you so many times already. His name is Victor, he was a teacher, and while our talking he asked me some questions: What the difference between the orthodox and protestant churches? We celebrate the Easter and Christmas together but we are differ anyway. I told him that the purpose of Christianity is to read and learn Bible form the very beginning to the end, think about that, pray that God opens the path to God`s Kingdom. That we have to worship Him in the spirit and the truth. He was paying attention and promised to come to the church. And he wants to know more about God and Christians. I pray that God opens their eyes to teachers, professors and other people, they trust Him and serve Him. I believe that awakening is coming to villages and cities.

Thanks to God for His love and mercy. Thanks for mission PEI for your support, for your prays and help. We pray about you in our church.

Pray, please, about awakening in our village.

Pray for my health.

I love you all and pray about you!

Pastor-missionary Vasile Preutesa in Vovchanets and Vankachauts.

Children need God

Peace to you brothers and sisters of PIEI mission who are in the USA. I am grateful for your support in the field of God with your spiritual and financial help that we need. Greetings to you from me, my family and our church.

I had a lot of work to gather children for a Candela camp. I prayed and went from house to house and invited children to the camp and asked their parents to let them go. It was really hard because they had ever been in such camps and that was the first time. It is difficult for them to get used to the research of the Bible, sing songs and pray because they had never done all these at home. Instead of that, they hear at homes filthy language, swearing, and damnation. I explained to them everything and ask them to try to join the camp.

At this picture, there are two sisters Keortana 13 years old and Kristina 12 years old. Their parents don’t attend the orthodox church because they were poorly raised. After a long conversation, they agreed to let them go.

Please, pray for this family, for these parents and girls which don’t know God. May God open their eyes, brain and mind and they repentance.

Pray about me, may God use me for His glory!

God bless you all!

Pastor-missionary Vasile Preutesa in Vovchanets and Vankachauts.

A woman who is close to the Kingdom of God

Peace to you brothers and sisters of PIEI mission who are in the USA. I am grateful for your support in the field of God with your spiritual and financial help that we need. Especially for the Stef family and Golbston family, I appreciated with all my heart and soul.

We have a Bible research every week in our Church of Vovchanest , at this moment we read Psalm. Every member reads and then discuss what had been read. And this week I tried to visit them at home to talk more with them and have individual support.

I had met one man whom I invite to the church for a long time and I asked him again: Come to our church and listen to the Holy Scripture. And Aliosha he is 60 years old replied: God is for you but not for me. And I told him: Don`t you want to breathe with the air, do you? Because God has given this air for us. He wondered, looked at me and said: Yes, people can not to create an air only God. Sorry, please. I keep in mind about your invitation.

At this picture, I was talking with the head of the kindergarten in Vankachauts. She is a very famous woman, she worked for 40 years in kindergarten, and now she sings in a choir of the orthodox church. I know her and came to her to talk. She reads the Bible and makes notes at the point she does not understand. So we discuss all those verses and I explained for her a Word of God. She attends our church many times.

She told to the orthodox priest: I like to be here and in the Baptist church. And he replied: Ok, it is your choice.

Pray, please, about this kind woman may God show her the True path

Pray about my health, after 8 surgeries I am not so good. Every 3 month I take a course of medicine to reduce the infectious inflammatory process and the temperature. They are too expensive for me, annual I spend more than 1500$.

I pray for you all and thank from my heart for your spiritual concern.

Pastor-missionary Vasile Preutesa in Vovchanets and Vankachauts.