Dear brothers and sisters from the USA, we greet you with the love and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1. I am grateful to the Lord God for His mercy to us and for His protection during this difficult period of war in Ukraine. We are grateful to you, brothers and sisters from the USA, for your prayers for us and with God's help we organized this act of mercy for orphans on May 17.
- Glory to God, for the fact that the Lord gave us a blessed day where more than 200 orphans spent the whole day in sports games, in children's Bible lessons, and also our church prepared breakfast and a delicious lunch for these children.
I and Larisa, my wife, prepared sandwiches and tea for these orphans in the morning for breakfast. Then these children had children's Bible lessons and sports games. At 12:00 the children received fruits, and at lunch the children ate delicious food where our church prepared cabbage rolls, cutlets, pie and compote. After lunch, the children again had different games and competitions. These children were very happy for such a busy and God-blessed day. The orphans thanked God and us saying: "Thank you, Jesus and you." We answered them: "Glory to God for everything!" Indeed, we thank God and you for everything, dear brothers and sisters from the USA, for your prayers, for your material support, through which we can serve those in need here.
- Also, on the same day, after lunch, we visited the soldiers who are in the psychiatric hospital after being wounded and concussed. We gave them sandwiches and food. We put food from our lunch that our church brought for them in separate containers. They were very happy that people do not forget about them. We pray for them. The most important thing is for these sick people to trust in the Lord. In Him there is peace and rest of soul.
2. Visit
- Glory to God that I can visit the sick. I visited one disabled person and helped him as much as I could. Helped him get a haircut and had a spiritual conversation with him. Prayed for him. He lives alone in an apartment and is having a very hard time. We live not far from him and help him often when he needs it.
-Also visited the sick from our church with bread donation. The sick are very happy about these visits. They all thank God for having such an opportunity, together with the church, to receive Holy Communion. Read the Word of God, prayed for them that the Lord would strengthen them and that the Lord would heal them.
3. Preparation for the Christian camp
-We are already starting to prepare for the Christian teenage camp, which will be from July 21 to 26, this summer. We are preparing invitations for teenagers and children, we are also looking for new leaders and will hold meetings with all the leaders. We will fast and pray that the Lord blesses this ministry, so that we have a peaceful sky during this time of war in Ukraine. We hope in the Lord and believe that He will help us in this important ministry.
4. Thanksgiving
-We are grateful to God for protecting us and for helping us serve Him in this difficult time for us in Ukraine.
-We thank God for you, dear brothers and sisters from the USA - our partners in evangelism here in Ukraine. For your support and for your help in our ministry here.
5. Prayer requests:
-Pray with us for the war in Ukraine to end. For the long-awaited peace to come.
-Pray that the Lord would give wisdom from above to the leadership of our country and the leadership of other countries, so that they would find agreements on a stable peace in this difficult war.
-Pray for them to stop bombing Ukraine with enemy missiles.
-Pray for the sick and wounded soldiers, who fill our hospitals and mental hospitals. So that the Lord would heal their souls and bodies. And so that they would find comfort in the Lord.
- Let us also pray together for those orphans whom we visited and spent the whole day together, May 17. That they may know the Lord and accept Him in their hearts.
- Pray for us, missionaries of the PIEI Ukraine mission, that the Lord may give us health and strength for service and that God may continue to protect us and our families from all evil.
And we pray for you, our dear partners in evangelism from the USA. May the Lord bless you abundantly.
With love to you, the Petikhachnyy Pavel & Larisa family.








