June 2: We start our day @ a little after 8:00 am and have devotion on Skype with Pastor Bradley of Calvary Chapel Jerusalem who also organizes the ministry where, he is now live in Switzerland. Please keep them in your prayer as they wait for the LORD to guide them for their next step. We had an easy day today, or maybe I had an easy day today he he. Linda and Robin helped them organize clothes that came in the containers from Switzerland and Sweden, Monday and Wednesday are their big days. The immigrant will come to the warehouse to get what they needed, food coupon, furniture coupon, and clothes etc. I worked in the office today helping them wrote invoices for the donors. For those of you who were waiting for the picture, as you know I came with 2 friends who love their picture taken so much I will do my very best.
We are here
- fromjerusalem
- For Zion’s Sake Ministries is a Jerusalem based non-profit, humanitarian aid organization - established and dedicated to assisting the needs of newly arriving immigrants. For most, starting over in Israel is physically and emotionally, as well as economically, overwhelming. After the slaughter of more than 6 million Jews in the Holocaust, the state of Israel was reborn miraculously in one day on May 14, 1948. God’s chosen people began returning to their ancient homeland seeking refuge. Thousands of new immigrants come to Israel every year to escape persecution in the form of anti-Semitism and economic and civil oppression. Over one million Jews from the former Soviet Union have returned home since 1988 alone, and their needs are staggering. Most of these immigrants arrive in Israel with only the clothes they carry with them in their suitcases. The transition of starting over in a strange land is extremely difficult for most of the immigrants (Olim). Lack of employment, insufficient language skills, and a myriad of cultural challenges cause many to become discouraged and lonely. Because of these hardships, twelve percent of new immigrants choose to leave Israel.
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