Happy Easter

Dear brothers and sisters from the USA, our partners in evangelism here in Ukraine, we greet you with the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.

On behalf of all our nine missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission, we congratulate you all on the feast of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ! We wish you all abundant blessings from the Lord and that all your churches grow more and more in the love of Christ, in the Holy Truth, so that your churches continue to bear blessed fruits in God's Vineyard. The Lord expects this from all of us.

We are always glad to hear such wonderful news about you about your ministry with the youth, with teenagers and with children. We pray that these Easter evangelisms will be blessed by God both in your churches, where you are members, and in our churches in Ukraine.

We thank your churches for supporting our missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission in your prayers and financially. This helps us a lot to serve here in Ukraine. Although we do not yet know when this war in Ukraine will end, we believe that with God's help this terrible war in Ukraine will end. Thank God that in the Chernivtsi region, where we live, enemy missiles do not fly to us, as in other regions of Ukraine. And we can serve here peacefully in our churches, to the needy displaced people who live near us. We organize meetings for them where we preach the Gospel to them, and also help with food. The displaced people are very happy that the children of God are helping them. They are having a very hard time. They left their homes and came to us to seek refuge. Therefore, we help them. And they praise God Almighty. Many of these people have repented and have already been baptized during these 3 years of war - Glory to God.

2. Weddings

- We thank God for the opportunity to be with my wife at the wedding of Gloria and Daniil. Gloria is the youngest daughter of our missionary Grigory Kioresko. The wedding was in Romania, in Radauti. I also preached at this wedding and gave the young people wise advice from the Holy Scripture. We also had the joy of meeting our children at this wedding with Andrei and Rebeka, and grandchildren Mark and Emima. We had not seen Andrei for almost 4 years. Therefore, we were very happy that the Lord provided us with such a pleasant meeting - Glory to God.

3. Preparations for Easter

- Our youth, children and choir are preparing to conduct evangelism for the Easter holiday, which will be on April 20. These evangelisms will take place both in our church and in neighboring churches, where there are few church members. But our church always helps neighboring churches from Balkovtsy and Podvirnoe. We pray that the Lord blesses the Holy Word, so that people who hear the Word will know our Lord.

4. Prayer requests:

-We would like to offer you several prayer requests so that you continue to pray for us:

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

-Pray that enemy missiles do not land in our region or in any region of Ukraine. There are many fatal victims among the peaceful inhabitants of Ukraine.

-Pray for the leaders of all countries and our country, that the Lord would give all presidents wisdom to lead, that true and stable peace would come to Ukraine.

-Continue to pray for the ministry of our missionaries here where we serve:

a). among the displaced, that more of them would know the love of Christ and repent.

b). We will hold an event for widows and orphans on May 17. We invited 200 orphans on this day so that we could feed them delicious food all day long and also preach the Gospel to them. Our leaders have prepared various games with prizes for them. Pray for a peaceful sky, without enemy missiles, so that we can calmly spend this day serving these orphans.

c). From July 21 to July 26, we will hold a Christian teenage camp Non Stop in Boyany. Many of the children of displaced persons will rest there. Pray for this camp, for the leaders, for the teachers, and for a peaceful sky again, without enemy missiles. Pray also for a group of teachers from the USA who will come to serve us in this camp, together with brother Cornel Stef, president of misiunii PIEI. May the Lord protect everyone from all evil.

- Pray for our volunteer brothers who go to the front line and bring the soldiers who defend Ukraine, prepared food, drinking water and everything else they need. May the Lord save the lives of the volunteers, because it is dangerous to go there because of frequent bombings.

- Pray also for the day children's camps that our churches will hold this summer. May the Lord bless these ministries.

We also pray for you brothers and sisters, our partners in evangelism here in Ukraine, and we love you.

We bless you and once again congratulate you on the holiday of the Resurrection of Christ!

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

Meeting of missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission

Dear brothers and sisters from the USA, we greet you with the love and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ! We are grateful to God for the protection and preservation of the Lord, the children of God, in this difficult period of war in Ukraine. And now the entire Church of Christ hopes only in the Lord. Only He has our help and protection. Only in the Lord do we trust and believe that the Lord will give us the long-awaited peace. Psalm 19:8 - Some in chariots, and some in horses, but we in the name of the Lord our God will boast.

This psalm encourages us all the time and we believe that the Lord will come to help and deliverance from enemies. May the name of the Lord be glorified forever and ever!

1. Church visits:

- We are very glad that the Lord helped me to visit three churches during this period.

- Preached the Gospel in a church from the village of Nesvoya. I am very glad that 4 listeners from among unbelievers regularly attend our church and listen attentively to the Word. We pray for them that they will repent.

- I visited the church from Marshenz and preached the Word of God, and my wife Larisa glorified God with singing and poetry. Also, in this church there are young people and a group of children who glorified God with singing and poetry. And we were also happy for the young preacher who preached at the beginning of the meeting. This brother David was with us in the camp in Boyany. Glory to God that our young brothers serve God through preaching. We are very grateful to God for the Christian camp, for the blessing through the repentance of many young people and our hearts rejoice when we see these young people who serve God.

- After lunch I visited the church from Kotilevo.

- I preached on the topic: Signs of the rapture of the church from the Gospel of Matthew with chapter 24.

The whole church was encouraged and everyone prayed that they would be ready for the rapture of the Church of Christ.

2. Meeting of missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission.

- On Friday, March 28, our missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission had a meeting in Novoselytsia in the Emmanuel Church. There they thanked God, prayed for the needs of our churches and the needs of our country, prayed for our sponsors from the USA so that the Lord would bless them with health, and also gave reports on the work done in their missionary service. They had ministry projects for the summer of 2025. They prayed for them so that the Lord would bless the ministry for the whole summer, and also prayed for the war to end in Ukraine.

3. Thanksgiving:

- We always thank God for you, brothers and sisters from the USA - our partners in the evangelism here in Ukraine. Thank you for your support in prayers, for your material help that helps us serve God here in this difficult time.

- We thank God for blessing this past month of March and for allowing us to serve God by evangelizing the Gospel to people. 4. Prayer requests:

- Pray with us for the war in Ukraine to end. For the long-awaited peace to come.

- Pray for those unbelievers who heard the Word of the Gospel this month, so that the Lord will test their hearts for repentance.

- Pray for our missionaries so that the Lord will give everyone health, the strength of the Holy Spirit for the evangelism of the Gospel in our missionary ministry.

- Pray for our summer projects with Christian children's camps, as well as for our Non Stop camp in Boyany from July 21 to 26. So that there are no enemy missiles, so that we can gather leaders for the ministry in the camp. Pray that the Lord will bless the arrival of a group of teachers from the USA, led by brother Cornel Stef. The Lord has blessed us every year since we started doing Christian camps, back in 2004, and we believe that this summer God will abundantly bless this ministry - Glory to God for everything!

- Pray for the ministry for widows and orphans that we will do in the middle of May. We only trust in God and believe that God will bless us in this ministry.

And we pray for you brothers and sisters from the USA - our partners in evangelism. May the Lord bless you abundantly and reward you a hundredfold for your sacrifice and for your love for us. And we love you and always pray for you.

With love to you, the Petikhachnyy Pavel & Larisa family.

Evangelism and distribution of packages of spring seeds

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

Glory to God for His protection and His guard this month, although we are still in a difficult time of war, but our hope and our support is our Lord God. Now all our brothers and sisters trust in God and wait for help from God. Psalm 19:8-9 - Some boast in chariots, and some in horses, but we boast in the name of the Lord our God; they have faltered and fallen, but we have risen and stand upright.

Glory to God for everything, for His mercy to us, for helping us in serving in His Field.

1. Evangelism and distribution of packages of spring seeds

- We held a large evangelism in our church in the village of Nesvoya. Many people attended this evangelism, even from other neighboring villages. There were visiting brothers from the Khotyn district. The Word of God was preached in the Power of the Holy Spirit. After this evangelism, our visiting brothers distributed to each person present a package of different spring seeds for sowing the land. Everyone was very happy and praised God. We pray for those people who came for the first time to evangelism and heard the Word of God.

- I also distributed packages of seeds throughout the Novoselitsky district and simultaneously conducted evangelism in these churches. Many people gathered and they were grateful to God for the seeds and for preaching the Word of God.

2. Bible Institute

- At the Institute, we studied the book of the prophet Isaiah together with the students. 60 students studied this book. They all studied this book with love. They studied the first part of the book of the prophet Isaiah, chapters 1 through 36. At the end of these classes, all the students passed the exam.

After these lessons, I took the book of the prophet Isaiah to the church where I serve as a pastor, thank God that everyone enjoyed studying this book.

3. Visiting other churches

- I visited 2 more churches: the Church from the village of Stanivtsi and the church from the village of Mamalygi. I preached to them from the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 24. After these lessons, they all invited me to visit them again and teach them from other textbooks.

4. Thanksgiving:

- We are very grateful to God for you, brothers and sisters from the USA, who pray for us and support us with help, so that we can help those in need here.

- We thank God that there are no enemy missiles in our region and we can serve God here in peace.

- We thank God for the blessed and favorable time to preach the Gospel to people this month.

5. Prayer requests:

-Dear brothers and sisters, do not stop praying to God for us and for Ukraine, so that this senseless war in Ukraine ends. We believe that only God can help us to restore the long-awaited peace in Ukraine.

-Pray for those people who listened to the Word of God this month, so that the Lord, through the Holy Spirit, would speak to their hearts. And test them for repentance.

-Pray also for our missionary brothers, so that the Lord would continue to protect us from all evil.

And we pray for you, dear brothers and sisters from the USA - our partners in evangelism here in Ukraine. We pray for all our sponsors of our PIEI Ukraine mission, so that the Lord would give everyone health and strength and strengthen you all in faith, hope and love. Please accept heartfelt greetings from my family. We love you and pray for you.

With love to you, the Petkhachnyy Pavel & Larisa family.

Fasting and prayer for peace in Ukraine

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!

- I am grateful to the Lord God for His protection and preservation in this month of February, this first year. I am grateful to God for His blessings in our ministry on the mission field in our area.

1. Fasting and prayer for peace in Ukraine:

- As we wrote in the previous report, on February 24 we had the All-Ukrainian day of fasting and prayer, where all believers and almost all confessions fasted and prayed before the Lord God for peace in Ukraine, for the wisdom of the president and those who lead the country, for the wisdom of other leaders of the countries of this world. Proverbs 21:1 - The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, like the rivers of water: he turns it wherever he wishes.

- All the children of God asked for mercy from our Lord and we all hope in the Lord that He would deliver us from this war.

- Also on March 1st there was a sisterly international day of fasting and prayer, where all the sisters from our churches gathered for prayer. The theme of the meeting was "Unity of Christians - hope and strength" John 7:23 - That they may be one as we are one. I in them and you in me, that they may be perfect in one, and that the world may know that you sent me and loved them as you loved me.

Also our sisters prayed for peace in Ukraine, that the Lord would give wisdom from above to all the presidents of countries, as well as to the president of Ukraine. May the children of God live in peace and quiet, and serve the Lord.

2. Breaking Bread

- We glorified the Lord for His sufferings, remembering the sufferings and death of Christ on the cross of Calvary in the first resurrection, through the Holy Communion - Breaking Bread. Our whole church thanked God the Father for His only begotten Son for all the people of this world, that everyone who believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.

3. Visit

- Also on this day I visited 8 brothers and sisters who were sick at home, so that they could also receive Holy Communion. They were very happy that they had this opportunity, together with the church, to remember the death and suffering of Jesus Christ. I prayed for each of them that the Lord would heal them.

- I also visited the church from Podvirnoye with the Breaking of Bread. There the minister brother fell ill and we were forced to go to them. These brothers and sisters were also very happy that we visited them. We pray for those people who visit this church, so that they repent. There are two people from this village.

4. Analysis of the Word

- I am finishing analyzing the Book of Spiritual Gifts. We will then conduct this analysis of the book with the students of the Bible Institute. This is a very interesting and instructive book, as are all the Bible books. The Holy Scriptures contain the source of God's wisdom, so it is so important and necessary for everyone to study the Scriptures.

5. Thanksgiving:

-We are very grateful to God for His protection and security in our region where we live and serve Him.

-We thank the Lord for you, dear brothers and sisters from the USA, for your support in prayer and for all the help you give us.

-We thank the Lord for His blessing in our ministry here.

6. Prayer requests:

-Pray with us that the Lord will help us and liberate Ukraine, and that the long-awaited peace will come. That the Lord will give wisdom to the president and all those in leadership positions. Psalm 19:8-Some in chariots, and some in horses, but we in the name of the Lord our God will boast.

- We pray for those people who heard the Word of God this month, which we preached to them. We pray for those two people who come to church from Podvirnoye. Three people from Nesvoy come to our church regularly. We pray for them too, that the Lord will test their hearts for repentance.

- We pray that the Lord will continue to bless us in the evangelism of the Gospel, that we will not have enemy missiles flying in, so that we can serve peacefully here where we live.

- So that we can hold a Christian children's and youth camp this summer. The Lord knows our needs in this ministry. We hope in the Lord and believe that He will help us in everything.

We thank you again, brothers and sisters from the USA - our partners in evangelism here in Ukraine. We know and feel that you are praying for us. May the Lord bless you abundantly. And we love you and pray for you.

With love to you, the Petikhachnyy Pavel & Larisa family.

PIE meeting

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

We are grateful to God for His protection and guardianship every day and every hour. It will be 3 years since February 24th began this full-scale war in Ukraine. This day, February 24th, is recognized as a day of fasting and prayer throughout our country. Only the Lord can help us and the people of God trust in our Lord, where does deliverance come from.

1. Meeting of missionaries from the PIEI Ukraine mission.

- This Saturday, our missionaries from the PIEI Ukraine mission met in Novoselytsia in the Emmanuel Church, where all the missionaries reported on their service. We rejoice that the Lord blesses the service of our missionary brothers. Although we have different difficulties, in connection with this war, our brothers work with full dedication. 8 people repented, glory to God. They also served the poor and displaced people. They served widows and orphans. We praise God that through such services people can hear about the love of the Lord God for humanity. And of course they praise and thank God for everything that He gives them through God's children.

- We prayed together with the missionary brothers that the Lord would continue to protect us from all evil and that He would bring us the long-awaited peace, God's Peace. Without lies and deceit. That the Lord would give wisdom from Above to the presidents of Ukraine and other countries, so that they would solve these problems of war with wisdom and justice. For the Lord is always just, God is thrice Holy and is the God of Truth and Justice. We all hope in the Lord.

- We also thanked the Lord for all the brothers and sisters from the USA who helped us all these years, so that we would help all the people who were in need.

2. Visits:

- I visited the church from the village of Shcherbintsi, with the brothers from the regional office, where we preached the word of God. We were pleased that there are many teenagers and children in this church. And there is also a sister who constantly studies the Bible with them.

- Also, one woman repented at this service, her name is Alexandra, thank God.

- And there are also three families of immigrants who live in this village in this church. They are very happy that they found refuge here with us, after wandering when they lost their homes because of this war.

- We also visited the church from the village of Podvirne. We preached the Word of God and sang psalms with them, glorifying our Lord. This is a small church, but they were still very happy that we visited them and encouraged them. Two men from the village visit this church and we pray for them to repent.

3. Bible Institute

- At the Bible Institute, we finished studying, together with all the students, the book of the prophet Isaiah, the first part. While studying this book we were greatly encouraged and are waiting for the time when we will study the second part of the book of the prophet Isaiah. May the Lord help us.

4. Thanksgiving:

- We are grateful to God and to you dear brothers and sisters from the PIEI America mission, for your support in prayers and for material support.

- We thank God for His protection and guardianship all these 3 years of war that are going on in Ukraine.

- We thank God for His blessings in our ministry. We sow the Word of God and the Lord blesses the hearts and souls of people to accept the Word inside their hearts, glory to God.

- We are grateful to God that all the churches of Ukraine will pray together to God on February 24, so that the Lord blesses Ukraine. And this day will be a national day of prayer in Ukraine every year. May the Lord hear our prayers and accept our worship to Him forever and ever. Amen.

5. Prayer requests:

- Pray with us that the Lord would give us His Peace and that the war in Ukraine would end. Everything is according to the will of the Lord.

- Pray for the health of all our missionaries, so that they could continue to work in the power of the Holy Spirit.

- Pray for those people who heard the Word of God this month, so that the Holy Spirit would work in their hearts to repent.

- Pray for our young brothers who were taken to war. Even young pastors and preachers were taken and they are now at the training ground. So that the Lord would protect them from all evil.

- Pray for our camp in July-August, so that the Lord would help us with leaders, because now is a very difficult time.

We are very grateful to God for you, brothers and sisters from the USA - our partners in evangelism here in Ukraine, for your support in your prayers and for your help in our ministry here. May the Lord bless you abundantly. We also pray for you and wish you that the Lord will give you all health, peace and success spiritual and earthly in your churches, in your families and in your country USA. Please accept heartfelt greetings from our family.

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

Social aid

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

We are very grateful to God for His mercies and for His protection and support at the beginning of this year, 2025. Because this terrible war in Ukraine has been going on for almost 3 years now and only by the grace of God, in our region, where we live, it is calm and peaceful, without bombing, but in the East, South, even the North of Ukraine, alas ... it is terrible what is happening. All our churches are fasting and praying that the Lord will stop this senseless and terrible war, that the Lord will give wisdom to all presidents so that the long-awaited peace in Ukraine will be restored. We hope only in the Lord.

1. We thank the Lord for His blessings at the beginning of this year when we served widows, orphans, displaced persons and other people in need. Thank God that these people listened to the Word of God, and gratefully accepted these social assistance packages that our church, together with our mission PIEI Ukraine, prepared for them, and they sincerely thanked the Lord God.

2. Breaking Bread and evangelism in connection with the funeral:

At the beginning of February, our church had a breaking of bread, where they took communion in memory of the suffering and death of our Savior Jesus Christ. They also visited our sick from the church, where they were very happy that they had the opportunity to take part in the breaking of bread.

- Also this Sunday, after lunch, we had a funeral for one 64-year-old brother from our church (brother Georgy Mikhailovich). He had his own bakery and baked bread for our entire village, as well as for people from neighboring villages. Therefore, more than 200 unbelievers came to the funeral. This was a good evangelism, where the Word of God was preached by the Power of the Holy Spirit. Our choir also glorified God through singing. We pray for these people who listened to the Word of God, so that the Lord will test their hearts for repentance. We also pray for the wife of brother George, sister Lilia, who was left a widow, so that the Lord will comfort her. We also pray for the family of their son Igor, so that they will repent.

3. Study of the Word

- We finished studying the textbook Revelation - Part 1 with the students. We will continue these classes that the students are looking forward to. They liked this book. And with God's help, we will continue to study it.

4. Meeting in ZOOM

- We had a ten-day meeting with the teachers of the Bible Institute in ZOOM. We studied the Book of Isaiah together - the first part. A very interesting and edifying book. We will try to teach this book to groups of students of the institute and to church groups.

5. Thanksgiving

- We thank God for His protection and protection in this difficult time of war for us. - We thank the Lord for you, brothers and sisters from the USA, who are our partners in the ministry here in Ukraine. For your prayerful and material support. Thanks to you, we can help people here who need our help.

- We thank God for the answered prayers and His help to us.

- We thank God for the blessing in our ministry to widows and orphans, which we had at the beginning of this year.

6. Prayer requests:

- Pray with us that the Lord would help us restore peace in Ukraine.

- That God would give wisdom to all presidents to make peace and that this terrible war would end, where so many people are dying.

- Pray for those people who heard the Word of God this month at evangelism among widows and orphans, among displaced persons, at a funeral service where more than 200 people listened to the Word. That the Lord would test their hearts for repentance.

- Pray for us that the Lord would protect us from all evil and that our evangelistic ministries God would bless abundantly. May the Holy Word sown among people bring forth much fruit of repentance.

And we always pray for you brothers and sisters from the USA and wish you abundant blessings from our Lord.

With love to you, the Petikhachnyy Pavel & Larisa family.

Ministry for orphans

Dear brothers and sisters from the USA - our partners in evangelism here in Ukraine, we greet you with the peace and love of our Lord Jesus Christ.

We are very grateful to God for His protection and preservation in this month, January, the first month of 2025. And in this month we had great blessings, because we were able to proclaim the Word of God to many people who wanted to listen and study the Word of God.

1. Ministry with orphans

- We are grateful to the Lord for helping us and our church to serve orphans and widows this month. Thank you for your prayers for us and as we wrote to you in previous reports, on January 17-18 we had meetings with orphans and widows from Chernivtsi.

- Our church prepared good gifts for these meetings, which we presented to each person who came to these meetings.

- The first meeting was in a boarding school in Sadgora, 5 km from Chernivtsi. About 200 people live there. There are widows and orphans from this war, and migrants who left their land because they have nowhere to live, lost their homes, many of them are disabled. We organized a good Christmas program for them and then gave them the words of praise songs and sang with them glorifying the Lord. At the end, everyone received a gift from us. They thanked us and God for not forgetting about them. We also invited them to come for the whole day to Kovelskaya Street 25, the Bible Center, in May, where we will organize an orphan and widow day. Then we want to organize a whole day of rest for them where we will prepare a festive lunch and breakfast. Also games for orphans. We pray that God blesses us and these people so that there will be a blessed meeting and that the Name of the Lord will be glorified among us. - We also visited families who took 10-15 orphans from an orphanage under guardianship. These are 5 families. There was one family that came from Dnepropetrovsk, where they were bombed. They took 13 children from the boarding school under their care. We are glad that these parents teach these children to pray and thank God. These children even prayed for us and for our church from Nesvoya. They thanked both God and us for the gifts, glory to God.

-Then we visited the orphanage where there are 50 children. They were also happy and thanked us for these gifts and we invited them to come to our daytime meeting in May. They come to this meeting every year and they really like our food from the oven. May God help us so that everything is blessed. So that there is a peaceful sky. So that there are no enemy missiles, so that these people who are waiting for help and consolation from us have joy and peace in their hearts. And may the Lord give us strength, health and zeal for serving in God's Vineyard.

2. Church ministry

- We help the poor and sick people through our church and through the PIEI Ukraine mission. At the same time, we organize mini evangelisms in their homes. We distribute spiritual literature and study the Word of the Gospel with them. We answer their questions and invite them to accept Christ in their hearts. Among them were people who prayed the prayer of repentance.

3. Funeral ministry

- I preached at the funeral of one brother, where many unbelieving listeners were present. I preached about the love of God, that Christ is the light of the world and only Christ can enlighten any person. We pray for these listeners that the Lord will enlighten them.

4. Thanksgiving

- We thank God that our region is calm and peaceful, and there are no enemy missiles. Therefore, we can serve God here freely without obstacles.

- We thank God for you, brothers and sisters from the USA. For your prayers and for your help that you give us, so that we can continue to help everyone who needs help.

5. Prayer requests:

-Please pray with us for the war in Ukraine to end. For them to stop bombing houses in Ukraine, because many civilians are dying because of these bombings.

-Pray that we can organize a day of rest for orphans and widows in May. We are waiting for the blessing of our Lord. So that the Name of the Lord will be glorified among widows and orphans.

-Pray for those people who heard the Word of God this month, so that the Lord will bless their hearts and test them for repentance.

-Pray that the Lord will bless us with health and the power of the Holy Spirit for service in His Field. And that the Lord will protect and save us, missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission, from all evil.

And we pray for you dear brothers and sisters from the USA - our partners in evangelism here in Ukraine, that the Lord blesses you abundantly, and that the Lord gives you all health and strength to serve Him. Thank you for all that you do for us and for Ukraine. May the Lord return a hundredfold blessings to you, your families, your churches and your country USA. With love to you, the PETIKHACHNYY PAVEL and LARISA family.

Celebrating Christmas

Dear brothers and sisters from the USA, our partners in evangelism here in Ukraine, we greet you with the love and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1. Praise God for helping us to celebrate these holidays, Christmas and the New Year 2025. Praise God that our region was calm and there were no enemy missiles, so we were able to preach the Word of God at these evangelistic meetings, where many unbelievers were present who were able to listen and delve into the Word of God. Although there is still a war in Ukraine and in other regions of Ukraine, especially on these holidays, there were missiles, there was destruction and, unfortunately, there were deaths and wounded people. Our prayer to God is more and more for this war to end and for the long-awaited peace to finally come to Ukraine. In our church we celebrated Christmas twice: on December 25 and January 7. On December 25 we celebrated Christmas together with all the Baptist churches from all over Ukraine, and on January 7 we also organized Christmas evangelism because that is how people in the village celebrate. It happened this year. People from the village and from our entire region promised us that if we live until next year, we will celebrate Christmas on December 25. It was like a transitional period in our region. All of Ukraine was switching to celebrating Christmas on December 25, and individual villages celebrated Christmas on January 7, like in the old days. We think that we will gradually switch to the new way.

Young people went from house to house singing carols and proclaiming the Good Word about the Birth of the Messiah. They also had a blessed program for glorifying our Christ the Messiah. Children received Christmas gifts. Calendars and spiritual literature were also distributed to people in their homes. Our church celebrated the New Year 2025 in prayer before God. Thank God that people from the world came to this meeting. They also wanted to celebrate the New Year in prayer before God. We pray for all the people who attended these evangelisms, so that the Lord will test their hearts for repentance.

2. Breaking Bread:

- On January 5, we had the breaking of bread - the first this year. We visited 12 sick people at home with the breaking of bread, where they rejoiced that they had such an opportunity to remember the suffering of Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary. At the moment, we have many sick people in our church, both the virus and senile infirmity. But thank God that they want to communicate from the Word of God and want to pray. There were also relatives of the sick who also listened to the Word of God.

3. Thanksgiving:

- We thank God and you, dear brothers and sisters from the USA, our partners in evangelism here in Ukraine, for your support in prayer for us. You prayed and we were able to successfully organize these evangelistic meetings during these holidays. For the fact that many people came to church and were able to listen to the word of God.

- We thank God for the peaceful sky in our Chernivtsi region.

4. Prayer needs:

- Pray with us that this terrible war in Ukraine would end.

- Pray that there would be no more enemy missiles, and not only in our region, but throughout Ukraine, these bombings would stop.

- Pray for those people who heard the Word of God at these past evangelisms, so that the Word of the Lord would touch their hearts for repentance.

- Pray for the upcoming evangelism among widows and orphans, which is scheduled for January 17-18. So that the Lord would dispose the hearts of orphans and widows to listen to the Word of the Lord, and give us strength and health for this ministry.

And we pray for you brothers and sisters from the USA, our partners in ministry here in Ukraine. We pray and always thank God for you. May the Lord bless you abundantly and give you all health, strength, peace, success and joy in Christ Jesus.

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

Merry Christmas

Dear brothers and sisters from the PIEI America mission, our partners in evangelism here in Ukraine, we greet you with the love and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ!

Luke 2:13-14

-And suddenly there appeared with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, glorifying God and crying out:

-Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men!

And on behalf of all our missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission, we want to congratulate you all on the Nativity of Christ and the New Year 2025!

We wish you much health and a peaceful sky above your heads. It is very wonderful and very good when there is peace in the country, and in every family and the peace of God in every human soul.

Here we are, by God's grace, have lived another year in our lives. And although we are still at war in Ukraine, we are kept by God - Glory to Him for everything.

We are very grateful to God for you, brothers and sisters from the USA, for your support in your prayers for us and for your financial assistance, so that we can continue to help others in need who live near us.

We believe and hope in God that the Lord will help us and this terrible war in Ukraine will end. God has everything under control.

1. Bible study

- With God's help, in the church of the village of Nesvoya, I conducted a Bible study from the book of Mark. I conducted a study about the ministry of Jesus Christ, how He, being in people's homes, we can learn from Christ, based on these events, how to conduct evangelism at home with our loved ones, with relatives, with children. And all those who listened to Jesus Christ thanked God for this wonderful teaching when He walked this earth teaching people and preaching the Gospel.

2. Bible Institute

- I taught students Revelation 1, Philadelphia church. The students had many questions and studied the history of this church. So they received answers to their questions.

- The students thanked God for having such textbooks that reveal such deep truths.

- They all promised that they would continue studying this book until they finished it. There are 4 textbooks in this book of Revelation.

3. I held the breaking of bread in 2 churches and at the same time visited many sick people from the church. I held mini-evangelism in their homes.

- In Chernivtsi, I visited one sick disabled person and helped him understand the medical equipment that he could not use. We pray for him that the Lord will help him, because it is hard for disabled people in a wheelchair to live. We help him as much as we can, and we buy medicine and meet other needs.

4. Meeting of missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission

On December 20, 2024, we held a meeting of missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission. This is the last meeting this year. Our missionaries are always happy to meet such people. We pray together, thank God for His mercy to us and study the Word of God. Brothers and sisters from the USA, our partners in evangelism here in Ukraine, also prayed for you. May the Lord bless you with health, peace and joy in Christ Jesus. We thanked God for the past 2024, for His protection and safety during this difficult time of war in Ukraine. Also, all missionaries reported on the services done this year and planned services for the next year, 2025, if it is God's will. The main thing is for the war to end. We all hope in God. So says Psalm 19:8. Some in chariots, and some in horses, but we glory in the name of the Lord our God.

5. Thanksgiving.

- We are grateful to God that in our region, Chernivtsi, there are no enemy missiles yet and we can calmly serve God here, helping people in need and the displaced people who live among us.

- We thank God for your help and support. - We thank God for health and strength and for the fact that we can work in the Field of God sowing the Word of God among people.

6. Prayer needs:

- Pray for the war in Ukraine and Israel to end.

- That the Lord blesses the evangelism in connection with the holidays of Christmas and New Year. That the Lord blesses the hearts of people who will listen to the Word of God.

- Pray for the evangelism among widows and orphans that will be in early January 2025.

- That we continue to have a peaceful sky in the region, so that we can serve peacefully here in our missionary place.

- Pray for those people who heard the Word of God this month, that the Lord will test their hearts for repentance.

- Pray for my family, that the Lord will give us health, strength and wisdom to serve in His Field.

And we always pray for you, dear brothers and sisters from the USA. And we wish you abundant blessings from the Lord in this New Year 2025.

Once again, we wish you a Merry Christmas dear brothers and sisters from the USA - our partners in the Evangelism here in Ukraine!

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

Mini evangelism in houses

Dear brothers and sisters from the PIEI America mission, we greet you with the love and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Another month has passed and the last month of this year has arrived. And by the mercy and grace of our Lord, we were able to serve Him by preaching the Word of God among the people who live among us. Although more than 1000 days have passed since the beginning of a full-scale war in Ukraine, by the grace of God we are still alive and can still serve God in our region, and even volunteer in the regions where the war is going on in Ukraine, bringing food, groceries and other necessary supplies to the soldiers - Glory to God for His protection and safety.

1. Fasting and prayer of our churches

- From the beginning of the month, from November 3 to 10, the churches of our Chernivtsi region took the obligation to fast and pray for peace in Ukraine. Our church had fasting and prayer on November 4. We had meetings on this day and prayed and worshiped God.

Also on this day our sisters had their own meetings and joined the prayers of the sisters of the whole world on the day of fasting and prayer international for all the sisters of the world. Our sisters donated money for the needs which went to Kyiv, for the committee of sisters from the ECB. - And on November 9 our sisters had a regional conference in Chernivtsi on the topic: On the road to heaven. A very relevant topic. How we should make our way, in holiness, despite the various trials and obstacles that are often on our way to heaven. There were many testimonies of sisters displaced from regions where there is a war, as well as our sisters who went through various trials, and how God helped them through all this and win. All the sisters cried together and prayed to God. There were about 800 sisters from our entire region. There was a blessed meeting of sisters, glory to God! 2. Studying the Word of God

- In order to have success in evangelism, first of all I need to study the Word of Scripture to grow in knowledge of the Word.

- This month I studied the Sermon on the Mount of Jesus Christ and 2 Corinthians. After studying these books, I teach them further in other churches and at a meeting with pastors.

3. Working with missionaries

- I taught lessons from 2 Corinthians to pastors who are missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission. At this meeting, each missionary of this mission reported on the work done in 2024. Listening to all our missionaries, I realized that the Lord gives each missionary success in evangelism. Because in our region, Chernivtsi, there are no enemy missiles and we can calmly work and serve God in His Field, Glory to God!

4. Teaching in the church from Nesvoy

- I taught lessons from 2 Corinthians last month in the church of the village of Nesvoy, where they talked a lot about the ministry of Apostle Paul. The whole church wants to follow the example of Apostle Paul in order to have a blessed ministry in the gospel.

5. Ministry in the theological institute

- In the theological institute I taught from the textbook of Revelation 1 "Message to the Seven Churches".

- The students are very pleased with these studies, where they understand that the Lord knows everything about each church and each member of the church.

- Everyone prayed with fear, because the Lord knows all our thoughts, actions and the heart of man and they asked God for forgiveness for everything they did not according to the will of God.

6. Other services

- I was at the funeral of one brother from the church and preached the Word of God. Our choir glorified God through singing. There were about 100 people present at this evangelism who listened attentively to the Word of Scripture. We pray for these people that the Lord will test their hearts for repentance.

- I held the breaking of bread in two churches where they remembered the death and suffering of our Lord Jesus Christ. I also visited 5 sick people at home where I held mini evangelisms in their homes. The sick were glad that they were able to remember the suffering of Christ and take part in this holy communion. I prayed with them and their souls were very encouraged.

7. Thanksgiving:

- We are very grateful to God for your support in prayers and material assistance, our dear brothers and sisters from the USA. Through this help, we can lovingly do God's work in evangelism and helping materially people in need around us.

- We thank you for your prayers.

- We are grateful to God for the peaceful sky over our region. For the fact that there are no enemy missiles, for the fact that there was none of this destruction that was in other regions of Ukraine, and we were able to serve God here in peace.

8. Prayer requests:

- Pray with us for peace in Ukraine and Israel.

- That the Word of God that we have sown this month would bring forth much fruit of repentance among the people who have heard this Word.

- That the Lord would give wisdom to all the presidents so that they would end this war.

- Pray for our missionaries, that the Lord would give them all health and strength to serve God in this difficult time for us. Pray for me and my family, that the Lord would bless us and give us all health and strength to serve God, for only God is worthy of honor, glory and worship forever and ever. Amen!

We are very happy for you, brothers and sisters from the USA, and we are very grateful to you for your sacrifice. We wish the Lord blessed you and returned you a hundredfold all the blessings. We love you and pray for you that the Lord will give you all health and success in everything.

Accept heartfelt greetings from our family. With love to you, the Petihachniy family.