After 2006, visited us Baruch Maayan from Sde Boker in March. Beside our church he served in Döben, Herrnhut, Halle, Dresden and Hamburg. His deep understanding of the Bible from  his Hebraic background and his prophetic view of our call as church of Jesus for this time were a challenge for many people. He preached that we need to cut off f the aberration of the substitution theology, because the church is a substitute for Israel in the salvific history of god. The church of Jesus has an important duty, it needs to serve Israel and the Jews, in their divine call as light and priests for the nations, in the same way Ruth, the Moabite served a woman from Judah, Nomi (see book Ruth in the Bible). Baruch isn´t just teaching he also is an artist and illustrates his teachings in paintings.

At the 2. of March we created with the Jewish-Christian consortium at the peace prayer to the week of brotherliness "There was never so much departure 2009". Teenagers of the Andreas church and we, went the way of the Jewish-Christian dialog to a commonness, in our own identity. After the failure and becoming blamable of the church and Christians on the Jewish brothers ans sisters in the 2. world war is it still a hard way, that needs brave people which invest trust and  leave prejudices behind themselves. For this we desperately need the wisdom and the help of god.

Like last year we drove one week  through Israel to visit and spend time with women who believe in Yeshua and survivors of the Holocaust.

This year our group was grown to a team of 6 women, 5 from Germany and Judith from Israel.

On Friday we arrived in Tel Aviv and went from there to Sde Boker, where Kelly, Karen and Mary expected us already. It was a happy reunion and we spend a cosy Shabbat evening together.

On the next day we were hiking together with the women from Sde Boker. Out intention was to visit a Bedouin woman and pray for her, but unfortunately we did not have enough time for the long way to her.

Women from Sde Boker visited her.

In the noon time we drove to Omer, were Rachel Bosky and other women from Omer, Beer Sheva and Arad had an amazing lunch prepared. It was a happy and a sad meeting. Some women from our group visited Stephen and prayed for him. It was the last time we saw him, in the beginning of March he passed away.

In the evening we went to Kardesh Barnea to Avishay and Jolanada - friends and family ha prepared a surprise party to the 50. birthday of Avishay. Over there we met a lot of our friends from the Negev and made new contacts to other believers. We met a woman who lives with her husband from Switzerland in the middle of the desert on the way between Mizpe Ramon and Eilat. Next year we are planning to visit them.

Sunday we visited in two groups family Hirshfeld in Ezuz and the Shalom family in Kemahin.

Both families are doing well. Family Hirshfeld built so called "Zimmer buses". The created out of old  buses new, comfortable and stylish guestrooms. Who is interested in these guestrooms will find a link with pictures on our link page. The Shalom family have slowly progress in their project (construction of a guesthouse and vineyard). Ronen Shalom produced a new music album in English and Hebrew.

It was very important to us to meet women that we met in October to the women conference and to network. We appreciate it that new women are coming with us from Germany to spend time with our sisters and brothers in Israel. Sunday afternoon we had a very intense time with the women from the church in Beer Sheva.

About the relationship to the Jewish women who believe in Yeshua is to say that the one new body, like it is written in Ephesus 2, becomes more and more reality. Also we are getting to know each other better and appreciate our differences and see that as an enrichment.

Monday and Tuesday we spend in Arad by the family Wieneker, at the Dead sea and in Tivon with Ruth.

On Wednesday we met Steffi and Zahava in Kfar Blum. We had a good time together and we prayed for both. We felt that it is very important to visit the survivors of the Holocaust as often as possible since they are at the end of their way of life.

We also felt that it is time to travel with two different teams in the land - one to visit the people in the North and one to visit the people in the South.

From Wednesday to Thursday we were in Jerusalem. In these days we enjoyed Jerusalem and spend time at the 24/7 prayer and stayed at Liora house.