Prayer Update

  The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps. Proverbs 16:9 In September of 2025, our community here in Israel went to the village of Yatta, just south of Hebron, to meet a three-year-old little girl named Arjwan. She was born with a single ventricle of the heart— a congenital… Read more »

  The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit      (Psalm 34:18) This week was a rather quiet week at the hospital, due to the Sukkot holiday, but even in the quiet moments, there was so much to see and be thankful for. We continued to spend… Read more »

  May you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep His love is. May you experience the love of Messiah, though it is too great to understand fully (Ephesians 3:18-19). In a tight embrace, a child and his mother clung together as quiet… Read more »

  A man’s heart plans his way, but the Lord directs His steps (Proverbs 16:9) Over the last two weeks we’ve shared the saga of tiny infant Mohammad, born with a heart defect which requires intervention in the first few weeks of life. Since the hospital near his home in Ramallah couldn’t complete such an… Read more »

  My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. Psalm 73 Little Samer, who’s spent all five of his years living in an orphanage in Bethlehem, came bravely to Israel on Tuesday to face open-heart surgery. Understandably he was quite nervous coming in, but… Read more »

  In February of 2024, the Shevet Achim community met a little boy from Bethlehem named Montaser. Due to his extremely complex heart, he needed to come into Israel to receive advanced medical care. Through many visits, hospital stays, and appointments, countless people in our community have come to know and deeply love precious Montaser… Read more »

  O taste and see that the Lord is good; how blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him! Psalm 34 Dear brothers and sisters—how do we read God’s Word? More than I like to admit, I often ask: how does this affect me? What does this mean for me? How does this change… Read more »

  Dear brothers and sisters, We’re looking back on another week the Lord has brought us through–not by our own strength, but by his. On Wednesday, we arrived at the hospital just after six-year-old Anas, from Qalqilya, was taken in for his heart surgery. His mother had just said goodbye to him as they rolled… Read more »

  So the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with singing, with everlasting joy on their heads. They shall obtain joy and gladness; sorrow and sighing shall flee away. How might this passage found in Isaiah 51, which speaks about the grand story of the Jewish people returning to the land… Read more »

  Dear brothers and sisters, 10-year-old Bairam from Jericho was born with only one ventricle in his heart, and has already undergone several open-heart surgeries; this week marked his first visit to Israel for treatment not available in the West Bank. After a catheterization at the start of this week, the doctors at Sheba Medical… Read more »

  He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul.  In the previous weeks we had many long hospital days full of fruitful time, and also hard realities such as a precious infant passing away after a complicated surgery proved too much for his tiny body. The strength of the Lord has faithfully… Read more »

  The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord. Dear brothers and sisters, What a busy and fast-paced week it has been in the community. Yesterday we made a long journey through Samaria (northern West Bank), circling around Nablus to Jenin and back again, visiting different children who underwent heart care in Israel… Read more »

  The LORD is gracious and merciful; slow to anger and great in lovingkindness. The LORD is good to all, and His mercies are over all His works. All your works shall give thanks to You, O LORD, and Your godly ones shall bless You (Psalm 145) We bless the LORD for this week full… Read more »

Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; and in Your book were all written the days that were ordained, when as yet there was not one of them. How precious are your thoughts to me, O God! How vast the sum of them! – Psalm 139 We’ve come to know and love little Rose well… Read more »

  Praying friends, This was the kind of week that lifts the spirits and encourages us to persevere in the work God has for us. Let it encourage you as well. At the start of the week our little Rose from Jenin was given the green light to return home, after her successful catheterization last… Read more »

  For the sake of Your name, O Adonai, revive me. In your righteousness bring my soul out of trouble. – Psalm 143:11 Another new child came out of the West Bank this week, for revival of his heart and health in Israel. Three-year-old Abdallah is from the town of Huwara, which is a frequent friction… Read more »

May Adonai answer you in the day of trouble! May the name of the God of Jacob set you securely on high! May He send you help from the sanctuary and support you from Zion! – Psalm 20 Let us intercede for this week’s children in their time of trouble, for our God is merciful… Read more »

O YHVH, You are my God; I will exalt You, I will give thanks to Your name; For You have worked wonders, plans formed long ago, with perfect faithfulness. For You have been a defense for the helpless,  a defense for the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat – Isaiah 25… Read more »

It is good to give thanks to the LORD and to sing praises to your name, O Most High; to declare Your lovingkindness in the morning and Your faithfulness by night – Psalm 92 These words resonate within my soul as I have seen God’s lovingkindness and faithfulness throughout this week, with the care of doctors… Read more »

  Time has really flown by and it is hard to believe it has been seven weeks since Passover. Today the nation of Israel is celebrating the holiday of Shavuot or the Feast of Weeks, known as Pentecost. (Our community will celebrate it on Sunday, the day after the seventh Shabbat, as the Torah requires). Rabbinic… Read more »

  I know, O Adonai, that Your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me. O may Your loving kindness comfort me, according to your word to Your servant – Psalm 119 I am grateful for the holy ones that have gone before us, like David, who expresses the bitterness of affliction… Read more »

I will give thanks to the Adonai with all my heart; I will tell of all Your wonders. I will be glad and exult in you; I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High – Psalm 9 Thank you for praying for newborn Obeida from Hebron. He has had a challenging week. After his… Read more »

  Dear fellow workers, Recently I have felt overwhelmed by my circumstances, so I was comforted to read this morning in Psalm 113: Who is like Adonai our God, who is enthroned on high, who humbles Himself to behold the things of heaven and in the earth? God is an ever-present help in time of… Read more »

  My soul waits for the LORD more than the watchman for the morning; Indeed, more than the watchman for the morning. O Israel, hope in the LORD; For with the LORD there is lovingkindness, and with Him is abundant redemption. And He will redeem Israel from all his iniquities – Psalm 130 Dear fellow workers, Wednesday was a… Read more »

  Sing praises to Adonai, who dwells in Zion; declare among the peoples His deeds.  Join us in praise to our God for he has done great things! There is much to be thankful for this week, and we want to praise God for answered prayer. We also are encouraged to continue to pray for… Read more »

  “Wake up! We need to go down (to the bomb shelter) right now!” my very pregnant wife urgently shook our three daughters awake. Last night we were awakened from our sleep at 1:14 in the morning. Not only our phones alerted us, but the siren in our neighborhood alerted us of the imminent danger of missile… Read more »

  Praying friends, Passover has come and our community celebrated a wonderful Seder Wednesday evening and an equally meaningful holy convocation yesterday afternoon. There are many parts to the Seder that are powerful and deep spiritual lessons that resonated with us and our community. One of the lessons is found in the eating of the… Read more »

  Dear praying friends, This week has been more intense as we have had more missile attacks and running to the bomb shelter than recently. One of the missile attacks this week was successful in evading the Iron Dome missile defense system and struck Tel Aviv on Tuesday morning. I was on the way to… Read more »

  Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him, bless His name! (Psalm 100) We have so much to be thankful for, despite the tumultuous place and time in history in which we find ourselves. First, we give thanks to God for his faithfulness. He continues to protect our… Read more »

  While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease. Friends, This verse from the book of Genesis has been on my mind as our little community in Lod watches the garden respond to the weeks of rain and the gradually warmer, sunnier days. Some… Read more »

  Hello friends, Warm greetings from those of us here in Lod. It has been a great joy of mine to slip away from life in the U.S. this past week, and come back here and partake in community life with Shevet Achim once again. I have savored this time. When our coworker Berith wrote… Read more »

  But here is what I can tell you. I was one way, and now I’m completely different, and the thing that happened in between was him. So yes, I will know him for the rest of my life. Dear friends, These words from Mary the Magdalene in a scene from The Chosen perfectly describe the transformation that… Read more »

  Dear praying friends, I was reminded of the special season we are coming into this morning at the grocery store, when I saw the holiday cookies called Haman’s Ears (Hamantashen in Yiddish). The Purim holiday commemorates the salvation of the Jewish people (and hence the world) during the Persian Empire period from the evil… Read more »

  Dear praying friends, Three weeks ago Jabal from the West Bank was between life and death in the hospital in Israel. This week we’ve seen more slow but good progress, and he is now eating and drinking, praise God! Jabal still needs prayer for his sight and other sensory issues, but it was an… Read more »

  Dear co-laborers, In this week’s Torah portion, just when all appears lost, God through his servant Moses splits the Red Sea and saves his people; they respond with joyful song by the seaside: I will sing to YHVH, for He is highly exalted; the horse and its rider He has hurled into the sea…. Read more »

  Dear coworkers, Our little fighter, Jabal from Yatta, has finally turned a corner after multiple procedures these past two weeks. Following major surgery to switch his great arteries, Jabal faced several other hurdles – a stint on ECMO, an underperforming left ventricle, hemorrhaging in the brain, and temporary dialysis for struggling kidneys. Thursday morning… Read more »

  Dear co-laborers, Ben and I (Kerstin) were in the van on our way to visit Reyan’s mother in Sheba hospital this morning when we received the heartbreaking phone call. He had just passed away, after a great effort was made last night to save his life with one last surgery. Minutes later we found… Read more »

  Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. From the end of the earth will I cry unto you, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I. (Psalm 61) Praise God that no matter where we are and no matter what we are going through, he hears… Read more »

  Dear co-laborers, We are all praising God for Hour’s discharge today! Just 18 days ago she arrived at Sheba Medical Center without a permit to enter Israel, sent by her desperate parents in the arms of her uncle, who has a work permit. She received her emergency life-saving surgery the next day, and was… Read more »

  Dear friends and fellow laborers, Last week we asked for your prayers for baby Hour from Nablus, not yet two months old, whose chest was still open after her complex heart surgery. Friends, our prayers have been answered! We have seen her tiny body respond and healing take place. On Monday her chest was… Read more »

  Dear co-laborers, Tuesday a tiny newborn named Hour, with a head full of black hair, finally reached the Sheba Medical Center from the West Bank, after failing to receive a permit to enter Israel on two previous tries. Actually this time too she didn’t have a permit, but came in with her uncle who… Read more »

  Dear co-laborers, We rejoice in the abundant blessing of rain here in Israel. It is an answer to our prayers, especially the prayers earlier this season at Sukkot, for God to provide rain for us in this dry land that is so dependent on it. We are thankful for both affirmative answers to prayer… Read more »

  Dear Shevet family, When Ibraheem came back from the West Bank for his first post-surgical echo last week, he looked weaker and skinnier than I remember him looking when he was discharged a month ago. At the doctor’s request we agreed to readmit Ibraheem for urgent supportive care. At nine months old he only… Read more »

  Dear friends, It has been a blessedly quiet week in the Lod community; the only major hospital news was the check-up for Ibraheem from the West Bank four weeks after his surgery discharge. To their alarm his doctors found Ibraheem has lost weight, and his heart function has decreased. He is now hospitalized to… Read more »

  Dear fellow workers, When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. – Isaiah 43:2 What great and precious promises that we can hold fast… Read more »

  Dear fellow laborers, O magnify the LORD (YHVH) with me, and let us exalt His name together. I sought YHVH, and He answered me, and delivered me from all my fears (Psalm 34) Join me in lifting up the glorious name of our God, YHVH, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the source… Read more »

  Dear fellow workers, A symphony of birds and the cool mist of the air welcomed me early this morning on the front porch in Israel, and shining moonlight over the trees was like all creation rejoicing. It was a warm reminder of the greatness of our God! My Bible was opened to Psalm 145,… Read more »

  Dear coworkers for the kingdom, To be honest, when little Ali from the West Bank was put on ECMO even before his heart surgery in Israel, I was afraid because we have lost four babies in the last three months. After hearing that news, we prayed fervently for him, and God heard our prayers…. Read more »

  Dear praying friends, The emotional and physical highs and lows that families and volunteers experience during the week have come to be expected here in the Shevet Achim community. That does tend to make hearts and bodies weary, but we have a God in heaven who continues to faithfully sustain and even strengthen us… Read more »

  Dear fellow laborers, We have experienced great emotional highs and lows this week. I’m reminded of a much-loved psalm of ascension, 126, which celebrates the faithfulness of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to hear the prayers of his people and restore: When the LORD brought back the captive ones of Zion. We… Read more »

  Dear fellow laborers, This week Fonda from Kurdistan was finally discharged, after more than two months in the hospital since the big surgery to switch her arteries. It’s been such a journey for her, and by the end of Fonda’s hospitalization, her mother was more than ready to come back to our base here… Read more »

  Dear brothers and sisters in Messiah, Greetings from Lod. Thank you for your continued prayers and support. It’s been a month since beautiful Leia from Nablus went in for heart surgery, and she still struggles to breathe on her own. At the beginning of the week she had an interventional catheterization to try and… Read more »

  Greetings friend and neighbors, With two extra free days for Rosh Hashanah/Feast of Trumpets, it has been a good week for relaxing and celebrating the life the Lord has given us. A special visitor came to our home in Lod, Brian Massey from Houses 4 Healing in Abilene, Texas.  He took time off from his… Read more »

  Dear friends and family, The song “Amazing Grace,” originally written by John Newton in the 1700s, has since been rendered multiple times. I never realized that the following stanza was in the original creation until now, and find it quite fitting to the heart of the work of Shevet Achim: When this flesh and… Read more »

  Greetings brothers and sisters, Leia from Nablus seemed to be doing well after her heart surgery, but on Sunday at 3:00 am she took a major turn for the worse. She went into pulmonary arrest and her oxygen dropped to forty-some percent of normal. Leia was put on ECMO, a last-resort form of support… Read more »

  Dear Shevet family, Thank you for  your support and prayers! Bright-eyed, beautiful Leia and her parents rose early in the morning Wednesday to make the long trip from their home in Nablus to Sheba hospital. Leia had her long-awaited surgery the next day. Coworker Yedidyah and I arrived about an hour after Leia had gone in… Read more »

  To our friends among the flock, In a transient and ever-changing community such as ours, beginnings and ends are a way of life. The children who come to Israel for healing, the time of fellowship between volunteers, all things are gifts from God, yet every gift moves on to what is next. As my… Read more »

  To our friends and family, This week as we confront death we have sought comfort in friends and family, pastimes and vices, yet we have found our lasting comfort in God and his promises. Our beloved Lareen came from Kurdistan less than a month ago with her older brother Zinar, and in the early… Read more »

  Greetings from your brothers and sisters in Lod. This week we praise God that Shifaa from Kurdistan, after three and a half months in Israel, was finally able to have her surgery! With her beloved Max at her side, she went in Monday for the third-stage surgery to help her live and grow with… Read more »

  Our beloved Shevet family, The Lord’s works are surely mysterious, and this week, He really kept ’em coming. On Wednesday, baby Amir from Nablus was undergoing a seemingly routine surgery. His mother was a little scared as he entered the operating room, but for weeks before had been encouraged by Amir’s increased strength and… Read more »

  Dear brothers and sisters, I would like to invite you on an adventure, down the paths of time all the way back to…. Sunday. On that day we decided to see if Milad could potentially go home, as coworker Jonathan was going to Kurdistan and it would be nice for Milad’s mother, who is… Read more »

  Greetings from the community in Lod! Our work mostly looks like flesh and blood, fighting malformed hearts and bodies born broken to make them whole again, but we know and understand well that each case is spiritual as much as it is physical (Ephesians 6). Every defect is the fingerprint of death, and each… Read more »

  Greetings brothers and sisters, fellow laborers for the King! We just learned all four visas of new Kurdish patients have been issued. We will potentially be joined by the first two babies next week. We are in for a ride! I’m super excited, as are our current Kurdish mothers. However, it’s going to be… Read more »

  Dear friends and family, We thank God for you and your faithfulness to us, and to Messiah. This week started off with the long-awaited second surgery for our beloved Sara from Bethany, who was born with half a heart. After her first life-saving procedure in October, Sara was called in for her second surgery… Read more »

  Greetings from the community in Lod! Since my arrival in Israel two years ago I have grown used to rapidly-changing situations in both our personal labors and the politics of the world around us, but this week has definitely pushed that to its limit. We began this week with few nights of complete sleep… Read more »

  Dear friends and family in Messiah, Thank you for your prayers. This week in Israel began with a boom, both literally and figuratively. More on the literal later, but the figurative one was the long-awaited discharge of our little Yazidi boy Milad! For several days we waited in eager expectation that he and his… Read more »

  Hello friends! This morning around 2:40 I was awakened out of a nice sleep by a missile alarm. We all rushed to the shelter, only to realize that Israel was not just warning us of another incoming Houthi missile, but that it was attacking Iran and to expect retaliation. We all went back to… Read more »

  Dear friends, Greetings from us in Israel. The month of June has begun, which means we’re hitting the midway mark for this year. We thank God for His faithfulness thus far, and trust Him to continue carrying us. He is so good. On Wednesday, Yaqeen, who is from the northern part of West Bank… Read more »

  Greetings from the community in Lod! We have had one of the busiest weeks in recent memory, with our staff of just four. While we certainly don’t have a lot of rest each day, the work is enjoyable and we feel well-prepared and provisioned for each task. We see a lot of good fruit,… Read more »

  Dear brothers and sisters in Messiah, Greetings. The Lord is ever faithful. This week we saw an amazing step forward for Sila from the West Bank who arrived at Sheba Hospital back in March and finally, after two months and two days in the hospital, her father and mother were able to take her… Read more »

  Dear brothers and sisters, We thank Messiah for your love and faithful support of our little community. Finally this week we’ve seen two big steps of progress for baby Aisel from Tulkarem. On Wednesday she had her first bottle of milk in two and a half months in Israel!!! On top of her first… Read more »

  Grace and peace to you, from your friends in Lod. This ancient city has been a place of ministry and movement ever since the healing of Aeneas the paralytic turned the whole region to following Jesus of Nazareth. Now we join the continuous unbroken string of believers in Lod in whom the Spirit lives, and we… Read more »

  Dear friends, Greetings and peace to you in Messiah from our recently restored and reunified community in Lod. Just one week ago coworkers Max, Yedidyah, Jonathan and I were travelling throughout the beautiful countryside of Kurdistan, northern Iraq, stopping at different homes of families we have served, eating some delicious Kurdish food, and rarely… Read more »

  Dear friends, The sound of light footsteps running through the house preceded seven-year-old Linnea’s joyful smile as she greeted us this week, exclaiming “There’s a rainbow outside! Come and see it.” Indeed, on the ground drops of dew refreshed our garden and a beautiful arc illuminated the sky. That day we closely carried in our… Read more »

  Dear friends and family, Greetings from those of us in Lod! We thank our God on every remembrance of you, and remember you in our prayers. (No really, we prayed for you during our morning meeting today.) Early one morning this week coworker Max and I went to Sheba hospital for another surgery for… Read more »

  Beloved brothers and sisters, Kind regards from our Lod community! I have been working as a volunteer at Shevet Achim for the last two, almost three months. So before I say my goodbyes in mid-April and return home to the Netherlands, I felt it was the right time to share a glimpse of the… Read more »

  Friends, brothers, sisters, Greetings from those of us in Lod. As March draws to a close, our time in this month has been marked by nonstop arrivals and departures from friends and visitors, both new and old. Bethany’s parents left the country on Shabbat, and our longtime Jerusalem coworker Ben was also here for… Read more »

  Hello praying friends, Warm greetings to you all from those of us in Lod. We have written previously about how different our community life is feeling these days, given that we currently have no Kurdish families here in our home with us. However, this past week I am impressed by how full and busy… Read more »

  Greetings brothers and sisters! We thank God on every remembrance of you, and for your constant prayers for us here in Lod. This week started out a little rough for our oldest patient, 20-year-old Ezaddin from Nablus. On Sunday we learned that he had blood clots forming in his lungs and he would have… Read more »

  Friends, brothers, and sisters, Greetings from those of us in Lod. It’s been one month since I last wrote on behalf of our community. It’s been in many ways a quiet and peaceful month, with relatively little work and business, which allowed us to make outings this week both to the Sea of Galilee… Read more »

  Greetings brothers and sisters, from those of us in Lod. As the Shabbat approaches we reflect on the goodness and faithfulness of Messiah, who has brought us through another week. Avi had her final (God willing) echo at Sheba Medical Center. After almost three months living with us in Israel she is finally discharged… Read more »

  Hello brothers and sisters, Your friends in Lod send their greetings and love to you all. God’s peace abounds even in hardship, and we are eager to come together with you in prayer today—for the healthy and sick, the joyful and sorrowful, and for the victories and hardships. The week’s biggest day was no… Read more »

  Dear friends and family, We thank God each time we remember you. I truly hope this update finds you doing well. Ten days after her complex heart surgery, our beloved Rital was finally able to return home yesterday to her family outside Nablus! At least to me, everything seems to have gone very smoothly…. Read more »

  Friends, brothers, and sisters, Greetings from those of us in Lod. After our community spent much of the week painting, cleaning, and repairing our Ashdod home, yesterday evening my father and I returned there for the final time. We collected the last few odds and ends and arranged what possessions we were leaving for… Read more »

  I have been given the honor to be the first to say, greetings and peace from your brothers and sisters in Lod! This week we finally made the jump, wishing Ashdod farewell with a pizza dinner and a movie (the spiritual classic, Nacho Libre), and entering our new home in Lod. The move is still… Read more »

  Dear brothers and sisters, Greetings from those of us in Ashdod! This will be our final greeting from this city by the Mediterranean. In the coming days we will begin moving our community into our new home in Lod. This week has been an intense week emotionally, mainly of gratitude, but also of sadness… Read more »

  Friends, brothers, and sisters, Greetings from those of us in Ashdod. Although we will not be in Ashdod much longer. Day in and day out we’re sending crews up to Lod, assembling furniture, painting, cleaning. It seems like a tremendous effort to me, maybe because I’ve gotten used to a work schedule that’s mostly… Read more »

  Greetings from all of us at Shevet Achim, It’s been quite a week here! Lovely Rital came to Israel from strife-torn Nablus in the northern West Bank, for a catheterization to assess how to close a large hole in her heart without weakening it further. Everything went well, and it didn’t take long before… Read more »

  Dear friends, Warm greetings to you from those of us here in Ashdod. This week has been a significant week, as we moved all of the families out of their home next door and in with us this past Sunday. I love our families that we serve, but confess that this day had been… Read more »

Dear friends and family, hello from all of us at Shevet .We thank our God upon every remembrance of you, and for your faithful love and support. At the beginning of the week we started the long-awaited process of moving to Lod, first of all the family house–which is finally, with five van loads, four… Read more »

Hello dear brothers and sisters, Greetings to you all from our community here in Ashdod. What has especially been heavy on our hearts this week is little Roshban from Kurdistan. Roshban and his mother have waited very patiently for his treatment. They have been here for three months, and during that time our community has… Read more »

Hello brothers and sisters, No week is ever the same here, sometimes the tasks are the same, and the people are the same, but the spirit, struggles, and victories we face are, like God’s mercies, new every morning. Our first big change has been a long time coming. The once-distant prospect of moving is now… Read more »

Dear praying friends, Greetings! Thank you for walking with our community in support and prayer, from near and far. Hezhan and Viyan are two young adults from Kurdistan needing essential cardiac treatment. Though they are currently geographically far from us they are already close in our hearts and prayers. Years ago they were with our… Read more »

Dear brothers and sisters, Greetings from those of us in Ashdod. We have been confronted with the first cold weather of the season, which has led to a wave of sickness that has hit some community members. Thank God this week has been very slow in comparison to some, so we have had ample time… Read more »

Greetings brothers and sisters, This week has been full of blessings, one of them the strengthening of relationships. Now that the number of families living next door has increased again, they share meals with us a couple times a week. My favorite part is after the meal when the mothers serve up hot tea as… Read more »

Friends, brothers, sisters, Greetings from those of us in Ashdod. We’re in a quiet season at Shevet. Our biggest concern at the moment remains the question of moving. The possibility of house changing continues to challenge us; despite many houses visited, and a near-finalized commitment to one, nothing has yet been settled. Two more homes… Read more »

Hello friends and family, Greetings from all of us here in Ashdod. Our house felt distinctly quieter since the two Kurdish boys Malik and Meer departed last week. Then Monday came, and with it the arrival of our newest Kurdish child and his mother. After a five-hour flight delay, Bethany, Yedidyah and I were thrilled… Read more »

Friends, brothers, and sisters, Greetings from those of us in Ashdod. The fall holidays have officially come to a close. Last Friday we concluded the yearly Torah cycle, and Saturday we began again at the beginning with the first six chapters of Genesis. On Sunday we took down our sukkah, and the hospital kicked back… Read more »

Dear brothers and sisters in Messiah, Greetings from all of us in Ashdod! First I want to share about sweet Palestinian baby Sara from Bethany on the Mount of Olives. I was with Sara’s family at Sheba Medical Center early Sunday morning before her big surgery, and it was a hard time to see at… Read more »

Hello praying friends, Warm greetings from all of us here in Ashdod. Our week started off at full speed Sunday with the long-awaited final heart repair for our favorite little Ali. We praise God that he came through this very well and is recovering; however, he is struggling with not wanting to eat at all…. Read more »