Month: February 2022

Update from Pastor Oded Shoshani, Jerusalem

“Behold I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.” Isaiah 43:19

In this new calendar year of 2022, we want to lift our gaze and thank the Lord who is continuing to do new things, bring salvation to His people, and building His kingdom. We also thank Him that even though it seems we are in a spiritual wilderness, He is the one who opens the way before us, and He is the one who strengthens us to walk in love, faith and hope.

Upcoming baptisms:
A young man in our congregation has been working with Oded to prepare for his immersion in water. We are so encouraged to see his heart towards the Lord and his desire to publicly declare his commitment and love for Yeshua. Please pray for him to be strengthened in the Lord leading up to this declaration.

His younger sister has also begun the preparation process as well. Please pray for her continued growth and deepening of her relationship with the Lord as she prepares.

With much love, Oded & Sandy Shoshani

Praise and Prayer from Ezra & Shulamite, Golan Heights
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations…Matthew 28:19

This month we were able to come alongside Baruch, a believing immigrant and single father who lost his wife to cancer. He found himself unemployed as one of the effects of COVID here in Israel. Then he received notice from his landlord that he was being evicted because he had not paid his rent. Once we heard this we contacted him and his landlord to inform them that Blessing Israeli Believers would pay his rent so he and his daughter would not find themselves homeless in the middle of winter. By the grace of God Baruch will start at a new place of employment beginning in February!

We were blessed to be able to sponsor a dinner to begin 2022 together with the Holocaust Survivors, which was held in one of the local community centers in our town. Through this dinner we were able to meet many new people. The very next day Shulamite was walking and met Rosa and invited her to our New Believers Study. Rosa was amazed as she said just today she was thinking that she would like to know more about God. Rosa started attending along with another new women who both knew about God but did not know about the Messiah. We are praising the LORD as through the study of His Word both have come to receive Yeshua, as their personal Messiah.

News from Ariel & Shayla, Haifa

Shalom Blessing Israeli Believers!

We’re so grateful for your prayers and support over the last year and all the wonderful things God did!

2021 will be forever marked in our hearts as a year of great breakthroughs for the Kingdom of God in Israel!
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We’d like to invite you to a few minutes of celebration as we thank God and thank you for making this possible, and as we share some of the magnificent things that have happened and the lives that have been saved!

New Immigrant, New Life in Jesus
The Gospel is spreading through our outreaches to the poor! In partnership with Carmel Congregation’s Hadar haCarmel, we’ve been visiting needy families in their homes, showing them God’s love practically, and sharing the Good News with them. Many of them were deeply touched, several were healed when we prayed for them in Yeshua’s name, and several made the decision to give their lives to the Lord.
One couple we visited had just immigrated to Israel, then Coronavirus hit, they discovered they were pregnant, and people had cheated the husband at his work. What a welcome to the country! After they shared their struggles, our team prayed for them. And we kept coming every month, listening, showing God’s love, praying with them, and sharing the Gospel. At a certain point the wife, Alexa, really understood her need for Jesus and what He had done for her. He captured her heart, and she gave her life to Him! When our team visited the next time, she was like a totally different person. She was full of joy, hope, and life! And the meaning of the Hebrew name they chose for their son is “Gift of God.”

Life to the Nations
God is not only transforming lives through the Gospel in Israel, but also around the world. Through our evangelistic pages in several other languages, just recently, people from Venezuela, India, and Kenya have come to faith in Jesus after watching our videos and speaking with our team!

Choosing Life on the Way to Abortion
Eight months ago we launched our Pro-Life and gospel Campaign, which in spite of some major struggles and attacks, God has taken beyond what seemed possible. Several social media giants took down our ads, trying to shut down our campaign, but after many of you fasted and prayed together with us, all of those ads were miraculously restored!

That wasn’t the only miracle! One of the women who was planning to abort chose life for her baby on the very day of her abortion committee meeting. Another chose life on the day her abortion was scheduled, and another woman spoke with us on the way to her actual abortion, but ultimately decided not to abort!

Please pray with us as we’re reorganizing the way we work on each kind of project – that God would grant wisdom, order, and anointing so we can become much more effective and produce may more evangelistic and pro-life videos and articles and see many more come to faith and choose life!

Many blessings in Messiah!