Did you hear about the Isaiah 62 Fast, which took place in May? The goal was for 100 million Christians around the world to fast and pray for Israel for 21 days (May 7th-28th 2023). This was a collaboration of over 10 thousand ministries, and it was a huge success! At least 5 million Christians committed to engage in prayer for the salvation of Israel for at least one hour a day for 21 days (and probably millions more participated for part of the time without committing to the full time). 

Can you imagine? The power of over 5 million saints storming gates of Hell for an hour every single day for 3 weeks, united, supplicating at the feet of Jesus for the salvation of Israel! What kind of impact will that have? What ripple effects will that have on our global hospitality network for Israeli travelers? I expect it to be huge!

On May 11th YWAM had a “PRAY FOR ISRAELI BACKPACKERS” day. They encouraged everyone to “Host Israeli travelers in your home,” and then provided the link to our website! Because of this, we now have a host family in Uganda! Praise God for raising up hosts for our network in every corner of the globe!

On June 12th, we hosted our first Israeli guests – a Messianic (believers in Jesus) Jewish family with three kids. They stayed a couple days with our host family in Southern California. The hosts said “the family is wonderful and an absolute joy to host!” Praise God that it was a wonderful first experience for both the guests and the hosts!

In July, Chosen People Ministries had a Missionary Summer Retreat in Israel. Hundreds of our staff from all around the world attended; and while in Israel, many of them helped us spread the word about our hospitality network. We are gradually getting the word out about Planet Zula.

Please pray that many more Israelis would sign up to use our network, stay with our hosts, and hear the Good News of their Messiah Jesus. And pray that God would continue to raise up more and more hosts all around the world to receive the fruit of the Isaiah 62 Fast!

We appreciate your partnership with us through prayer! We really could not do this without you. How can we be praying for you?

Love,

BJ, Carissa, Ari and Aviya