It’s one of the most heartbreaking moments of every clinic. It’s the moment when we have to tell the hundreds of people still waiting on the last day that we can see no more patients.
Anti-Semitic & Anti-Israel Attitudes Exploded in 2014
Anti-Semitic vandalism at a Jewish cemetery in France, January 2015. The swastika is a predominate symbol used to convey anti-Jewish sentiment. 2014 held a marked increase in similar vandalism along with violence against Jews.
It doesn’t seem that long ago that we stood at the edge of a new year and looked ahead to what the year 2014 would bring. And here we are, already in February and looking at 2015 stretched out before us. The marking of a new year is a wonderful time to look back and review the previous year.
"There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars…. And when these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near." - Luke 21:25,28 Mark Biltz The blood moons: what are they and what do they mean.
BDS against Israel & Anti-Semitism Go Hand in Hand
The BDS Movement (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) against Israel recently garnered another supporter. The University of California Student Association, representing all 10 of the UC campuses, approved a resolution to divest in a number of countries they charge with human rights violations.
Thank you for your prayers and support as we served in rural southern Ethiopia last week on the 2015 Woliso medical mission. While the preparation for this outreach presented new and unprecedented challenges for JVMI, the results were excellent.
“We should put you all on freight wagons.” This hateful statement makes reference to the Nazi practice of filling train cars with Jewish civilians and transporting them to death camps. It was uttered by a high school math teacher in Brussels, Belgium — to a 16-year-old Jewish girl.
Woliso Medical Mission – Follow a Family through the Clinic
Meet Derartu. Derartu (29) walked for over an hour to get to our Woliso medical mission in Ethiopia. She came with four of her six children, Daniel (9), Diribu (6), Megersa (5), and Ezekiel (2 months).
Today ends the week-long medical mission clinic. Communication has been spotty in Woliso, sometimes available and sometimes not. The clinic served nearly 4,000 patients mid-way through the medical mission.
Ethiopia lies just north of the equator in eastern Africa. In the dry season, the landscape is dusty with red earth. In the rainy season, water flows so freely that many buildings and facilities have drainage ditches along walkways.
