SEPTEMBER 2009 NEWSLETTER
Operation Exodus 1-Day Sydney Seminar
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“The Planet in Turmoil” Presented by
Murray Dixon Saturday 10th October 2009 9:30 am to 4pm Venue
The Church of the Good Shepherd 1st Floor, 998 Victoria Road West Ryde NSW 2114 Enter from Station St, walking distance from West Ryde Railway Station near Koorong Bookstore. There will be no Registration Fee, but an offering will be taken to bless Murray and to thank the church for the use of their facility. Session times are as follows: Session 1
9:30 – 11am
Morning Tea Session 2
11:30 – 1pm
Lunch 1 – 2:15pm Food may be purchased from nearby shops Session 3
2:15 – 3:30pm
Questions
3:30 – 4pm
Murray Dixon, was ordained in the Anglican Church in NZ before serving in the RNZAF as a chaplain. Murray left the air force, and established Prayer for Israel in NZ where they served for 20 years. In 2000 Murray and Rosemary moved to Israel, working with CMJ, then as Rector of Christchurch Jerusalem. In 2008 they moved to England to join Ellel. Murray authored “The Rebirth and Restoration of Israel”, reprinted as “Israel: Land of God’s Promise,” in 2006.
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fSU OPERATIONS
CENTRAL ASIA
Humanitarian Aid in Ukraine & Moldova
Kazakhstan – Almaty
Praise the Lord for successful distribution of the H/A consignment from UK in Georgia. Slava, our Base Leader there, writes: "When we arrived in Telavi, we could unload the vehicle and store the boxes in the house belonging to the pastor of a local church. Koba, a former Ebenezer representative, and Mariana, the leader of a charity ministry in the church, in Tbilisi, helped us with the distribution of the aid. As a result,107 people received the aid. All Jewish people were grateful to Ebenezer for the help. Among them there were some families willing to go to Israel." We give thanks to the Lord for projects accomplished in Moscow and Moldova providing medicines for the Holocaust survivors. Hundreds of those who survived ghettos and Nazi concentration camps were blessed by Ebenezer workers and volunteers with needed medicines.
Zhanna shares some insights surrounding the July flights when 36 olim made aliyah. There is wonderful cooperation with Christian brothers from the Ezra Fund, who help Zhanna by meeting the olim at the station taking them to where they stay and then picking them up at around 2am for the flight from Almaty to Tel Aviv. They bring all the support and help they can, which includes praying for the olim not to be afraid of the customs officers, who usually try to swindle them by taking money. The Jewish Agency representatives who were at the airport to see the olim off were surprised to see them passing through the customs control so fast! The Lord had answered prayer! Zhanna writes: ‘We
Please pray for: ▪ all paperwork & God's protection over all the formalities for a consignment from EEF Germany at the beginning of September 2009. It is the first time for our new staff members in Germany to prepare the papers & load the lorry with aid. Also we are in the process of arranging transportation from the Ukrainian side as it looks more convenient & cheaper. We need wisdom from above to set up these things.
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finalizing the details of a project - winter shoes for the children from needy Jewish families in Ural area.
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our Base Leader Aleksey, as he makes preparations & identifies those who are most in need. The project will provide opportunities to call the Jewish families to return to the land of their forefathers.
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the paperwork to be done & other preparations for the H/A load from the UK which is due to come to Ukraine at the beginning of October.
UKRAINE Georgia & Armenia Thanksgiving for: ▪ 30 olim from Georgia and 4 from Armenia, who recently made aliyah.
could see God’s mercy and protection over His people.’ Please pray for: ▪ Zhanna to be kept healthy & strong as she
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heads up a busy office schedule, attends to the needs of the olim & maintains good relationship with the churches & the Jewish Agency. the team of 8 volunteers, who help in the work to be unified & led by the Lord aliyah from Kazakhstan to go forward in freedom & joy.
Uzbekistan Thanksgiving for the window of opportunity for aliyah from Turkmenistan Please pray for: ▪ the olim traveling from Turkmenistan to Bukhara in Uzbekistan, on 8th September, to meet with the Consul. There will be 19 people in the group including a leader from the Jewish Agency. The 18 potential olim represent 61 persons - parents are travelling without their children & some represent other members of the community. They meet the consul on the 9th September after which they wait for a day while papers are taken to Tashkent. Application forms & the passports are then returned to the group in Bukhara. ▪ this group of potential olim from Turkmenistan to have the Lord’s protection, as they make their journey to & from Bukhara ▪ safe & fast passage across the Uzbek border & for the JA leader to have divine wisdom to answer any contentious questions
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RUSSIA Smolensk Anna with a team visited Jewish families in villages in Kostroma. She was grateful to a volunteer from Yarosalvl church, who drove them by car. When a Jewish community in Kostroma knew that they would go by car they asked Anna to take medicines to a very isolated village in Loparevo. It was very difficult to get there, but Anna is convinced of the importance of visiting these remote places.
Yekaterinburg Base
Special needs: There are a number of special need situations that are being attended to and watched over by Anna and the team, they include: ▪ two Jewish children have been found in one of the orphanages on a team visit ▪ the team have responded to a family of three, a mother & her two grown-up sons, one with a childhood disability, who live in the small settlement of Zakavkazsky in a dilapidated hut. They were refugees from Uzbekistan & the team met them in March having received a letter with a call for help! Since then they have been supporting the family with all kinds of assistance including food, medicines & paying for their trips to regional centres to obtain documents. In a letter of thanks this family expressed their gratitude in these words: ‘Glory to God that loved us: when
Alexey reports changes ahead! In July the flight from Ufa to Israel was via Moscow for the first time, not Yekaterinburg as previously. Rustem proved to be a good flight coordinator, as well as, a good fisherman! Alexey explains that this ushers in a new stage both in the work of the Jewish Agency and in He heard our cry for help, He sent you to us…… our ministry. As far as he knows the Jewish Agency We are making every effort to hold out and are are now busy making preparations for new flights doing our best to break through, and there is from a number of major cities in the Ural region nobody we communicate with, only you …. We such as Ufa and Perm. It is expected that the first have so many times thought that it was the end, flights with olim, including young Jewish people but God has always shown His mercy. We shall going to Israel on study programmes from these be writing to you and sharing about how the cities, will be carried out in September. In the near things are going and we also hope to see all of future olim from this vast region will have at least you in the near future. three directions to choose from: Yekaterinburg to Tel Aviv. Ufa via Moscow to Tel Aviv and Ufa via USA Yekaterinburg to Tel Aviv. Please pray for: ▪ the right decisions to be made by the Please pray that: Jewish Agency for the implementation of ▪ our 3 offices would move in complete unity these plans as they affect aliyah. & understanding of the Lord’s will & ▪ the Ebenezer teams to have wisdom as strategy for the release of the Jewish they put in place a strategy to adjust to people in their area & for the Lord’s fullest the changes reflecting the best way to give protection over them. Romans 15: 5-7 support to the olim. ▪ the Jewish people would respond to seasons of great shaking; political, Pyatigorsk Base (Caucasus) economic & the recent exposure of public Further terrorist attacks have been committed & rabbinical corruption. Psalm 105:37 across the region in Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria and the neighbouring Republic of Ingushetia. ‘Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, & Proclamation and prayer:
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Exalt the name & the word of the Lord over the plans of the terrorists. Philippians 2:5-11. for a cessation of the attacks across the whole region & for protection over the team & their families. the Jewish people to awaken to God’s call to return to Israel.
his Maker: “Ask Me of things to come concerning My sons; & concerning the work of My hands, you command Me. I have made the earth, and created man on it. I—My hands—stretched out the heavens, and all their host I have commanded. I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways; He shall build My city and let My exiles go free, not for price nor reward,” Says the LORD of hosts.’ Isa 45:11-13
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PLEASE REMEMBER that EBENEZER’S TELEPHONE & EMAIL HAVE NOW CHANGED The new telephone number is: (07)
4729 1243 The new email address is: admin@eefa.org.au
NEW WEBSITE Please take the time to check out our new website: www.operation-exodus-seao.org We now have our bookshop on-line and are able to offer the convenience and security of PayPal for purchases and donations
NTH QLD VISIT
FINANCE We continue to give thanks to our Lord for: ▪ His faithfulness ▪ His provision of finances to meet our needs Not only has He provided for our every day operations, but has wonderfully supplied the finances for additional unforeseen, unbudgeted projects at the beginning of the year, such as the UK Aliyah flight. When discussions commenced with the Jewish Agency, we had no spare funds available, but we believed that this union was of the Lord and He would provide the needed funds. This He has done so wonderfully through the faithful prayers of our intercessors and our supporters. Please pray for: ▪ regular consistent giving to meet our daily operational needs in the fSU & for the increasing needs in Israel to help the Olim settle in the Land ▪ the Finance Steering Group, who meet together in the first weekend of September to review our worldwide accounts & budgets & to plan for 2010 ▪ the Lord to guide, direct & show us His priorities with many developments taking place in the nations We ask for unity of the team & for God’s wisdom, as we desire to be good stewards of what He entrusts to our care
IFI CONFERENCE Jerusalem 2010 Conference: Jan 25th – 1st Feb
Prayer Tour to follow: 1st – 6th Feb Information will be available in Sept. For invitation please contact Sonia at sonia@ifij.org
Grace will be visiting the north this month on deputation. CAIRNS Tuesday 22nd Sept—7.30pm 34 Bauhinia Avenue, Earlville MAREEBA Wednesday 23rd—7.30pm Thursday 24th—9.30am Abundant Life Centre ATHERTON Details to be completed. Please phone the office for further details Phone: (07) 47291243 Email: admin@eefa.org.au Address: PO BOX 8029, Garbutt, QLD, 4814 Please pray for a fruitful time for all involved! EBENEZER EMERGENCY FUND AUST, INC. BSB: 064 817 Account: 1049 7103 C’wealth Bank, Flinders Street, T’ville, 4810
Local ‘Exodus’ Prayer Meetings Ringwood VIC — 2nd Tues of the month. 7.30pm. Contact Pat Whiffin (03) 9876 2212 Adelaide SA—4th Monday of the month. 7.30pm Contact Andrew & Cynthia (08) 8272 2213 Kotara Sth NSW—3rd Friday of the month. Contact Kevin & Jan Lewis (02) 4957 2923 Turramurra Sth NSW—4th Tues of the month. Contact Peter & Fiona Stucken (02) 9482 4692 CHAIRMAN - Rev. Tom Jewett, DEPUTY CHAIRMAN - Peter Stucken, ADMINSTRATOR - Grace Denison
Address: PO Box 8029 Garbutt BC, Garbutt Qld, 4814 Phone: (07) 4729 1243 Email: admin@eefa.org.au 4