Paul and Becca

Rabin Peace Rally 2009

Rabin was a prime minister of Israel who was assassinated right after he gave a speech in Tel-Aviv on peace. Every year they hold a peace rally in his remembrance in a place that is now known as Rabin Square.

We went to square early before the event and went around with our friend Chaim interviewing people for a video that he was producing. You can watch the video below, if you notice the hand holding the microphone is Becca's hand!

1. The place where Rabin was shot.

2. AROMA!!! yum

3. Us in the crowd at the rally.

4. Cool sign for the gathering.

Sudanese outreach

The last two weeks we helped out our friend Mo. who serves with a ministry that distributes food and other essentials to African refugees here. It's been amazing to see nearly 400-500 families be served each week. There are many many more people that need help, but this is the limit of what this ministry can handle!

We helped them last week distribute diapers to women with small children, and or women that are pregnant. Hundreds of women came, and were very thankful to receive these gifts. These pictures are of a few of the babies they brought with them.

This week we helped them distribute food. Each family gets a bag of food with oil, rice, pasta, flour, and a bag of peanuts for the week. We helped them bag and distribute these on Tuesday. Hopefully we will be helping this ministry every week.

Soup Kitchen

We've been so blessed to be able to serve the poor here in Israel in very practical ways. The last three Thursdays we have helped serve the poor and homeless at CC-Tel Aviv with food, clothing and blankets. Unfortunately there was a very intense thunderstorm which caused some leakage, and water damaged some of the clothes last week, but some people from the states randomly came and donated clothes so we have more to give away this week!

Last week a man at the soup kitchen named Zoar that was incredibly drunk, and ended up passing out on the ground right outside the Congregation. After the soup kitchen was over they woke him up and he replied saying, "I can't live like this anymore!" This is true because every year many of these people don't make it. There is a new rehabilitation program that has just started that is a Christ and Bible centered. Its focused on reaching those who are addicted to drugs and alcohol and sharing the love of Jesus with them..They asked Zoar if he wanted to enter the program, and he said yes. We just heard this week that he is doing well and has accepted Jesus! Please pray for him and others like him.

*Most of these people don't like being photographed, so we want to respect them. There are about 100 people that come each week, most of them are Russian Jews that have immigrated here.*

Thank you all for your prayers!!! Love you!