How can we know when God will bring a "suddenly" upon us?  It seems that when you are not looking for it or expecting it, there it is. You know that it's His voice speaking inside you, because everything changes. You can't get away from it.  It won't go away and it pops up everywhere, (it seems). It's the Father speaking through others, through events, through His word and then very loudly through that still small voice inside.

It happened that way for me early in 2006. I was watching the Miracle Channel. The director of The Messianic Times was being interviewed. In the midst of speaking about the Times, he said one sentence that has compelled me ever since. That one, life-changing sentence was, "There are Messianic Pastors and Congregations that are being persecuted and oppressed in the Land of Israel". This statement was out of context with the other things he was talking about that day and after he said it, he went back to his main topic.

As the weeks and months rolled by after hearing that one sentence, I realized that this wasn't something that was going to go away. In fact, it grew on the inside. I began to investigate and found out that it was true. To what extent I didn't know but over the next months I learned of hardships that were rampant in the Messianic community in Israel. I had to do something. I just couldn't stand by and be a sympathetic observer. I formed a small group (3 couples) that became the board. We registered a non profit organization and applied for our tax exempt status. ISRAEL'S PEACE MINISTRIES, was birthed.