We’ve come to our last “Prayer Points” for 2020, and we are ending the year with some wonderful praises. After having to cancel or postpone several Outreaches and congregational trips in 2020, we were finally able to visit both Ethiopia and Zimbabwe in the last months of the year. What a blessing it was to minister in person!

Please join us in these celebrations and ongoing prayer requests:

Medical Clinic in Dawro, Ethiopia

• This small Medical Clinic was like a family reunion as our U.S. Global Outreach staff members joined our Addis Ababa staff and Ethiopian medical professionals to spend some quality time in fellowship
• We held corporate worship each morning, and it was the first time since 2016 that we were able to pray together on Medical Clinic grounds
• Local officials and residents greeted our arriving team with a parade and sent us off with one as well, giving us a hearty welcome and a grateful farewell
• The team served 8,232 patients, including some local prisoners, and some received eternal freedom in Yeshua (Jesus)
• There is more work to be done in Dawro, but we know the Lord made a lasting impact through this Outreach
• PLEASE PRAY that the fruit of our time there will remain and grow and for the Lord’s direction regarding possible future ministry in Dawro

Ministry Trip in Zimbabwe

• A team of two JVMI staff along with several congregational and local leaders visited five different regions in Zimbabwe
• At each stop, they brought blessing ministry and practical aid
• We saw the Lord work everywhere we went as we ministered to individuals, small groups, and even larger groups gathered safely outdoors
• 75 Jewish people came to faith in Jesus as Messiah
• PLEASE PRAY for these new Believers and also that we would have favor with governmental authorities and direction for next steps

Congregation and Leadership Development Trip

• We had a significant time of preaching in both Ethiopia and Zimbabwe to a great and grateful response
• We shared an emotional but redemptive time with those who are walking through a season of loss
• In Zimbabwe, the pastor of our host church led a powerful time of blessing, praying for and recognizing Lemba Senior Leaders in front of his congregation
• All the leadership meetings we held with the various congregations and groups in both countries were some of the best we have had in recent years
• We were encouraged by the ways these congregational leaders have met the numerous challenges of 2020
• PLEASE PRAY for each group we partner with in both nations as they seek to grow amid ongoing COVID restrictions and the uncertainty of 2021. PRAY ALSO regarding an economic decline in Zimbabwe and civil unrest and war in Ethiopia
• PRAY ALSO for the strengthening of the Messianic leaders there, some of whom are in new roles

Let’s pray:

Lord, may we each enter 2021 with thanksgiving and praise and renewed dependence and expectation. You have enlarged our faith and stretched our capacity to trust. May You continue to lead and grow us to follow You wherever Your Spirit leads, saying “not my will, but Yours be done.” In Jesus’ name, AMEN!

We are so grateful for your support and feel blessed to have you as part of the Jewish Voice family. Please watch this special message of thanks from Jonathan Bernis, President and CEO of Jewish Voice Ministries, and Ezra Benjamin, Vice President of Global Ministry Affairs.

May the Lord richly bless you in the coming year!

There’s nothing like a global pandemic to disrupt the best-made plans. We had scheduled four Medical Outreaches for 2020. Our first was cut short by local opposition, and then, coronavirus struck. Throughout the months of travel restrictions, we turned our focus more to the Israel ministries that your gifts to Jewish Voice support, helping them address the increased ministry demands there.

With your help, we were also determined to do what we could in Africa amid COVID’s complicating factors. And God made the way.

After some cancellations, postponements and rearrangements, we were excited to conduct two Outreaches in the Fall. Due to travel conditions, only a few staff joined local teams to oversee and carry out the ministry made possible through your generosity.

Dawro, Ethiopia is in the country’s Southern Nations region and where we held our first Outreach under COVID-19 restrictions. Patients were required to wear masks and sanitize their hands as soon as they entered the Clinic.

The spiritual care ministry was a little different, as well. Due to last-minute circumstances, our partner congregation couldn’t work with us, but God provided pastors from nearby evangelical churches to serve as chaplains. They led 39 people to the Lord.

Here’s a glance at the number of lives you helped change in Dawro.

Dawro, Ethiopia

Medical Outreach

• 8,232 patients were served, including:
  • 2,200 people received eyeglasses
  • 750 people received dental care
  • 113 had eye surgery for cataracts or trachoma
  • 94 patients underwent minor surgeries
  • 3 babies were born
• Clean Water Project
  • 400 people received personal LifeStraws®
  • 70 families received larger Family LifeStraw® units
  • 2 community LifeStraw® units were given
• Spiritual Care Ministry
  • 39 people came to faith in Jesus as Messiah

In Zimbabwe, you also made an enormous difference in the lives of people in five different regions. Due to COVID-19 and Government restrictions limiting large gatherings, we teamed up with local congregations and conducted a number of small events. Through your gifts, we distributed food and shared the Gospel in five locations.

Zimbabwe

Food Distribution and Gospel

Buhera, Chitsungo, Gutu, Masvingo and Mberengwa

• Distributed essential items, 20,000kgs (44,000lbs) of rice, and 40,000kgs (88,000lbs) of cornmeal
• Over 3110 households received food
• Each food recipient also heard the Gospel message
• 75 people placed their faith in Jesus
• Local Believers listened to an inspiring message about our mighty spiritual “weapons”
• Local leaders encouraged Believers to remember to bless others and share both food and the Gospel with their neighbors

Your support of Jewish Voice made all of this powerful ministry possible. God is working through you to bring life-changing (and in some cases, life-saving!) food, medical care and eternal life to the people of Ethiopia and Zimbabwe. Thank you!

With just two weeks left in 2020, I’m praying you are able to reply right away.

It’s been quite a year, but God has carried us through the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and quarantine. He has brought blessings — including historic peace deals for Israel with Arab countries. And I believe in all that is happening, God is showing us the End Times are near.

I feel greater urgency to fulfill our vision “to transform lives and see all Israel saved.” Please partner with us one last time in 2020 with your best gift of the year by December 31.

Your response will help us enter the new year ready to respond to all the needs God puts before us — from Outreaches in Africa to our ongoing efforts to support Jewish people in Israel.

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