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WHEN JEWS AND CHRISTIANS HELPED EACH OTHER AFTER THE FLOODS
“Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!”
In late August, a series of hurricanes struck America and caused widespread destruction and ooding.
Gulf Meadows Church was one of many that had their building devastated by Hurricane Harvey. The rst people to come to the church’s aid was a team of volunteers from ZAKA, an Israeli Orthodox Jewish charity.
The church is pastored by Joe and Becky Keenan and when the Israeli team arrived, Becky said, “We are blessed and privileged to number one have anybody come from Israel, but secondarily to have religious people come with shoulder to shoulder help, we are honoured beyond belief.”
You see, unbeknown at the time to the Israeli volunteers, Joe, Becky and their church are extremely supportive of Israel. In fact, the church hosted CUFI’s rst ever Hispanic ‘A Night to Honour Israel’ back in 2011 in which CUFI Founder, Pastor Hagee, addressed 1000 Christians and 100 Jews who had gathered in support of Israel.
The Chairman of ZAKA, Yehudi Meshi- Zahav said the team were more than happy to help their Christian friends in America especially because of the high level of support for Israel in the area. He also recognised the Pastors found it “particularly meaningful” that it was “a team from the Holy Land” that came to help the church in their time of need.
Psalm 133:1
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