DEAR WATCHMEN

(the 1st half of this year)

Dear Watchmen, Greetings from Jerusalem! At the end of 2021, 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 December 2021 and January 2022, we honored 25 pastors and their wives, 70 years and over, and they shared their journey over the last 50 years in Israel. What a blessing to see the faithfulness of God’s servants and breakthroughs through the formative years of the Body in Israel!

In January-February, we convened 5 pastors meetings in the 5 major regions of Israel, with about 30 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 and the Jerusalem area. The unity of the Body is growing, and especially smaller congregations are multiplying with now approximately 600 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! March 1-5, we held our 30th annual Isaiah 19 Highway Convocation in Turkey. We had 250 leaders from 25 nations in the Isaiah 19 Highway nations. God is also bringing greater multiplication than ever through the shakings and salvation in the 33 nations of the Isaiah 19 Highway. On May 26, we convened Great Commission Ascension - 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 26-June 7. The anointing and participation was the strongest ever, as leaders organized 24 hour watches all over the world in the 12 gateways. We believe for a great breakthrough of the harvest in Israel and all nations during 2022 – 2023! We also had the most leaders ever, 140, for our 30th anniversary for this meeting at JHOPFAN. Joshua Aaron sang live ‘The Blessing/Aaronic Benediction’ on Great Commission Ascension Day, where Yeshua blessed His 12 disciples after He gave the Great Commission before He ascended to Heaven. 12 leaders from Israel blessed all the gateways & nations during this time. God moved in a powerful way. We ended the 12 days of 24/7 prayer watches in the 12 gateways, with a powerful global Pentecost Sunday service from the City of Pentecost, with Heidi Baker, Boris Grisenko, Afeef Halasah and pastors Tom and Kate Hess. We believe Israel and the nations will never be the same! On June 7, 2022, 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 the Jerusalem Post with 100 global leaders standing with Jerusalem as the united capital of Israel. We worshipped overlooking the Lions Gate and Temple Mount, where the Israelis went through Lions Gate raising an Israeli flag and reunifying the city as the capital of Israel in 1967. For three days we convened the 22nd Annual Jewish and Arab Leadership Family Camp with 60 families, and over 300 delegates. We thank God we had the biggest breakthrough with the younger generation ever from all generations in the Body. We thank God for the beautiful unity in the Body and for refreshing all of us, spiritually and naturally. We are supporting 72 Laborers for the Harvest in Israel and the Isaiah 19 Highway nations. We need $200,000 before the end of July 2022 for this fund. We also need $200,000 for our Aliyah Fund by the end of July 2022 to help the Joshua Generation – 18-25 year olds – to pay for their flights to make Aliyah and absorption to Israel through the Kibbutz Ulpan Program for 5 months, and to support our 24/7 Aliyah House of Prayer in Brooklyn, New York. We also need $70,000 for July – December 2022, for the rents of all our houses of prayer. Your contribution for these needs would be most appreciated. Your sacrificial gift at this Kairos time towards the Good News, multiplication of disciples, Aliyah, and General needs are greatly needed and would be a tremendous blessing for Israel and the nations, due to not having convocation since October 2019.

We have hosted many powerful prayer zooms with leaders globally, and standing with Ukraine and Russia duringthisdifficulttime.WethankGodforourfour24/7 communities keeping day and night prayer in Jerusalem for 35 years, the Golan Heights in the north of Israel for 3.5 years, Eilat in the south of Israel over 8 years, and the Aliyah House of Prayer in Brooklyn, New York, USA with the largest Jewish population in the world, for over 2 years. We hope to warmly welcome you to Jerusalem, the City of the Great King, September 25 to October 9, 2022 for the All Nations Convocation Jerusalem & Watchmen's Tour of Israel. Register now to secure space in Ramat Rachel. Shalom in Messiah’s love and joy,

Tom & Kate Hess