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

From Dehli

Here we are again in Dehli. I can’t believe the end has finally come. This trip has been way more than I expected in so many ways. It has changed my life…for the better. I’ve learned so much and have 12 new friends that will probably be in my life for the rest of my life.

The past few days have been the most altering for me. We were in Shimla (a very nice touristy town where many wealthy Indians live), able to relax and recap our time in Israel and India, focusing mainly on our time in India the past few weeks. It was so amazing to hear about everybody else’s experiences in different Northern Indian villages and how God worked through them in ministry and changed them spiritually, emotionally, physically…and probably other ways As a group we discussed the difficult aspects of this trip as well as the fun and easy parts.  I really valued the time we had there as Massah Aleph and Beit, to worship, debrief, and talk about life now and when we get back to the States.  I appreciated our discussion about how we see God has changed us.

Coming into this summer, I expected God to change me, but I had no idea how He would do that. I thought maybe I’d learn more about Judaism and Israeli culture and get more comfortable doing evangelism. Yes, God did all those things, but even more, He has shaped the way I think and respond in certain situations. My life can’t be polarized into two realities–the first being how I am at church or in a spiritual context, and the second being how I am in “real life.” They’re one, and I am a whole person,  and the way I am in “real life” must include all of who I am, especially my identity in Y’shua. Evangelism isn’t just for the occasional summer mission trip or church- organized outreaches.  Sharing the Gospel is part of who I am and how I live my life and I want it to be spilling out of me uncontrollably because of how God has changed my life and because of a desire to share that with others.

I am just so grateful for the time that I have had here in India and in Israel. It’s been one of the most pivotal times in my life and I hope I never forget that.

It’s going to be SO hard to say good bye to my close friends on the Beit/Mobile team, who will be staying here for another 4 months, but I am so proud of them all for obeying the Lord and sacrificing so much to serve Him.

Please pray for safe travels as we fly to New York tomorrow and then split off to go home to various states.  Thank you SOOOOOO much for all your support and love. It has been so encouraging and uplifting.

In His holy and mighty Name,

Shaina Rachel Rosett

As many of you know, our time as Massah Aleph is drawing to  a close.  It’s been a very emotional past few days because of this realization. A lot happens in ten weeks, and many hearts have been brought closer to G-d. Having everyone be a part of something where we all experience the groundwork for change, and then hearing how each of us experiences it in a different way has drawn us all closer together.

Not only have we seen how the individuals in the group have changed but we have been able to see how others lives have been affected by what we have been able to share- the G0spel and our time.

It was really funny because the other day I was sitting in a cafe with Talia and some of the friends we had made, and one of them was telling us how she had just spoken to her mother. She told her that we were some of the best friends she had ever had, and that “there was something different about us that she couldn’t put her finger on.” She knew what it was but I don’t think she has come to that conclusion for herself yet.

Its for relationships and people like that that we are here, and after being blessed time after time with being able to bless our now friends by sharing our faith and our testimonies, I look forward to going home and being able to continue my massah there.

It’s not over- the “massah” is never over- and I cant wait  to continue life with the understanding of how to share my faith with others at home.

Thank you all for your constant prayer and for reading the blog, now we have to keep praying for Bet as we go Mobile! See you all soon.

Love, Tamar

Hey guys!

Its been an incredible 10 weeks. I’m sitting in Delhi right now, reflecting on all that has happened.

As a group, we’ve been through a lot. Its been amazing seeing us all grow closer to God and each other. I’m so thankful for the people on Massah who have supported me and built me up spiritually. I’ve seen God work in amazing ways through us. Thanks to all of the people who made Massah happen this year. It was one of the best experiences of my life.

God Bless,

Kevin