Missionary Field Reports – Calvary Chapel https://calvarychapel.com Encourage, Equip, Edify Sat, 07 Oct 2023 20:50:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 https://calvarychapel.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-CalvaryChapel-com-White-01-32x32.png Missionary Field Reports – Calvary Chapel https://calvarychapel.com 32 32 Israel At War: October 7, 2023 https://calvarychapel.com/posts/israel-at-war-october-7-2023/ Sat, 07 Oct 2023 20:08:05 +0000 https://calvarychapel.com/?p=158351 The following is an update from Matt Davis of The Jewish Road, an organization which endeavors to restore the Jewishness of the Gospel through teachings...]]>

The following is an update from Matt Davis of The Jewish Road, an organization which endeavors to restore the Jewishness of the Gospel through teachings and trips. 

On the 50 year anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, Israel’s enemies once again have blindsided and invaded the land. As the joyous Jewish holiday of Sukkot ended last night, and on the morning of another holiday, Simchat Torah, the terrorist organization Hamas began an attack by air and land into peaceful Israeli communities. At the time of this writing, Hamas has launched over 3,000 rockets into Israel. On foot, terrorists have kidnapped and murdered hundreds of Israeli citizens including women, children, and holocaust survivors. Thousands of Israelis are wounded and the death and injury toll will continue to rise in the foreseeable future as Israel engages to protect their Jewish homeland. 

Prime Minister Netanyahu has declared that the State of Israel is at war. What exactly this will bring and how the surrounding hostile nations will react and respond remains to be seen. Pray for Israel. As the church, we are grafted into the spiritual body of Abraham, and when our big brother goes to war, we should too. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Pray for wisdom for Israel’s leaders. Pray that this battle would soon end and for justice for the victims of these heinous hate crimes and their families. Pray for the innocent civilians, Jews and Arabs alike, who are caught in the crossfire of this ancient hatred and modern day battle that rages on. 

Make no mistake, this is not a battle 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.

The following is an update from Jim Stretchberry of AEBM (American European BETHEL Mission) in Haifa, Israel. Bethel is the hostel AEBM owns and operates in Haifa.

As of 0700 October 7, 2023 …

The situation in Israel is dire: 500 wounded, unknown number captured and taken to Gaza, at least 100 known dead. Israel was not ready, and infiltration came from many points. 

Bethel is prepared: bomb shelter is perfect, provisions are being increased and preparations made for whatever we can do. They already have some tourists and refugees staying at the hostel but are committed to use every inch of the facilities as needed.

Prayer Requests:

  • PRAYER: For AEBM’s obvious concern: Hezbollah. 
  • PRAYER: For additional concerns about some of the radical Muslim villages in the North. The streets of Haifa are deserted at this time.
  • PRAYER: For Arabs around the country and especially for our dear partners who are Arab believers. 
  • PRAYER: That many would turn to God and realize Jesus as Messiah. 
  • PRAYER: For the peace of Jerusalem. Kindly pray and pray.

 

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On June 6, 2023, a section of the Kakhovka Dam in southern Ukraine collapsed, causing massive flooding, extensive property damage and loss of life, and a humanitarian and ecological disaster. bridgeUA is responding to this crisis. You can help! Pray and donate.

The following is a transcript of the video:

Hello, everybody. I’m sure you’ve already heard about what happened yesterday in Ukraine with Kakhovka Dam. At night. Yesterday, Russians destroyed the waterpower station that was in Kakhovka, and it opened up the dam and water started flowing. It was a major stop. It stopped the Dnieper River, and it would hold a water for 16 meters high. And all of that water started to go in the cities and villages that are in that area.

So, today about 80 villages and cities are being flooded. Fortunately, many people were able to be evacuated even before then. There was some information out there, and a lot of people were evacuated. But about 16,000 people were injured by this water flood that took place.

As Calvary Chapels in Ukraine and as part of bridgeUA, everything that we are doing together to be a support and the love of Christ to all of those people. We are looking into the ways of how we can serve people who were hurt through this. So, one of our churches immediately relocated there and made their place available for refugees to come. And we’re also looking into adding more churches to again open our houses, open our church buildings, for refugees.

But from what we know at this point, not many people are willing to leave the closest nearest by area, so they’re living in the tents, and they’re waiting for water to go down. That’s one hand. On another hand there was a lot of people about 10% of that population, they stayed there. And a lot of them, they moved to the roof of their buildings so not to be caught by the water. But today we just found out from one of our sources people that are living there in that area are older people who could not climb onto the roof of their buildings were killed by water, were killed by this disaster. And a lot of dead bodies are floating and things like that, and animals and all that. It’s just the devastation of what took place there.

We want to be a response. And we want to invite you to participate, to join to support financially. On the website of bridgeUA, you can find all information on how you can donate, how you can support right now. We’re looking into more of a long-term support, long-term goals, so we’re looking into medications, antibiotics. We’re looking into fever reducers. We’re looking into buying necessary medications to help, and in the long run, because people are going to be suffering from sicknesses that can come along because of the water damage.

Also, we’re looking into pumps that will be pumping out the water from the buildings. Boats: that’s another one that just came in, information that there are some churches that are gathering resources to buy boats and motor boats, smaller boats that can run and evacuate people from the buildings, people that are still waiting on the on the rooftops.

So, this is just some ways: generators, heating furnaces and things like that. That’s the area that we want to help, and we want to participate. So, friends, we invite you to join us, first of all in prayer for people who got hurt but also in a way how we can serve together as a community of churches that would be united in the force to serve those who have this need.

And also, if you are willing to support, please, in the description, you’ll you’ll find information about how you can do it. So please follow that link and support with whatever you can. Thank you! God bless you, and we’ll keep you updated as we go.

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