Today was not just another day of ministry. It was a return to a place that once gave me shelter when I had none. A place that helped shape who I am. A place called the House of Grace.
As part of the CFI ministry team, we visited this unique home in Haifa that works with prisoners, homeless individuals, and youth on the brink of losing their way. But what makes this house truly special is its heart: for them, Muslims, Jews, and Christians are not divided they are all Israeli, all worthy, all deeply loved. And they live it, every day.
I know, because I lived there. When I was just a boy with no place to go, it was Kamil an Arab believer and his Swiss wife Agnes, who took me in. They became my family when I had none. They gave me a bed, a warm meal, and something even deeper: hope. That home saved my life.
Now, years later, I returned not just as a guest, but as a servant of the same mission to reach the forgotten, the broken, the ones no one else wants to help. We brought gifts sport shoes, blankets, and supplies but we came mostly with love. With prayer. With presence. With the same heart Jesus had when He walked among the outcasts.
Haifa has always been a city of coexistence. Arabs and Jews, living side by side. But the rockets falling now don’t care who you are. They don’t ask your religion before they hit. Today we visited a site where a rocket landed right next to a kindergarten. Thank God no children were hurt, but the destruction was heartbreaking. Families are displaced. Homes are unlivable. Children are scared.
We spoke to people. We listened. We prayed. And we asked the local authorities how we, as CFI, can help.
There is so much pain. But also so much potential for healing if we choose to love like Jesus did. I truly believe that places like the House of Grace are not just homes they’re beacons of what Israel can be. Not apartheid, not division, but a land where Arab and Jew, Muslim and Christian, can sit at the same table, pray the same prayers, and find the same peace in Christ.
Please pray for the staff: Jamal, Eli, Agnes, Tomas, Bernhard, and Safari. They carry so much on their shoulders. Pray for the families affected by the recent rocket attacks especially the children who can’t return home. And pray for the people of Haifa, that this war would not divide them, but deepen their unity.
Finally, pray for the heart of our nation. That through all this chaos and pain, we would turn back not to politics or revenge but to the true God. That we would find mercy, healing, and a new beginning.
We are one house. One heart. One mission.
Thank you for standing with us.
