Priority of Peace

We serve a God of Peace, we're saved by the Prince of Peace through the Gospel of Peace--but in the midst of this place where God chose to walk on the earth and be one of us, there are some of the deepest and most hopeless seeming conflicts in all the world.

Recently we've been drawn to consider other believers living on the other side of twenty foot high concrete walls and who face the daily humiliation of being singled out for searches and looked upon with suspicion.

In Bethlehem last weekend, we talked to someone who told us that churches fight with sticks over who will clean one stone that sits between their respective "territories" within holy sites.

Just in the last few weeks, there was a terrorist attack near our neighborhood when a distraught person, bent on evil, attacked innocent people with a tractor--copying another person who had done the same thing several weeks before. This past week, an 11 year old boy and an 18 year old were shot in the head and killed in events surrounding the protest against a new wall.

What hope is there?

There is Jesus. We are learning about what it means to bring His peace, that does not come from this world, to this place where He walked and taught us how to live with each other.

Our request is for deep, heaven-touching prayer for peace here in the Holy Land--first among believers because we are the same family--and then out to the larger region because lack of peace imprisons everyone in hate and fear.


Peace is the reality of God. That is what we would like to ask you to pray for here.

Grateful and Rejoicing--+!

My friend was telling me about how we sometimes experience God as being awesome and sometimes as being intimate--the most personally meaningful times maybe are when we take in how big and mighty God is by feeling close to Him.

For those of you moved by the Holy Spirit to pray for the salvation of Israel and the peace of Jerusalem---thank you.

This first five months have been abundant. The new church, Wave Jerusalem, is strong and blessed to see great things happening in people's lives and a heartfelt desire to reach out, not to a lost generation, but to a promised generation that is lost, as said by Wave Jerusalem's pastor, Richard Frieden.

Jerusalem and Israel are a blessing to all believers because of the experience of knowing God in seeing the sites here where all we read about factually happened.

This point for us also marks the reunion of our family after five months of God blessing and protecting us while we were on separate continents. For that, for the salvation of Israel and for the joy of knowing Jesus that we all share, and for you--we're grateful.

The Call--Jerusalem

The Call is an international youth-oriented prayer and revival movement that has hosted events with many hundreds of thousands of people becoming more and more passionate about God and in love, real love, with Jesus.

The Call usually focuses on what are understood to be the most significant issues of our time. The general priority has been abortion and the need for revival in the land. Tonight was The Call Jerusalem, and it's focus was on the worldwide significance of revival in Israel.

In addition, The Call Jerusalem also incorporated the leadership of the Global Day of Prayer and we saw amazing broadcasts from an estimated 100,000,000 people in 214 countries all lifting up the same prayer, in their own nations, before the Lord. It was quite exciting to see Jerusalem serve as an international hot spot for prayer and worship around the world.

Watershed Jerusalem

One gift of the Holy Spirit is joy--the more we are doing what He's doing the more of His joy we feel as we realize God is in action.

The Lord's blood ran in this city so that we could have salvation. Our goal is to build His body in this city so that He will find faith here when He returns. Many people face difficult things here but find that the light of God becomes much brighter in dark places.

Please pray for Ami Ortiz, a 15 -year-old boy who was injured by a package bomb in his house disguised as a Purim present. He is alive, but in serious condition. This attack against a Messianic pastor's family occurred in the West Bank, and may have been the responsibility of militant Arabs.

We also have released our first picture booklet, "Watershed Jerusalem," explaining Scripture that relates to the Salvation of Israel, Jesus' love for Jerusalem and the need for a new generation church here.

Please email WaterJerusalem@gmail.com if you would like an electronic copy or one or more printed copies. For printed copies, please include your address.

Young People in Jerusalem

Jeremiah 10:18-20

For thus says the Lord:

....My children have gone from me, and they are no more.

As many have heard, eight students, most of them 15 or 16-year-olds, were killed by a man who fired hundreds of rounds at young people who were studying scripture.

Kids jumped out of windows to escape, and it was reported that there were Bibles everywhere on the floor covered with blood.

These are the children of Israel. They need a Savior. Please pray for salvation here in Jerusalem.

Jerusalem is a unique city. We believe we are unique in Jerusalem because we are focusing directly on young people and salvation followed by leader discipleship. We understand the Lord's goal to be massive here and motivated by passion.

Please pray for the salvation that flowed through the veins of the Son of God to cover this city like a river of spiritual life.

If you would like to pray and increase the effectiveness of a ministry based on the Holy Spirit to young people in Jerusalem, please email waterjerusalem@gmail.com.