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 anothe
r 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.
