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To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
What does the worker gain from his efforts….
Ecc 3: 1-9 (please read the whole chapter)
Jan. 2013
Dear Friends and Family,
We didn’t ever expect to write this letter. However, God’s plans are not our own.
When we embarked on the conference/tour to Israel in Nov of 2005, God changed our lives dramatically. On that trip, He let both Howie and I know that our lives would be changing. He spoke directly to both of our hearts. It was definite. It was unexpected. It was exciting. It was terrifying.
For those that have been with us since the beginning of our journey, you saw our excitement and our pain. Leaving all, going forth as so many heroes of the faith did before us, was not easy. The journey cannot be explained in a letter. It has been the most awesome experience. We are humbled to have been allowed to partake of all God has to give to Believers in this Land. We are forever changed.
Just as abruptly as God called us to this place, Israel, He is calling us back to the States. As quickly as it started, our time has now come to an end. Just as He spoke to our hearts to come, He has spoken to depart. We are excited in being reunited with our precious children and family. We are grieved to be leaving His place; for we are sure that in no other place than this can you feel God’s majestic presence. He is here. His handwriting is everywhere. His Spirit abounds
.
We don’t want to go into details at this time. Suffice it to say, that we know this to be true, we know it’s time to return. We are shocked, because we truly thought that we’d be here until the Lord called us home. We were prepared to face the war that will come. For whatever reason, that’s not the Lord’s plan for us.
We will be arriving in NY on March 21. We have many things to do here to close our lives and ministry. We have many people we need to say goodbye to and I can’t even imagine it. We have to say goodbye to Israel, which has become part of who we are.
We need your prayers. Just as when a soldier comes home from battle, missionaries experience quite the same re-adjustment. When we come home each year to raise support, the States feel so foreign to us. We feel like aliens. We have changed, our lives have changed, but yet everything seems to have gone on without us.
We want to thank those who have supported us with prayer and finance over these past almost 6 years. We couldn’t have done it without you. God has used you mightily to advance His Kingdom here in Israel. We have been humbled by the steadfastness of His supplying our needs while here.
We are coming back to the unknown, getting out of the boat gain. We ask that you would prayerfully consider continuing our support for a time, as we adjust back to life there.
We don’t want to revert back to the people we were before this journey. God has changed us and filled us for a purpose, His purpose. We are coming back with knowledge that we didn’t have before. God has imparted so much to us.
So, there you have it. Thank you once again. I think this will be the last of our newsletters from Israel. We will be continuing on with the website we started in order to keep you aware of events, pertinent end times events are happening now…so we all need to be ready.
The pics this month on our e-mails are from The Dead Sea and Ein Gedi. Ein Gedi is mentioned in the Bible as the place David ran to trying to escape Saul. I can see why…many places to hide, that’s for sure.
Adonai Yivarech Otchem,
Shalom and Brachote,
Dear Friends and Family,
We didn’t ever expect to write this letter. However, God’s plans are not our own.
When we embarked on the conference/tour to Israel in Nov of 2005, God changed our lives dramatically. On that trip, He let both Howie and I know that our lives would be changing. He spoke directly to both of our hearts. It was definite. It was unexpected. It was exciting. It was terrifying.
For those that have been with us since the beginning of our journey, you saw our excitement and our pain. Leaving all, going forth as so many heroes of the faith did before us, was not easy. The journey cannot be explained in a letter. It has been the most awesome experience. We are humbled to have been allowed to partake of all God has to give to Believers in this Land. We are forever changed.
Just as abruptly as God called us to this place, Israel, He is calling us back to the States. As quickly as it started, our time has now come to an end. Just as He spoke to our hearts to come, He has spoken to depart. We are excited in being reunited with our precious children and family. We are grieved to be leaving His place; for we are sure that in no other place than this can you feel God’s majestic presence. He is here. His handwriting is everywhere. His Spirit abounds
.
We don’t want to go into details at this time. Suffice it to say, that we know this to be true, we know it’s time to return. We are shocked, because we truly thought that we’d be here until the Lord called us home. We were prepared to face the war that will come. For whatever reason, that’s not the Lord’s plan for us.
We will be arriving in NY on March 21. We have many things to do here to close our lives and ministry. We have many people we need to say goodbye to and I can’t even imagine it. We have to say goodbye to Israel, which has become part of who we are.
We need your prayers. Just as when a soldier comes home from battle, missionaries experience quite the same re-adjustment. When we come home each year to raise support, the States feel so foreign to us. We feel like aliens. We have changed, our lives have changed, but yet everything seems to have gone on without us.
We want to thank those who have supported us with prayer and finance over these past almost 6 years. We couldn’t have done it without you. God has used you mightily to advance His Kingdom here in Israel. We have been humbled by the steadfastness of His supplying our needs while here.
We are coming back to the unknown, getting out of the boat gain. We ask that you would prayerfully consider continuing our support for a time, as we adjust back to life there.
We don’t want to revert back to the people we were before this journey. God has changed us and filled us for a purpose, His purpose. We are coming back with knowledge that we didn’t have before. God has imparted so much to us.
So, there you have it. Thank you once again. I think this will be the last of our newsletters from Israel. We will be continuing on with the website we started in order to keep you aware of events, pertinent end times events are happening now…so we all need to be ready.
The pics this month on our e-mails are from The Dead Sea and Ein Gedi. Ein Gedi is mentioned in the Bible as the place David ran to trying to escape Saul. I can see why…many places to hide, that’s for sure.
Adonai Yivarech Otchem,
Shalom and Brachote,