Dear brothers and sisters from the USA, our partners in the gospel here in Ukraine, we greet you with the love and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ!
We are grateful to God that, even though we have been going through this terrible war in Ukraine for 684 days now, we can preach the Word of God with all our might to everyone who wants to listen to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We thank God that there have been no enemy missiles in our area yet, so we can preach the Word of God to all people here, and not only preach but also help our displaced people and financially give them bags of food. We are glad to help these people because more and more often we can hear from their lips - Thank God for everything! This means that the Name of the Lord is glorified among such people, and we pray for such people that the Lord will change their hearts to repentance before God.
1. We, together with our church and with the churches of the Novoseletsky district, celebrated the Nativity of Christ on December 25.
-First of all, I congratulated these churches with Bible verses and asked everyone to pray even harder for this terrible war in Ukraine to end in 2024.
-On December 25, I preached 2 sermons in our church where non-believers were also present, for whom we prayed that they would repent. The youth also had a beautiful program to glorify the Lord. We gave calendars to everyone present, and we are also preparing calendars and other Christian literature for people from the village who will celebrate Christmas on January 7th. Our youth will walk around the village and invite people to evangelize with us, and at the same time they will sing carols and glorify the Lord Messiah through chants. We also pray for this ministry.
-Our missionary wives also had one meeting, in Novoselitsa, at the Emmanuel Church, where our brother missionary pastor Valery Popov serves. I had a word there for them on the topic of Mary and Martha, two sisters from the New Testament. Our sisters were greatly encouraged by the Word of God and prayers before our Lord.
2. At the Bible Institute we are working on the Bible book of the Epistle to the Hebrews. I have already done 5 lessons from this book, Thank God.
-In the near future I will teach students the book of the Acts of the Holy Apostles, pray for me that the Lord will help me teach this book in the Power of the Holy Spirit.
3.During the Christmas holiday I visited many sick people and helped them with food packages, thank God I was able to help these people.
4.Currently, young families from our church are preparing 200 gifts for orphans from the Chernivtsi region. Together with Larisa, my wife, we will distribute these gifts to orphans in Homes for orphans in our region, and in the homes of families who have taken in raising orphans from boarding schools. Pray for us too, that the Lord will give us strength and health for this service, which will take place in mid-January.
5.News from Ukraine:
-Before the New Year, December 29, the enemies fired 158 missiles, as well as drones and suicide bombers, into the cities of Ukraine. Many missiles were shot down, and many exploded, destroying residential buildings and killing many people. On January 2, 98 missiles were fired again. We pray for those people.
Thank God that God had mercy on us and there were no enemy missiles arriving in our area.
6.Thanksgiving:
We are grateful to the Lord for His protection last month and from the beginning of this year, 2024. We hope for God's mercy and support throughout the whole year.
-We are always grateful to God for you, brothers and sisters from the USA, for your prayers and for your support for us.
7.Prayer needs:
-Continue to pray for the end of the war in Ukraine and Israel.
-Pray for our missionaries who are working to serve among the displaced. We have 2 missionaries who constantly travel and deliver humanitarian aid to people living near the front line. Those people are looking forward to receiving this help.
-Pray that it will continue to be quiet and calm here, without the arrival of enemy missiles, so that we can serve God fruitfully. So that the Lord opens the hearts of these people to repentance.
-Pray for those who listened to the word of God last month that they would repent.
-Pray for our further evangelizations, so that there will be success in the gospel.
-About evangelization among orphans.
And we constantly pray for you, dear brothers and sisters, our partners in the gospel, that the Lord will bless you richly and give you a hundredfold blessing for your sacrifice and support for Ukraine.
Please accept heartfelt greetings from our family. We love you and are praying for you.
With love to you PETIKHACHNYY family Pavel and Larysa.
