7,659. That’s the number of patients who received treatment in Mberengwa, Zimbabwe last week during the Jewish Voice medical outreach there. Some walked for hours just to get to us and then stood in line for hours more. But they were desperate for treatment.
Zemzem is 70 years old and she lives two hours away from our Gondar clinic site. She came too late to receive treatment the previous year. The $1.00 bus fare was expensive for this impoverished woman, but far less costly than the price of a visit to a doctor, if not for our clinic.
The family was staying at an upscale hotel in Southern Europe when the son returned to their room visibly shaken. He told his dad about a man who had just spewed insults at him while he was at the hotel’s pool.
“But this is so the Scriptures would be fulfilled” (Mark 14:49 TLV). Yeshua (Jesus) spoke these words to the band of people sent by the religious leaders into the Garden of Gethsemane to arrest Him. Bible prophecy conveys two very different portrayals of the Messiah.
Bumping and lurching down the long, rough dirt roads, we finally made it into the remote Ethiopian village of Woliso, where the people of the Gefat reside, which happened to be the location of our next medical clinic.
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Next week, through two different means, there is opportunity for Jewish Voice Ministries to impact thousands of people in a specific area of Africa. We need your prayers. As you read this blog, we are about to begin 2015's first medical outreach to Zimbabwe (April 23 - May 4).
Sixty-seven years ago, Israel was restored as a nation to the Land that was given to them by God thousands of years ago. They have made deserts bloom and created a thriving democracy whose achievements in technology, medical research, and Nobel Prize winners have benefited the entire world.
One Location. One People. The Lemba are an endearing people. Located in several communities of Zimbabwe, the Lemba have maintained their Jewish customs for thousands of years. And now they are discovering their Messiah Yeshua and coming to believe in Him in record numbers.
