DEAR WATCHMEN

(the 1st half of this year)

Warm greetings from the City of the Great King.

2021began with Covid-19 in Israel as one of the worst in the world. Kate and I and our community spent more time together than ever and God protected us, praise God! In January, we convened our Apostolic Multiplication Leadership meeting with most attendees online due to the lockdown, but we praise God that even with Covid-19 about 45 new congregations began in Israel this last year. In January-February, we convened 5 pastors’ meetings in the 5 regions of Israel online with an average of about 30-40 pastors in each meeting. We thank God for the unity of the Body in the cities of Judah in the South, Gush Dan - the western coastal cities, greater Haifa, western Galilee, greater Nazareth, eastern Galilee. The unity of the Body is growing, and especially smaller congregations are multiplying with now between 600-700 congregations. We celebrated entering my Jubilee 50th year in the ministry. Time to receive the double portion of His grace and anointing for all that lies ahead!

In March, we held our 29th Isaiah 19 Highway Convocation online for the first time. It was strongly attended, and we had more from the Isaiah 19 Highway nations than ever, as God is bringing greater multiplication than ever through the shakings and salvation in the 33 nations of the Isaiah 19 Highway. On May 13th, we convened Great Commission Ascension – Glorification - Coronation Day of the King. 12,000 groups joined us globally from the 12 Gateways of the nations to pray for the fulfillment of the Great Commission in the 24/7 watches for 12 days from May 13th-24th. The anointing was the strongest ever. We believe for a great breakthrough of the harvest in Israel and all nations during 2021-22. This was during the 11 days war with Gaza, but still 35 pastors joined us in Jerusalem from all over Israel with another 85 online. We even had a pastor from Gaza and 3 from Ashkelon, the closest Jewish city to Gaza, and praise God, calm has been restored. God moved in a powerful way. We ended the 12 days with a powerful global Pentecost Sunday service from the City of Pentecost, with Heidi Baker, Boris Grisenko, Afeef Halasah, Charles Abraham, Pastor Rong (China) and pastors Tom and Kate Hess. We also participated in the Pentecost service of Empowered 21. We believe Israel and the nations will never be the same!

We also had a powerful Joshua Generation Convocation of Arabs and Jews in Israel at JHOPFAN. The testimonies of the teenagers and those in their 20s and 30s were very encouraging. On June 7th, 2021, we convened the annual Jerusalem Day of Prayer for all nations commemorating the reunification of Jerusalem with 70 leaders from Israel. We placed an ad on the front page of Jerusalem Post with 100 global leaders standing with Jerusalem as the united capital of Israel. We worshipped overlooking the Lions Gate and Temple Mount with 70 local leaders, where the Israelis went through Lions Gate raising an Israeli flag and reunifying the city as capital of Israel in 1967. We are supporting Laborers for the Harvest in Israel and the Isaiah 19 Highway nations. We need $180,000 before the end of June 2021 for this fund. We also need $300,000 for our Aliyah Fund by the end of August 2021 to help the Joshua Generation – 18-25 year olds – to make Aliyah and absorption through the Kibbutz Ulpan Program for 5 months and to support our 24/7 Aliyah House of Prayer in Brooklyn, New York. Your contribution for these needs would be appreciated as there are challenges faced by the Jewish communities that have been hit hard in the nations by corona. Your sacrificial gift at this Kairos time for the good news, multiplication of disciples, and Aliyah would be a great blessing for Israel. We thank God, due to your prayers, and now 85% of Israel has been vaccinated, corona has disappeared in Israel with no new cases in Israel daily, going from one of the highest rates to the lowest nations in the world. Israel is allowing delegates from these 14 nations so far for those who are vaccinated (Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson): from US, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Malta, Iceland, Denmark, Ireland, Portugal, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong and we pray more nations will be able to bring delegates as well. We believe God to raise up a Gideon’s Army of 300 Government Leaders from 100 nations for this with diplomatic passports. We did many powerful prayer zooms with leaders globally and an awesome convocation with Boris’ Congregation in Ukraine where more than 22,000 people joined, and also with one of the largest churches in Korea. We thank God, our four 24/7 communities keeping day and night prayer in Jerusalem, the Golan Heights in the north of Israel, Eilat in the south of Israel, and Brooklyn, New York, USA with the largest Jewish population in the world.

Due to not having the on-ground convocation in 2020 and no tourism in Israel for almost 1.5 years, our income seriously dropped, so your help at this time would be greatly appreciated. May God richly bless you from Zion. Thank you! We hope to welcome you to Jerusalem, the City of the Great King, September 6-20, 2021. For any who are not able to come, please join us online.