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Photo taken during one of the many times I stayed with Nissim and Hadassah Lerner in their Givat Ze'ev home just north of Jerusalem. We set the camera up at the end of the table and captured a timed photo. Hadassah is now dancung with her Messiah, Yeshua, as of Aug. 16, 2025. She will be greatly missed by her family and friends.
Hadassah Lerner as a freatured speaker at our Love For His People
"Aliyah For His People" conference in Charlotte, North Carolina 2020
Hadassah loved to drive. On one our our several trips into Jerusalem over the years.
“Praised be God, Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, who, in keeping with his great mercy, has caused us, through the resurrection of Yeshua the Messiah from the dead, to be born again to a living hope, to an inheritance that cannot decay, spoil or fade, kept safe for you in heaven.”
1 Peter 1:2-4, Complete Jewish Bible
“You will always have a place to stay with us,” Hadassah told me when I last lodged at their housing in Givat Ze’ev, about 5 miles north of Jerusalem in Israel.
Nissim and Hadassah were just that way. They opened their 3-bedroom home to those making Aliyah (immigration as Jews) from the nations, and Gentiles like me who came to bless Israel and the His chosen people.
Originally known as Margaret and John Lerner, they had lived in Norfolk, Virginia, before themselves taking their five children to the Land given to the Jews. With new names and big hearts, decades later they formed His Lighthouse. This ministry had open doors and open arms to all people coming to Israel.
When I came from Charlotte, North Carolina, the first time to their home in 2013, they hardly knew me. Facebook friends sometimes do become real ones in the flesh. But their passion and my passion joined together for His plans and purposes.
Hadassah would take the time to show me all around Jerusalem. She’d have an answer, or get one, for every WhatsApp question I sent her way. They both were so encouraging in allowing me to use their place as a launching pad, for what the Lord was laying as a foundation in my life, and for future plans He was preparing for me and others in Israel.
I and so many more will miss Hadassah. On Aug. 16, 2025, after a year-long battle with cancer (chemo, radiation, and surgery), the Lord Yeshua called her to her heavenly home, to her great reward. My good wife Laurie last saw her in April 2025 in Haifa. David Peterman and I were with her and Nissim in their home in May 2025. She went to glory three months later.
Most likely her front door has a sign on it saying, “All are welcome. Come on in.”
Ahava and Shalom,
Steve Martin
P.S. With Laurie and my upcoming volunteering in Jerusalem, Israel, with Christian Friends of Israel for three months, Oct. 15, 2025 – Jan. 12, 2026, He has indeed prepared for us the way. For many years He has given us good friends living there, such as Hadassah Lerner was, and Nissim continues to be.
We welcome your prayers and support as we together bless Israel and His people in their Land.
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Message #13 in my new series (2025): “Hadassah" - Aug. 20, 2025
Ahava and Shalom,
Steve Martin
P.S. With Laurie and my upcoming volunteering in Jerusalem, Israel, with Christian Friends of Israel for three months, Oct. 15, 2025 – Jan. 12, 2026, He has prepared us the way for many years with good friends there, such as Hadassah Lerner was, and Nissim is.
We welcome your prayers and support as we together bless Israel and His people in their Land.
Contributions are welcome online by clicking here on our webpage, when you look for the little DONATE button on each side column, Love For His People uses. DONATE HERE.
Are you new to these messages, or has another shared them with you? Sign up here to receive it directly in your email InBox. Go to our website and click on the nice, “full of brewed coffee mug” with the Love For His People logo on it, found on either side column of the webpage. You will be glad you did! Sign Up for Steve Martin's Messages
Please request to have your name added to our Signal group “Love for His People” for regular updates, especially when we are in Jerusalem. Email Steve here to connect more: Love For His People
Love For His People Ministry
12120 Woodside Falls Rd. Pineville, North Carolina, USA
Message #13 in my new series (2025): “Hadassah" - Aug. 21, 2025
Laurie Martin, Hadassah Lerner at Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, North Carolina 2020
Laurie and Steve Martin with Hadassah in front of our Charlotte, NC home 2020
Hadassah with our grandson Levi in his Charlotte, NC home 2020
(L-R) Steve Martin, Hadassah & Nissim Lerner, David Peterman
- at their home in Isfiya, Israel (Near Haifa) May 2025
Hadassah and Nissim Lerner in Israel
On Aug. 16, 2025, Hadassah Lerner passed on to her eternal reward to heave, to join her Messiah, Yeshua HaMashiach. I was grateful that I had several opportunities to record her messages while she was with us, both in Jerusalem and here in Charlotte, North Carolina. A few are shared below.
We love Hadassah, her hyusband Nissim, and her family of sons, daughters, "grands" and "great-grands": as she called them.
Ahava and Shalom.
Steve Martin
Love For His People
Aug, 20, 2025
Charlotte, NC
From the Aliyah For His People conference in Charlotte, North Carolina Sept. 6, 2019 "Hadassah Lerner from Jerusalem - Making aliyah (immigrating to Israel) from America
Hadassah Lerner from Jerusalem - Making aliyah from America
Sept. 6, 2019 Spoken at the Antioch International Church gathering of Strength For Israel, which meets every first Friday of the month in Fort Mill, SC.
the ministry of Love For His People, Inc. has been supporting Hadassah and her husband Nissim since 2015. They have this year started a new word called "His Lighthouse, Inc."
Videos filmed and shared by Steve Martin - to give appreciation to and love for those we support, through Love For His People, Inc.
Hadassah Lerner - Strength For Israel Shabbat gathering
Hadassah Lerner - Strength For Israel Shabbat gathering (#2 of 2)
Videos filmed and shared by Steve Martin - to give appreciation to and love for those we support, through Love For His People, Inc.
Hadassah Lerner's message on coming toIsrael in aliyah (immigration) (2 of 2).Aliyah
Aliyah Seminar 2022 - Hadassah Lerner's message on coming to Israel in aliyah (immigration). Part 2 of 2
Nov. 4, 2022 Jerusalem, Israel As a speaker during the Operation Tarshish (Glen Haines) Aliyah Seminar 2022, Hadassah shares her story on making aliyah, and enduring the physical and spiritual pain and troubles that gave way to doing what the Lord has for her and her husband Nissim in the Land of Israel.
Our good friend Chaim Malespin shares the back story. Steve Martin, Love For His People
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STEVE & LAURIE MARTIN - LOVE FOR HIS PEOPLE FOUNDERS My good wife Laurie and I (45 years in October 2022!), through the ministry of Love For His People we founded in 2010, give love and support for our friends in Israel and in other nations with friendship, humanitarian aid, and social media support, along with Steve's messages, and our Ahava Adventures trips to Israel. Steve has also authored and published 34 books. We live in the Charlotte, NC area. We have four adult children, spouses, and eight grandkids.
The prophet Ezekiel foretold that all the Jews would return to their Biblical Homeland one day and we are seeing the beginning of that prophecy being fulfilled right before our eyes. But ALL the Jews returning?! Just how many Jews are living in the world today? To answer that question I say to go outside tonight and just look up at the stars – and count them if you can! (Genesis 15:5)
For all the Jews to come Home, after being scattered to the four corners of the earth, for over two thousand years, this can only be a mighty move of God.
Over 1 million Jews from the former Soviet Union have come Home since the establishment of the Jewish State in 1948, and over 21,000 from Russia and Ukraine since the outbreak of the conflict on February 24th. Millions of other Jews have made Aliyah from around the world, but there are countless Jews still living captive in the nations – and God has promised to bring them ALL home, “not leaving ANY behind!” (Ezekiel 39:29)
That means every Jew, whether in the north, the south, the east, or the west; they are all coming Home – together with an untold number of “others.” (See Isaiah 56:8)
And who has been assigned to accomplish such a task? The Christians! Well, the Bible does not actually say Christians but Gentiles. (Isaiah 49:22) However, as most of the Gentiles hate the Jews and Israel, it is therefore referring to Gentiles who love the Jewish People, the Land of Israel, and the God of Israel – and this refers to Christians.
And this does not mean ALL Christians, as there are many Christians who hold anti-Semitic feelings and an un-Biblical theology. Therefore Isaiah 49:22 refers to a very small group of true born-again Believers who have responded to God’s beckoning of the nations and have responded to bring His sons in their arms, and carry His daughters on their shoulders.
This workshop/seminar will be a time of praying, discussing, and planning the ways in which to bring the Jews Home. Lord willing, we will hear from the Minister of Immigrant Absorption Pnina Tamano-Shata to learn what she is doing to bring the Ethiopian Jews home. Maybe we will hear from the Jewish Agency again, and see how we can work together to bring ALL the Jews home.
Please pray and seek the Lord, if He wants you to participate in this 2022 Aliyah Seminar & Tour, where you can fellowship and learn from other individuals and ministries who have the same vision and calling to see ALL God’s Chosen come home.
This Aliyah Seminar is planned to run from Monday morning, October 31st until Thursday evening the 3rd November. (Registration will be at Lev Yerushalayim Hotel on October 30th) The Aliyah Tour will start the next day on Friday 4th November, 2022. We look forward, Lord willing, to seeing you in the Celebration Hall of the Clal Building in Jerusalem.
The reasons for this 2022 Aliyah Workshop/Seminar are as follows:-
1. To glorify God – to share what the God of Israel is doing so that “you may know that I am God!” Aliyah is so close to our Father’s heart (Jeremiah 32:41), and He wants to be glorified through this Aliyah. (Ezekiel 37:14)
2. It is most important that we meet with God during these workshops, and to hear His voice in order to know how to progress in this awesome work of Aliyah, which He is doing will all His heart and soul. (Jeremiah 32:41) We will worship and wait on Him to prepare the way as His voice directs.
3. Just as we cannot survive without oxygen, so too this Workshop/Seminar cannot survive without prayer. There will be times of prayer. Whenever we sense the need for more prayer within scheduled meetings or as issues arise we shall come together to lift our voices to the mighty King of Kings.
4. To bring the Aliyah Ministries together, so that we can learn from each other, bless each other, pray for each other – so that when the great Second Exodus really starts we will be able to work in unity to accomplish the main goal of this Aliyah, and that is to glorify God. There are many ministries involved in Aliyah, but we do not always know about other brothers and sisters who are also called to this Holy calling.
5. There is a possibility that our ministries could complement or supplement one another.
6. To get to know the other Aliyah Ministries, so that we can work together as a functioning Body. Unity is crucial for effective ministry in the Lord’s work. There are some cases where the right hand does not need to know what the left hand is doing, however, the Body as a whole needs to be in unity. (John 17:22, 23)
7. The number of Jews returning has increased, but we need to be prepared for the great Tsunami when they all return to this Land, in unprecedented numbers – both those sending the Jews to Israel, and those in Israel receiving the Jews must be prepared.
8. We need to be ready to handle Jews of diverse cultures and languages, and know where they are to be housed and fed when they arrive in the Land. (They will live in tents again… Hosea 12:9)
9. When Aliyah is in full swing, and some of our operations become clandestine, we will need to be discreet and have a strategy to know what we can or cannot say or do.
10. It is important to fellowship with like-minded brothers and sisters who have the same calling. Maybe some believers will need encouragement or motivation.
11. We should re-kindle the flame. (Finnish Believers prepared their safe houses for Aliyah many years ago. We hope they have not lost their hope or zeal for a massive Aliyah as it is still coming).
12. We must learn lessons from the previous Waves of Aliyot and not repeat past shortcomings.
Past Speakers include -
Danny Ayalon – Former Foreign Minister, MK for Yisrael Beitenu & Israeli Ambassador to the US; Michael Freund of Shavei Israel; Ashley Perry of Reconectar; Albert Veksler of Global Aliyah; Dvora Ganani and Roman Polanski of the Jewish Agency; Jerry Golden of the Golden Report; Debbie Kellogg of The Cyrus Foundation; Dean Bye of the Return Center; David Harrington of Intercessors for Cyprus; Jorge Deiner of Emergency Response & Int. Projects at Hadassah; and Stephen Burke of the Lord will Provide ministry, among many others.
STEVE & LAURIE MARTIN - LOVE FOR HIS PEOPLE FOUNDERS My good wife Laurie and I (45 years in October 2022!), through the ministry of Love For His People we founded in 2010, give love and support for our friends in Israel and in other nations with friendship, humanitarian aid, and social media support, along with Steve's messages, and our Ahava Adventures trips to Israel. Steve has also authored and published 34 books. We live in the Charlotte, NC area. We have four adult children, spouses, and eight grandkids.
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