Testimonies of children

We greet you with the love of our Lord Jesus Christ!

Dear brothers and sisters from the USA, as we wrote to you in the previous report about our youth Christian camp "Candela" which we held with God's help from August 1 to 6 in Boyany, almost 60 children, teenagers, and youth repented there and now we want to write briefly a few testimonies of these children.

1. George Troyan, 15 years old, the village of Malinovka (from an unbelieving family):

-I am very grateful to God that I had invitations to be in this Christian camp. For me, this is the first time to be in such a wonderful camp. I really liked the Word of God. I studied the messages from James. This is just about our time. Nobody knows what awaits us tomorrow. The main thing is that we are reconciled with God. I understood this and Jesus helped me to come out and repent. I should be a light further for my friends, for my parents. Help me, Lord! Thank you for everything you have done for us. Bless you!

2. Edgar, 16 years old, in the village of Malinovka (father is an alcoholic):

-It was my first time in a Christian camp. And thank you. I liked everything about this camp. My parents are unbelievers, my father has problems with alcohol and I don't like the life that my parents lead. I then learned that there is another life - bright, kind, divine. And the Word of God can set you free. Christ frees everyone who comes to Him with faith and repentance. I learned this in this camp and accepted Christ in my heart - Glory to God. I pray to God that He will give me patience and wisdom on how to be a real Christian. Thank you all for such a wonderful camp.

3. Artur Tkachuk, 18 years old, Malinovka village.

-I am from a believing family and I kind of repented earlier in the meetings, but that repentance was not real. Only in this camp, I felt how the Holy Spirit touched my heart after the sermon of brother Will from the USA, I decided to seriously give my heart to Jesus Christ. Then I just raised my hand and when there was a general camp call to repentance on Friday evening, I was one of the first to come forward to confess my sins before the Lord and to accept Christ in my heart. And then on Sunday, I went out in front of our church so that the church would know about my decision and pray for me. Thank God for accepting invitations to this camp. Thanks to all the sponsors for sponsoring this camp. It's worth it. So many souls have gained Christ during these 5 days of the camp - Thank God!

4. Stephania, 15 years old, Forosna village.

- I am very grateful to God that I ended up in this camp. I really liked everything in this camp. At home, I live only with my mother and my younger sister. We go to meetings in Forosna, but I have never felt the call of Christ so close to my heart. Every day we stayed in reading the Word and in prayer with the very morning, then studied the Word from the message of St. James. Yes, indeed, the Word of God sets us free. I liked the games and swimming in the pool, and the worship evenings. My mother was very happy about my decision. God help me to carry this faith in my heart until the end of my life.

5. Vlada, 14 years old, Zhilovka village.

-Thank you for inviting me to this wonderful camp! My parents are believers, and when they heard that there was a youth camp in Boyany, they immediately tried to get a ticket for me. And I am very glad that I was in this camp. I cannot describe my feelings of gratitude to everyone who was next to me: both my leader and teacher, Pastor Pavel, and my peers who were with me in the camp. I really liked the Word of God in the group in which I studied the Epistles of Apostle James. I thank and praise God for the fact that the Holy Spirit revealed to me eyes and heart so that I decide to accept Christ and repent. And my friend and I decided to repent. After prayer, we wept with joy that we had acquired the salvation of our souls. God help me to be a true Christian!

6. Kiril, 14 years old (immigrant from Kherson).

-I am grateful to the leader Tatyana for giving me a ticket to this Christian camp. My parents are unbelievers and we live with them and my younger brother in Nesvoi, they gave us a house where to live, because we lost our house because of the war. People from this village and people who go to the Baptist church help us a lot, with various products and other help that is necessary for us. I really liked this camp. It was my first time in such a camp. I went to the lessons of pastor Pavel where he taught these lessons in such an accessible way for us. It was the first time I held a Bible in my hands. The leader helped me figure out how to look for books in the Bible and the New Testament, and in the Old Testament. It was very difficult for me from the beginning. And then I got used to it. And I got a taste for reading the Word. When brother Will from the USA was preaching, I realized that I need to choose Jesus in my life. And I chose Jesus as my Savior. May God help me to follow the true path to the end with faith and love. Thank you for the camp. This is a great gift for me - thank God!

7. Alina, 18 years old, the village of Nesvoya (parents are unbelievers).

-Thank you for inviting me to the Candela camp. This is my first time in such a camp and I liked being in it. It’s a pity that we spent only 5 days. My parents are unbelievers, divorced, and now I live only with my grandmother on my father’s side. My father did not want to let me go to this camp, saying that I should not leave my grandmother at home alone, and my grandmother is a believer and really wanted me to go to this camp. There she was left to help her daughter, who is older than my father and lives there not far from her, in the neighborhood. So I ended up in the camp. It was very good. I realized that I had to repent and made the right decision for myself on Friday, August 5. I accepted Jesus Christ in my heart. Thank God and thank you all for the camp!

8. Erika, 15 years old, Chisinau, Moldova.

-I was just visiting with my cousin in Ukraine and we heard about this Christian camp. We immediately asked to be given 2 vouchers. I really liked the camp. Everything was good here both for relaxation and for studying the Word of the Gospel. And in the end, the Lord through the Holy Spirit knocked on my heart and I accepted Him as a personal Savior in my heart, Glory to Him! I went home happy and saved. Parents are also happy for me because they are believers. Thank you all. It was a great camp.

9. Elizaveta, 13 years old, a migrant from the village of Avdeevka, Donetsk region.

- Thank you for this wonderful camp. My parents and I now live in Novoselitsa. We are immigrants from the Donetsk region. We don't even have a Bible at home. We were given here in the meeting. And in the camp pastor, Pavel gave me a Bible. I didn't even know how to read the Bible. Thanks to our leader Alina, we began to understand how to look for places from the Bible. We are 3 migrants from different cities in Ukraine and we lived in the same room where the leader Alina was a class leader. We spent morning classes with her and prayed together. And she helped us in the lessons. You know, I never held the Bible in my hands, and in the end of camp, I was so clear about looking for places throughout the Bible. It turns out that the Bible is the Book of Books. It is the source of the Wisdom of God. We studied the epistles of the Apostle James. What Words! They are for our days, although almost 2000 years have passed since then. These words speak of trials and temptations. Then, too, Christians wandered and fled from the persecution of Christians, but they knew what they were suffering for. And we? Yes, we ran away from our homes. Yes, we roam the world because of the war. But we did not have the most precious thing that God gave to people - the Holy Word. The Word really set me free and I realized that I needed to repent and accept Christ in my heart. And the Lord Jesus helped me take this step - Glory to Him. I believe that God will not leave me and will help me continue to live a new life - always hold on to Jesus Christ. Thank you again for your invitation to such a wonderful camp.

10. Alexandra, 12 years old, the city of Dnepropetrovsk.

- I, too, like Elizabeth, ran away with my parents from the war. Thank God we found a home here for our family. We were told about this camp and we accepted the invitation. It was very good for us. It's a pity, of course, that it was only 5 days, but anyway, thanks to all of you for such busy days. I liked the Word of God, I liked studying It. I learned a lot of things in this camp for myself. We must seek the kingdom of God first and the righteousness of God—and everything else God will take care of and give us what we need. We have already been accustomed for half a year of the war to being grateful to God for what we have. But then I realized something valuable to me. If we are not born again, we will not be able to enter the Kingdom of God. How to understand it? I had many questions like Nicodemus had once. And I asked the pastor, brother Paul, and the leaders. They tried to answer my questions. God revealed himself to me and I realized that I needed to repent. And I answered yes! - to the call of Christ. May God help me to carry this faith as a banner until the end of my days!

11. Egor, 16 years old, the village of Tarasovtsy.

-I first came to a Christian camp. And thanks to those who gave me this invitation. I didn’t even know how to behave right away, and then when I began to study the Word of God, I realized in which society I ended up. And in the end, the Word of God did its work in my heart. And I realized that I need to accept Christ in my heart and in my life. A very cool camp. Thanks to everyone who organized the camp and those who worked all the days of the camp so that we could feel good all these 5 days.

12. Emanuella, 11 years old, Mamaliga village.

-Thank you very much to everyone who organized this Christian camp. This is like a gift for me. I was in the group of teacher Tamara. The Word of God was very accessible to me. And I realized that I need to be reconciled with God. Everything was perfect in this camp, the games, the pool, and the evening worship. I really liked the fact that every evening the cameraman Alex showed us a video about our camp. Thanks to him and his wife Nadia for working all day shooting a video about us. It must be very difficult - thank you too. Thank you, teachers, thank you, leaders, thank you worship team for wonderful songs, thank you chefs for delicious food, and thank you brothers and sisters from the USA for sponsoring this camp. Thank God for everything! And most importantly this is the fact that I accepted Jesus Christ in my heart-Glory to God! Thanks again to everyone.

13. Sofia Martsinyuk, 10 years old, Mamaliga village.

-I go to this camp from an early age, because my parents work as leaders in this camp. But I realized real repentance only this year. The Lord touched my heart - Thank God! God. This work is very valuable. Thanks to our leaders. I had a great leader - may the Lord bless Christina and her family. God grant peace to Ukraine so that they can organize such Christian camps!

14. Melentiy Kostya, 13 years old, Dranitsa village.

-I liked the camp very much. Thank you for the invitation. I liked studying the Word of God with teacher Kioresko Gregory. There we studied the heroes of faith from the letter of the Apostle Paul to the Hebrews. I thought how before, in difficult conditions, believers served the Living God. But now ... yes, we have a war, it’s hard for displaced people, but in Bukovina, thank God, it’s quiet and calm. God has mercy on us. And people seem to be indifferent to the love of Christ. Yes, all of Ukraine prays even on their knees ... but they don’t accept Christ at all in their hearts. I realized in this camp that I need to seriously improve my relationship with God through the blood of Jesus Christ, which washes us from all sin. I am very grateful to God for the fact that He helped me to get out and repent. Thank you very much for a wonderful camp!

15. Maxim, 13 years old, the village of Tarasovtsy

- This is the first time I have been to such a camp. I really liked the Christian camp. I did not think that by studying the Word of God I would also like all this. But indeed God is Omnipotent and can change hardened hearts. Everything was top-notch in this camp. I even forgot how to say obscene words. I was just ashamed to say that being among the believers. And then the Word of God did its work in my heart and I repented. Help me God to keep this faith in You to the end! Thank you all for the camp!

16. Nastya, 13 years old, the city of Novoselitsa.

-I really liked this camp. First of all, I had a very good leader, Alina, who studied with us and showed us how to look for places from the Bible. I have never held a Bible in my hands - this is the first time in this camp. We have every morning there was a prayer and classes on the book of James from the New Testament. Then there were also classes on the books of Jacob in the lessons. And this helped me a lot to understand this book from the New Testament more deeply. Then I even answered boldly the teacher's questions. I never thought that this would happen to me. Yes, God is great in His grace and love for people. I had to come here so that I could find the Salvation of my soul. I pray that the Lord will help me on this path of faith. Thank you all for the invitations to the camp, and for organizing and sponsoring these beautiful camps! Thanks to all the leaders. Oh, it's a pity that it was only 5 days! Thanks to Sasha and Nadia for the wonderful video! God bless you all!

17. Bogachuk Marius 14 years old

-Thank you all for the camp. Everything was great. I understood the Word of God, which all the time reminded me that the Lord loves all of us and wants us to truly worship Him in Spirit and Truth. How wonderful it is to be in the Word all the time! It frees us from all unnecessary that surrounds us. I studied about the heroes of faith. Excellent lessons. The Holy Spirit prompted me to repent. And I went out and repented-Glory to God. May the Lord bless you all Amen!

Here are some testimonies of those teenagers and young men who repented in our camp - Thank God. And the parents of these children call us and thank us. They said they would pray for all of us. Of course, we told them that without the sponsorship of our brothers and sisters from the USA, we would not have been able to organize such a large camp. They also thanked you, our dear ones from the USA, for your donations. We are glad to hear good reviews about our camp. But glory belongs only to God. We are only instruments in the hands of the Lord, and God is Omnipotent and works through us, weak people, so that only God would be glorified - Glory to Him for everything! That's why we say like Apostle Paul in Philippians - I can do everything in Jesus Christ who strengthens me. (Phil. 4:13)

And thank you all for praying for us. We felt it. And thank God for such success! Thank God that there was a peaceful sky above us! Thank God that in our Bukovina everything is quiet and calm, although we were a little worried, there was still a war in our country. And the Lord had mercy on us - Glory to Him for everything!

Keep praying for Ukraine. So that the war in Ukraine ends. So that these children who repented in the camp could serve God through their lives. Pray for us servants, so that the Lord strengthens us in serving the Lord.

We pray for you that God bless you all with His blessings!

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

Camp Candela brought some fruits

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

Last week, from August 1 to August 6, as you already know, in Boyany, a Christian youth camp Non Stop "Candela" was held. With God's help, this camp was held, which was attended by 150 children, adolescents and youth, along with 22 leaders and 3 teachers, and also Brother Cornel Stef from the USA, Brother Pastor Will from the USA, and Brother Mark from England. We want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your prayers and your financial help to make this camp possible for us.

The camp was divided into 3 groups, by age:

The first group consisted of teenagers and young people. From 13 to 18 years old. There were 40 teenagers and youth of 17-18 years old. They studied in the group of the teacher pastor Pavel Petikhachny. They studied the Book of the Apostle James from the New Testament. Thank God for the fact that children from this group both from believing families and from unbelieving people repented. We are especially happy for the children from the migrants who were with us in the camp. We are glad that they understood the Word of God and responded to the call of Christ with repentance. Brother Pavel's group taught lectures in Russian so that it would be understandable to Russian-speaking children and even Ukrainian-speaking children, because both languages ​​are understood in Ukraine. Also, 2 days in a row for one hour, in the mornings, brother pastor Will from the USA and brother Mark from England spoke to these children. The translation in this group was into Ukrainian and our missionary brother Alex Pastushak translated them. In the evenings in the Worship program in the camp Brother Will also preached two evenings in a row, on Wednesday and Thursday - Thank God. There were children who repented at his sermon. They went out to repentance on Friday evening when there was a general call to repentance. So about 60 children, teenagers and young men repented in general - Thank God! Of the 120 vacationers, half of them repented. May God help them to keep the path of faith until the end of their days! We pray for them.

The second group was also made up of teenagers and young people from 13 to 18 years old. They studied with the teacher pastor Gregory Kioresko. There were 40 students there. They were lectured on the heroes of faith in Hebrews 13. There were very interesting classes and they were held in Romanian. Because these children are from the Romanian villages of our Chernivtsi region. Thank God that many teenagers and young men from this group repented. Here, brothers from America also spent two days of 1 hour classes and they were translated Romanian by our translator Alina Marcinyuk.

The third group, the youngest, was also created from 40 children. Children from 10 to 12 years old. There were few children 7 and 8 years old. These are the children of our leaders and missionaries. They were very interested in the lessons of teacher Tamara Bozdugan. They had games and applications, as well as lessons from Bible stories. Thank God that almost all of these children came to repentance.

We will then write to you the testimonies of children and adolescents who repented in our camp. We are just waiting for all the leaders to give us the necessary information about these souls that repented.

All vacationers really liked this camp. We praise God for protecting us all during this difficult time of the war in Ukraine. We were very worried about each child and were very worried about the brothers who came to us from America. Thank God that he gave us, on the territory of our region, a peaceful sky! There, in the camp, everything was interesting, different games, sports, swimming in the pool. They didn’t allow us only to make an evening fire because of this war. But this is not important. Important that we spent these 5 days in a very interesting way for the children and for the benefit of them too. Many of them have acquired Salvation for their souls - Praise God!

We are grateful to God for our leaders who have worked very fruitfully in this camp. May the Lord bless them. For the worship group, thank them and God! God bless you!

We are also grateful for the family of Pastushak Alex and Nadia, who translated the brothers from the USA, filmed the entire camp on video - thank you for this valuable work. May the Lord bless them. We also thank God for our 3 teachers who worked fruitfully and sowed the Word of God among these children. May the Lord bless all those who worked in this camp!

We would like to express our deepest gratitude to Brother Cornel Steph, President of the PIEI mission. He came by car from Rumunia, accompanied by brothers Will from the USA and brother Mark from England. They fruitfully worked sowing the Word of God both among the children in the camp and among the refugees in Chernivtsi, Novoselitsa, Dinivtsi and Tarasovtsy. 15 refugees also live in the camp there, and these brothers had conversations with them. These people are very grateful that our brothers found time for them to listen to their pain, their wanderings and their suffering. Brother Cornell has not been at home in the family for a whole month , in the USA, but worked for a whole month, both in Ukraine and in Romania. We pray that the Lord bless the path of these brothers home.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the fact that you, brothers and sisters from the USA, helped us and sponsored this camp, because all our prices jumped terribly up during this difficult time for Ukraine and it would be difficult for children to pay such an amount.

With a prayer of gratitude, we ask the Lord for all the blessings for you. May God bless you a hundredfold!

We continue to pray for all the resting children who were in our camp. This year there were more than half of the children from unbelieving families. We pray for those who repented, and for those who have not yet had the courage to come forward to repentance. We know that the Word sown will not be return without fruit. We believe that the Lord will work in the hearts of these children - Glory to Him for everything!

Thank you again for everything, be blessed!

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

Social assistance

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

We are very grateful to God for His love and mercy to us, for the fact that He gives us calm and peace in our Chernivtsi region. Thanks to this, we can still move around and help others in need with humanitarian assistance, and most importantly, we have the opportunity to tell people about Jesus Christ.

1.Social assistance.

-After July 5, when we saw off a team from the USA who visited us and we, together with them, proclaimed Jesus Christ among the settlers, then the missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission continue to work among our refugees who live among us. 4 day children's camps were held where they rested and children of immigrants (Novoselitsa, Tarasovtsy, Kotilev and Balkovtsy) - Thank God!

-We visited 4 villages and distributed humanitarian products among the settlers, and also in the church of the village of Povirnoye held a meal on July 10. There, one woman repented in the church and asks us to prepare baptisms for her. We pray for her.

-We also visited one disabled brother whose wife recently died and he was left alone. We often visit him and help in any way we can. And most importantly, we console him through the Word of the Gospel. We pray for him. His name is Dmitry Bodian.

2. I had 10 days of ZUM classes with other teachers from all over Europe, according to the book of Matthew. Based on this book, we want to create a group for classes among young people in our churches.

3.Thanks:

- From the bottom of our hearts, we thank you, brothers and sisters, for your prayers for us and our Ukraine, for your social assistance, which we can distribute to those who need it.

4. Prayer needs:

-To have a peaceful sky over our area.

-To end the war.

And we pray for you, brothers and sisters, and always thank the Lord for having you with us. May the Lord bless your work, which is very valuable in our eyes here in Ukraine, and in the eyes of God your work is simply precious. A great reward awaits you in heaven, let us all rejoice and glorify the Lord!

Say hello to everyone from our family. With love to you, the Petikhachny family, Pavel and Larisa.

Ministry with the team from USA

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

We are very grateful to God for the fact that this month he led us with His Wonderful Hand and we were able to preach His Word among the refugee people, together with a team of brothers and sisters from the USA.

1. Evangelism in refugee homes:

-June 29, with God's help and thanks to the prayers of your and our churches, a team of 7 people from the USA, Indiana, La Porte, led by brother Cornel Steph, President of the PIEI mission, arrived in Ukraine, in our Bukovina. they also brought us humanitarian aid (products) so that we could get this help to displaced people and poor people from our region.

We had a special program for this team, for every day, in all our villages of the Novoseletsky district, and in the city of Chernivtsi, to visit refugees from North-Eastern Ukraine in their homes where they temporarily live. The team was divided into 3 groups and within 5 days visited the refugees before lunch and after lunch. And in Martha's group, Sarah and Elizabeth organized a children's program from 15:00 to 17:00, where Sarah and Elizabeth worked with these children. They had 4 meetings with children from different villages in Bukovina: In Tarasovtsy, in Kotilevo, in Rokitne and in Novoselitsa. The children really liked this program. The children invited these sisters to come to us. Also sister Marta, a very energetic sister. She had a conversation with different refugees. waiting for some consolation in their troubles. They had different questions. Why, why and how should we go further? We talked with these people for a very long time. Sister Martha and Sarah, and Elizabeth helped us a lot. Also, pastors from these churches were with us and with the help of the Bible and the Holy Spirit we gave answers to these people. Together we prayed for them. We gave them packages with food and also gave everyone a book of the New Testament so that they themselves read and study the Word of God. Many of these refugees who were visited by us came to the meeting on Sunday. everyone was invited to our churches for Sunday service. One woman during our visits, repented, her name is Valentina. She also came to the church in Kotilevo on Sunday and went out in front of the church and wept that she could not repent earlier. Because the Lord blessed her with a good husband and beautiful 3 children, but she did not fulfill the will of the Lord and asked for forgiveness, with tears, from God. She prayed for her husband Fedor so that he would repent.

On Sunday, July 3, and in our church in the village of Nesvoya, our guests br. Kornel Stef, pastor Kevin Cram, sister Martha Hauch, Sarah Stef and Elizabeth Trowbridge also visited our church, where we had a wonderful fellowship around the Word of God .Our guests Brother Cornell and Pastor Kevin had sermons to instruct our church. There were also unbelievers in our service who listened attentively to the Word. We pray for them that the Holy Spirit will test their hearts and that they will repent.

Also in the afternoon we visited a church from the village of Fagadeu (Vancikauti), where we had an edifying ministry and preached pastor Kevin and brother Cornell. There were 3 unbelieving women and they really liked listening to the Word. They promised that they would come to the meeting.

On July 4, we met with the entire team from the USA in Novoselitsa, at the Emmanuel Church, where the pastor, missionary br. Popov Valery. All our missionaries with their families and a team of missionaries from the USA had a wonderful meeting there. They prayed that the Lord, through the Holy Spirit, would continue the work of awakening to repentance in the hearts of these people who heard the Word of God. Also, the missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission thanked our brothers and sisters from the US team, Indiana, for their visit to us. For their service and help in our ministry here in Ukraine. We had a beautiful table of love, and then we were divided into 3 groups. First a group of missionary brothers with brother Cornell, pastor Kevin and brother David, the second sister of the wife of our missionary brothers, together with sister Martha and sister Carola from the USA, and the third child and grandchildren of our missionary brothers where Sarah and Elizabeth studied with them. It was a blessed meeting and we are grateful to God and the team from the USA for all these days of fellowship that we had and for their ministry here between us.

On July 5 in the morning, we gathered again in Novoselitsa, and handed over our brothers and sisters from the USA in the hands of Almighty God and accompanied the team from the USA to the border with Romania. We are very grateful to God for helping them cross the border safely and they safely reached Alba Yuliya. We pray that they go safely to the USA and arrive safely each to their family. We believe that the Lord will help them in everything.

2. Gratitude.

We are very grateful to the Lord that He heard our prayers and blessed the brothers and sisters from the USA, blessed their arrival to us, their stay among us. Although we are very anxious because of this war. The Lord protected us all_Glory to Him for everything!

-We are grateful to the Lord for humanitarian aid which was brought by a team from the USA. We carried this help and continue to carry it to the refugees and the poor who live among us. We give gum. help and at the same time we bring them the Word of God that heals the hearts of the poor, tormented and sick people.

-Thank you for your support in our ministry here in Ukraine.

3. Prayer needs:

-Pray with us that the Lord bless this work done by the US team among our refugees and children. May the Lord bless and awaken all the hearts of these people and give repentance.

-Pray for our children's camps that will be in Tarasovtsy and Kotilev from July 11th.

-Pray for our Christian youth camp, Non Stop, mission PIEI Ukraine, which will be from August 1 to August 6. For the Lord to protect us all. God grant that it will continue to be quiet so that we calmly proclaim the Word of God to these children.

-Pray for the team from the USA, which will come to Ukraine on August 1, led by brother Cornel Steph, to participate with us in the program of our camp. Pray for the teachers and leaders. Pray that the Lord will protect the team from the USA on the way to us, during your stay with us and on your way back home.

-Pray that there will be repentance among the children in the Christian camp.

And we pray for you, brothers and sisters from the USA, that the Lord bless you all and always thank the Lord for you. May the Lord bless you and give you a hundredfold blessings!

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

Humanitarian aid from Romania

Blessed be the Lord who gives us His revelations, blessings, and help to refugees every day.

1. This month, as a PIEI Ukraine mission, we received from the PIEI America and PIEI Romania missions the third Humanitarian Transport of two humanitarian vehicles led by the President of the PIEI Cornel Stef mission. They arrived early in the morning, on Sunday, and before unloading these cars, we planned these brothers in 3 churches: the Church from the village of Rakitnoe where Brother Timothy Stanya and Brother Beni from Romania preached, and in Dinivtsi Brother Cornel Steph and brother from the USA Walter Windsor. Rodika, where Rodika's sister sang a song to the glory of the Lord and Brother Alex preached the Word and encouraged the church with the Word of God. After the service, everyone came to Novoselitsa and unloaded these 2 cars with the help that the brothers brought to us so that we could continue to help and distribute them to our refugees. We heartily thanked our brothers for this necessary help in our troubled times. After a delicious lunch, we met again in another room with our missionaries and their families, and with our guests from the PIEI America & Romania mission: Brother Cornell Steph, Brother Walter, Popa Alex, and Rodica's family, Brother Timothy Stanya, PIEI Romania Mission Director. , and brother Beni from Romania. These brothers encouraged us, the missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission and our wives, with their speeches so that we could serve all people and refugees in Ukraine during this difficult time.

-All our missionaries were very grateful to all the brothers and sisters from Romania and the United States who collected and brought us this humanitarian. If they did not help us, we would not be able to help refugees and all those in need, and at the same time preach the Word of God would they accept Jesus Christ in their hearts.

-In the evening I accompanied all our guests to the border with Romania. We were glad to hear that our guests arrived safely in Romania, and our guests from the United States arrived safely in America, we prayed about it-Thank God!

2. On Sunday, June 5, he conducted bread breaks in two churches in Nesvoi and Balkovtsi. After the service, we visited the sick and conducted mini evangelizations in their homes. We also gave them the opportunity to participate in the bread breaks.

-On the same day I returned to Chernivtsi from the church of the village of Nesvoya, and I conducted bread breaks with the sick who live in Chernivtsi. I preached the Word in their homes and together they remembered the death and suffering of our Lord Jesus Christ.

3. According to ZOOM, I conducted classes at the Bible Institute with 15 students. With these classes, I prepare new students so that they can continue to serve in churches with young people, with children, and with the Church of Christ.

4.Thanks:

-We always thank God for you, dear brothers and sisters from the United States and Romania, for supporting us spiritually and with your prayers, at the same time and materially, when you really help us in this difficult time for us. We thank you for these 3 transport with humanitarian aid and thanks to this we can help people in need and refugees with food and other assistance.

-Thank God that He saved the lives of our missionaries and that they can serve people in word and deed.

We thank the Lord for the group of Americans and missionaries from Romania who visited us, encouraged us, and brought help to refugees and those in need.

5. Prayer needs:

-Pray that the war is over.

-Pray for a group of 8 brothers and sisters from America who should come to us in Ukraine, on June 29, so that they can get to us safely, so that we have a peaceful sky in the Chernivtsi region, and so that they can work with refugees.

- Pray for us, the missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission, so that we can properly organize the arrival of the group from the United States and the time of their stay here with us so that they can succeed in evangelism among our refugees, here in our places.

We also pray for you, dear brothers and sisters, that the Lord may bless you all and return to you a hundredfold blessing for you and your families.

My family sends you all a Christian Greetings!

With love, the family of Petikhachny Pavel and Larisa.

Work with refugees

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

We thank Our Lord for the fact that in this difficult time for Ukraine, we, the missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission, are working in the field of God with full dedication.

1. Breaking bread:

-With God's help, I held communion services in 4 churches: Nesvoya, Forosna, Zhilovka and Podvirnoye. In these churches, they visited and the sick in their homes conducted mini evangelizations: they sang psalms, and preached the Word and made communion for these sick people. non-believers and we invited them to the House of Prayer.

2. Work with orphans:

-The boarding school for orphans from Orshivtsi asked us for help, and we, the PIEI Ukraine mission, helped these children with sweets and bought pop food for them, which these children love very much.

-Now we are preparing to help orphans from the orphanage from the city of Khotin. We ask the Lord to help us do this noble service for these orphans. We had long planned to serve the orphans from the city of Khotin, but the war prevented us. We have refugees who need help every day .Already, it seems to have calmed down a little with the refugees and we must fulfill our obligations, that is, what we promised the orphans from the boarding school in the city of Khotyn.

3. Work with refugees:

-We have a full city and region with refugees who have come to us, and we have refugees at home, and in our churches. We, the children of God, are trying to help them in any way we can, Thank God that humanitarian vehicles arrive with food and everything necessary for refugees to help and our churches are distributing this aid to these people. Our PIEI UKRAINE mission received 2 times this aid from Romania through the PIEI Romania mission, and now we are waiting for 3 humanitarian aid through this mission. We pray that everything will work out and our brothers from Romania will reach us safely.

-Bible lessons were held with adults, from refugees, and also Sunday school teachers conduct Bible classes with children. At such meetings, one person repented and two more people want to repent, praying for them.

This man has repented, his name is Denis, he is from the Kherson region. His wife went abroad with her children. And there she found a church and goes to this church there. She repented there and advised her husband to repent. him about Christ. Thank God for accepting Christ into his heart. He really wants the war to end soon so that they can be reunited with their family again. We pray for this family.

4. Prayer and fasting:

- We continue to pray with the churches from our region every day at 9 o’clock in the evening, and also fast for the Lord to help our Ukraine. To stop the war in Ukraine. Chernivtsi region? May we serve calmly on the Niva of the Lord without fear that there will be bombings in our city.

5. Thanksgiving:

- We are very grateful to God for you, dear brothers and sisters, who pray for us, for Ukraine, so that there will be peace in our country in the near future.

- We thank you and the brothers Romanians from the PIEI Ukraine mission for the 2 humanitarian convoys that we received from you and with this help we can help the refugees who settled with us, in our region.

-We are grateful to God that the missionary brothers of the PIEI Romania mission are preparing to translate the 3rd transport humanitarian convoy for Ukraine, for refugees, we pray that everything will turn out well.

5. Prayer needs:

-Keep praying with us to end the war in Ukraine.

-So that we, the missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission, do not get tired of doing good to the refugees and help them come to Christ.

-Pray that this month we will be able to help the orphans from the Khotinsky boarding school with everything they need.

-For those refugees who accepted Christ, so that the Lord would strengthen them in faith, and for those who have not yet accepted Christ, so that they hasten to repent today, because tomorrow may not come for some. Then they really can be late.

-For the Lord to continue to bless the Chernivtsi region with peace and tranquility, because we have a lot of refugees and they found shelter and care with us, and we, the children of God, found services for Christ by serving these people who need both salvation and financial assistance. May the Lord help us in this!

-For the Lord to bless me and my wife Larisa with health to serve the Lord.

We always pray for you, dear brothers and sisters, that the Lord bless you with health and peace and return you a hundredfold blessing for your sacrifice for Ukraine.

Be blessed!

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

Celebrating the feast of the Resurrection of Christ

Our dear brothers and sisters from the USA, first of all, we want to greet you with the bright Feast of the Resurrection of Christ: Christ is risen! Christ is truly risen!

We praise the Lord for helping us to celebrate this significant holiday for us - the Resurrection of Christ, although in such turbulent circumstances for us as this war in Ukraine. Thank God for the fact that He gives peace in our region so far and so far we have not been bombed rockets. This is only the mercy of the Lord over us. We are also grateful to you, brothers and sisters, for constantly praying for us, for our land of Bukovina and for our country Ukraine. We feel your prayers. They help us a lot here.

1. On Sunday, April 24, all our churches from Ukraine (of course, those that are not in occupation) celebrated the feast of the Resurrection of Christ. 10 people from non-believers came to our church. Many of them were refugees from Kyiv and Odessa. The Easter program was very well prepared. And our choir, and the youth choir. There were many congratulatory verses to the glory of Christ Crucified for us and Risen. The Word of God was preached in the Power of the Holy Spirit. We saw tears of joy in people's eyes. There were a lot of prayers of repentance for the church and for God to help us, and this war stopped, which took so many lives from people. We believe and wait for an answer from the Lord. Only He can protect us all from these misfortunes and troubles.

On April 25, we went to 3 evangelizations. In the morning in Forosna, and from 11 o'clock in Zhilovka. There were not many people at the meeting, but for that there was a funeral of one sister and at this funeral the Word of God was preached in the Power of the Holy Spirit. There were about 50 people unbelievers, and there were also people from refugees who listened to the Word attentively. After the funeral, we invited these refugees to come to our meetings. We pray for them and for this village.

3. Thanksgiving:

-Thank you brothers and sisters for supporting us in this difficult time for us.

-We thank God for the fact that all our brothers and sisters are actively involved with the refugees who have found shelter with us. We pray together with them, comfort them and help with food.

-I thank God for my wife Larisa, for giving her health to feed these refugees who live with us. Also, our daughter, Anzhelka, helps us with these refugees. For example, when we go on an evangelization mission, she cooks food for refugees .Thank God!

-I am also grateful to God for all our missionaries for the fact that they also help refugees both spiritually and materially. All our churches are full with refugees and we must give them what Christ gave us - the Word of God, and also help them in trouble. How much is needed, so much we will help, may the Name of the Lord be glorified through our holy deeds!

4. Prayer needs:

We ask you to pray with us for the war to end sooner.

-So that those people who heard the Word of God at the Easter Evangelizations understood the Word of God and repented. Many listened to the Word with tears in their eyes, but still do not dare to repent.

-So that the Lord preserves and protects Bukovina, our land. To be calm and peaceful, because we have a lot of refugees living near one hundred thousand. They fled from those horrors of the war, many lost everything and houses, and cars, and families. Pray for them that the Lord will comfort them.

We pray and hope to God that this terrible war will end soon and peace will finally come to Ukraine.

Once again, we congratulate you, brothers and sisters, on the Feast of the Resurrection of Christ: Christ is Risen! Christ is Truly Risen!

May the Peace of Christ be in your homes and families. May our Lord Jesus Christ bless you!

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

Christ is Risen!

Dear brothers and sisters from the USA, we greet you with the Peace and Grace of Jesus Christ! We also congratulate you on the joyful and bright holiday of the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ: Christ is Risen! Christ is Risen indeed!

1. This month, April, we thought that peace would finally come in our country and we, the Church of God, would be able to praise the Lord and preach the Word of God without these difficult circumstances, especially on the feast of the Resurrection of Christ. But as you can see, the war in Ukraine continues and we, the church of Christ, can do nothing but get on our knees and pray fervently. Each of us prays a prayer of repentance and waits in humility for an answer from the Lord. (2 Chronicles 7:14) - And my people who called by my name, and they will pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways: then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sins, and I will heal their land. - And then the Lord will heal our country.

2. During these two weeks I visited 3 churches where small evangelizations were held and in all these churches they asked for mercy and deliverance from our Lord. The most important prayers were the prayers of repentance of the church so that our sins would not be an obstacle for the Lord to answer our prayers.

3. Fasting and prayer.

-All the churches of the Chernivtsi region during these 3 weeks made joint fasts and prayers so that the Lord would hear us and stop this war. Our church also participated in this.

-As before, every day we kneel at 21:00 for prayer, together with all our churches, so that the Lord will help restore peace in Ukraine.

4.Help:

-We constantly help all refugees who come to us with everything they need. My wife, Larisa, has been feeding and helping our refugees who live in our house for 2 months now. Thank God that He gives her strength and health so that she does not tired of doing good deeds. Also in our church from Nesvoi, church members help refugees who come to us. Three of these refugees constantly come to our meetings, so we must preach in both Russian and Ukrainian. We try to prepare songs for them to and they understood and glorified the Lord through singing. There, one woman has not yet repented. Her name is Olya. We pray for her so that the Lord touches her heart.

5. Bible lessons:

-In the church of the village of Nesvoi, Bible lessons are held with local children and visiting children. Currently, they are studying the Gospel of John. Our children have made friends with the children of visiting people and do Bible lessons with them and also pray to God that the war will stop soon. Thank God for these children.

6. Thanksgiving:

-We are grateful to God for the fact that there is still an opportunity to glorify the Lord in this difficult time.

-Thank God for you who support us with everything we need.

-We thank God for our missionaries, for the fact that the Lord gives them strength and health and they do not get tired of helping refugees.

-We thank God for the fact that He supports our region of Bukovina and we are still alive and well-Glory to God!

7. Prayer requests:

- Pray with us that this war will stop.

- So that so many children, women and the elderly do not die. Also for those soldiers who defend Ukraine, so that the Lord protects them.

- In order not to attack our Chernivtsi region, then there will be a big trouble, because more than a hundred thousand refugees already live in our region.

- May the Lord bless our missionaries with health and the power of the Holy Spirit for the gospel of the Word of God in this difficult time for us.

-Pray for the two women Olya and Lydia who attend our meetings, so that the Lord touches their hearts and they repent.

-April 24, if God pleases, we will celebrate the feast of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. So that the Lord gives us a peaceful time so that we can peacefully celebrate this significant and bright feast of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ-Christ's Victory over death! And it is even better that the war ends by this time.

And we always pray, brothers and sisters, for you. For the Lord to bless you abundantly and give you a hundredfold blessing for everything you do for us.

My family sends their sincere and heartfelt greetings to you in the Name of Jesus Christ.

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

Faith without works is dead

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

I am grateful to the Lord for the fact that He helps us proclaim His Word in this difficult time for us - WAR in UKRAINE.

1. A few days ago we had a meeting of the missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission, where all our missionaries were present and at the same time the missionaries of the PIEI Romania mission, brother Stanya Timofey, director of the PIEI Romania mission, Mike Dima and two other brothers were at the meeting with us. We had good communication and they gave us good instructions on how to serve for Christ during the war. Mission PIEI Romania and misia PIEI America, collected a lot of humanitarian goods and food, and mattresses, and clothes and shampoo, laundry powder, toilet soap and much more that is needed for our refugees, so that we can help these people both by deed and by the Word of God. Apostle James says that faith without works is dead.

2. Our church from Nesvoi every evening from 9 to 10 pm has a prayer for Ukraine, for peace in Ukraine: God hear us! We are nobody without you.

3. Every day more and more people from the war zone come to the churches of the Novoseletsky district. All churches receive them with love and provide them with everything they need. All our missionaries have refugees in their churches who need help.

On Sunday, April 3, in all the churches of our Chernivtsi region, if God helps us, we will hold communions-Remember the Death and Suffering of our Lord Jesus Christ. Our Nesvoi church will hold communions in 3 churches, in Balkovtsy and in Podvirnoye - God help us to hold these services.

4. Thanksgiving:

We thank God for being with us during this difficult time.

-Thank you for praying for us and helping us, for the fact that you worry about us and this greatly encourages us.

5. Prayer needs:

-Pray for peace in Ukraine.

-So that we can serve everyone who came to us as refugees. So that we can serve everyone with preaching the Word of God, so that they would know God as their Personal Savior.

-For the Lord to stop the war in Ukraine, for the Lord to stop this evil!

We love you brothers and sisters very much and are grateful to God for you. We pray for you and wish the Lord to bless you and your families, your churches and your country.

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

Greetings from Chernivtsi, Ukraine

Today is March 27th. This day started the second month since the war started and is going on,  and since Russia Ukraine and it has caused so much disaster and devastation here because we don't have enough words to describe all these terrible horrors that are happening in Ukraine.

But we thank the Lord for helping us, in these difficult times, for those of us who preach the Word from the pulpit, but also for all the other members of our churches so we can preach the Word through the works of faith in the Lord Jesus.

All these large cities such as Kharkov, Mariupol, Sumy, Kherson, Gostomel, Chernigov and other smaller cities near Russia have all been ruined: large buildings, churches, houses of worship, hospitals, cultural museums, schools, kindergartens.  All the people from there fled and came to us, in our area. There are still women and children who remained behind, they were unable to get out in time from the city of Mariupol, which is blocked by occupiers and does not allow people to leave the city and come to take shelter in our safer area.

Our family has embraced two families of refugees from the city of Nikolayev, after they suffered 10 days of bombing. They slept in the basements and it was very difficult for them. There was a small child there, in such a difficult situation.  We offered them the second floor apartment of our married daughter, where there are two rooms with a separate kitchen, bathroom with a tub, Our daughter Angelica with her family, meaning her husband and their 2 and a half year old daughter moved downstairs into a room in our apartment. There is a girl with them, Anna, who is not related to them. We offered her the room in the hallway of our apartment, and we comforted them daily. We feed them three times a day, we do Bible study together, we pray together. We all have the same reasons for prayer - to end this war as soon as possible and to have peace, peace.  We pray to the Lord to be well with us, so that we can take care of these grief stricken people who have lost their homes and have nowhere to go back.

A week ago my wife Larisa got sick. She had a cold and a fever, but she took care of these people as best she could. The Lord gave her grace and strengthened her. Then I was sick. thank God he took us both out of this disease (of course we both received antibiotic pills) so that we could continue to serve in the work of the Lord.

  Last week the missionaries, brothers from the PIEI Romania ministry came to us with supplies. Brother Timotei Stanea, brother Mike Dima, and other younger brothers and with humanitarian aid from Romania. We met them and had a beautiful fellowship with these brothers at the Emanuel church in Noua Sulita .  I thanked God for guarding and keeping our brothers safe in this difficult journey, and we unloaded these goods (food, oil, clothing, mattresses and other necessities) right inside the church building. From there we shared with all the missionaries, that each of the missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission to be able to distribute to the refugees who are with them in their churches and in their villages these foods and things, clothes, mattresses. All the Christians have a lot of work to do, each one at his own location, all it takes is to have the desire and the zeal to serve the Lord. May the Lord help us in to do so.

 At our church in Nesvoia, we strive to help the refugee believers who have come to take shelter, but also those who have not yet received the Lord. May the Lord help us now in this difficult time so that we can sow His Word in good times and in bad times for His Word to fall into the hearts of good ground to bear the fruits of repentance.   We are observing that the people of the world are more humble, their language is not as vulgar, not as filthy as before, they are starting to fear God.

Today, Sunday, I read from the book of Daniel the words of chapter 6: 20, and Daniel's answer in verse 22-Yes, God sent His angel and shut the mouths of the lions.

We know that you are praying for us, brothers and sisters, from all over the world, and we are all waiting for the positive answer from the Lord. Our question and yours is every morning: Ukraine, has your God who you are constantly serving, saved you from the lions' mouths?

We wake up every morning, alive and well, full of gratitude to our Creator, saying, "Yes, the Lord has saved us, and thus we are glorifying His name forever!" He is our victory, and we will glorify Him forever!

Thank you very much brothers for your help here. Thank you for your prayers. You are a great encouragement to us, our beloved!

Prayer Requests:

·        Keep praying for us so that the war will end as soon as possible.

·        May the Lord give us all health and strength here so that we can serve the refugees who came to us.

·        A way of escape for those remaining people, especially children and women, from Mariupol and other smaller cities who failed to evacuate people to a shelter or a safer area, because they have nothing to eat there, no light, no drinking water. The streets are blocked, unsafe, under constant bombardment.

·        God give us your peace on earth!

You are always in our hearts, our dear brothers and sisters. May the Lord bless you! We love you and we pray for you.

With love Pavel and Larisa Petihacinii

PIEI Ukraine