This coming Friday Debbie and I will be joined by about 20 other pilgrims as we make our way from JFK in New York to Ben Gurion Airport, outside of Tel Aviv.

Would you like to come along? You can join us and help us in our assignment with your prayers.
Our trip has many purposes. It will be a prayer journey, a spiritual adventure and a learning holiday. We intend to visit many sites of biblical importance and to immerse ourselves in the life and culture of Israel. This includes meeting with Messianic believers in the land, especially our missionary and friend, Ariel Laurence Blumenthal and his wife and daughter.

We are blessed to have Rabbi Cliff Librach and his wife, Miriam, co-lead this spiritual adventure. Cliff has led several tours to Israel before, but this is his first church tour. He loves the folk at Wellspring, just as he is highly esteemed and loved by many of us. We are praying that the trip will be a spiritual blessing to the Librachs. Will you join us in that prayer?

Jerusalem, Jericho, Capernaum, Nazareth, En Gedi, the Jordan River, the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea--these are all places we will visit. We hope to learn much by being on the ground and in the land where the biblical story actually occurred.

Many of you are undoubtedly aware of the tensions and threats that have arisen for Israel in recent weeks and days--first from Iran and then rockets fired from Gaza into southern Israel. We have been quite aware of these potential dangers. But as we have prayed, we have sensed a green light to proceed. Indeed, the Lord has spoken to me that we have an assignment for this trip. I am not sure of the specifics, but I do believe that we are carrying prayers and declarations and blessings for the land and people of Israel at this time.

Will you partner with us in this assignment? Our intercessory protocol for this trip centers on a daily declaration of Psalm 91. Will you pray that for us, declare it for the mission in agreement with us each day while we are gone? Thank you! We leave March 16 and return March 25.

We expect to bring back plenty of blessings to share with all of you!
Pastor Rick