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Many Helping Hands With One Heart!

During times of crisis or times of celebration, our call remains the same: To comfort God’s people and to say “Lord, here I am”. It was an honor for ICEJ staff to volunteer a helping hand over recent weeks to Hineni (Hebrew for “here I am”), an organization based in Jerusalem that offers aid to those in need in the surrounding area.

Together with this Jewish organization, ICEJ helped package and deliver thousands of hot meals and hundreds of boxes of Passover essentials to those who are struggling during this pandemic. Thank you for partnering with us with one heart, the heart of our Heavenly Father, to give to those in need, especially during crisis and Passover celebration!

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Global Prayer Gathering!

You are invited to join us TODAY, Wednesday, April 8th, at 4:00PM (Israel Standard Time) for our Global Prayer Gathering! We have commitments from many global Christian leaders to join us again in leading prayer, including Angus Buchan, Daniel Kolenda, Tom Hess and Suzette Hattingh.

Since tonight is the Eve of Passover, we will be adding a special online Communion service during the prayer time, which will be officiated over by a Messianic Jewish leader and an Arab pastor. So make sure to have your own Communion elements prepared!

Here is the Zoom link to join us in prayer: on.icej.org/ICEJGlobalPrayer

For more details, click the link below!

JOIN THE GLOBAL PRAYER GATHERING TODAY!

Passover Lessons for a Modern-Day Plague

“When I see the blood, I will pass over you.” (Exodus 12:13)

-by David Parsons
ICEJ Vice President and Senior Spokesman

It has been surreal to experience the current lockdown in Israel due to the Coronavirus while the Passover feast approaches. As each family sits here confined to our homes to slow the spread of this modern-day plague, it is hard to escape the parallel with that fateful night long ago when the ancient Israelites huddled in their homes, with lamb’s blood sprinkled on the doorposts, nervously hoping and waiting for the death angel to pass over them.

For the Jewish people, Passover is the seminal event in their national history and a time of great celebration. Throughout their long exile, Pessach also had become a season of caution and even dread for Jews facing blood libels and pogroms around this time of year. But ever since Israel was reborn as a nation, the Jewish people have been free and safe to carry out all their traditions associated with this biblical festival. It is a time for thorough house cleaning, burning chametz (leaven), song-filled seder meals, matza and wine, and joyous family gatherings.

But not this year! Israel is going through the most difficult Passover season since its modern rebirth in 1948. No one is allowed to leave their homes. Extended families cannot come together. Many time-honored Passover traditions will have to be scrapped. Instead of counting the omer, many will be counting the victims of Corona.

These grim circumstances also make it easier to imagine oneself shuttered inside the home of an Israelite family back in Egypt some 3,500 years ago, anxiously awaiting the morning light. Will this present plague of death also pass us by? When will we see the light of day? And what message is God trying to tell us through this pandemic?

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