Zealous8:2 Newsletter: April and May

Dear Friends,

The excitement is building within Zealous8:2 as we are less than two weeks away from our 8^th Young Adult Adventure Tour. Everything is in place and we are good to go. All together we will be 37 young adults and we believe God is going to do amazing things as we tour the country. Please pray with us that the young adults coming on this tour will have wonderful encounters with God as they experience and participate in God’s zeal for the nation of Israel.   

Facebook

We are also very excited to announce that we have started a Facebook group for Zealous8:2 we want to encourage you to have a look at it as well as join our group. A lot of young adults around the world have asked us to start a page and we believe it is going to be a great tool to communicate as well as reach more young adults to stand with Israel.

Link: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=119457438081812

Zealous8:2 Conference: USA & Canada

Next year, we will have our 2^nd USA and Canada Zealous8:2 Conference. Look out for the adverting that will come out within the next month on our website.

The Zealous8:2 Conference…

… Is focused on reaching and engaging Christian young adults to understand the role God has given to Israel in His plan for the world. The Fervor Conference educates and equips them to give testimony with their words, as well as with action to love and support the nation of Israel in their daily lives.  And, of course, we want to have fun and build meaningful relationships while accomplishing this!

For more information please write to zealous@bfpusa.com

We’ve really seen Zealous8:2 grow from “strength-to-strength” and as a team we are very excited what God is doing and going to do through this young adult ministry. Please pray with us that as we move forward and expose more young adults to Israel that God will take the seeds we’ve planted and produce a mighty harvest of a new generation of Christians standing with Israel.

Be Blessed

Marnus Schoeman

Zealous8:2 Manager

I thought of sharing a story with you this month from someone who wrote to us about the work project we did for them during the January Zealous8:2 tour:

Dear Daniel,

It gives us great pleasure to write this letter of thanks and appreciation to you, Bridges for Peace and Zealous8:2.

During two very cold and stormy days a group of volunteers form Zealous8:2 spent long and demanding hours fixing up the WIZO (Woman’s International Zionist Organization) store for 2^nd hand clothes on Hillel Street in Jerusalem.

Thanks to their relentless efforts, we fixed up the store and managed to maximize its floor and shelf space. We are convinced that the renovated store will leverage the revenue and maximize the income to be used for our social activities in the community. In fact, the past couple of days have already shown an increase in income. Moreover, the WIZO volunteers, of whom we are mainly dependent for running the store, are filled with renewed excitement about their task in the renovated store. Last, but not least, our customers, who come to us for affordable clothing solutions, feel more dignified and joyful about the new dress of the store!

We would like to thank you personally for all the preparations you made in order to make this project possible. The hours of planning, of logistics, of coming to the store and setting up a work plan – all of these made the renovation possible.

Please pass our appreciation and gratitude on to all the other volunteers who participated in the project. It was great fun having them there, and greater yet to see them the following day come back – on their last day in the country – to proudly show their handy-work to their friends (who were occupied with a different community project at the time).

Best wishes,

Ariela Persky                                                                                  

Chairperson, WIZO Jerusalem                          

Alexandra Klein-Franke

Secretary General, WIZO Jerusalem