Quick update. As you may have read in the news, there is much craziness in Leh right now because of a “cloudburst”. We didn’t have a team in Leh at the time, we are all fine, and God’s grace has continually been shown to us in our travels. Everyone on Massah is doing great! Thanks for your prayers.

Aaron

Do I feel that strongly about Delhi, yes I do. The Pahar Ganj is a crazy mass of people as the city is being renovated for the Cricket and Rugby world cups later this year (or so I hear). Delhi was crazier than ever, and it didn’t help that Eli and I both got sick on something we ate (or drank). Yesterday afternoon we boarded our bus and had a very bumpy 12 hour bus ride to our destination. Sleep? yeah right. Ibuprofin? absolutely. Keep the team in your prayers as our outreach has officially begun, and as God has already provided opportunities to share His gospel with the Israeli travellers here.

Last night Eli and Liz arrived. It was really good to see them, even if it was at 2:00AM. Today we will be meeting and praying for the rest of the Massah team. Let’s see which one of us gets Delhi-belly first . I have had a great time getting to know Josh and Yossi. They are both really great guys, and will be great assets to the Massah team in India. I am getting really pumped for this outreach.. The traveler scene is hopping right now!

Hey friends! I am finally back in hot sweaty nasty old Delhi… I actually like Delhi, really, I do. I just got to my old Massah stomping ground and thought I would jump on the wire and write an update. I flew British… stopped over in London…. then continued on, a total of 24+ hours of travel to get here. I am already feelin the India… all over my skin, and in my lungs. Today I will meet up with Josh and Yossi and get a few things done before the rest of the team arrives. I am really looking forward to this crazy adventure, but at the same time I am missing my wife and daughter like nobodies business! Love you all.

Trankie

In 8 hours Aaron A. and I will be boarding a plane for the first leg of our journey back to India to join up with the Massah Mobile team.   We will be focusing our time on debriefing the project, and on covering the topics necessary for reentry.   From the logistical side of things Massah certainly has been a challenge, and I appreciate the chance to be with the team once more, to talk about both the challenges and the successes that Massah has seen over the past several months.   Please keep us in your prayers as we travel, rendezvous with the team, and lead the debrief.   Thanks for all your support and prayers!

Aaron T.

We leave for NY early tomorrow morning.

Let me start with an update from last week when I had no access to internet.

Last week we had interactions with people who were to busy doing drugs to care about anything we had to say.

However that being said the L-rd made us available to a few key people who really had questions about what we believed, and we ended up giving out multiple new testaments.

This last week we were on an All guys team. Hiking all around, it was a really great growing experience as well as a very difficult and dark time for us as I mentioned the people who didn’t want anything to do with us.

I will try to give more details in a different blog post, right now I want to talk about how amazing this trip has been after I tell you about this morning;

This morning we arrived in Delhi and I went to bed around 6am because our bus had just dropped us off. When I woke up I felt really Ill and cold, even though Delhi is a extremely humid and hot place. Thankfully I went back to bed, turned off our AC and Fans and put on really warm cloths and got up around 3ish, being all sweaty, and no longer being cold, but needing to put something in my body to give me energy because I felt very weak. So Praise Y’sh’a that this illness hasn’t been a very long ordeal (I think) I still feel a bit ill.

Now onto the partial unpacking of what happened on this trip.

This 10 week Journey has been a wonderful and great ride and I am really appreciative of the fact that it exists, and all the people who have helped it become what it is right now, I also look forward to where this trip will go in the future…

Many difficult and wonderful things have taken place on this trip, and through it all the L_RD has provided for me in each and everyone.

From the long grueling hikes we were on last week, to the adventures we had in Israel and the people we met and friends we’ve made both on this trip with me and the people we encountered along the way. I am truly glad that Y’sh’a called me to this trip this summer.

Although this trip is over, The season that follows when I arrive home will be another journey that I am excited and ready for, and I know it too has hardships along the path but I look forward to tackling them as they appear.

I am sad to be leaving the people who have become such an amazing family to me in these past 10 weeks but also and happy to part ways from them that I might see how this trip will allow their changed lives to bear fruit in the different paths all of us are about to go on.

I am happy that we are going back to the states but saddened by knowing that I will be leaving 6 wonderful friends I have made behind. As they continue on with the call that G-D placed on their lives for these next 4 months.

This trip has really opened my eyes and helped me gain a new perspective on evangelism, life, living a life of evangelism, and also shown me what I need to work on next in my LIFE LONG journey to knowing and growing closer to Y’sh’a.

It gives me great joy to know I have such an encouraging community behind me. And as hard as this trip has been looking back on all the things that have been accomplished for “The Kingdom” and in my life, make all the hardships that my community and I have been through, worth it.

Before coming on this trip I knew that I would be changed when I went home but I didn’t know that it would be so drastic, the next issue on this journey will be not falling into the boxes and routine things that I used to do.

I want to thank all of our Supporters who have been praying for us and helped us come on such an amazing Massah Trip.

I pray that all of you will be blessed imensely for all the support you’ve given us.

This post seems very unorgainized but I hope that joy I have from this trip and appreciation I have for you helping us on this trip comes across.

In HIS Divine and Perfect Mercy

~Jonathan

Every once and a while I get inspired to write a poem.   I haven’t had much time for extracurricular activities recently, but I was studying A.W. Tozer’s “Knowledge of the Holy” and got inspired.

God Incomprehensible

God Incomprehensible

My mind has deemed to know

The shadow cast by Thy great light

Upon this earth below

Lord give me eyes to see Thine heart

And heart to see Thine eyes

That in my dying breath I’ll not

Be taken by surprise

Aaron Trank

In case the title didn’t give it away the computer the Aleph guys were using, was broken, or so we thought. Aaron T. fixed it today for us, non computer savvy people.

I have been wanting to express my thoughts and revelations… but seem to have slowly forgotten them.

Hebrew is very hard! Or at least I feel that way, I learned the alephbet before I came but that is nothing compared to the Opon we are taking. I am learning alot but it is hard to grasp, I feel like a struggling 1st Grader, OY!
So that is one of my prayer requests that the Holy Spirit will help me grasp Hebrew quicker and more efficiently

Last week we did so much! it was jam packed! We met with a speaker who showed us places in the Old Testament, where we can find Y’sh’a and the Trinity, and encouraged us to search it out. We went to tents of mercy ministry and met Eitan and Marty, who told us all about what they do, and how the ministry started. Which is a wonderful ministry that is caring for the physical needs and the emotional needs of people. So often we forget to care for the physical things that people need. I know I am guilty of missed opportunities to help people in the physical. Meeting and hearing about their ministry was a blessing.

We also had a Sticker sortie where we went and placed stickers around the city, which was cool.
However I injured my toe, and dropped all my gum on the ground… so it was funny and lame all at the same time. That is alright it was still fun placing Y’sh’a Stickers around the city.

We also visited the Western Wall, which was sad, to see G-ds people think they are seeking after HIM, when they are missing the key component, Y’sh’a.
2nd prayer request would be that G-D would keep us bold, and clear a space for HIS word in the hearts of the people we encounter.

A few evenings ago, we had an amazing Night of worship after returning home from, traveling to Caesarea, Haifa, and Tents of Mercy. Which was full of worship and we also paired up and prayed for each other, I think everyone went to 2 or 3 people each for the prayer portion, which was Blessed, and Amazing, and then we continued to worship, what a wonderful and renewing time it was for Massah as a whole.

Thank you for the prayers thus far and the prayers you will offer up in the future as well!
We can’t thank you enough for your prayers! More prayer requests to come.

In HIS Mercy,

Jonathan

I wrote this back in February…. but it seems even more appropriate now… as our Massah (journey) begins I am once again realizing just how disconcerting it is to live life as a nomad.

The day when “put stuff away” meant “leave it in your suitcase”.

When “welcome home” meant “hit the road”.

I am a stranger, wandering down the road of life.

I have no home here but in the journey.

My toes clench the ground, my hair grows as roots only to be wrenched up again and again.

With each season’s turn the tide of life ebbs and flows in direction and with current swift toward the unknown…

Always the unknown.

I wake up in strange beds in stranger places still.

Am I home?

No. Just another stop in my ongoing journey.

Where is home but a memory, a figment or phantasm, floating like a vapor in the minds eye.

The birds have nests and the foxes have holes, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.

My home is where I can serve my master.

But where shall I store all my stuff?

Aaron T.