Given the amazing benefits they provide, the cost of these miracle LifeStraws is incredibly low – just $15 for a Personal LifeStraw, or $75 for a Family LifeStraw.

That means …

• With your gift of $30, you’ll provide clean water for TWO people
• With $75, you’ll provide clean water for up to FIVE people
• And with a very generous gift of $150, you’ll provide TEN Personal or TWO Family LifeStraws

Along with LifeStraws, Jewish Voice educates the community on the dangers of unclean water and the need for basic hygiene. And, as always, we provide Jewish people and their neighbors in remote areas with medical, dental and eye care.

And most important, we share the Good News of Jesus the Messiah – who called Himself “Living Water” and wants to give them abundant life, now and forever.

But, as always, this kind of truly lifesaving care can happen only through the compassion of our generous supporters – you and other friends and partners.

Give your best gift now, and I’ll send you a special THANK YOU!

Would you consider making a generous gift right now, to help provide clean water to Jewish people in need in Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and elsewhere?

Each $30 you send will provide TWO Personal LifeStraws – clean water for TWO people. And each $75 will provide FIVE Personal LifeStraws or ONE Family LifeStraw. And $150 will provide enough LifeStraws for pure, healthy water for TEN people or TWO families.

Just as Yeshua is seated in heavenly places, so are we. We don’t have to live, pray or interact from an earthly perspective. We can live from an eternal and heavenly one, above all principalities and powers. As we worship, pray and act from this vantage point, darkness is pushed back, and we gain spiritual ground.

Those are just some of the reasons why the element of worship and the spiritual care component of our Outreaches are so important. Please join us in praying for this area, in particular for the first Outreaches of the year in March and April.

Please pray:

• By first thanking God that many of the spiritual care roles for this year’s Outreaches are already filled

Pray also for:

• A trip chaplain for our first Outreach of the year in Ethiopia
• Worship leaders for each of our first two Outreaches of 2018, one in Ethiopia in March and one in Zimbabwe in April
• The Lord to prepare the worship leaders, trip chaplains and spiritual care coordinators for each Outreach by encouraging them in their spiritual lives and reminding them just how glorious and faithful He is
• Teachable spirits in all who are called into these roles, including: the unique conditions in which they will be ministering; understanding of Messianic culture and expression; passion to see people healed, saved and delivered; and to be completely sensitive and yielded to the Ruach HaKodesh (the Holy Spirit)
• God’s protection over them as well as their families and circumstances making it possible for them to come serve in this way
• Great effectiveness in the Prayer Rooms and Prayer Tents on each Outreach, as we call on the Lord together, and watch Him do great and mighty things

We pray now: Lord, we want our Outreaches to succeed logistically, and to be spiritually effective. We need Your presence to permeate every aspect and Your Spirit to fill and equip us to minister the life of Yeshua to everyone we encounter. Please bring us those who can effectively steward the spiritual aspects of our Outreaches, for Your Name’s sake, and that You would be glorified and that multitudes will be blessed. In Yeshua’s name, amen.

You told them they are valuable

Through your support, Zehra Kids ministered to a total of 1,884 children during three Medical Outreaches in Masvingo, Mudanda and Mberengwa, all in Zimbabwe. Each child’s precious value was affirmed because there was a program in place that was specifically for them. They felt loved as volunteers led them in fun activities such as playing games, coloring and singing songs.

Smiles

Some children entered the Zehra Kids tent with eager anticipation, faces beaming with wonder at what they might experience. Others entered uncertainly, and we saw their faces transform with smiles and laughter as they played and learned.

The Gospel

The Zehra Kids program was so well received in the community that local schools brought groups of children each day. In Mudanda, approximately 75 children attended Zehra Kids each day. Many of them accepted Yeshua (Jesus) as Messiah and were immersed afterward.

Prayer

During the program, adults met with children in small groups for prayer. One local worker commented, “The program makes kids want to pray.” In fact, Outreach partners noticed a significant difference in children who had been to Zehra Kids before visiting the Clinic’s Prayer Tent. These children were calmer and more open to receiving prayer than those who had not been through the program.

Also, after attending Zehra Kids, many children brought their parents to the Prayer Tent for prayer. The Zehra Kids program blessed far more people than the children alone. As one Outreach partner noted, “This kids program will affect the entire community.”

Communities impacted

Other Outreach partners had this to say about the Zehra Kids Program that you helped make possible:

 “It was incredible watching the children included in the Outreach. Their response to the program and their response to God was faith-lifting and encouraging.”

 “The children received a great mix of God-centered teaching with games and activities. They were excited to be there.”

 “Zehra was so important because it built up the children, who are vital in influencing their communities, the nation and the world around them.”

Lives touched

Zehra Kids touched the lives of nearly 2,000 Zimbabwean children in 2017 and gave them one of the most exciting, fun and inspirational experiences of their young lives. Many of them came to place their faith in Yeshua as Messiah because you helped make this child-focused, God-centered program possible.

Thank you.

Marcel’s mother wore a raincoat the same color as the grain among which they hid; she spread it over them as best she could, and they waited. An hour or so later, they heard it, the aktion: Shouting, dogs barking, people screaming. “You know,” Marcel said, “people dying.”

For three to four hours, they heard what Marcel and his sister call “the concert of death.” Then, it began to rain, and the horrible sounds quieted. The three waited another hour before they got up and made their way to the home of their nanny, whom they’d been visiting. As they neared the house, they saw a German soldier with his dog. “He looked at us,” Marcel recounted to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

“He saw my mother, my sister and me. He just stopped for a moment, turned around and walked away. This was a miracle.”

Had the guard been with another soldier, neither could have turned away. Each would fear the other would turn him in.

Marcel said his story of surviving the Holocaust includes several close calls and miracles. He and his family endured and later escaped from the Drohobycz Ghetto. Afterward, they hid in secret bunkers, fled to a small village, hid in a barn, and survived winter in a hole in the ground to avoid capture. Two years after Marcel and his sister heard the “concert of death,” the family was liberated by the Soviet army.

Marcel had grown so weak from hunger and deprivation that he could no longer stand. At 10 years old, his legs wouldn’t hold him, and he had to learn to walk again. Marcel regained his health, finished high school and went on to study engineering in college. In 1961, he immigrated to the United States, where he serves today as a volunteer at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

The Holocaust

The Holocaust began with boycotts and book burnings. Soon Jewish people lost their rights to work, vote and own property. They were stripped of their homes, their freedom and their dignity. Organized propaganda greased the gears of the Nazi persecution machine. It persuaded the masses toward prejudice and passivity, then hatred and aggression.

Jewish people who didn’t evade capture were rounded up like animals and deported to either death camps, where they were summarily murdered, or to work camps. At the work camps, they were subjected to slave labor, brutal living conditions, freezing temperatures, hideous experiments and cruelties beyond comprehension.

Millions of stories

Six million Jewish people died in the Holocaust. Millions of non-Jews died as well. Each person killed is a unique story. Each survivor is another. The Holocaust is a dark collection of tens of millions of personal stories of suffering, trauma and tragedy. During the Holocaust, the worst of the human race had free expression. Evil was unleashed, and the depth to which man’s depravity can sink was revealed in horrifying detail. The possibility that mankind is capable of such ideology and actions is sobering and frightening.

Never forget

That’s why we can never forget the Holocaust. We must never turn our heads from remembering the victims and honoring the survivors. January 27th is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is the anniversary of the 1944 liberation of Auschwitz, the infamous death camp where 1.1 million people were killed, 90% of them Jewish. We remember, and with our deepest respect, we honor those who died and those who survived the Holocaust.