This Month's Mission Outreach
Comfort My People
 Imagine for a moment that you are a child again. For as long as you can remember you have heard your parents dream about leaving their home and country to emigrate to Israel. Your life is comfortable and your parents are well educated professionals, your father is a doctor and your mother an engineer, but they feel that the sacrifice they may endure to move to a new land are outweighed by their fears of increasing anti-Semitism and discrimination. You are apprehensive, but excited about moving to your Jewish homeland.
Three years later, the dream seems shattered. Your family is in Israel, but your father is still struggling to learn Hebrew, and is considered an unskilled laborer. The unemployment rate is high and he can’t get work. Your mother can only find work as a maid. Home life has become difficult as your father has begun to turn to alcohol and your mother bears the burden of being the primary wage earner.
The entire family lives in a one bedroom apartment with no extras and barely enough necessities. Added to this is the shame you feel when your parents have to sacrifice food in order to purchase your school supplies (and you don't have enough to eat as it is.) |
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Aliyah is the immigration of Jewish people to the land of Israel. It is a fulfillment of God’s promise in Jeremiah, "Days are coming, the Lord says, when men will no longer say the Lord lives who brought them out of Egypt, but the Lord lives who brought them out of the land of the north and out of all the places where I've scattered them, bringing them back to the land I gave their fathers." Jeremiah 16:14-15.
We are living in those days today. Whether from the north country of Russia or the Jewish communities scattered from Ethiopia to South America, God is fulfilling this word in our day as He draws His people back to their promised land, Israel. |
That is the life that Vica lives now. Excitement has been replaced by fear as she watches her family spiral deeper into despair. At the same time, she is like any other child, and wants to fit in with her peers. As a young child she has to choose between the shame of not having school supplies or the guilt of asking for needed school items while her family goes without food. That's a lot for a child to bear.
Vica’s experience is not an isolated case. Israel is a complex society where one in three children live below the poverty line. That translates into hundreds of thousands of children whose lives are at risk due to poverty and the dangers of abuse, neglect and abandonment that accompany it.
You can make a difference!
Isaiah 40 begins with these words, “Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.” Your support is bringing comfort to children like Vica and thousands of others who are struggling in Israel. It may seem insignificant, but for families on the brink, something as simple as a backpack and school supplies can make all the difference in the world. For Vica, it means she will not face the first day of school with fear or shame. For her parents, it can mean the difference between choosing between food, rent or the heartbreak of watching their little girl go off to school empty-handed.
We are living in prophetic days as God calls His people back to their borders. Your partnership is blessing Israel and helping ease the strain as God fulfills the prophecies of Jeremiah and Isaiah. Your support is helping us change the lives of thousands like Vica and her family, and is a tangible demonstration of the love of Christ to all who are blessed.
Help us today!
Make a one-time donation or become a monthly partner. Your support helps us in our ongoing efforts to save lives, help families, support widows and orphans and demonstrate the love of God in practical service.
As you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me. Matt. 25:40
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