Regional pastoral conference

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

3.Nursing ministry.

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

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

4.Thanksgiving:

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

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

5.Prayer needs:

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

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

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

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

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

With love to you family Petikhachniy Pavel and Larisa.

Harvest day in our region

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

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

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

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

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

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

2.Funeral:

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

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

3.Teaching at the Bible Institute:

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

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

4.News from Ukraine:

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

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

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

5.Thanksgiving:

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

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

6.Prayer needs:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

With love to you family PETIKHACHNYY PAVLO and LARYSA.

Missionary service of the PIEI Ukraine mission for 2023

Missionary service of the PIEI Ukraine mission for 2023

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

1.Baptism and repentance

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

2.Theological Institute

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

3.Christian camps

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

4.Service with orphans

-The PIEI Ukraine mission was organized for orphans:

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

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

5.Work with displaced people

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

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

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

6.Serving with children, teenagers and young people.

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

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

7.Radio ministry

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

8.Ministry of the Sisters

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

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

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

9.Prayer needs:

-Pray for peace in Ukraine.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10.Thanksgiving

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

Difficult places in the Bible

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

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

1.Breadbreaking

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

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

2.Bible Institute

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

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

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

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

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

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

5.Thanksgiving:

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

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

6.Prayer needs:

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

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

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

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

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

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

With love to you family Pavel and Larysa Petikhachnyy.

Thanksgiving Day

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

I am grateful to God for His mercy towards us, for the fact that He protects us and helps us in our ministry here in Ukraine, although this difficult war has been going on in Ukraine for more than 600 days. But thank God that these enemy missiles are not coming to us, although missiles arrived 100 km from us in the Khmelnitsky region and 250 km in Lviv this week. There was great destruction and people were injured. Also, rockets are bombing Kyiv all the time. We pray for all the people who are going through these trials, that the Lord will protect everyone from these drones and missiles.

1. September 17, the Lord helped us celebrate Thanksgiving Day. Together with the church, we thanked God for all the blessings, for the bread, for the wonderful vegetables and fruits that He blessed us with this year. Thank God that we have enough food, and we can also help other people who are in need. We had a blessed evangelistic meeting where everyone, from the least to the greatest, glorified God and thanked Him for His mercy and kindness to us. Blessed psalms, poems, and sermons inspired by the Holy Spirit were also heard, Glory to God. There were also 5 souls at this evangelization who have been attending our services all summer. We pray for them that they will repent.

Also at the end of the meeting, we took all the gifts of earth that had gathered that day to the sick and poor. These people thanked God for these wonderful blessings.

2. On September 10, we had a meeting of all leaders of children’s and youth ministries in churches in the Novoselitsky district. There was a re-election of the leader for children's and adolescent ministry in this area and unanimously everyone chose our brother, pastor missionary Igor Dzyadik. Let us pray for the ministry of Brother Igor.

3. Also this week, the ministry committee for sisters had a meeting where they discussed and prayed for the ministry of all our sisters from the Chernivtsi region. We discussed how to better organize a regional sister conference from November 11, how to organize prayer on the first Monday of November, when there will be a world day of fasting and prayer for sisters. Thank God it was a blessed meeting. May the Lord help all the sisters of our region in this wonderful service for the Lord, and may the Lord hear all the prayers of our prayer sisters.

4. God helped me teach a group of students lessons from textbook No. 4, Revelation of John the Theologian. We pray that these students have the desire to continue these lessons.

5.Thanksgiving:

-We never tire of thanking the Lord for the fact that He protects our region where we live from missile attacks and we can serve Him here calmly.

-We thank the Lord for you, brothers and sisters from the USA, our partners in evangelism here in Ukraine, for helping us and supporting us here in our ministry for God.

-Thank you for praying for the team of brother pastor missionary Kioresko Gregory, who arrived from Gostomel safely, and today they went there again to bring food to people and also to proclaim the Word of God to 250 people.

-We thank God for our daily bread and for the wonderful harvest of products with which the Lord blessed us this fall, so that we, in turn, also bless poor people.

6.Prayer needs:

-Pray with us for God’s continued protection of our Bukovina from the arrival of enemy missiles and drones. For this terrible war to end.

-Continue to pray for Lyudmila and Maria, who want to be baptized but have obstacles from their unbelieving husbands. Pray for this need too.

-Continue to pray for our volunteers who bring humanitarian aid to people in need in Gostomel, and in other cities of Ukraine that are in places of hostilities. So that God’s protection would always be with them, and the Word of God would be preached there in the Power of the Holy Spirit, so that many more people would accept Jesus Christ as a Personal Savior in their hearts.

-Pray for the ministry of our sisters.

-Pray for the ministry of our leaders with children and teenagers in our schools.

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

We also pray for you brothers and sisters from the USA, that the Lord will bless you, your families, your churches and your country USA. May the Lord return and reward you with a hundredfold blessing!

With love to you family PETIKHACHNYY PAVLO and LARYSA.

Regional meeting

Dear brothers and sisters, our evangelistic partners from the United States, we greet you with the love and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I am grateful to God that our region is still peaceful and calm against the backdrop of this terrible war. Although sirens sound every day, so far we have not had any missiles arrive. For this reason, in other cities there are missiles flying into residential buildings and in central markets where civilians walk. So on September 6, a rocket fell on a market from Konstantinovka, Donetsk region, resulting in 17 dead (among them children) and 34 wounded. This is terrible. On September 8, at night, they hit Krivoy Rog and Summy. Again, many civilians were hurt. We pray that this horror ends soon in our Ukraine.

I am grateful to the Lord that the month of August was a blessed month for my ministry, because God gave me success in this ministry.

1.Baptism:

-At the beginning of August, I was invited to the church from Kotileve, where 4 souls were baptized, and on September 3, I was invited to the church in the village of Rokitne, where the pastor, our missionary, brother Kioresko Gregory, serves, and where 3 souls were baptized, one young guy and Two women. There were many people from the world at this evangelistic meeting, since our sisters had recently repented and had unbelieving children in their families. And one sister, her name is Natasha, she is one of the migrants. She repented here and wanted to be baptized. Many of these non-believers promised to come to church. They really enjoyed listening to the Word of God. I preached the Word of God before the breaking of bread.

-In the near future, 2 souls will be baptized in our church in Nesvoya. We pray for them. These are two women whose husbands are unbelievers. And they have big problems because of their husbands. But we believe that God solves all our problems. So everything will be fine for our sisters, Lyudmila and Maria.

2. Regional meeting of church ministers in the Chernivtsi region:

-From August 29 to 31, there was a regional meeting of ministers of the ECB church of our region, with their spouses, in Boyany. I put a lot of effort into organizing this meeting with the ministers. There were many ministers from the Novoselitsky district, thank God, because this area is close and they came through the fields directly to Boyany. There were also many ministers of the ECB Church from other areas of our region. We had a blessed three-day meeting with ministering brothers and their wives.

The main sermon was delivered by Brother Antonyuk Valeriy, Bishop of the ECB Church of all Ukraine, on the topic: Blind spots in the ministry of church ministers.

3. Re-election of a new director of children’s and youth ministry:

-On Sunday, September 10, we have a meeting for all leaders of children’s and youth ministries, ECB churches of the Novoseletsky district. There will be a re-election of a new leadership leader in ministry with children and teenagers in churches in our area. One of the candidates for this ministry is brother pastor missionary Igor Dzyadyk. We pray that he will be chosen for this ministry.

4.Evangelism in other churches:

-Organized an evangelization meeting in Balkovtsy. There weren’t many people at this evangelization, but we believe that at the next evangelization the Lord will help us organize better so that more people come to listen to the Word of God.

5.Thanksgiving:

-We thank God for you, those who serve with us, pray for us and help us financially. In this way we have success in the gospel.

-We are grateful to God for helping us organize such a wonderful camp in Boyany where 150 teenagers and young men studied the Word, and 2 of them received water baptism. We pray for all those 50 souls who repented in the camp, that the Lord would strengthen them in faith and that they too would enter into a covenant with God through water baptism.

-We are grateful to God for peace and tranquility in Bukovina and we can still work fruitfully in the Lord’s Field.

6.Prayer needs:

-Pray for those souls who were baptized this summer, and for those who have not yet been baptized. So that the Lord strengthens them all in faith. Pray for our two sisters from my church who want to be baptized but are blocked by their unbelieving husbands (their names are Sister Lyudmila and Sister Maria).

-Pray for those who repented in our camp so that their desire to study the Word of God does not go away.

-Pray for serving our mission among young people, teenagers and children. So that many of them will be kindled to serve Christ.

-Pray for brother missionary pastor Grigory Kioresko and his team who are now in Gostomel, Kyiv region. They are bringing humanitarian aid, and will also preach to these people about the love of Christ. So that the Lord will always preserve them, on these volunteer roads in cities that are located near the combat zone.

-Pray for all our missionaries who help the displaced people who live among us here, and also proclaim the Word of God to them. So that there is repentance among these migrants.

- Pray for an end to this terrible war in Ukraine. So that peace can finally come to Ukraine.

- So that there are no missiles arriving either in our region, where we live, or in other regions of Ukraine. This war brought us many victims, people and children.

We also pray for you, brothers and sisters from the USA - our partners in the gospel here in Ukraine. We thank you for everything you do for us and pray that the Lord will return a hundredfold blessing to you, your families, your churches and your country. Be blessed!

With love to you family PETIKHACHNYY PAVEL and LARYSA.

PIE meeting

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

I thank God for peace and tranquility in our region, where we live, in this difficult time of the war in Ukraine. For 542 days this war has been raging, rockets have been flying to our cities and villages and destroying houses, killing civilians and children. This week, one rocket fell 50 km from Chernivtsi, our city. This is in Kolomyia, Ivano-Frankivsk region. The 8-year-old boy could not be saved by the doctors. What a pity! But how many children and people in other cities suffered. Only God can stop this terrible war. Only God can protect us from these horrors.

1. We are grateful to God that after that we saw off our guests from the USA, then we were able to gather with our missionaries and summed up our work with the camps this summer, discussed all the pluses and minuses of our ministries. We prayed and thanked God for the protection of us, our guests from the USA and also our children in these camps. They thanked for the Holy Spirit who led these ministries and prompted people to repentance - Praise God! We also prayed for each other so that the Lord would continue to protect us from all evil and guide the Holy Spirit and further our ministry here, where we are.

2. I had the opportunity to visit a church from the village of Kotileve on August 6, where the pastor is our brother missionary Igor Dzyadik. 4 people were baptized by him. One family is Valentina and Fyodor, a woman Lisa and a girl Suzanna, who repented in our camp. Thank God there was a blessed evangelistic meeting, where there were many people from unbelievers and heard the Word of God. The choir from Chernivtsi glorified God through beautiful singing and poetry. There were blessed sermons. We pray that the Holy Spirit will work on the hearts of people who have not yet accepted the Lord in their hearts. After the service, we had a table of love where everyone communicated together, thanked and glorified the Lord for His gifts and for His mercy to us.

3. I also had the opportunity to visit the village of Zhilovka where they had the funeral of a young woman. She was only 47 years old. There were a lot of unbelieving people, at this funeral the Word of God was preached in the power of the Holy Spirit. We pray that this Word will touch the hearts of these people and that they will repent before it is too late.

4. Thanksgiving:

We thank the Lord for His mercy on us. For the fact that we are still quiet and peaceful and we can serve the Lord calmly.

- We thank you brothers and sisters from the USA for your prayers for us and for Ukraine, for your material support. May God bless you a hundredfold.

3. Prayer needs:

-Pray with us for peace to come to Ukraine. We hope in God that only He can stop this terrible war.

-Pray for our church from Nesvoi. We have a baptism at the beginning of the month of September. There are 4 souls who want to be baptized. We pray for them that God will strengthen their faith. And so that it was peaceful and there were no arrivals of enemy missiles.

-Pray for my family so that the Lord strengthens our health, so that my wife and I can serve the Lord zealously and with love.

And we pray for you, brothers and sisters, that the Lord bless you, your families, your churches, and your country USA. Please accept my heartfelt Christian greetings from my family. Be blessed, our dear brothers and sisters from the USA, our partners in evangelism here in Ukraine!

With love to you, the Petikhachnyy Pavlo and Larysa family.

Testimonies from camp

We greet you with the love and peace of Jesus Christ, dear brothers and sisters from the USA, our partners in evangelizing the Word of God here in Ukraine!

1. We are very grateful to the Lord for you and for your support in our Christian mission camp PIEI CANDELA, which was held from July 24 to 29, in Boyany. Since we wrote in the previous news, we had 150 people in this camp. Among them were 30 leaders, a team of 9 people from the USA and 10 children, 100 teenagers. We thank you again for sponsoring this camp, because without you, we don't know how we would have managed. There were many displaced children and we had to pay the full cost of this camp. Praise God for all that He has done for us through you, our dear evangelistic partners from the USA.

2. The US team was divided into 2 groups. One group stayed in the camp each day: Gabi, Ashley, David and Grace, and the second group: Cornel, Debbi, Will, Stephen, and Skip, traveled for the whole day, all 5 days, to our churches for evangelism with glasses. Since the eye doctor Debbie had a large number of points, she saw almost 50 people a day. The brothers Will, Stephen, Cornel and Skip were soul guardians. We are glad that more than 100 unbelievers received not only eyepieces, but had the opportunity to hear the Word of the Gospel, the Word of Salvation. Thank you very much for the work of our consigliere brothers and for the service of Sister Debbie. May the Lord reward your great work and donation. And also thanks to all the translators for their service: Alex, Ira, Alina, Naomi, Joni, Grace and Erika. May the Lord bless them all abundantly!

3. In our camp there was a very rich program of studying the Word of God, sports games, swimming in the pool, and in the evening there was a worship program. There were 4 groups studying the Word of God. The first group of teacher's brother David from the USA. The second group is teachers Gabi Stef and Tatiana, the third group is teachers Ashley and Tamara and the fourth group is teacher brother Pavel Petikhachny. Each group taught good spiritual topics for every teenager who was in those classes. After lunch, each of these 4 groups had drawing lessons led by Grace, a girl from the USA. She taught the children how to put their feelings on paper as a drawing. So they put on their papers the topics of the study of the Word of God that they were studying. Each group had its own topics. For example, Brother Paul had a theme from the Epistle to the Philippians, Rejoice in the Lord always. And they very beautifully outlined this theme in the drawings. Grace and Gabi's sister Steph helped with this. We are glad to hear that every teenager liked our camp and they would like to stay even for 2 more days. There were rich sermons every evening in the camp, and at the end of the camp Brother Will from the USA preached. We prayed a lot for this pastor brother, and the Holy Spirit touched the hearts of these children Friday night. Thank God that almost 50 teenagers and children came out and repented. Now we pray for them fervently that the Lord will strengthen their faith. And now we want to write you a few testimonies of the repentance of these teenagers:

1. Bryabin Evelina, 15 years old, Tarasovtsy

-I am grateful to God for getting into this Christian camp. This is my first time at this camp. I have unbelieving parents. It's for me, well… I don't know how to describe it… It's just a miracle in my life God did. I liked everything in this camp, and the leader, and teachers, and sports, and worship evenings. I found new friends, but the main thing is that I found the Savior Christ in my life. God bless! Thank you all for such a wonderful camp.

2. Vakaruk Alina, 13 years old, IDP from Lugansk.

- I have no words to express my deep gratitude for such happiness - to get into such a cool camp. It is also a great happiness for me that in this camp I came to know Jesus Christ as my personal Savior. I never could have imagined, a year and a half ago, even before the war, that I would go to a Baptist church now. But this is how the Lord controls that through this war people come closer to God and seek Him. I am very glad that I found Jesus as my Savior and thanks to everyone who helped me in this. God bless!

3. Tkachuk Artem, 16 years old. Malinovka.

- I am very glad that I got to this wonderful camp. To be honest, I was upset when I found out that the tours in the camp had already ended and I was looking for all sorts of ways to get this ticket. At the last moment I got a ticket because someone could not go to the camp. There are no words to describe how great this camp was. Everything was beautiful, and the Word of God that touched me was the most beautiful. I was in Ashley and Tamara's teacher class. They are very good and instructive spiritual lessons. And on Friday evening. After Brother Wil's sermon, I made the decision to repent. An interesting fact is that a year ago my brother Arthur also repented in this camp. And now he serves God as a leader in this camp. Thank God and you for this wonderful camp. Be blessed!

4. George Yanosh, 14 years old, Marshintsi.

-I am grateful to God for being in such a camp. I liked the lessons of Brother David from the USA. I also liked the whole program of the camp. It just seems to me that there was not enough time. We need a couple more days. Although 7 days. I didn’t have time to make friends with new friends and I had to say goodbye already. But thank God that the main thing did. This is my repentance. May the Lord bless you all!

5. Denis, 14 years old, from immigrants.

-I am grateful to all of you who organized such a wonderful camp. This is my first time at this camp. It was like a bonus for me against the backdrop of such a terrible war that is happening in Ukraine. I learned a lot here. Get to know God better. Learned how to read and study the Word of God. How to pray to God. We had a prayer every morning with our leader, and for the first time I learned how easy it is to turn to God with your own words, and not some memorized words. And when I prayed with Pastor Will on Friday, it became so easy on my soul. Thank God for all this and thank you for the camp.

6. David Skitsko, 14 years old, Zhilovka

Thank you all for a wonderful camp. I am very glad that I have come to know the Lord Jesus as my Personal Savior and God. It was wonderful both at the lessons of brother David and swimming in the pool, and at sports games. It was very cool to start the day with a prayer to God. This was something new for me. I have unbelieving parents. Now I understand that our daytime blessing by God depends on our morning prayer. Thank you for the camp!

7. Kirill, 15 years old, migrant.

- I liked the camp. The main thing I realized is that without God I am nobody. How God brought me and my family, and we left everything and came from afar, to these places where I had not even heard of them. There is a church where people worship God. And people accepted us well and always help, thank God. Thank you for the invitation to the camp. When I watched the scene about the prodigal son in the evening, I said out loud that I would never be like that. One woman, a leader, heard me and said: - You will not be like this only if you accept Jesus in your heart. The Lord will help you and strengthen you on the narrow path. I did not understand it then, but when there was a call to repentance, on Friday evening, I still accepted Jesus Christ in my heart. Now I feel very light in my soul and I praise my Lord.

8. Burlaka Nadia, 14 years old, Kotilevo.

-Thank God for the fact that I had the opportunity to visit this camp. Thank God that the Word of God touched my heart too. Thank God and you for a wonderful and very organized camp.

9. Amelia, 15 years old, Tarasovtsy.

- I really liked this camp. I was delighted for 5 whole days from this camp and from the organization of this camp. My parents are non-believers, but I like going to church for believers. I don't know what my parents will do with me, but I accepted the Lord Jesus in my heart and am very glad. Pray for me and my parents to let me go to the Baptist church. I pray to my Jesus and I believe that He will not leave me. Thank you all for a great camp.

10. Mariana, 15 years old, Odessa.

-I am very grateful to God that I came to visit Chernivtsi from Odessa and I was invited to this Christian camp. It was my first time in such a camp. I would never have thought that it would be so interesting for me in a Christian camp. And that I would be so interested in studying the Bible. Here I felt exactly how the Spirit of God works through every minister, through every leader. I liked everything here. Sports games, contests and food were very tasty. But the most important thing was on Friday night, when I felt the call of the Lord to repentance. Thank God for brother Will from the USA. I am very glad that I accepted the Lord in my heart. I am now free, saved and belong to Jesus - Praise Him! Thank you for a wonderful camp.

11. Vanya Sprinchinat, 14 years old, Novoselitsa.

-Thank you very much for your camp. Thanks for the invitation to the camp. My parents are unbelievers and my father died 2 years ago. I was so unhappy before this camp. Here I learned how to trust God and that only God can comfort me in my suffering. Because Christ, innocent, Holy, suffered and died on the cross for me and the whole world. I realized this last Friday during Brother WILL's sermon. I didn't come forward like the others, but I was overwhelmed with emotion and broke my heart before God, And repeated the prayer of repentance after Brother WILL. I believe that I am saved by God. Please pray for my mother, so that she will know the love of our Jesus Christ. Thank you for your great work. Be blessed!

These, and many more testimonies of repentance and thanksgiving for the camp, there are many more. Please pray for all the children and teenagers who were in our camp. Then almost 50 people came out to repent, but we saw tears in their eyes and those who did not have the courage to come forward. For the Holy Spirit to work in their hearts after this camp.

Thanks again to all the sponsors of this camp, and to everyone who prayed for us. May the Lord bless everyone abundantly!

Thank you for the team from USA who worked hard among us. Keep praying for us and for peace in Ukraine! Be blessed our dear brothers and sisters from the USA!

With love to you, the PETIKHACHNYY PAVLO AND LARYSA family.

We had a blessed camp

Praise God for a blessed camp!

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

A week has already passed, and since we wrote to you about our Christian camp Candela, from July 24 to July 29, in Boyany, at the end of this week is over.

There were 150 children and teenagers, leaders and teachers, there were our friends from the USA, a team of 9 people. We all had a wonderful week at this wonderful camp. Students learned the Word of God every day and still had the opportunity to make friends with each other, play sports, swim, have blessed evenings around the Word of God and, together with the worship group, praise our Lord. And at the end of the week, Friday night, the Holy Spirit called these teenagers to repentance. And thank God for the fact that more than 50 teenagers and children heard the voice of the Holy Spirit and accepted Christ in their hearts.

We want to thank the Lord from the bottom of our hearts for His mercy and grace to us, for the fact that these days it was calm and not a single rocket flew at us. We praise God for the fact that He heard both your prayers and our prayers, and protected us from all evil. Praise God for the fruits of repentance among children and teenagers. In the next news we will write you the testimonies of these teenagers and children who repented.

We thank you brothers and sisters for your prayers and for sponsoring this camp. May the Lord return a hundredfold blessings to those who donated money for our camp.

We are grateful to God for the fact that He protected the team from the USA and they, who are among us, worked fruitfully for the Lord.

Keep praying for peace in Ukraine.

-Pray further that the team of 9 people from the USA, led by Brother Cornel Stef, who is the president of the PIEI mission, will return home safely. They go on Tuesday, August 2 to the USA.

-Pray for those teenagers and children from the camp who repented, that the Lord would strengthen their faith, so that they would serve the Lord all their lives.

We wish you abundant blessings from the Lord. We love you and pray for you.

With love to you, the PETIKHACHNYY PAVLO and LARYSA family.

Attending sick

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

I am grateful to God that He helped me this month to go through such circumstances that were for success in the gospel.

1. In the church from the village of Nesvoi, where I am a pastor, we

they collected social assistance and money to buy everything necessary for people who suffered as a result of the accident at the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, in the Kherson region. There was a terrible flood and people suffered greatly. These food and drinking water, our brother pastor, missionary Kyoresko Grigory and his team, as well as another team from Transcarpathia with buses, went to Kherson to distribute to people who are waiting for help from us. This social assistance was collected by many churches from the Chernivtsi region. People there they praised God and thanked our brothers with tears in their eyes.

2. I conducted Bible lessons from the Gospel of Mark with our church and with two neighboring churches of Balkovtsy and Podvirne. I also held communion with these churches.

-After these lessons, I visited the sick from these villages and preached to them the Word of God to the sick, as well as to those who live in their homes.

3. I visited, together with my wife Larisa, a church from the village of Malinovka. There I preached about the Sermon on the Mount of Jesus Christ. Larisa sang a couple of psalms and the church was very encouraged. After the service they invited us to visit them more often.

4.News from Ukraine:

-All Christian churches from the Chernivtsi region collect social assistance for people from the Kherson region, where many settlements were flooded. Every week our brothers go there in buses with food and drinking water.

-In Ukraine, the war continues. For 490 days this terrible war has been going on, which kills people and children every day. Every day and night, rockets arrive on our cities and villages. Yesterday a rocket hit a residential building in the city of Kramatorsk. Under the rubble of the house, 11 dead people were found. It is very scary and painful, but this is a war. There are so many destroyed houses, but it hurts us a lot that people are dying. Houses will be built more, but you will not return people's lives.

-All our churches, from our region, are now fasting and praying for the war to stop, for the arrivals of these missiles that bring destruction and death among peaceful people to stop.

5. Thanksgiving:

-We are grateful to God for the fact that in our region it is calm and there are no such arrivals of rockets. It's just God's mercy on us. And we can serve God by helping other people who are in trouble, thank God!

-We always thank God for you, brothers and sisters from the USA, for praying for us and for Ukraine and for supporting us financially and we help further where help is needed. And people really need our help now.

-We thank God for the fact that through helping people financially, we have the opportunity to preach the gospel among these people.

6. Prayer requests:

-Pray, together with us, for our missionaries of the PIEI UKR mission who are working hard in the field of God in this difficult time for us, so that they do not get tired and get sick doing these good deeds. For the Lord to protect them and guard them, their families and their churches.

-Keep praying for this terrible war to end.

-Pray for our PIEI UKR mission camp from 24 to 29 July. Pray for our leaders, for our teachers, for the children and teenagers who will be in this camp. So that the Lord protects everyone and protects from all evil. So that there are no missiles coming at us.

-Pray that the Lord will bless the Word of God that will be preached to the children, so that the sown Seed of Truth in the camp will bear fruit of repentance among children and teenagers.

-Pray for a team of brothers and sisters from the USA who will come to us in Ukraine, led by brother Cornel Stef, and will work both in our camp and outside the camp. May the Lord bless their journey and stay among us. And also on the way back home, so that always and everywhere there was the protection of the Lord over them.

-On Sunday, July 2, we are again gathering with our leaders to work on our camp program. Pray for us that the Lord will help us organize everything well, because our time is not very easy, but we want us to do everything in the best way, as for the Lord. We believe that the Lord will be with us and that He will help us in everything in this ministry.

And we pray for you brothers and sisters from the USA. And we are very grateful to the Lord for having you. We pray that God will bless you abundantly, and your families, and your churches, and your country USA!

With love to you, the PETIKHACHNYY PAVEL and LARYSA family.