In March 2001 we purchased a new apartment in one of Beer-Sheva’s new neighborhoods, high upon a hill overlooking the whole area and all of Beer-Sheva. For many years I had prayed the Lord for a place such as this. Last year spring when I prayed again the Lord simply said, “Dear child, the house won’t come to you. You will have to go and and look for it!” I immediately began to look around. 

One day, on my way to make copies of my newsletter, I noticed the newly opened office of the well-reputed Anglo Saxon Real Estate Agency. I felt prompted to “go in and ask." Asking doesn't cost anything. A very kind lady showed me pictures and floor plans and took me to a construction site. My husband was willing (after years of iron refusal) to come with me and look at the place in question. But it just did not feel right. It wasn’t “it!”

A few days later I felt moved to drive up to the hills of the beautiful neighborhood of Ramot to inspect the high rise buildings there. Searching for the company who had built these housing units, I entered an office that stood in front of a huge empty lot. This construction company Y had just started building. I looked at the floor plans and at the model of the complex ---and one apartment matched precisely what I had prayed for! I loved it! And, miraculously, it was still available! But would my husband love it too? I prayed and took my husband to have a look. He loved the same place --- instantly! We had found our new home the Lord had reserved for us! Halleluyah!

Later I realized that the answer to my prayers could not manifest until the city had freed those hills for construction. For our new home is on top of a hill, with G-d’s sky above us  and an unobstructed view before us!

Getting a mortgage was a “piece of cake” according to the director of that national mortgage bank. Selling our old apartment would be another “piece of cake” because of its proximity to Beer-Sheva’s ever growing university campus. My husband and I rejoiced!

Then came September 11th and the whole world  rattled and shook!

The price of housing began to fall… and fall… and fall. We could only sell at a great loss and would still need to increase our mortgage. The next payment for our new home was about due when the Lord said, “Do not sell the apartment at this time. Keep it and rent it out!” This would mean a significantly larger mortgage and barely enough income for it. 

Then my minstrel friend Shira Mayim from Wisconsin, suggested to make our old apartment available rent-free for new immigrants, especially Messianics, by asking the friends and supporters of my ministry to pledge $ 20 a month for one year. Part of the “Or Tzion” purpose is to help new immigrants, as the ministry’s rallying cry suggests: “For the Return unto G-d AND the Land!”

Therefore, if 22 - 25 people give faithfully $ 20 a month for 1 year, we can make the apartment available rent-free for new immigrants.

The Lord confirmed this idea by several witnesses, including by our son Ami who did not know of  Shira’s suggestion. As we look back on what seemed like a total disaster, we see the Lord working things out according to our desire and His purpose: to help "olim" (returning Jews) make it in the Land, and especially those who are believers in our Lord Yeshua.

Occasionally I have shared with you about the importance of not only bringing Jews out of their country of exile back to Israel, but also helping them get settled. One is bringing them out, the other is bringing them in. Moses led the people out of Egypt toward the Promised Land, but Joshua brought them in. 

Many new immigrants despair and fail when they come here. They need continual support and a helping hand until they establish a solid footing in their new, (yet ancient), homeland. A few Christian organizations do help Jews return and also assist them within the Land¹² but they are too few for so great a need. 

I know of no Church that helps Messianic Jews return to Israel and get established. Yet this should be a priority of all Churches: to give some of the weekly offering to Messianic immigrants - those already in the Land and those preparing to come. Our God deeply desires to gather in His sheep and to bring  His Jewish disciples back to the Land of Israel. Where are those Gentile brethren  who will carry on their shoulders Messianic brothers and sisters back to their own Land?¹³

Why are millions of dollars donated to TBN spent on broadcasting the Gospel by Moslems for Moslems, who daily incite their listeners to commit acts of terror in Israel ^a) and proclaim Jihad against G-d’s own, covenanted Land of Israel? Wouldn't it be more fruitful to help Jewish believers make Aliya?