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“Give thanks to the Lord for
He is good. For his mercy
endures forever.”
This was in any case going to be
a packed newsletter, and I had
hoped to entitle it, The month
that was. I never suspected
in my wildest dreams that it would almost
end as it did, and we are all thankful for the
Lord’s mercies to us, so I will start at the end
of the month and work backwards!
On the 28 th of May, I set out via the last
train for Haifa, to do a small translation job
for Pastor Najeeb and Elisabeth Atteih, and
arriving at the appointed Haifa Station, found
great difficulty walking up the stairs. A few
deft questions from Pastor Najeeb, and I was
on my way to an emergency clinic, from where
the doctor on duty instructed me to go straight
to the Hospital. While sitting in Najeeb’s car,
I had a massive heart attack and was rushed to
the Rambam Hospital where they did an angiogram,
and discovered that one artery was
100% blocked, one 90%, and two were 50
% blocked. On the table, one vessel ruptured
and had to be fixed, and my heart stopped,
but they managed to introduced three stints,
I was released home for further treatment
six days later, and I am praising God to be
alive, although I must obviously take things
a lot easier for quite a while to come! I had
so many visitors, that one nurse asked what
I did to get so many people to visit. So I explained
that I belonged to the Messianic Jewish
Community, at which she said, “I know
them, I live next door to the Congregation
in Kiryat Haim. They are very nice people”
As I was released on a Thursday, I was
able to go to the Shabbat meeting where I
was given a rumbustious welcome! I could
not help remembering Albert, and how that
after his death, I was left to keep the meetings
together until our preacher was well
enough to come again. I had felt so alone
and as if everything was on my shoulders.
Three and a half years later, I came home, the
new young South American musicians were
seated in front with our professor from the
States, and another young man was translating.
Everything was ordered and prepared,
from
including the food, and I could just sat back
and enjoyed the fellowship knowing that in
the meantime God has raised up new leaders,
additional musicians, other translators, and
more young people, as well as others who
come. So we do give thanks for the changes
that have taken place in Nahariya.
The month began off with the return of
a real old-sinner, who on his own admission,
has caused many problems by his life
style, but now announced his intention to
follow the Lord, and trust him. He still has
along way to go, but we thank God for everyone
who comes to repentance. He needs
our prayers to overcome his many problems,
but no one is beyond the grace of God. At
the same time, we had the visit of an elderly
Jewish retired doctor and his charming wife.
Their son is a backslider, but they still love us
and always invite us to join them for meals.
As we sat in one very classy restaurant as
their guests, there was much opportunity to
share the Gospel, and what God has done and
is doing in our lives and they always listen
with attention. Their son recently had a very
nasty vision set-back, and is suddenly unable
to see to drive. We pray that his may really
bring him back to the Lord. Frederika celebrates
her 96 th birthday on the 13 th , please
continue to pray for her salvation. She finds
it difficult to believe that Jesus is really the
Messiah, and needs a revelation of who He
is! Two Sinhales Bibles and a Sinhalese New
Testament arrived, which we hope to hand
over soon. A big thanks to all who wrote and
prayed.
bethlehem
On Tuesday 25 th , I was finally able to visit
Bethlehem again and see ABDM’s Mongoloid
child. He made the long journey with his
wife and three of his four children. Again, he
was robbed of all the Olive Oil he was bringing
for us, but fortunately they could not take
what we were bringing him, this injustice
grieves us. The little boy is obviously very
weak, and has two holes in his heart, but he
is hoping to bring him to an Israeli hospital
for treatment, hopefully Rambam, so he can
visit us. When Najeeb informed him that I
had had a heart attack, he cried! I cried when
I heard that his baby had Down’s Syndrome.
I wish to God we could always share each
other’s sorrows instead of hating each other.
What a miracle of the grace of God. We also
saw Sammy, he helps so many people who
have no money to buy food, and thank God
we are also able to help there. This was only
a day trip, there were others who phoned and
wanted to see us, but this must be left for another
time.
For those of you who prayed about the
young couple who were trying to get married,
one officially a Palestinian Moslem
Background believer, and the other an Arab
Christian, we have good news in that they
were finally were able to get all their paperwork
straight. We hope to have a blessing in
Bethlehem, and a legal wedding in Cyprus
early next month! They are a lovely young
couple, and I was overjoyed to hear the news,
and I might recover in time to make the celebration
In Bethlehem.
Pastor Najeeb, Elisabeth and daughter
Kareen are in The USA until the end of the
month, and are greatly missed.
Perhaps the news of the month is that
to our surprise, son Michael and Annie and
their two children are selling their lovely
apartment in Haifa to move to Nahariya, to
help with the work here. Michael has some
leadership experience, as well as being a musician,
and translator. After an initial period,
it is expected that he will be able to take on
some of the responsibilities of a growing
congregation. This turn of events was quite a
surprise for us, and we take it as one of God’s
blessings that he is showering upon us.
We also ask prayer for Rania, the mother
with her little five month old baby who is
staying with us. Though also Moslem background,
she too has mad a profession of faith
this past month. Pray also for her safety, and that
of the baby from the vengeful hand of Islam.
With our warm greetings in the Lord,
Ruth Nessim, Avi, Esther, and the leadership
and ministry team!
June 2010 • Moriel Quarterly