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

Hey everyone

So we just got back from a nice little jaunt all over northern India. Our group has had an amazing time here. There’s been some sickness but we’ve been able to pull through and some of the hikes have been pretty brutal but we all made it back in one piece.

In one village we stopped in we were invited to a Breslev house for dinner very similar to a Chabad house. At first we were hesitant to go, us being Messianic Jews and them being very religious Jews, but we felt God calling us to go. We arrived there not really knowing what to expect.

During dinner we were able to tell them who we were and what we were about. The religious Jews seemed very interested in how we could be Jewish and believe in Jesus. Isaac and I were able to talk to one man in particular and were able to lay out the Gospel for him.

We felt a real sense of accomplishment about our time there. Pray that God will water the seeds that we planted. We’ve had so many good conversations with Israelis here. Thanks to all you back home for your constant prayers and support.

God Bless,

Kevin

Scrabble.  Scrabble as in the game that people love to hate?! The game that is every dyslexics nightmare? The game that makes you think waay to hard for offering up your free time to a board game?

Yes. I did say Scrabble.

My team (Isaac, Jesse, Tamar, Kevin, and Myself) were the fortunate team to have Scrabble accompanying us as we traveled about in valleys and peaks of India these past 8 days.

Scrabble only got to us by way of Jesse; upon my request. You see last year in India I day dreamed about being able to use this amazing game to fill time and meet people. And what a wonderful reality this year has been to see Scrabble build relationships and be purposed as an evangelistic tool. Seriously. It Rocks.

Night #1 we are in a small town. Its raining. We go to a cafe and meet several Israeli’s there. We talk about our faith and share the gospel. Perfect. What’s next? a Rousing game of Scrabble to solidify our new found friendships.

Night #2 we are at the top of a very tall mountain (which took us 4.5 hours to get to). We are tired. We are hungry. We meet our friends from night #1, new people join us. The conversation lulls. What’s next? Scrabble of course. Israelis pair up with English speakers. I am paired with Maayan. We start talking, she ends up being better at scrabble than me, faith is brought up, I share the gospel.  We discuss it for the entire game. I have made a new friend that I will keep up with on facebook. I pray that she think about who Yeshua is to her. Thank you Scrabble.

Night #6 We are in another small mountain town. We got to a cafe. We meet 2 Israelis. We talk to them and explain who we are where we are from yadda yadda. We get the same info from them. We like them. They like us. Conversation lulls. The night is young, we have already eatten. What’s next? Why a game of Scrabble of course! We invite our Israeli friends to join us. They do. Round #4 the question is brought up…”So, you are a Jew who believes in Jesus… explain how that works.” We do, we talk for 2 hours. We open Isaiah 53. They admit it looks like Yeshua but want to read it in Hebrew. We had an amazing converstaion. We never got to Round #5…who cares. I was loosing and Scrabble wasn’t really the point anyway. Pray for them they were very interested in talking about it.

I love Scrabble. My friends think I am crazy. Especially because most of my friends can’t spell. But neither can I for that matter. I just love that it brings people together. You bond over all the terrible attempts at spelling words that don’t exsist. You get to spend time with people you love, like, and are wanting to get to know. And now….it is also an awesome way to share with people the love of Yeshua!

Like I said, Thank you Milton Bradley!

On another note. Our team has had an amazing week of evangelism in the far corners of India where most people don’t really even want to go. Thats why we couldn’t keep you all updated, no phones, no internet. Jesse got sick and is still recovering. But as a group we were an awesome team in sharing our faith. I believe that God really met us and annointed each and every conversation that we had. Thank you guys for your prayers they worked, and we needed them.

Blessings, RACHELLE

So here is a story about what we did recently…

We were sitting in a restaurant atop our guest house waiting for ur food to come. We had just made a decision after praying over a decision about whether or not to return to a Jewish home in the town we were in for Shabbot dinner. We decided not to go for various reasons, and continued our journey to the next town.

So, after getting settled in, we went to dinner, and the place was pretty slow exept for us. Then as we began discussing our next move,  a group of Israelis walked into our restaurant and sat opposite us. After a little while we found out where they were from and continued on to tell them who we were. After that the small talk continued until our food came.After the plates had been cleared, we opened the scrabble board and finally Omer decided to come join us. Eventually is girlfriend Karen came over as well to help him, as we were playing scrabble in english.

Around this point Isaac, Jesse and myself started praying silently- and lo and behold, G-d heard our prayers and Omer asked us entirely out of the blue: So… you are Jews who believe in Jesus… What do you believe? And from that we were able to completely lay out the Gospel for them, discuss it, show them the prophecies and why we needed a Messiah . We continued in discussion until the restaurant closed.

They had so many valid questions and at the end of it Omer sa” Hm, that makes a lot of sense, I just don’t believe it”

We were able to offer him a Brit HaChadasha, but he already had one.  He said that he would read it more, and after showing him Isaiah 53 he and Karen both agreed it was Yeshua and said that they needed to see it in Hebrew to be sure.

Please continue to pray for them: Omer and Karen.

Also, I want to thank you all so much for your continuous prayer. It is because of you interceding for us that we are able to have these divine appointments.

Thanks again and keep on praying!

Hello to all of you beautiful and faithful blog readers!

I am writing to you in an exhausted but excited state! My team made it to our region, after 15+ hours of bus travel and very little sleep. We are now in a town swarming with Israelis in every restaurant and guest house. We are eager to meet them and share with them the truth of Yeshua. Even in getting here we were met with opportunities.

While waiting for our bus, I began sharing my frustration in how late the bus was with the guy standing beside me. This turned out to be some of the most well-timed complaining of my life. The guy I was talking to (we’ll call him Mark) is  a native South African, raised in Israel, and i9s now living in the US! After sharing the nature of my travels and my friendships with the rest of the group members, he was intrigued and we immediately began a spiritual dialogue. He is extremely well educated and articulate, so naturally when Jesse joined in on the conversation, the two of them clicked in an obvious way. I surrendered the conversation to them and they talked for hours on end about everything you can think about. Jesse was able to share the Gospel with him a number of times. Please pray that God would reveal himself to Mark in spite of his inability to acknowledge an Absolute Truth.

We are very excited to be here, and our group of 5 is working together and getting along very well. Please pray for fruitful interactions and open hearts, as well as spiritual and physical protection! Thank you all so much!

Love,isaac