Dear brothers and sisters from PIEI USA, We greet you with the love and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ.
I am grateful to God for protecting and helping us this month in the ministry of the gospel here on our mission field.
1. Pastoral Regional Conference
- On May 23 and 24, a pastoral regional conference was held in Boyany for pastors, preachers and leaders. The theme of this conference was: "Discipleship". How to make real fishers of men out of all members of our churches. This is what Jesus said to his disciples.
The speakers of this conference were pastors from Romania. Sorin Bădrăgan (president of the Baptist Union of Romania), Cătălin Croitoru (president of the Suceava Baptist Union), Daniel Fedorean (president of the Bucharest Baptist Union). Translators into Ukrainian were our brother missionary Chioresco Grigoriy and young brother Kozachuk Mihai, Glory to God!
It was a blessed conference where all the minister brothers, more than 100 brothers from all over the Chernivtsi region, rejoiced and glorified the Lord for the True and Holy Word.
2. Visit
- We visited, together with my wife, the church "Emmanuel" in Novoselytsia, where our brother missionary Popov Valery serves. There were many people from the settlers who listened attentively to the Word of God. There were prayers of the church for the wounded soldiers, for the families of fallen soldiers, and for those who defend Ukraine in the combat zone.
There was also a glorification where the children of brother Valera and Sr. Alla glorified God through singing. Also, my wife Larisa glorified God through a song about the Mercy of God - Glory to God.
I preached on the topic - The Road to Emmaus. When after the resurrection of Christ, two of Jesus' disciples met Christ, but they did not recognize Him. A very interesting topic and if you study it to the extent possible, you can always see yourself in these two disciples. Glory to God for the true Word of God that opens our hearts and our minds so that we know more about our Jesus Christ.
We pray for these people, the displaced people who come to the service and to the analysis of the Word every Wednesday. Among them, there are those who have repented and want to be baptized this summer, Glory to God.
3. Thanksgiving
-We thank the Lord for His mercy and protection during this difficult period for us in Ukraine.
-We also thank you, brothers and sisters from the USA, our partners in evangelism here in Ukraine. Thank you for your prayers and for your material support, through which we can serve here the needy people and the displaced persons who live near us.
-We thank God for giving us such wonderful opportunities this month to evangelize widows and orphans, through evangelism for displaced persons and through studying the Word of God.
4. Prayer requests:
-Dear brothers and sisters from the USA, pray with us that the Lord will help us and that this war in Ukraine will end, so that the long-awaited peace will finally come.
-Pray that there will be no enemy missiles on our territory, so that we can peacefully serve God here.
- Pray for those people, orphans, widows, displaced persons to whom we preached the Word this month. That the Lord would touch these hearts for repentance.
- Pray for our Christian camp from July 21 to 26, this summer. That the Lord would bless this entire ministry. That the Lord would bless the children who will come to the camp, and the leaders, and the teachers, and the administration of the camp. That the Lord would bless and protect the group from the USA who will come to Ukraine to serve God. We believe that the Lord will help us and He will bless this ministry - Glory to Him!
- Continue to pray that the Lord will protect our missionaries so that we can serve God here calmly and peacefully.
And we pray with love for you, brothers and sisters from the USA - our partners in evangelism here in Ukraine. May the Lord bless you abundantly and reward you a hundredfold for your love for us and understanding. Be blessed, our dear ones! Please accept warm greetings from my family.
With love to you, the Petikhachnyy Pavel and Larisa family.
