Jewish Voice Ministries International’s (JVMI’s) Congregation and Leadership Development team stepped in to make school a safer place for the Jewish children of Ambo Meda. Partnering with the Bet Avraham Messianic Jewish Congregation in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, we constructed a fence ‒ made using 500 sheets of aluminum ‒ around the school to protect the children from various threats. The wall was built in just a few weeks thanks to the immense help of people from the local community who donated their labor. 

We also want to thank you for your support. Because of your help, these children can now learn in peace. 

Please watch this message from Ezra Benjamin, Vice President of Global Outreach at JVMI:

June 1‒7 Prayer for Israel

Yom Yerushalayim - Jerusalem Day

Jerusalem Day (beginning at sundown June 2) celebrates the reunification of Jerusalem under Israeli control. Prior to the Six-Day War in 1967, Jordan controlled East Jerusalem containing the Old City and the Temple Mount. When Jordan attacked, wanting to seize West Jerusalem as well, Israel defended and won the eastern portion of the city. It was a brief but fierce war in which 777 Israelis lost their lives and thousands more were injured.

Father, thank You for giving Jerusalem back to Israel. Please protect Your holy city and those who dwell there. Protect Jerusalem from her enemies, from violence and those who wish Israel harm. Bring peace to the city where You have chosen to make Your name dwell (2 Chronicles 6:6). Let not the holiday go by with only historical, archeological or political commemoration. May the festivities of Jerusalem Day be filled with thanksgiving to You, O Lord, for Your faithfulness and holiness in returning Jerusalem to Israel. 

June 8‒14 Prayer for Israel

Shavuot

The Jewish Feast of Shavuot begins at sundown June 8. It is an “appointed time” in which Jewish people commemorate God’s giving of the Torah. Messianic Jewish Believers also celebrate the gift of the Holy Spirit who was given on Shavuot after Yeshua’s (Jesus’) resurrection.

Thank You, God, for wanting to meet with Your people and for commanding the Feasts. Thank You for giving us Your instruction. Thank You for the Torah, the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Covenant. Thank You for the Word Himself, Yeshua (Jesus), and the Holy Spirit given on Shavuot. Create in all Israel a hunger for Your Word, Lord. As Israel celebrates the Torah on Shavuot, cause individuals to make connections between Scripture’s Messianic prophecies and Yeshua. And bring them to faith in Him.

June 15‒21 Prayer for Israel

Terrorism

Unfortunately, terrorism is a part of life today. And Israel faces more than her share because of the hostility that neighboring Arab nations and Palestinians living in the Land hold toward her. Terrorist organizations encourage and often incite violence against Israelis.  

Father, Israel has many enemies living at and within her borders; please protect her from terrorists. Please comfort those who grieve loved ones slain or injured by terrorists.  Deliver perpetrators into the hands of law enforcement, and thwart any violent plans of those who hate Israel. Bring an end to the terrorist organization program that pays monthly stipends to families of those who commit terrorist acts against Israelis. And, Lord, please change the hearts of terrorists. Save them out of their upside-down mindset that believes their evil is good. Bring them to salvation in Yeshua, for only through Him will their lives be transformed and terrorism cease. 

June 22‒28 Prayer for Israel

Israel’s Youth

There’s no doubt these are difficult and troubled times for teens everywhere. Temptations are abundant as the boundaries of acceptable activities and behavior continue to be pushed further away from biblical values. Youth everywhere need prayer. As we lift up the country of God’s Chosen People in this prayer series, we remember Israel’s teens and adolescents.

Father, protect and guide Israel’s young people. Shield them from temptations to engage in unhealthy behaviors. Guard them against developing harmful habits. Steer them away from those who would have a bad influence on them, and keep them from reckless and wanton lifestyles. Lead them to people who are honest and upright, wise and good. Make wisdom desirable to them. Help them to manage the turbulent emotions of youth in healthy ways. Ignite in them an interest in You. God, reveal Messiah to Israel’s youth.

June 29‒30 Prayer for Israel

Israel to come to know the Messiah

Jewish people throughout the world experience a longing to immigrate to Israel. God is fulfilling His promise in Isaiah 11:12 to gather Israel from the four corners of the Earth and bring them “home” to Israel. This doesn’t mean it’s always easy for these people once they move to Israel. Help is available, but a myriad of factors influence the degree of assimilation reached by immigrants. And they all need Yeshua (Jesus).

Lord, thank You for doing just as You said You would. You have drawn and continue to gather Your people from throughout the world to fill the Land of Israel. Father, please also draw these immigrants to Your Son, Messiah Yeshua. Help recently arrived immigrants to settle in. Use any hardships or challenges in their assimilation to draw them to You. Regardless of how long ago they moved to the Land, open immigrant hearts to Yeshua. May their hunger to be “home” in Israel expand into an intense desire for You and a longing to see the Messiah. Show them He has come and He is Yeshua.

The latest reports indicated over 700 rockets had been launched. Four people were confirmed dead. While many more had been injured.

And now with Iran’s announcement to continue the development of its nuclear program, it’s obvious the flare-ups over the last few weeks could be the initial tremors of all-out war in the area.

Already, in just a few hours after Iran’s threatening announcement, Israel declared its firm resolve.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel will not allow Iran to attain nuclear weapons.

“We will continue to fight our enemies and will strike our roots even deeper in our homeland,” Prime Minister Netanyahu continued. “The events of the last few days show clearly what our struggle is about – about the efforts of those who seek our harm, who want to destroy our country and uproot us from our land.”

Prime Minister Netanyahu even declared that Israel would be willing to stand alone against the threat if forced.

Our Struggle Is Against Spiritual Forces

And while we will stand with Israel against this ensuing threat, we know this threat is really against a bigger, darker and even more deadly threat – against an enemy we can’t see with our human eyes.

The Scripture is clear: “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms” (Ephesians 6:12 NIV).

So please continue to stand with us, and with Israel, through prayer. Especially during this season when tensions are quickly escalating to a near breaking point.

When you give today, your support will be put to work immediately to provide:

• Humanitarian aid to Jewish people in Israel and around the world
• Holocaust survivor support
• Critical ministry outreach in Israel

But more than that, through all of these efforts, your generosity will help share the message of Yeshua (Jesus) and the hope and peace He brings to the world and to individual hearts.

It’s spring, and for Jewish Voice Ministries International, that means congregational visits. Leaders from our U.S. headquarters travel to Africa and meet with congregations that have “sprung up” as a result of the Good News going forth in Ethiopia and Zimbabwe.

When we bring medical and dental care in Yeshua’s name to these nations, we also desire to see locally-led congregations form that can provide discipleship and fellowship for the new Believers. It’s happening! Currently, more than 120 congregations in Africa are aligned with Jewish Voice.

Right now, two members of our Congregation and Leadership Development (CLD) team are visiting many of those congregations and their leaders located in several regions. During these visits, they will share times of prayer and fellowship and also provide teaching.

Please pray along with us as they meet with and minister to many people. Please pray for:

• Wisdom, discernment, and enriching words from the Lord as they minister to minds and spirits ‒ as well as bodies ‒ through teaching, encouragement, and prayer
• The Lord’s mighty protection and accompanying angels on this trip ‒ and the same for their families back home
• Operation in the anointing and authority that the Lord has placed upon them to “build up” and “set in order”
• Grace from the Lord in using them to foster unity and cooperation among the growing movement of Believers in the Messiah in these regions
• Their ability to be models of what it means to live out a biblical, kingdom culture and to equip local leaders to do the same
• Their ability to recognize what the Lord is saying and doing in each congregation and identify those He is calling into new and deeper levels of leadership

We greatly desire that the brothers and sisters meeting with our two leaders will be blessed and edified. Thank you for your prayers that accompany our team to bring about lasting fruit wherever they go.

We pray:

Father, thank You for Your protection and favor over our two brothers enduring the rigors of travel while they serve, exhort, and love. As they pursue the things which make for peace, may those they meet be edified and equipped for ministry. May the leaders and congregations grow into greater and greater maturity and unity in Messiah Yeshua, effectively doing the work of ministry and seeing many more new Believers and disciples through their labors. In Yeshua’s name, AMEN.