Spring 2009: Ministry of Helps
JCF is delighted to report the successful intervention on behalf of each one of the lives mentioned below through the assistance of donors in the US and around the world. Thank you all for stepping up when the need was urgent and giving hope to each life by your donations and prayers.
Here is a letter from an Israeli social worker in Tsfat (northern Galilee) recognizing the donation given on behalf of Ayalet.
Below are the urgent needs that JCF contributors helped to meet through their generous donations in the Spring of 2009.
An 18 year old Israeli Jewish Believer, Olivet, has spent the last year doing her national service here in Israel. She has been ill for a while but the doctor's couldn't explain it until very recently. She has cervical cancer. She has been sent home to her family but there is no way that she can get the treatments she needs to treat the cancer. Her family is very poor and the injections she needs over the next 3 months will cost 1440 shekels, about $350. She has no savings since she has been working for the government this last year. The medicine is not included in the health services that Israel's National Health Care provides. Her mother has been going door to door trying to get help to pay for the injections. Just last week she missed her first injection because the family had not yet been able to raise the 480 shekels needed. Without this treatment this young 18 year old girl faces moving to stage 2 cancer. This is an extremely urgent need.
Praise Report: Half the cost of Olivet's medication was met by Cornerstone and Half by the Narkis Street Congregation.
Last week JCF received a call from a former South Lebanese Army soldier, Ra'ed. He is a refugee in Israel from Hezbollah and has been here since Israel pulled out of Southern Lebanon in 2000. He served 15 years in the South Lebanese Army and fled to Israel alone, without his wife and 2 children. In 2006 during the 2nd Lebanon War , his wife Norma fled to Israel with their 2 children and they were re-united. He had been working in a factory lifting heavy boxes and 6 months ago had to quit because he has severely damaged his back. He has 3 slipped discs and is waiting to get approval for an operation. He has been receiving disability pay from the State but the minimal amount of $450 per month is not enough to cover his families needs for shelter food and clothing. His wife cleans houses to help make money for rent and food. They urgently need financial assistance to fill the pantry and to relieve the financial burden on this refugee family.
Praise Report: Ra'ed and family received a gift to cover all their immediate expenses and rent for a couple of months via a gift that came in from a church in Canada.
Another SLA family: Yosef (age 40),Silvana Wanna and their 3 children had the entire contents of their rented apartment destroyed by a fire on Christmas eve 24th Dec, 2008. Silvana woke up when she heard her son coughing and thought he was having an asthma attack, but discovered the entire apartment filled with smoke and flames. She woke her husband and they only had enough time to wake up the children and jump out the window. They lost all their personal belongings together with furniture, clothes, toys and electrical appliances. The Lebanese refugee community in the North has banded together to help from the little that they have. Yosef and Silvana now have their apartment painted and are back living in it again. Home Center (like a Home Depot) donated 2,000 shekels of household appliances to help this family but with all this they still have many needs. They are in a great financial crisis because before the fire most of their income went to rent and food. They were barely making do before the fire and now they have to find money to replace the furniture, blankets, cloths, and everything else. The landlord has refused to help them replace any of the lost furniture. Their need is critical at this very moment.
Praise Report: A generous gift was given to them by Jerusalem Cornerstone Foundation.
Ayalet, aged 40 is married and has four children. She and her family are living on a Kibbutz. Ayalet is waiting for a kidney transplant and up to now the doctors have not found a perfect match with any kidneys that were donated. She is now nearing the critical stage that if she does not have the transplant soon the Israeli National Health Care Service will tell her that she will have to seek medical care in another country, perhaps Romania. Without the transplant she will not live more than a year. The National Health Service told Ayalet and her family to start to raise the funds they will need to pay for her plane tickets and expenses for hospitalization overseas. The family do not have the means even with the help of the Kibbutz members to pay for all the expenses. They turned to the social services in Tzfat for help and a social worker has called JCF to ask if we can help this Jewish family.
Praise Report: JCF was able to send a gfit that covered Ayalet's flight and many other necessary needs.
JCF is delighted to report the successful intervention on behalf of each one of the lives mentioned below through the assistance of donors in the US and around the world. Thank you all for stepping up when the need was urgent and giving hope to each life by your donations and prayers.
Here is a letter from an Israeli social worker in Tsfat (northern Galilee) recognizing the donation given on behalf of Ayalet.
I would like to thank you and Jerusalem Cornerstone Foundation for the generous donation given to Ayelet Shemesh, mother of 4 from Kibbutz Merom Golan.
As you already know, Ayelet urgently needs a kidney transplant, an expensive medical procedure she could not afford. Your generous gift will help save her life.
I would like to thank Jerusalem Cornerstone Foundation for answering our plea for help, and I would like to thank you for always being there to help as you are able and for your professionalism and sensitivity.
How wonderful it is to meet good people like you along the path of life.
Respectfully and with much appreciation,
Ruti Gvurin
Tsfat Social Worker
Below are the urgent needs that JCF contributors helped to meet through their generous donations in the Spring of 2009.
An 18 year old Israeli Jewish Believer, Olivet, has spent the last year doing her national service here in Israel. She has been ill for a while but the doctor's couldn't explain it until very recently. She has cervical cancer. She has been sent home to her family but there is no way that she can get the treatments she needs to treat the cancer. Her family is very poor and the injections she needs over the next 3 months will cost 1440 shekels, about $350. She has no savings since she has been working for the government this last year. The medicine is not included in the health services that Israel's National Health Care provides. Her mother has been going door to door trying to get help to pay for the injections. Just last week she missed her first injection because the family had not yet been able to raise the 480 shekels needed. Without this treatment this young 18 year old girl faces moving to stage 2 cancer. This is an extremely urgent need.
Praise Report: Half the cost of Olivet's medication was met by Cornerstone and Half by the Narkis Street Congregation.
Last week JCF received a call from a former South Lebanese Army soldier, Ra'ed. He is a refugee in Israel from Hezbollah and has been here since Israel pulled out of Southern Lebanon in 2000. He served 15 years in the South Lebanese Army and fled to Israel alone, without his wife and 2 children. In 2006 during the 2nd Lebanon War , his wife Norma fled to Israel with their 2 children and they were re-united. He had been working in a factory lifting heavy boxes and 6 months ago had to quit because he has severely damaged his back. He has 3 slipped discs and is waiting to get approval for an operation. He has been receiving disability pay from the State but the minimal amount of $450 per month is not enough to cover his families needs for shelter food and clothing. His wife cleans houses to help make money for rent and food. They urgently need financial assistance to fill the pantry and to relieve the financial burden on this refugee family.
Praise Report: Ra'ed and family received a gift to cover all their immediate expenses and rent for a couple of months via a gift that came in from a church in Canada.
Another SLA family: Yosef (age 40),Silvana Wanna and their 3 children had the entire contents of their rented apartment destroyed by a fire on Christmas eve 24th Dec, 2008. Silvana woke up when she heard her son coughing and thought he was having an asthma attack, but discovered the entire apartment filled with smoke and flames. She woke her husband and they only had enough time to wake up the children and jump out the window. They lost all their personal belongings together with furniture, clothes, toys and electrical appliances. The Lebanese refugee community in the North has banded together to help from the little that they have. Yosef and Silvana now have their apartment painted and are back living in it again. Home Center (like a Home Depot) donated 2,000 shekels of household appliances to help this family but with all this they still have many needs. They are in a great financial crisis because before the fire most of their income went to rent and food. They were barely making do before the fire and now they have to find money to replace the furniture, blankets, cloths, and everything else. The landlord has refused to help them replace any of the lost furniture. Their need is critical at this very moment.
Praise Report: A generous gift was given to them by Jerusalem Cornerstone Foundation.
Ayalet, aged 40 is married and has four children. She and her family are living on a Kibbutz. Ayalet is waiting for a kidney transplant and up to now the doctors have not found a perfect match with any kidneys that were donated. She is now nearing the critical stage that if she does not have the transplant soon the Israeli National Health Care Service will tell her that she will have to seek medical care in another country, perhaps Romania. Without the transplant she will not live more than a year. The National Health Service told Ayalet and her family to start to raise the funds they will need to pay for her plane tickets and expenses for hospitalization overseas. The family do not have the means even with the help of the Kibbutz members to pay for all the expenses. They turned to the social services in Tzfat for help and a social worker has called JCF to ask if we can help this Jewish family.
Praise Report: JCF was able to send a gfit that covered Ayalet's flight and many other necessary needs.