Is Israel an Ongoing Picture of Jesus?
Depending when you read this, our team may already be in “the Land” of Israel! As we’ve been doing for the past several days, we wanted to share a little information about our Faith that many in the American Church are never exposed to. I (Wes), plan to update the blog daily from Israel if […]
Can a Country Be Born in a Day?
The following is an email our team received last week from our team leader when he arrived in Israel. As we prepare for this coming mission trip back to “the Land” of Israel, we wanted to spend a couple days sharing more about the Jewish roots of our Faith. Soon we’ll begin giving you live […]
Shavuot (Pentecost) is God’s Anniversary With Us
As we prepare for this coming mission trip back to “the Land” of Israel, we wanted to give a little bit more insight into this trip. We leave tomorrow, and today wanted to share some more about the Jewish roots of our Faith. Kara and I have in the last two weeks begun to keep […]
Jesus was the First-Fruit Offering
The following is an email our team received on April 11th from our team leader as we prepare for this coming mission trip back to “the Land” of Israel. We leave in a couple of days for this trip, and I wanted to spend these next days sharing more about the Jewish roots of our […]
New Mission Trip Israel – Preparing in Mind
As Kara and I prepare to return to the Israel in several days, I’m prompted to think of the unrest boiling, as always, over there. Have you ever thought about what that struggle really represents? And who is actually battling? “And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will […]
Mission Trip Israel – What I Learned
From this experience, I really had to learn to rest and trust in God. I could do nothing – and everything was in His hands. That is always the case in life, but too often I allow myself to think that I am the master of my own life, when in reality, it can all […]
Mission Trip Israel – The Hospital: Part 5
I want to say a word about the Muslims there. About half way through they moved us from one room to a bigger one that Glenn and I shared with an older man (who had to have a body guard because he had dementia and would wander off) and with Tony, a young Muslim man. […]
Mission Trip Israel – The Hospital: Part 4
The burning and subsequent healing in the hospital really helped us to understand just how small we are, and just how big God is to have all of these brothers and sisters in Messiah come out and support us. We knew no one there, but God knew all of them there, and he brought out […]
Mission Trip Israel – The Hospital: Part 3
Glenn had to have a lot of blood drawn and IV’s; each time they had a hard time finding a vein. The first time they poked him many times before we finally started praying for a good stick. Then he got a good stick. Each time after that we would pray that they would get […]
Mission Trip Israel – The Hospital: Part 2
The Body of Christ came out! We hadn’t done any mission work, nor spent any of our vacation in the city where the hospital was, so we knew no one. However, word spread and one by one (or two, or three) they came to offer their help and prayers. We also had the advantage of […]