- Ma Nishma? What's Up With Jewish Voice?
ETHIOPIA MEDICAL CLINIC
FtLFILLING GOD'S PROMISES TO HIS PRECmUS TREASURES-THE FORSAKEN ETHIOPIAN JEWS
of those who had died of malnutrition were found in Addis Ababa, in a community.-
or other easily curable conditions, while called Beta Israel. This is where He sent
waiting for Israel to bring them home. Mv
us...to fulfill His promise to a man called
mind raced back to thoughts of abraham Abraham.
and God. I pictured Isaac on the altar, and The sense of God's pleasure was almost
Abraham with his knife raised. overwhelming. God had allowed us to take
"Abraham. is there J~othi~g rou will part in His plans to fulfill his commitment
mit,~hold from me? .... No m~'Lord, there to his friend abraham. He was allowing us
el," ,eot,Si~zg. "' There, a bond was formed in to touch these most precious treasures, the
tim spirit realm between God and Abraham forsaken Ethiopian Jews. We gladly offered
I have been on many mission trips and that would endure for eternity. The what we had, medical and dental care. It
gone places I knew God had directed me blessings that God promised to Abraham's hardly seemed enough, although they were
to go, but I have never felt so much like I descendants have endured through the abundantly grateful for all we offered.
was in the center of God's will. I felt like years, but the picture we saw that day did Although their demeanor was humble,
I touched the most tender place in God's not look like blessings. Something had to I was the one humbled. In the face of
heart. be done. God's word cannot fail. the worst human conditions I have ever
As we entered the closed compound of After David's groat victory over his personally witnessed, they never wavered
the Beta Israel community,, I was surprised enemies, he asked, "is there a,o'o~te/eft in their love and affection for HaShem.
to be invited to take a place on the platform from the house oj~Ttu/ ttmt I ma~' s/vow Without answers, and with veu little hope,
of the synagogue as one of the meetings hiJzd, zess to for \]o,mtha,z's sake?' That they have sustained each other and their
was proceeding. I looked out over the day: standing at the front of that assembly, faithfulness to the God of Israel. What a
faces of the poorest, most forsaken Jews on I knew that the Lord's eve had wandered to privilege to be trusted to bless these children
the face of the earth. I saw their wall of and fro across the earth in search of those of Abraham!
remembrance where was written the names he could bless for Abraham's sake. They
-- dhe~j'l Scf}a~zg
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whose ears
, just popped
....... . open! Mso,
0ewish Voice ~~~ while min-
Videographer " -\~7-~ \ istering at a
Chris Wright has Children's
returned with Home, one
spectacular video child was set b
of the recent Jewish Voice Medical Outreach free from de- performing corneal transplants,
in Ethiopia that will soon be seen on Jewish mons that were making him suicidal. optometrists grinding and fitting glasses,
Voice's weekly television program, Jewish Over 1,200 of these poor, forgotten, dentists, pediatricians, gynecologists and
Voice Today. Black Jewish People came to know the general practitioners, 70 in all.
This Medical Outreach was the larg- love of God and embraced Yeshua as their Our team was received with open arms
est and most effective one Jewish Voice Messiah as our team ministered care and by these sweet, gentle, but impoverished
has ever carried out. Between 6,000 and kindness, hope and healing, faith and for- Jewish People. God poured out His grace
7,000 Ethiopian Jews came through the giveness. M1 were touched by the presence in abundance and there were a number
three clinics that were in operation. They of God. of miracles, including several deaf people
had ophthalmologists and eye surgeons -- Dennis Phillips
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