Dear brothers and sisters from the United States, our partners in evangelism here in Ukraine, we greet you with the love and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ. We wholeheartedly congratulate you on the New Year 2026 and wish you abundant blessings throughout this year.
We are grateful to God for 2025, for blessing us throughout the year and protecting us from all evil, even though this war has been going on for 1,406 days, and we all pray for the Lord to stop this senseless war. We believe that the Lord will hear our prayers and yours and grant us long-awaited peace in Ukraine.
1. We spent the last minutes of the old year glorifying Jesus Christ and, most importantly, welcoming the New Year 2026 in prayer, glory to God. We thanked Him for helping us preach Christ in 2025, and this year was a blessed one because many people and young people repented, and many young people were baptized.
2. Ministry with Orphans
- At the beginning of this year, we, missionaries of PIEI Ukraine, prepared gifts for 250 orphans. On January 10th, we will visit them and preach the Word of God about Jesus Christ the Messiah, and we will also present them with the gifts we prepared for them. The leadership of these orphanages has already conveyed to us that they are eagerly awaiting our arrival on January 10th, 2026. May the Lord help us in this.
3. At the end of the previous year, we met with the family of our translator, Alina Martsinyuk, where we prayed together and asked for a blessing for the PIEI Ukraine mission in 2026. Everyone prayed with love and faith for the PIEI Ukraine mission. My family also met with our missionary brother, Mykhailo Gortopan. We prayed together for the PIEI Ukraine mission in 2026. It was a blessed meeting, and we believe the Lord heard our prayers.
4. Christmas Day
- At our church, we held a festive gathering on Christmas Day, where every member had the opportunity to glorify Christ through hymns and poems. It was a blessed gathering.
5. We wrote greetings to the brothers and sisters from the USA, wrote Christmas and New Year 2026 greeting cards to all the missionaries and all our fellow brothers and sisters via email. Everyone was very pleased with these greetings and praised God for them.
6. Inductive Institute
- At the Inductive Institute, we began studying the book of Psalms. We have already reached Psalm 25. This study is very effective and has a blessed effect on our hearts. 7. Thanksgiving
-We are grateful to God for our brothers and sisters from the United States, our partners in evangelism here in Ukraine. For their support and help, both material and spiritual. Everyone thanks God when they receive such help, so necessary for their lives, glory be to God.
-We are grateful to God for helping us hold holiday services at Christmas and New Year's. Our youth had a special program where the name of the Lord was glorified through them.
8. Prayer requests:
-Continue to pray with us for peace in Ukraine.
-Pray for those unbelievers who attended our services this month and heard the Word of God. That the Lord will test their hearts for repentance.
-Pray for me, so that the Lord will grant me complete healing and restoration of health after this difficult surgery.
-Pray for my family. Our daughter-in-law, Rebekah, is due to give birth next week. May the Lord bless her childbirth, and may all be prosperous and blessed by God. And may the Lord bless Andrey, our son, and their children, Mark and Emim.
- Pray for the evangelization with gifts among orphans on January 10th, that all may be blessed by God.
- We also pray for you, dear brothers and sisters from the USA, our partners in evangelism here in Ukraine. May the Lord bless you all abundantly, may He meet all your needs, and may He return to you a hundredfold what you sacrifice for us. We love you, are grateful for everything, and are praying for you.
With love to you, the Petikhachny family, Pavel and Larisa.
