Christmas evangelization

Dear brothers and sisters, PIEI AMERICA is our evangelistic partner here in Ukraine. We greet you with the Love and Peace of Jesus Christ!

We are very grateful to God for the fact that during this time of war, for 325 days now, on the territory of Ukraine, God protects us and helps us, the Church of Christ.

Now we all pray that God will help the soldiers defending Ukraine who are fighting for the cities of Bakhmut and Soledar (Donetsk region). Fierce battles are going on there. Only God can help us so that Peace finally comes to Ukraine. And the whole Church of Christ prays for this.

1. Thank God that our Church, not our own, was able to celebrate the New Year 2023 in prayer where everyone thanked God for protection in 2022 and asked the Lord for God's protection in 2023.

Also on January 1, our church had Holy Communion of the Breaking of Bread, remembering the death and suffering of Jesus Christ. Also, together with my wife Larisa, we visited 4 sick people with the communion where we brought great joy in these houses. There were also unbelieving relatives of these sick people who listened attentively to the Word of God. We pray for them.

2. On Saturday, January 7, our church celebrated the Nativity of Christ according to the old style. Since our village celebrates Christmas this way, we were pleased that the youth prepared for this holiday and even went around the village with carols distributing Christian literature and calendars to people. Everyone was very happy to hear the wonderful hymns about the Born Messiah Jesus Christ. They also went and visited those houses where the settlers live. They were also very happy for this visit. We pray for all the people whom we visited so that the Lord would test their hearts. We are grateful to the Lord that married couples from unbelievers came to our evangelistic meetings, along with their children. We also pray for them. The children received Christmas gifts and were very happy about it.

3. This week after Christmas, we were preparing to make packages with gifts for the Christmas for the orphans, scheduled for January 19th.

4. Visited our missionaries and distributed prayer calendars (2023) for the sisters so that they have topics for prayer and study of the Word of God every month of this year.

5. Thanksgiving:

-We thank the Lord for His protection in our region and we can safely serve here both refugees and other people who are in difficult situations.

-We thank God for you, dear brothers and sisters from the PIEI mission, for helping us both materially and spiritually with your prayers for us and for peace in Ukraine.

6. Prayer requests:

-Pray with us for peace to come to Ukraine. To end this war as soon as possible.

-Pray for all those people who heard the Word of God at our evangelizations and for those whom we visited and told them about the love of Christ. For the Holy Spirit to induce them to repentance.

-Pray that we can have a good Christmas for the orphans next week.

- May the Lord continue to give us, the missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission, health and strength to work in His Field and protect us all from the arrivals of enemy missiles.

-Pray for our brother missionary Kioresko Grigory, who went back to the city of Gostomel (Kyiv region) to carry and distribute humanitarian aid to people in need. In this city, the Church of Jesus Christ was founded, where people come to listen to the Word of God and at the same time receive humanitarian assistance. The Lord protected our brother and his team along the way.

-For the soldiers of the defenders who defend Ukraine. There are especially fierce battles in Bakhmut and Soledar (Donetsk region)

- Our sister in the Lord, from our church, Nina Kitar, lost her son, Kitar Julius, near Bakhmut. Hasn't been in touch since December 24th. If he was captured by enemies, so that the Lord would protect him.

We believe that the Lord is Almighty to help this son.

Our dear brothers and sisters from the USA, we are always grateful to God for you and for your sacrifice, and we always pray to the Lord for you so that God will bless you clearly and abundantly!

Please accept a heartfelt greeting from my family and be blessed our dear evangelistic partners in the USA!

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

Happy New Year 2023!

Dear brothers and sisters from the USA, our partners in evangelism here in Ukraine. First of all, we want to greet you with a Happy New Year 2023! And with all our hearts, we wish you abundant blessings from our Lord for the whole year of 2023!

We are grateful to God for this past year - 2022. Although it was the most difficult year of our lives for us. For 311 days now, the war has been raging in Ukraine. The arrivals of missiles and drones over Ukraine do not stop. And we don't know where these missiles will hit. There are many people injured from them and dead. Even poor children are dying. Our soul hurts for our people and we pray for those people who live there, where such rockets often fly. We only thank God that rockets and drones do not fly to us. The Lord is merciful to us. And we pray that it will continue to be calm so that we can serve God.

1. We spent a week of prayers in the church of the village of Nesvoi where we prayed every day for peace and the end of the war in Ukraine. They prayed for an end to the arrivals of enemy missiles, for God's protection of children, young families, for ministers who serve in churches, for the sick, for orphans and for migrants from all over Ukraine. At the same time, they conducted church Bible lessons from the Gospel of Luke, which speaks of the birth of Christ the Messiah, who first suffered great suffering from the king of Israel, Herod.

2.Social assistance.

- With difficulty, we found the necessary help that a young family needed, where the wife is undergoing chemotherapy. They had already run out of all means and were already talking about death. But thank God that those people who we thought could help this family really helped, and this sister in the Lord can continue to undergo treatment. She had unbearable pains, but now these pains are gone - Thank God. We thank God for these people who helped this family.

-We helped people in need and orphans with food and medicine, and we really helped with the help that you, brothers and sisters from the USA, our partners, gave us to help such people. We are very grateful to God for you, our dear ones, who zealously donate funds for the Lord so that, with these funds, help people in need.

-We helped the family as much as we could to Alina, our translator. She had a successful operation on her leg, and she was even able to attend church with her family on December 25-Thanks to God! Thanks to everyone who prayed for her.

-In our church, in Nesvoi, there are young families, youth and our choir that helps prepare food for the soldiers of the defenders of Ukraine. And they take this ready-made food to the Khotinsky district, from there, this food, is taken by volunteers to the front line to feed these people. We cooked: cabbage rolls, pilaf with chicken meat, fried chops and froze them, baked cookies and buns. They need ready-made food because there is no place to cook on the front line. There are no conditions. You can only warm up a little food and serve them to eat. And since it is winter now and it is cold, the food does not spoil on the road in one day. Thank God that every month our church serves God through this good deed. Other churches in our region also prepare such food. May the Lord bless all who serve Him with bright blessings.

3. I taught classes at the Bible Institute on the topic: "How to Spread the Gospel to the Ends of the Earth." The students diligently studied these lessons to better know how to spread the Word of God.

4. Thanksgiving:

-I thank God for you, brothers and sisters, for your help that you gave us and we can help migrants and other needy people here.

-Thank God for my family and the families of our missionaries for keeping us healthy and protecting us from all evil.

-For the fact that our missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission tirelessly help people in need and migrants: both spiritually preaching the Word of God and helping them financially with humanitarian help.

-Thank God for our churches that are ready to serve God by helping other people in need.

-We thank God for the fact that, in our region, it is peaceful and quiet, and there are no rocket arrivals. This is only God's mercy to us - Glory to Him!

5. Prayer needs:

-Pray together with us that the war in Ukraine will stop. So that the Lord will protect us because without God we will be lost.

-Pray for the students who study at the Bible Institute.

-Pray for all the missionaries who are working in the Field of God here in Ukraine.

-So that we don't have enemy missiles arriving, so that we can serve God here peacefully and calmly.

-To those whom we preach or help socially this month, may the Lord open their hearts to repentance.

-Pray for our young families and the youth of our church so that the Lord will protect them from any trouble during this difficult time for us.

-Pray for our project: "Christmas for orphans" which we planned in mid-January. We are already preparing 200 gifts for the orphans. So that the Lord would help us to realize all this at this difficult time for us. Because we do not know what awaits us tomorrow.

-For all our evangelizations that we will hold both on the New Year and on January 7 with our church. For people to come and listen to the Word of God. And for the Lord to touch their hearts.

Once again we want to thank God and you for your sacrifice and for your love for us. May God bless you abundantly and give you a hundredfold blessings!

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

Teaching at the Institute

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

Our dear partners of the gospel of the Word of God, together with us, here in Ukraine, on behalf of all our missionaries of our PIEI Ukraine mission and on behalf of our families and churches, we want to congratulate you all on the holidays: Christmas and Happy New Year 2023! We wish you all a lot of health, happiness, success, peace and joy in Christ Jesus! So that Christ the Messiah, who came on this earth in order to save humanity, bless you, your families, your church and your country!

I am grateful to God that in this year 2022, which was a difficult year for us, because we have been at war in Ukraine for more than 10 months. There were many obstacles to spreading the Gospels, but God helped us proclaim HIS Word in the power of the Holy Spirit and many people heard the news of Christ and accepted Jesus Christ as Savior in their hearts.

1. Teaching at the Institute:

-This month, the Lord helped me teach Missiology to 10 students at the Theological Institute. Through the Acts of the Holy Apostles, I showed them how the apostles spread the Gospel in the first century. Now, in the 21st century, we also have difficult circumstances, but God helps us spread the Word like the apostles in the 1st century.

2. I taught courses about the Living Faith in a church from the village of Marshentsy.

-Showed that true faith conquers the world and makes us righteous before God.

-Abraham was righteous before God and all the heroes of faith from chapter 11 to Heb.

-Many in the church prayed that they would have this living faith.

3. In the church from the village of Nesvoi, I taught the book of Joshua, chapter 2, and showed how a person can be a blessing for all his family, for the whole country, and for all of us. And we can be a blessing for other people.

4.News:

-Yesterday, December 16, 76 missiles were thrown at the cities of Ukraine and 60 of them were shot down by air defense. By doing this, the enemy wants to destroy our blessed country. In the city of Krivoy Rog (South of Ukraine), a rocket hit a residential building. There are killed and wounded. We pray for these people who live there. They live in a very dangerous zone. May God have mercy on them and may God give them to stop these missiles that destroy everything, and especially human lives.

-Our sister Alina Martsinyuk (translator of the PIEI UKR mission) had an operation on her leg yesterday, and we were fasting and praying for the operation to be successful. After the operation, Alina called and said that everything ended well - Thank God!

-Brother Gregory Kioresko, pastor missionary, was on the front line with a cargo bus and distributed humanitarian aid to all people in need.

- In Chernivtsi, in the Church of the House of Peace, brother pastor missionary Hryhoriy Pastushak performed water baptism. There were candidates for baptism both from the local church and from other churches in the region, who made a covenant with Jesus Christ through holy water baptism - Glory to God!

-All of our missionaries in our PIEI mission work intensively to serve the refugees, helping them and guiding them on the true path.

5. Thanksgiving:

-We thank you all for praying for our country and the people who live in it, so that peace finally comes to our land.

-We are grateful to you for praying for our translator Alina Martsinyuk, for her operation and thank God that this operation was successful.

-We are grateful to you for praying for our missionary Alex Pastushak, who also had an operation and now walks normally and works hard for God.

-We thank you for praying for all our missionaries and their families.

6. Prayer requests:

-Pray together with us for peace to finally come to Ukraine.

- About the students to whom I taught missiology, so that they could practice in life what they taught.

-About those who were baptized so that they would grow spiritually.

-Continue to pray for us missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission and for our families, that the Lord would give us health to work in His Field and continue diligently, as for the Lord.

We also pray for you dear brothers and sisters from the USA, our evangelistic partners here in Ukraine. May the Lord bless you and give you a hundredfold blessings!

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

Preparation of new students

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

I am grateful to the Lord God for His protection and the support that I feel in every minute of my life. For a peaceful sky overhead to our region where we live, although in Ukraine it has been 285 days since the war has been going on. We now have electricity cut off very often at night, and during the day, so we often do not have the Internet, which means there are no connections with the world. Even mobile phones are muffled. But we thank God that we are not bombed and so far we are calm by the grace of God.

Now all our missionaries are busy helping the settlers who live among us. They visit them, bring food for them. Thank God that we have such an opportunity to help these people who are in trouble.

And of course we thank you, brothers and sisters from the USA, for supporting us in this ministry through your donations and through your prayers for us.

1.Preparation of new students

- I gave lessons at the Bible Institute on the topic: “The faith that God praises.” Through these lessons I want to prepare new disciples for churches in our area, because there is a need for young ministers.

2. Regional conference with ministers of churches

-I helped the brothers, leaders of the regional office, to organize this conference with the ministers of our region on the topic: "A book in the life of a minister."

This conference brought together about 30 ministers of our churches from the area who listened to wonderful lessons. At the end of this conference, each minister received 20 spiritual books. All of these books direct each minister to the Bible and its study.

3.Missionary visits

-I visited all the missionaries of the PIEI UKR mission in order to encourage them in this difficult ministry that they carry out among the settlers and at the same time with people in need from our region. I was interested in how we can help them so that they can serve in their villages in the power of the Holy Spirit, as they have served before.

4. He held communal services in three churches and at the same time visited the sick in these churches. Mini gospel meetings were held at each patient's home and preached about the sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ.

5. News.

-Recently, more than 100 missiles were thrown in Ukraine by the enemy, and then every day they throw fewer missiles in order to destroy the Ukrainian infrastructure and electricity. This is all so that we do not have electricity, the Internet, water, gas and phones. Of course, we have a very difficult time, but when we think about what our brothers and sisters in faith who live without light and water on the front line. We praise God that we have not yet been bombed and we can calmly serve God. And we pray for those who have a very difficult to adapt to the front line.

6. Thanksgiving:

-Thanks to the PIEI America mission for helping all the missionaries so that they can help others in need.

-Thank you for your prayers for the brother of the missionary Kyoresko Gregory, who travels 2 times a month on a microbus with humanitarian aid for people who live in cities where the war has destroyed everything. And there people need help.

7. Prayer requests:

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

-Pray for missionary pastor Gregory Pastushak who will conduct water baptism in December in his church. Pray for this baptism.

-Pray for the missionary pastor Kioresko, who will go again with social assistance to the cities destroyed in Ukraine to help people who live there in difficult conditions. For God to protect him and his team from all evil along the way.

-December 5, 2022, Alina Martsinyuk, our translator, will have surgery on her right leg. She fell and broke her leg. Pray that everything goes well.

-Pray for all the families of our missionaries that the Lord will protect us, our wives, our children and our grandchildren in this difficult time for us.

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

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

Sister conference

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

I thank God that we live under His protection in these anxious days of war for us. The war in Ukraine has been raging for 270 days and all our people are waiting for this bloody war to end. On November 15, the enemy fired more than 100 rockets against all cities of Ukraine. They want to break the entire infrastructure of Ukraine so that we do not have electricity. Of course, it is difficult for us here because of these inconveniences, because without electricity there is no mobile communication and other communication with the people around us. On November 15 and 16, our electricity was turned off for the whole day and at night the lights were turned off 2 times. But thank God that we were not bombed and so far it is quiet in our area. And in other cities of Ukraine, it is very difficult. They bomb and break, and subsequently innocent people die.

Thank God that we have people, especially believers, everyone believes that the Lord is our Savior and He will protect us from all these troubles. Yes, there is no light, but the Light of Christ burns in our hearts, in our families, in our churches and we will be able to convey this Light to people who are perishing in the darkness of sin. We always trust in the Lord and hope in Him.

1. Prayers:

-We have round-the-clock prayer groups in Bukovina and our churches of the PIEI UKR mission. They also participate in these prayers for peace in Ukraine. May the Lord hear us and help us to end this war.

-There was also a worldwide prayer of sisters on November 7, on the theme of the victorious life in Christ from 2 Corinthians 2:14. All the sisters from our Baptist brotherhood united on this day in prayer for all the people of our planet Earth.

-And on November 12, we had a sister conference on the topic: Peace in a time of war. Based on this conference, there was a verse from John 14:27. I give you my peace ...

There was a wonderful conference where almost 500 sisters from all the churches of our region participated. There were testimonies of sisters of migrants from Avdiivka, Kherson, Mariupol, and from Kharkiv. The southeast of Ukraine went through these sufferings of the war. There was a Word from the Lord, how we should be confident in the Word of the Lord and trust our God during this earthly storm, during this war. There were prayers of the sisters who prayed in tears that the Lord would protect us and our country from this war. Glory to God for such an army of sisters who pray for peace in Ukraine, for the ministers of our churches, and for the awakening to repentance of many hearts that are still lost in their sins. We all believe that the Lord will hear the prayers of our sisters and give us victory in Christ Jesus.

2. Social assistance

-In Chernivtsi, a woman with children who do not have anything to eat turned to me for help. Yesterday, November 15, I visited them and helped with the food that I took from our church in Nesvoya. I spoke to them about God and called them to repentance. They said, yes, you need to repent in order to be with God. I promised them that I would visit them again and of course I would bring food and other household necessities, but I want to explain to them more the Word of God. We pray for these people.

3. Help on the front line

-Brother Gregory Kioresko again took 2 buses with humanitarian aid to the front line, where everything is destroyed and people have no electricity, no water, no gas. We always pray for him so that the Lord will protect him on a journey that is not safe at the present time.

-Our, 8 more missionaries, also serve here, on the spot, our migrants who live among us. We try to bring them packages with essential products on time and tell them about the love of Christ. We pray for each of these migrants. We are glad that many of them these migrants visit our prayer houses and read the Bible that they received from us as a gift.

4. Session

- Conducted a session at the Bible Institute. This session was based on the Gospel of Matthew. All students studied this book with great diligence.

-The next session I will spend with them on the basis of the textbook "Names of God".

5. Thanksgiving:

-I thank God and you for your help. It helps us a lot.

-Thank you for your prayers for us. We feel your prayers and we also pray for you that the Lord bless you.

-All of our missionary wives thank Sister Martha Hauck of La Porte, Indiana for the help she has given to our missionary wives. May the Lord bless her.

-We thank the Lord for the fact that we are still calm and our region is not bombed. For the protection of God.

Prayer Needs:

-Pray for us so that the Lord will protect us further. So that we do not lose electricity, the Internet and telephone communications.

-Pray for our brother missionary Kioresco Gregory and his team, who go 2 times a month to the front lines in the cities destroyed by the war to bring humanitarian aid to people.

- So that we, the rest of the missionaries, do not get tired of helping the settlers who are with us in Bukovina.

-Pray for an end to the war in Ukraine.

We always pray and bless you brothers and sisters from the USA. May the Lord bless you a hundredfold for your sacrifice for Ukraine. Say hello to all our evangelism partners from the USA from our missionaries from the PIEI Ukraine mission. We love you and pray for you.

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

Study Word to Church

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

I am very grateful to the Lord for helping me during these two weeks in preaching His Word to our land where we live and in this dangerous time for us.

-More than 250 days have already passed since a full-scale war is going on in Ukraine. During these two weeks

in Bukovina, 3 missiles from the enemy side were shot down and one exploded over the electric current distributor in the Dniester district, in the Novodniestrovskaya power plant. Restoration work is underway now. The enemy wants to leave us without electricity so that we would not have contact with each other. But we trusted our God and He will protect us from enemy missiles.

-We, the missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission, despite these events, continue to preach the Gospel and work with refugees from our region and with refugee families whose fathers and husbands defend Ukraine at the forefront.

1. Study Word to Church:

-To our church from Nesvoi, over the past month, I conducted 3 lessons from the book of Revelation from chapters 19 to 22 to the church, which say what will happen after Daniel's 70 weeks. Unbelievers who attend our church were also present at these lessons. We pray for them too.

2. Patient visits:

-I was invited to pray over a woman with cancer and my wife and I visited this family where we prayed that the Lord would have mercy on our sister in the Lord and that God would heal her. She cried a lot and prayed a prayer of repentance and that, if the will of the Lord, God healed her of this illness. She is 59 years old and she wants to be next to her husband and daughter's family so that they serve the Lord.

-I also visited our missionary brother Vasily Preutes. He told us about his problems and we prayed together with his family, and also praised God that God had saved their lives: his and the lives of his granddaughters Yulia and Valeria, as well as his daughter-in-law Christina. They were in the car together when this accident happened. Thank God that everyone is alive and well.

-We called our missionary Alex Pastushak to find out how he is doing. We always pray for his family and are glad that God saved their lives, Alex, Nadia and son Marik, after that terrible accident that happened to them. His leg is still in the cast and the concussion are going away a bit. Nadya can already serve her family to cook for them, thank God. We continue to pray for them.

-I visited the sick and gave them holy communion from the communion. They were glad that they could take part in holy communion and remember the suffering and death of our Savior Jesus Christ. I did this in three settlements.

3.Help those in need:

-I carried social packages with food for people in need: the sick and the displaced. They thanked and praised the Lord for not forgetting them in this difficult time through our brothers and sisters of believers.

4. Thanksgiving:

-We are very grateful to the Lord for the fact that He protected us this month from enemy missiles and we are still quiet and calm. We are glad that we can serve the Lord by helping other people who are in dire need.

-We thank the Lord for saving our brother Gregory Kioresko on the road towards Kyiv, where he, with his team, carried humanitarian aid to people who went through the suffering of this war.

-We thank the Lord for you, brothers and sisters from the USA, for not forgetting us in your prayers and supporting us both materially and spiritually. Thank God that we have such brothers and sisters.

5. Prayer needs:

- Our dear ones, please pray with us for the end of the war in Ukraine. Only God can stop this terrible evil that the enemy is doing.

-Pray that they don't bomb us. They want to destroy all communications, and at the moment it is electricity. Therefore, they are trying to get where the power plants are. We believe that only God can protect us.

-Pray for our sister in the Lord, Jeta, that the Lord heal her from cancer.

-Pray for our missionaries, brother Alex Pastushak, that God will heal him further, so that he can walk normally.

-Pray also for our missionary Kioresco Grigory, who will still travel to the depths of our Ukraine with humanitarian aid, closer to the front, where they are waiting for this help. That the Lord would protect him and the team from all evil and from rocket arrivals. Because there are these arrivals happen every day. May the Lord save us all from such a misfortune, because we cannot even know where such arrivals are waiting for us.

-Pray for all our missionaries so that the Lord will protect us and our families so that we can continue to work in His Field.

We always pray for you, dear brothers and sisters from the USA, that the Lord bless all of you and your families.

Praying for the PIEI America annual mission meeting in Chicago on November 4th and 5th. May the Lord bless this meeting and all the participants and missionaries who will come to this meeting. We will support you all in our prayers.

Send my heartfelt regards from me and my family to everyone I know and to whom you know us. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for what you do for us. Be blessed!

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

Evangelization of people

We greet you, dear brothers and sisters, with the Love of Jesus Christ.

-I am very grateful to God for helping me to carry out the ministry in His Field with great success.

1.Evangelization of people:

-We organized in the church of the village of Balkovtsy (our neighbouring village), the holiday of the Harvest. On this holiday, our youth choir glorified God and I preached the main sermon. We have been supporting this church even further since the pastor of the church and his family went abroad during the time of war. I wrote above that I had great success in evangelizing this small church because that day the church was filled with unbelievers. Three of them said they wanted to become believers, because when they listened to the youth choir, they told us, that they felt as if they were in paradise. We thank God for the fact that He worked so wonderfully on the hearts of these people. We rejoice that they continue to attend the church regularly since then and pray for them. The ministers of our church from Nesvoia support this small church by visiting them and strengthening them in the Word.

2. Session at the Bible Institute:

-I taught the students of the Bible Institute, Matthew, part 2. In the middle of the session, we all organized mini-evangelizations among the people we met in the streets around the city. The students practiced what they learnt and told people about what is written in Mathew part 2. It is very interesting in our time that we have not met such people who do not want to study or listen to the Word of God. We gave them addresses so that they could continue this study.

3.News from our missionaries:

-Unfortunately, not everything is so smooth and good for our missionaries. There are illnesses and other difficulties.

-Last week, our missionary brother Alex Pastushak had a car accident. He was driving with his family to the village where his parents once lived when another car hit them badly. Thank God that everything is fine with their son Mark, but Alex has a fractured left leg and both Alex and Nadia have a concussion. Yesterday, on Thursday, they were discharged from the hospital. Nadia's knees hurt a lot. And Alex was put in a cast on his leg. Thank God that they are already on the mend. The car was severely smashed, but Thank God that they survived.

- The family of the missionary Preutesa Vasily also got into a car accident a week earlier when the accident happened to Alex. The car of the missionary Preutesa was badly smashed in the back. Brother Vasily was slightly hurt, but the granddaughters, Julia, Valeriia and his daughter-in-law Christina, who were in the car, thank God are fine.

4. Social assistance to refugees.

- Our missionary brother, Grigory Kioresko, carried twice, humanitarian aid for people affected by this war in Kyiv, in Gostomel, in Bucha and in Irpin. These people are in great need of food and they are very happy and thankful when our brothers, help them getting everything they need.

5. Thanksgiving:

-We are grateful to God for our missionaries Alex Pastushak and his family, and Vasily Preutesa with his family for staying alive after such severe accidents.

-We are very grateful to God and you, for your prayers and for your help, which gives us strength to serve and help more the refugees who stay here and live among us.

-We are grateful to God that God protected our missionary brother Grisha Kioresko and he was able to go many times to the places where the war caused great destruction, and brought food and humanitarian aid there. Now it is very dangerous to go there because missiles often fly in from the enemy side. Although the Chernovtsy region has not been bombed yet, (the only region which wasn’t attacked by rockets since the beginning of the war) three missiles have already been fired near Chernivtsi. Thank God! We live only by His grace.

6. Prayer requests:

-Pray for missionary Alex Pastushak and for his family that God will give them a full recovery.

-Pray for the missionary Vasily Preutesa that he will also get out of this crisis situation. His car was badly damaged.

-Pray for the missionary Kioresco Grigory, so that when he goes to bring humanitarian aid in the areas affected by the war, that the Lord will protect him on the road and during his stay there, among those people.

-Pray for all our missionaries who decided to stay here to serve God and people in such a difficult time for us, when the war is going on throughout Ukraine. Pray so that we can help the refugees who stay here to spend the winter with us with all our love and patience.

-Pray that the arrivals of the enemy missiles that want to destroy everything in Ukraine will stop. Pray for peace in our region so that we can serve people in need.

We always pray for you, dear brothers and sisters from the USA. Thank you for your love towards us and for your help. May the Lord fill all your needs and return you a hundredfold everything that you have sacrificed for us. Be blessed!

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

The Annual Report of the PIEI Ukraine National Ministry for the Year 2022

1. Repentance and Baptisms:

- Year 2022 was a difficult year for our ministry, difficult for the whole country of Ukraine, because on February 24, 2022 the war with Russia started in Ukraine. Despite all the circumstances, the Lord helped us because, following the work of the 9 missionaries from the PIEI Ukraine mission, 250 people were already converted and 33 people received the New Testimonial baptism - praise God for these spiritual fruits!

2. The work at the Biblical Theological Institute:

- This year, 6 sessions were taught at the Institute. Through these sessions we prepare new disciples for God`s work in Ukraine. 50 students who studied the Bible participated in these sessions.

3. Camps:

- During this war in Ukraine, the government forbade everybody to organize camps, so to hold the traditional PIEI youth camp we changed it in the documents as 5 days seminars. – Thus, 150 young people and children (70 % of the young people were from unbelieving families) could come to the PIEI youth camp and 56 of whom repented - Glory be to God.

- Each missionary from the PIEI Ukraine mission organized VBSs for children in their local churches, where 460 children and adolescents participated. Among the local children many of the refugee’s children who live in those localities also went to the VBS.

4. Work with orphans:  

- Right from the beginning of the year, in January, we organized the Orphan`s Christmas celebration for the orphaned children. We gathered 200 orphaned children, we fed them and he gave them 200 gifts of sweets and fruits.

- During the year, 2 meetings were held with these children, where they were fed well and again, received gifts.

5. Work with Refugees:

- Right from the beginning of the war, the PIEI  Ukraine missionaries worked a lot on the distribution of refugees coming from the North, East, and South of Ukraine, to our region  in the West of Ukraine. We have been feeding them and finding them shelters. We gave them shelter in local houses, in churches, schools, and even our own homes. Throughout these 7 months of war we tried to help them with food, clothing, shoes, toys, school supplies, etc. items that we have been receiving abundantly from our missionary brothers from the PIEI Romania mission. They visited us several times with vans loaded with humanitarian aid for the refugees.

- Now we are trying to find houses that have heating for the refugees so that they can live in warmth, because winter is approaching.

6. Help for soldiers who are fighting and for the people who need help:

- The PIEI Ukraine missionaries   took many buses loaded with food products for the people who stayed in the cities where battles are held and who couldn’t flee. (in the cities such as Irpini, Bucea, Borodeanca). Even now, in September, they took a van overloaded with food to Gostomel - a town below Kyiv that suffered a lot as a result of this war.

7. Evangelism:

- This summer the Lord helped us a lot so that a group of brothers and sisters from a church in Indiana, USA came to minister with us in Ukraine on a short term mission trip. And despite the war, many evangelizations were held among the refugee s in our parts and especially with the refugees in the following localities: the city of Czernowitz, the villages of Dinautsi, Rakitna, Tarasautsi, Noua  Sulitsa, Cotileu, Nesvoia.

- We did these evangelistic meetings, together with the team from the USA, home visits in the homes where the non-Christian refugees live. There were also people who repented. Also, we held meetings with the families of those soldiers who fought in the front line of the war. We prayed with them, we gave them food, aid and promised them that we will continue to pray for them and take care of them.

– We also had meetings with the soldiers who serve our country and went to fight in the war. We supplied each soldier with bulletproof vests, where we put a New Testament on each of them and covered them with prayer. We also gave each soldier first aid kits. We had a meeting with 100 soldiers and we are preparing to do more meetings with God’s help.

8. The Work on Radio Bucovina: 

- We have 2 missionaries in the PIEI Ukraine ministry who hold broadcasts on radio Bucovina. Through their radio programs, they encourage all the inhabitants of the Czernowitz region, even the refugees who live in our region.

9. Thanks:

- We thank you, from the bottom of our hearts, for your prayers, for the prayer groups that pray unceasingly for Ukraine, for the prayers of the churches in the USA because you are constantly praying for the missionary work here, thank you for the sponsors and partners who support the missionary work in Ukraine and for the humanitarian help that you sent us at the right time so that we could serve those who are in need here, especially the refugees who live among us.

10. Prayer Requests:

·       Pray together with us, so that we can find heated houses for the refugees.

·       So that throughout the winter we have food and warm clothes for the refugees who are in the Chernivtsi region and for those on the front line.

·       To be able to organize youth and children’s camps.

·       To be able to work with orphans and the elderly.

·       For the end of the war in Ukraine.

Thanksgiving day

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

I thank the Lord for blessing me throughout this month and giving me the opportunity to preach and proclaim His Word among the people who live in our area. He guarded our land from bombings and people live in peace with us.

1. Thanksgiving:

-On September 25, our church celebrated the feast of Thanksgiving to the Lord for a blessed harvest in our villages and in Western Ukraine. In the East, South and North of Ukraine there was a war and people who even sowed seeds, everything burned down. And we, those from whom the earth gave birth, should help and share with those who have such trouble. Our church is already preparing how to help and where to send help to people suffering from this war.

-On this holiday there was a rich program of youth and children in which the Name of the Lord our God was glorified. We also divided the products into bags and delivered them to the needy and sick in the village. People were very grateful to God for such kindness, Thank God!

-We also rejoiced, together with our entire church, for the repentance of one young woman (Lyudmila). She has been going to our church for a long time and on this Thanksgiving day she decided to repent. We have been praying for her for a long time and thank God that He heard our prayers. Now we pray for her husband George and for her children.

2. Social assistance.

-Also helped a family twice this month whose wife has cancer. We helped them with money and food. We pray for them and for this sister (her name is Jeta). She has just received another course of chemotherapy and is very weak. She keeps telling us that she is ready to go to God, but if the Lord wills continue her life, then she would like this. She is 59 years old. We pray for her all the time.

-We continue to help one disabled brother Dmitry in whatever he needs. We pray with him and comfort him.

-We gave literature and help to refugees who live in the village of Balkovtsy (neighboring village).

3. Breaking bread.

On October 2, we made breaking bread in the church in the village of Nesvoi and in the church in the village of Balkovtsy. We also distributed Holy Communion to the sick. They are always happy when brothers come to them with communion.

4. Meeting of the missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission.

-On September 28, we had a meeting with the missionaries of the PIEI UKR mission in Novoselytsya to the Emmanuel Church, where our missionary pastor is brother Valery Popov. There, each of our missionaries gave a report on the work done for 2022. We prayed and thanked God that He is still merciful to us and prolongs our lives so that we can serve Him with full dedication. We also thanked God for our sponsors from the USA, who constantly helped us, at this difficult time for us, and with prayers, and financially supported us so that we would continue to help other people who are in need. We prayed for our brothers and sisters from the USA that the Lord bless them with health and everything they need. We also prayed that the Lord would stop this war. Only God can stop this evil and we hope for God's mercy. Everyone of our missionaries were very happy about this meeting. We prayed for each other, encouraged each other, and blessed each other in our ministries for the next.

4. Thanksgiving:

-We are very grateful to the Lord for His mercy to us and we still have a peaceful sky (during these 7 months of the war in Ukraine we were never bombed), and for the fact that we can calmly serve the people who live near us. We are especially pleased to serve refugees and hear from them words of gratitude addressed to our God.

-We are grateful to God for you, brothers and sisters from the USA, for your support and for your prayers for us and for Ukraine. We feel the power of your prayer that strengthens us in ministry here, where we are at this very disturbing time for us.

5. Prayer needs:

-Pray with us, dear brothers and sisters from the USA, that the war will end and that the Lord will continue to protect us from war so that we can serve the Lord by helping people in their needs.

-Pray for us, the ministers of the church, so that we can find warm homes for the migrants because winter is coming soon.

-Pray for those people who have heard the Word of God that they repent.

-Pray for those soldiers who are on the front line defending Ukraine, that the Lord will protect them.

-Pray that the Lord will give me health to serve Him.

And we always pray for you, dear brothers and sisters, that the Lord bless you, your families, your churches and your country.

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

Ordination of new deacons

Greetings, dear brothers and sisters from the USA, in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord!

Gospel for unbelievers:

-I am grateful to God for helping me to serve unbelieving people, so that they could learn more about Jesus Christ and His love.

1. In the Nesvoi church, we held 2 evangelizations at which we glorified God through the singing of our choir and youth choir. There were many unbelievers at these evangelizations, and at the end of the meeting one young girl repented - Glory to God. Then I realized that if you sow the seed of God, it does not return without fruit.

2. In 3 churches: the Nesvoi Church, the Bolkovets Church and in the Podvirnyanskaya Church, I held communions, due to the fact that there are temporarily no ministers there. There were 2 unbelievers in the Podvirnyanskaya church, of which one soul repented - Thank God! The other does not yet dare to accept Christ in the heart but we pray for this soul.

-I spent these services for 2 weeks, because their ministers were: one was sick, and the other went abroad with his family.

-I was invited to preach at a funeral in Balkovtsy where one sister passed away. Her children were unbelievers. They thanked us 3 preachers and our choir for actively participating in this funeral of our sister in the Lord. There were about 100 people present and half of them were unbelievers. Everyone listened attentively to the Word of God. One person, after this funeral, visits the prayer house. We pray for these people and for this village so that the Lord tests their hearts for repentance.

3. Together with the brothers from the Baptist association, we were at the ordination of 2 deacons in the church of Dinivtsi. Their names are: brother Leonid Paskar (brother of pastor Alex Paskar), they work with his wife and lead the church choir, have 6 children; and brother Veniamin Chupak, a youth leader, also work together with his wife with teenagers from the church. He has 6 children. At this service there were many unbelievers who listened to the Word of God attentively.

4. I conduct Bible lessons at the Bible Institute. I have classes with volunteers from many churches. In one of the churches, I taught classes from the lecture of the book "Marriage Without Regret." These classes were attended by 150 young families and youth. I taught these classes at the request of the young people present.

5. Prayer needs:

-Pray, together with us, that the Lord would give me strength and wisdom, so that I could teach Bible lessons in churches in the Power of the Holy Spirit.

-Pray for these 2 deacons from the church in Dinivtsi whom we ordained to work in the Power of the Holy Spirit.

-For those who repented at the evangelizations who were led to make a covenant with Jesus Christ through water baptism.

- So that we do not get tired of helping refugees in all respects: morally, spiritually and materially.

-To end the war and bring peace to Ukraine.

-So that all the people who listened to the Word of God preached this month, may this Word be for their repentance.

6.Thanksgiving:

-We are grateful to you, brothers and sisters from the PIEI mission, for supporting us missionaries from the PIEI Ukraine mission, both spiritually in your prayers for us, and financially so that we can work here and help other people who need help.

-We are grateful to God that our region, Chernivtsi, has not yet been bombed and so far it is quiet here. We pray to God that he will continue to give peace to our region so that we can work calmly and sow the word of God among people.

-And we pray for you, dear brothers and sisters from the USA, that the Lord bless your work of donation for Ukraine. May God bless your families, your church and your country with peace and health. We always thank God for you. Be blessed!

With love, the Petikhachny family, Pavel and Larisa.