On Holy Thursday we celebrated the Seder meal in the congregation hall of the Andreas church with 80 people. We were very happy that Messianic Jews from Ukraine and Russia celebrated with us.
Read more: Celebration of the Seder evening on Holy Thursday 2023
My flight was supposed to leave on the 13th of March from Berlin to Israel but due to a strike I flew two days later. The weather was cool and rainy when I landed, but my family welcomed me warmly. I spoke with family Glik and family Boskey as well as other messianic brothers and sisters in the Negev desert.
Daniel Yahav is a pastor of a messianic congregation in Tiberias at the Sea of Galilee, where Yeshua ministered during his life on earth. He spoke in the old brewery in Döben in February in front of about 80 people about the issue: “More signs of the end time in Israel and the world: How should we react?”
Read more: Lecture evening of Daniel Yahav from Tiberias in Döben
Our board and other people visited on the 28th of January for the first time the Ukrainian-Messianic congregation, that meets regularly in the center of hope for church services.
Read more: The new body in Christ made from Jews and the Nations
On the 20th of January, Kerstin Klug and Peter Slowik celebrated with the young people of the Andreas church the Shabbat.
Along with other believers and Jews from Ukraine and Russia we eat, sang, and celebrated in our wonderfully decorated sukkah.
Between the 31st of August and the 3rd of September, we went to Poland as "team Auschwitz."
This Friday evening we celebrated Shabbat together with Jews from Israel and Ukraine.
This has been particularly precious! When Christians from Germany celebrate Shabbat with Messianic believers from Ukraine and with Israelis, something of the new man made up of Jews and the Gentiles in Christ becomes visible.
Finally, after the cancellation in 2020 and the virtually visiting program in 2021, the city of Leipzig's visiting program could take place again this year.
The Seder evening 5782 we spent as a large family with many children and commemorated the exodus of the people of Israel from Egypt.
From February 3rd to 10th we, Manfred and Maria Hoffmann, were finally able to return to Israel.
From September 23rd to 26th, part of the team of "Fountain of tears" under the direction of Maria Hoffmann and Kerstin Kluge went to Poland. They went there to receive groups in Birkenau in the future and explain to them "Fountain of tears" by artist Rick Wienecke from Israel. To do this, they met with the artist in the pavilion of the artwork for a whole day.