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Many of you wonder what is the situation are. We are happy to have such friends as
with our church building. We are happy to yourselves.” Praise the Lord
tell you that in the end of last week we finally
signed our rental contract with a new owner. Yakov & Ruti Dolinsky
The place is 50m2 bigger than the one we
are about to leave. We will have to invest Area 2: North & West
a big amount of money to make the place
suitable for having church services. You see, 6.4 HAIFA, Kehilat Ha Carmel
there was a factory there before. We wanted
to sign the contract for 10 or at least for 7 MAY 2019
years, but the owner agreed only for 5 years. Dear Prayer Partners,
We pray that after the renovation and all the Shalom to you from Mount Carmel! We’ve
investment in the building when the contract just celebrated the Passover with wonderful
comes to its end, the owner would extend it “seder” meals in our homes. That night, our
and would not sell the premises. We don’t Kehilat HaCarmel worship centre was filled
want to have one more experience of being with believers from the former Soviet Union
cheated. with their friends and family participating
in an outreach “seder” conducted by the
You can praise the Lord for a miraculous leaders of Ma’ayan Simcha, our new Russian-
resolving of tension with our former landlord. speaking fellowship. Over 220 people were
He was insisting that we would leave for his in attendance, all hearing the meaning of the
use all the things that we had installed in the Passover Lamb, Yeshua, for us today.
building like, false ceiling, expensive lighting,
air conditioners etc. It was not fair since it The month of New Beginnings - Nisan (also
was us who bought all those things. We called “Aviv” - Hebrew for “springtime”)
wanted, after taking them apart, to use them Three thousand years ago the blood of a
in our new premises. lamb placed on the doorposts of homes was
a sign that opened the way for the new life
We took the issue up onto the Lord in prayer that Israel embarked on, leaving behind the
and fasting. His answer was absolutely slavery of Egypt. Two thousand years ago,
awesome. In the end of negotiations, the another Passover lamb, the Lamb of God
landlord gave up all that belongs to us and would shed His blood to bring freedom from
even gave us additional 15 days for moving. the slavery of sin - for anyone choosing to
God is good! believe in Him, and turning away from their
“Egypt.” His shed blood brought us into
[Ed: PFI has been financially blessed over the a new covenant with better promises than
past few months. Because of this, we were given on Mount Sinai (Hebrews.8:6-13). On
able to make a substantial contribution to the third day, the Lamb rose anew from the
their needs] dead, walking in victory over death, and in
resurrection power through the Holy Spirit.
Yakov responded: “Thank you so much! You
are a true blessing to us. You have literally Altar with 12 stones at Kehilat HaCarmel
taken part in sharing and carrying the burden Since the founding of Kehilat HaCarmel in
with us. There is a saying – ‘a true friend is 1991, we have had a mandate from the Lord
known in a time of need.’ This is what you to restore the altar of worship on Mount
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