Christ is bigger than a virus

Peace and grace to you brothers and sisters in USA of mission PIEI from me and our churches in Vovchanets and Vanchakauts villages.

We are grateful to the mission PIE that helps us with prayers, finance, and medicines. God bless everyone who helps us as missionaries.

During this quarantine, I have a connection with brothers and sisters by phone. We pray together, I ask about their spiritual health and encourage them. We believe that very soon our House of prayer would be opened again and we could gather to study Bible and glorify God. Despite the quarantine, I went on the streets with the Gospel and visited homes with a mask. And I talked with different women about the situation in Ukraine on those days. I told them about the victim of Jesus Christ, His suffering, resurrection, about Holly Spirit, and the foundation of the Church. I explained to them what is the Church and who can be a member of it? And eventually, we prayed together. I continue to pray of them so they come to the church and to get to know Jesus Christ.

Prayer needs:

1. Pray for these women so they come to God and become believers.

2. Pray for our relatives that are unbeliever may they trust in God.

3. Pray for me, may God secure me from this epidemic, because my body is sick and I`d not be able to overcome it.

I thankful to all mission PIE, to Stef, Petikhachniy and Pastushak families for your spiritual and financial support.

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

Gospel during the pandemic

Peace and grace to you brothers and sisters in USA of mission PIEI from me and our churches in Vovchanets and Vanchakauts villages.

During the quarantine, I attended old and sick patients, brothers, and sisters with their families with a mask.

On this picture is Valentina who is a citizen of the Vovchanets village and she is 70. Her mother was a believer but Valentina not. Sometimes she attends our meetings and I see that she is seeking God in her life. I met with her family with children and grandchildren and we talked about God. They asked me a lot of questions: Where came up protestants from? What the main difference between orthodox and baptism? This woman Valentina is very close to God. We talked with her for about an hour. She told about her life with her husband who was an atheist. It was a really hard life. I consoled and encouraged her, we prayed together that God helps her and give her repentance. I told her to read the Bible regularly and pray that God opens His will for you. Her granddaughter Yana and grandson Dima carefully listened to me. They shyed me to take a picture with me. And they promised to read the Bible and ask me questions through the messenger.

Prayer needs:

1. Please pray for this family may God opens their eyes and show His kingdom.

2. Pray for Ukraine and this pandemic may it stops. For people to seek God as never before let it be an awakening.

3. Pray for me. I have a chronic disease after eight surgeries. May this virus does not touch me and all missionaries.

4. Pray for our families may God help us to hold His hand and faith till the end.

I thank mission PIE for financial support and your prayers, medicines and etc.

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

God still working in their hearts

Peace and grace to you brothers and sisters in USA of mission PIEI from me and our churches in Vovchanets and Vanchakauts villages.

As you know from the middle of March until this day we have the quarantine due coronavirus. Nevertheless, I couldn't stay at home and visited a lot of homes. I have been to one family of Nicoricha Lida and Karina.

I have one old story with this family. It was an evangelization from house to house in the 2000 year in Vovchanets village. It was no House of worship there yet. The man Kalin, he is from 1946 and his wife Lidiia from 1949. They had let us to come to their house and to conduct the services there. We gathered there for half of year and the atmosphere was very pleasing. Many unbelievers had come to the meetings. Senior pastors of our region had visited us with the sermons and many people repented there. Kalin was close to God, he started to attend the church, we talked about Jesus a lot, read the Bible, sang songs, I helped them to chop the firewood and to sow the corn. By this time he attends the church with his wife. Please, pray about him, may God make a miracle with him and his family.

We call each other with the church and prayer together until the quarantine ends.

We pray about the mission PIEI, for your health and your support for all missionaries. I pray for the awakening of our region and this family, their children, and grandchildren.

Thank you to all brothers and sisters who support me and my family. God bless you all.

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

Teachers are loved by God

Peace and grace to you brothers and sisters in USA of mission PIEI from me and our churches in Vovchanets and Vanchakauts villages.

In this picture is family Palagiy, man Valeriy and his wife Stella and his son Nikolay. I am familiar with this family for a couple years. Valeriy is a builder and Stella is a teacher elementary school and she teaches my granddaughter Valery. It is a good family, they are generous and good people. They appreciate customs and traditions. We meet often and I always try to explain to them that everything that we have is given us by God. But the owner of the world and father of evil wants to make people blind and prove that God does not exist. They are interested in God, they ask a lot of questions what is repentance, baptism? Where are from icons and cross? I sing different Christians songs with my granddaughter Valery. We visit them regularly and they wait for us every time. They are close to the Kindom of God. So, please pray for them, may God touch their hearts.

Every time when I visit a store I bless sellers, encourage them to pray God for their future.

When I pick up somebody on my car I switch on some sermon and Christian songs on the player to make an appropriate atmosphere to evangelization.

We have a Bible research from a book of Proverb of Solomon.

I always attend ill brothers and sisters from our church.

I visit other churches in Kostichany, Marshintsy and Tarasavtsy villages.

Pray please for the Palagiy family, they are teachers, and God really loves them.

I thank you, brothers, of PIEI mission for your prayers and support.

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

He wants to change his life

I particularly participate in personal evangelization and to a group of people who don't know Jesus Christ. I feel a great help for this ministry from mission PIEI, Stef and Golston families, and other brothers and sisters who pray for us, who come to us, who help to make camp and finance support. Peace to you!

At this picture is a young man Oleksandr Koshkin, who is 28 years old. He is married to Maria, 26 years old, and they have two children, a son is 6 and a daughter is 4. It is a young family but they know about God very little. Oleksandr attended a Sunday school in Vanchakauts 14 years ago. His mother is Aliona and father Ivan. In 2006 we conducted evangelization in our village and Aliona had come there with her children. We visit their family every Christmas with carols. They came several times to Evangelizations in Chernivtsi with us. But then guys stopped coming to the church cause their friends and classmates shamed them that they attend a baptist church as a false religion. I met him again and talk about his life, about God, I invite him to the church and I prayed with him about his family. He would like to change his life. He can`t stop smoking and drunking. I told him to come to Jesus and He will help you to release from these diseases and sins.

We have the Bible study of the book Ruth in our church.

I attend the sick brothers and sisters.

I visit regularly churches in Marshintsi and Tarasauts with the sermons.

Please, pray about Oleksandr family, for his mother Aliona any his brother Edick for they would be saved.

I thank mission PIEI, Stef and Golston family for your help, prayers and material support.

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

Century to accept God

Greeting to you brothers and sisters in Lord. Thank God for your prayers and support for our ministry.

I had a lot of meetings this month. For example, I visited a family of Sirotian Georgiy where live his son-in-law Victor and daughter Antonina. They look after their father who is 106 years old now. I talked with Georgiy for 1 hour, he has still good memory, hearing and vision. He told many stories of his life, he felt a mighty hand of God. He grew up in the orthodox family and he knew about God very little. Antonina and Viktor listened very carefully and were agree with me. I asked Victor, who is 68 years old, "What gives you the cross on your neck? Everybody has such cross even drunkers, robbers, burglaries, killers, and it doesn`t help them to be good." And he replied that he doesn`t know why does he wear it. And then I started to explain to them what is the cross. It is patience and suffering, in the name of Jesus Christ. Antonina was paid attention and she cried because her life was wrong. Then we prayed together for they could accept Jesus in their heart. I invited them to the church and they come to us sometimes. Please, pray for this family they are close to God.

We have the Bible research of the book of 1 Samuel in our church. We read and analyze every verse step by step.

I continue to attend old and sick people. I help them as I can, preach for them and sing together. Our village is small and our church is not so big, but I still believe that God will give an awakening for our people. Please, pray for these people than I visit for they could found God in their life.

We send you a greeting from our church from Vovchanets and Vanchakauts villages. Thank you very much for your spiritual and material help.

God bless Stef, Petikhachniy and Pastushak families and everyone who is in mission PIEI.

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

95 years old woman

Peace and grace to all of you! God help me to meet different people and to talk with them.

For these couple weeks, I had attended different people and different ages. For example, I have been to family Nickolay And Olesia Podolskiy. They are young people, over 30 years. I asked them to pray and to sing one song to read some verses from the Bible. At the beginning the atmosphere was cold but after the song "God is love" they became ready to listen to the Word of God and then they asked many questions and I gave them answers. We told about worship, icons, how does help me a cross on the neck and on the building. After talking we prayed and I invited them to the church.

In this picture is our sister Efrosiniya and she is 95 years. We came to her with brothers to congratulate her. Her sons with their wives and daughters came to her too.

We discuss the Bible in our church. We research the book of Esther.

I visit patients regularly Christians and not-Christians. Talk and pray with them.

I preach the Gospel in Tarasauts and Marshintsy villages.

I pray about that family Podolskiy and others.

I thank you from my heart mission PIEI for your prayers and your support that you care missionaries in Ukraine.

I thank Pastushak and Petikhaniy families for your help and support for awakening in our villages.

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

Daily ministry

Peace and grace to all of you! God help me to meet different people and to talk with them. I had a great opportunity to talk with these two men. One of them is Ivan and he is 55. He is separated and lives with his daughter and son-in-low. Another one is Mykola, he is 53.

Ivan used to come to the church, he had told poems and sang common songs for several years, but then he started to drunk. I talk with him many times, I tell him about God and the Bible that he will respond before God. He was really close to God and all his family could come to Jesus too. I invite him to the meeting and he comes sometimes.

Mykola is married and his wife`s name is Alina. They have 5 children. When I come to them I bring food, clothes, and medicals. Alina comes to the congregation but they drunk very much. I tell them every time that they need to pray for God and He will release them from this alcohol. And He will give a sober mind so they could live another life. I invite all their family with children to the church. Please, pray about them. They would like to come to Jesus but alcohol prevents to do that.

We have research on the book of Neemia with the church.

I attend old and sick brothers and sisters.

I preach the Gospel to my neighbors and in Tarasovtsi village.

Please, pray about me because I have an inflammation of all my body. I can not sleep or lie. May God help me to overcome this disease.

I thank you mission PIEI for your prayer and your financial support. God bless your family and ministry.

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

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.