Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Love For His People - serving Israel and beyond

Israel - kids and grandpas

During these first three years of our honoring Israel and humanitarian ministry, Love For His People, Inc., we have been able to bless others - in Israel, India, Africa and in the USA. We give thanks to the Lord Jesus (Yeshua) that we can give that which we have been given - love, prayers and monthly humanitarian support to the nations.

You too can be a part of this work. As we know these whom we individually help support, you can be assured that your gifts go to them. (We also do not have paid staff or office rent that funds would be used for.)

Please select the "Donate" button on the right column of this blog, near the top, and share some of your love for His people. We would truly appreciate this act of generosity. So would they!

Thank you,

Steve & Laurie Martin

Founders

Israel...in the Galilee

Carolyn & Richard Hyde

Ephraim Shaul in Liberia

Orphans in Liberia

Ephraim Shaul (striped shirt in middle)

with orphans in Liberia

India

Ze'ev Nevo - Israel Media Ministries

- based in South Carolina

Below are photos of our good friend Pastor John Ebenezer from Hyderabad/Muerchela in southeast India. In Nov. 2013, John will be making his first trip to Israel with us, on our Ahava Adventures 2013. We have supported John over the last 7 years - first from our family and now through Love For His People. Steve spent a week with John in 2010, teaching his pastors group about Israel and the Lords feasts.

A new church being planted. Literally!

Children of the pastors and their wives

Pastors wives received gifts

Pastors that John Ebenezer has trained.

Pastor John laying hands on the sick in India.

John Ebenezer, another pastor and wife

We also support this great ministry in Israel:

CFI-Jerusalem's Mission Statement

As Christians we have received from God a love for Israel and the Jewish people. We want to bless them in the name of the Lord. We believe the Lord Jesus is both the Messiah of Israel and Savior of the world; however, our stand alongside Israel is not conditional upon her acceptance of our belief. We exist to comfort and to support the people of Israel, and to inform Christians around the world of God's plans for Israel. CFI teaches the Church's responsibility toward the Jewish people, and brings awareness to the Jewish people of our solidarity with them.

Download "Standing With Israel" flyer to read more.
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Executive/International Director

Ray Sanders is co-founder of the CFI Jerusalem office with his wife Sharon.

They have been establishing and developing the ministry in Israel since December 1985 when they were appointed to build a ministry from the ground up.

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Director of Ministry and Teaching

Sharon Sanders is co-founder of the CFI Jerusalem office along with her husband Ray Sanders.

As co-founder she is responsible for casting vision for the ministry. Sharon is an ordained Minister through Christ For the Nations Bible College, Dallas, Texas.

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Director of Outreach Ministry

Helene Iedema is from Holland and 18 years ago she came to Israel to serve the Jewish people.

Until 2001, she took care of the sick and handicapped people in their homes before she joined the Christian Friends of Israel Ministry in Jerusalem.

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Director of Administration

Jim McKenzie is from the United States and joined the CFI - Jerusalem staff in 2010.

He is a veteran of the United States Air Force and a resident of North Carolina, USA. Jim, and his wife Linda, moved to Israel to serve the Jewish People.

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Love For His People

Pakistan - Peshawar Bomb blast on 29 Sept 2013

Moses Julius at bomb blast church site in Pakistan

From:

Moses Julius

9:36 AM (2 hours ago)

Shalom Brother Steve !

I am grateful to you that you take burden in your heart and share your feeling with us. When the second bomb blast was happened on 29 of Sept 2013. I was in Peshawar Church and we were far from bomb just for 2-3 mins walking distance. Thanks Elohim I and my family were safe by your prayers.

Brother mostly of my friends has passed away. Just few families were left. I have deep concern in my heart to help their people. But I couldn't that because I am not earning person . So I humbly request to you please join hands us and start to raise some funds to help these people. Because Government doesn't play their own role to safe the Pakistani Christians , We want to help them.

Blessing and Shalom,

Moses Julius

E-mail=moses_4_u@hotmail.com
Facebook Name= Moses Julius
Skpye ID- moses_julius
Phone Number= +92-3454382961

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Gathering the Exiles: Israel Welcomes Ethiopian Jews

By Julie Stahl and Chris Mitchell

CBN News Middle East Bureau Tuesday, October 08, 2013

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BEN GURION AIRPORT -- The final flights of an operation bringing Jewish people -- whose ancestors date to biblical times -- landed in Israel recently. It's one of the world's oldest Jewish communities, reaching back to King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.

"Today we are witnessing history taking place -- the return of the last remaining remnants of Jewish Ethiopians to their Jewish homeland," Greg Masel, director general of Keren Hayesod, told CBN News.

The new immigrants arrived in Israel courtesy of Operation Dove's Wings. It's the final in a series of organized mass immigrations from Ethiopia that's spanned three decades.

"It's really closing a kind of a circle -- 30 years of operation after operation, of wonderful aliyah [immigration to Israel under the Law of Return] that [brought] Ethiopians to Israel. It's awesome," MK Pnina Tamano-Shata told CBN News.

Tamano-Shata is the first Ethiopian-born woman to become a member of the Israeli parliament. She arrived in Israel on Operation Shlomo (Solomon) in 1991.

"If I remember Operation Shlomo -- in 36 hours, 14,000 people," she recalled.

"The State of Israel does many wonderful things, and things very, very big because I immigrated at age three, and this time I returned as a Knesset member, a parliament member, this is a big pride," she said smiling.

Since 1948, the Jewish Agency, responsible for immigration, has helped more than 90,000 Ethiopians immigrate to Israel. Keren Hayesold has raised much of the funds.

"One of the basic missions of the State of Israel is to gather the exiles, the Jewish exiles here in Israel," said Yohanna Arbib Perugia, chairman of the World Board of Trustees of Keren Hayesod.

Known as Falash Mura or Beta Israel, many Ethiopian Jews adopted Christian practices over the years or assimilated into Ethiopian society. Israel, therefore, had to determine whether those applying for citizenship were really eligible to come to the land under the Law of Return.

"They're happiest and most grateful because they recognize that Israel is the only country in the history of the world to bring in blacks, not to be slaves, but to be brothers…and that's what they are. They're brothers, they're family," Rabbi Ari Abramowitz, director of Friends of Israel at Keren Hayesod, told CBN News.

For the past three years, the Jewish Agency ran a community center in Gondar, Ethiopia, which provided social and welfare services, plus Hebrew language courses and Jewish studies to prepare the returnees for their homecoming.

"They have a wonderful history, a rich culture, but they grew up in villages," Masel explained. "They grew up removed from 20th century, Western civilization, as we know it."

"We have Jews that have been separated for 2,000 years," Abramowitz said. "Imagine a family reunion after a 2,000-year summer camp! We come back with all the different culture and values and perspectives, and we're in this little land surrounded by enemies who want to wipe us out."

Though these last two flights mark the end of mass immigration from Ethiopia, the Jewish Agency will still help those eligible to immigrate.

And Abramowitz says there's more work to be done.

"There's plenty of Jews around the world who we have to still bring back," he said. "There's a lot more work to do."

CBN News - Ethiopian Jews

Where Were These People Marching 100 Years Ago in Jerusalem? To a Funeral, Apparently

Israel's History - a Picture a Day (Beta)

Where Were These People Marching 100 Years Ago in Jerusalem? To a Funeral, Apparently

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 10:42 AM PDT

A procession -- but to where?

As we post this feature, the funeral of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is taking place in Jerusalem with more than half a million mourners.

To mark the sad event, we are reposting a two year old feature. The pictures here were photographed more than 100 years ago in Jerusalem. What was the occasion?

"A Jewish procession to Absalom's Pillar" is the caption on the Library of Congress' photo, which as dated sometime between 1898 and 1946. That's a huge window of time. The procession is walking down a ramp from the southeast corner of the Old City wall into the Kidron Valley. Presumably the hundreds of Jews came out of the Old City through the Dung Gate or the Zion Gate.

Why was there a procession to the tomb of King David's rebellious son, Absalom? It's not a very popular destination for Jerusalemites today. Some historians relate that there was a custom to take children to the shrine and throw rocks at it to remind the children to behave. Were there so many mischievous children? The long dresses on many of the people in the procession suggest many women were also involved.

An enlarged segment of the procession picture

Luckily, the Library of Congress site provides a TIFF download that permits enlarging the photo and provides incredible detail. And the enlargement shows that the procession consisted almost entirely of ultra-Orthodox men wearing their long caftans.

The funeral near Absalom's Pillar

Also fortuitous was discovering another picture elsewhere in the massive Library of Congress collection entitled "Various types, etc. Jewish funeral." It shows a funeral party at the bottom of the Kidron Valley moving up the Mount

of Olives. It may very well be the "flip side" of the same procession, with two photographers on either side of the valley. The shadows suggest that the time of day -- morning, with the sun shining in the east -- was nearly the same. The second picture, however, does include women walking up the ramp from the Valley. And yes, the women are Jewish. Despite the dark scarves on their heads, they are neither nuns nor Muslims.

Women heading back to the Old City

Lastly, while the Library curators recorded a number, 4340, on the first negative, they missed that the second photo, dated between 1900 and 1920, had the number 4343, suggesting that the two were part of a series.

This match was pointed out to the curators who will finally pair the two photos after almost 100 years.

Today, this notation appears on the caption:LoC: "May be related to LC-M32-14232 which has "4340" on negative. (Source: L. Ben-David,Israel's History - A Picture a Day
website, August 19, 2011)

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Reposting: The Library of Congress' photo collection also includes this 1903 (1908?) photo of the "Funeral services for a Jewish Rabbi, Jerusalem."
Is it possible to determine where in Jerusalem the photograph was taken? Most definitely.

1903 funeral in the Old City of Jerusalem

The building is the Rothschild building in the Batei Machaseh compound in the Old City of Jerusalem, donated by Baron Wilhelm Karl de Rothschild of Frankfurt. The building still bears the Rothschild family's coat of arms.

The compound was built between 1860 and 1890 to provide housing for Jerusalem's poor. An old lintel stone nearby reads "Shelter home for the poor on Mt. Zion."

Standing In Hard Times - Bill Yount

Standing In Hard Times

Posted: 07 Oct 2013

A woman kept standing for the healing of her husband who suffered a stroke, leaving a third of his brain dead. The doctor said to her, "He will never fully recover but be a vegetable the rest of his life." The woman said, "No, by the stripes of Jesus he is healed." The doctor got upset with her and said, "I don't think you are taking me seriously. I have been doctoring these cases for thirty years." The woman responded, "Jesus has been healing longer than that!" Nine days later he walked out of the hospital whole.

"I'm not looking ahead to a time when I will be healed. I'm looking back to the time I was healed." - Bob Sorge

Last night I faced my terror by night. It was afraid of me. And the arrow that flies by day. It missed me. You may wonder what my terror and arrow was. Just terror and an arrow. That's all it was.

After several months of pain, prayers of many, stretching exercises and some laser treatment, my frozen shoulder is finally loosed. The pain is gone. God has intervened again in my life.Thank you for all your prayers during this ordeal.

I am learning that sometimes you must walk through some stuff to get to where God is.

Blessings,

Bill Yount

www.billyount.com

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Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Love For His People - serving Israel and beyond

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Pakistan - Peshawar Bomb blast on 29 Sept 2013

Gathering the Exiles: Israel Welcomes Ethiopian Jews

Gathering the Exiles: Israel Welcomes Ethiopian Jews

Where Were These People Marching 100 Years Ago in Jerusalem? To a Funeral, Apparently

Israel's History - a Picture a Day (Beta)

Standing In Hard Times - Bill Yount