Israel Support

A mission friend of Eastern European Outreach asked why so little support reaches the Messianic Jews and Christians in Israel. Research revealed that support for this group lags behind the general support Israel receives from around the world, especially from Christians. From that moment on, initiatives were taken to set up the Israel Support department.

With the help of the conversations held, initiatives were taken to organise journeys of encouragement to Israel, based on passages such as Romans 1:8-12. These visits were paid to believers at home as well as to the communities to which they belonged.

Vision

Based on God’s word and the experience of these journeys, a mission statement was developed: “God is more interested in the Living Stones, the believers, than in the dead stones, the tourist sites. The best way we can help the inhabitants of Israel is in co-operation with the Living Stones.”

We therefore help as little as possible through general channels, for the following reasons:

• Behind the situation in Israel there is a spiritual situation, and the believers are the ones who have the answer to it.
• The believers are in the centre of society, so they know where both spiritual and material needs are most urgent.
• The believers in Jesus Christ are His hands on earth.

Our Arab brothers and sisters

Standing positively behind Israel does not mean we are against the Arabs in any way — such an attitude would be un-Christian. We do not believe we should build walls between different religious groups, which is why we divide our attention as equally as possible between Messianic Jews and Arab Christians.