This time Maria Hoffmann, Cornelia Sommerfeld, Heidi Bornmann, Claudia Laule (Andreas church) and Christine Pelz (Duisburg) flew to Tel Aviv. The first four days we stayed in the house of Kelly and Jaron Glik in Sde Boker. Judith (Maria's daughter) joint our group two days later. For the first day after our arrival Karen Maayan had planed and organized a hike in the Negev desert with some of our friends; like: Jannie and her daughter Ilana from Omer, Jolanda from Kardesh Barnea, Ranndi Bass from Beer Sheva, Mary, Kelly, Karen and Mary's daughters from Sde Boker and others. Our way went from Sde Boker through Wadis, who were changed by the rain to the resting place, a spring named Ein Akev.

Brave Connie and Maria even took a bath in the cold water of the spring. After we ate and rested we went uphill next to dizzying canyons to a tent of a Bedouin family who is living in the middle of the desert. The Bedouin woman Magdalena was expecting us and entertained us to a meal with a lot of love. She is open for the gospel and she loves it when people are praying for her and to listen to the songs of praise. We spend a wonderful time together.

The next day we rested from the 25 km hike by summer temperatures and met women from Omer and Beer Sheva for lunch in the house of Ranndi. The times we spend together by talking and praying for and with each other, we are seeing more and more how the new man takes shape.

On Friday we had together with Torsten Kluge and his group, the Saxony worship people, a "Kabbala Shabbat" in the middle of the desert (on the ground of the biblical future farm of Maayans). This time roused up feelings like in the time of Abraham (see picture of Baruch Maayan). After the Shabbat meal we had a time full of worship, dancing and prophetical prayer.

On Shabbat we traveled via Massada and the Dead Sea to Jerusalem. For Claudia and Christine it was the first time in Israel and they had also time to do a bit sightseeing and to visit historical sites. It is always special to be in Jerusalem, the city of the king. By walking on the city wall, visit of the western wall, a walk in Mea Shearim, Jewish new city and the historical old city we absorbed the atmosphere of Jerusalem. 

On the last day before the departure we met Yonit Klein from Nes Harim for a breakfast and spend a lovely time together.

It makes us happy to see how the relationships to the Messianic women in Israel grow from year to year.

For autumn we would like to invite so many women as possible for one week to Germany and for this we need also your (financial) support. We are planning that every woman will stay in the house of one of us women and we would like to pay their stay and their flights to Germany (two days we would like to stay with them in a wellness hotel). Kristiane Flemmig and I felt last autumn that it is important for the women to rest a while from their hard life that most of them have in Israel. We really want to be a blessing for them.