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.
The last month of 2025 has arrived. We are sincerely grateful to God for His protection and defense from all evil over the past year. For all our services, blessed by the Lord.
First, we wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2026. We wish you much health, peace, joy in Christ, and God-blessed success in your ministry before the Lord. We wish you a happy Christmas and a Happy New Year 2026.
God blesses our lives in such a way that all circumstances serve for the success of the gospel.
1. Preparing gifts for orphans:
- My wife, Larisa, and I are buying everything we need for these 200 gifts for orphans because on January 10th, we want to gather these orphans, conduct Bible studies with them, and then congratulate them on this wonderful holiday of Christmas and give them Christmas gifts.
- We have some church members who donated 200 bags of popcorn and apples from their orchard, praise God.
- Our sisters who teach Bible studies at our church are preparing Bible studies related to the feast of the Nativity of Jesus Christ, and we are praying for them.
2. Meeting of missionaries from the PIEI UKR mission.
- We, missionaries from the PIEI UKR mission, met together in mid-December to study the Bible and thank God for our brothers and sisters from the United States, who are our partners in evangelism here in Ukraine. They helped us diligently in this difficult year of 2025. With the funds they donated, our missionaries delivered a large amount of humanitarian aid to those cities in Ukraine where almost everything was destroyed by the war. People were overjoyed at the food aid and packages they received from our missionaries, and they thanked and praised God.
There, our missionary brothers preached the Word of God to those people. The people listened attentively, and many of them accepted Christ as their Savior, glory be to God.
3. Ministry with the Sisters
-Once a month, our sisters from the church gather for prayer to pray for peace in Ukraine, for our children and teenagers. That they be protected from enemy missiles, that they remain alive and glorify our Lord.
Glory be to God for their prayers, and for other prayers for Ukraine, for the Lord blesses us and protects us from all evil. Our sisters pray for the sick and for the sisters from the United States, that they too may receive a blessing from God, and that those who are sick may receive healing from the Lord.
4. Ministry at the Bible Institute
-I, Pavel, am preparing lessons for the institute from the second part of the book of Isaiah. Starting in January, I will teach these lessons to the students. May God help me.
5. Thanksgiving:
-I am grateful to God for your prayers and for your financial support.
-I am grateful to God for a blessed 2025.
6. Prayer requests:
-Pray with us for peace in Ukraine.
-Pray that the Lord will protect us all from all evil.
-Continue to pray for me, so that the Lord will help me recover from this surgery, so that I can continue to serve God zealously. Pray for our ministry to orphans and widows on January 10th, that the Lord will bless this ministry.
May the skies be peaceful on Christmas Day, so that we can serve God in peace.
May the Lord bless you abundantly. We love you and pray for you.
Wishing you a happy Christmas.
With love to you, the Petikhachny family, Pavel and Larisa.
