Hanukkah Miracle
Earlier this month our son David was up in the Golan doing tank drills with his crew. The weather was very wet and foggy. The tank was attempting to climb a hill and the mud gave way and the tank rolled twice before it stopped from going over a cliff due to a bolder and some trees. David and his commander were not strapped in due to the fact they have to stand in the tank; they both tumbled and rolled with the tank. The driver and the gunner were belted in their seats. By God’s grace no one was hurt. Fortunately, it was very cold, so they all had lots of layers of clothing and combat helmets. David and his commander were taken to the hospital overnight as a precaution and were released the next morning. For the gunner and loader, it was their last day of active army service. The gunner is an orthodox who will finish his service in a yeshiva. His name is Alon and David has had a wonderful opportunity to give him the gospel. Alon is planning on visiting David here at our home, please pray for us as we continue to witness to him. It was a harrowing experience as others have died in similar circumstances but in the end, we are praising God for his hand of protection. 
 
Congregational update
The congregation continues to come together as a body. Our goal is to make the congregation a place where all feel welcome and true shepherding and discipling take place. We want to be much like they were in Acts – fellowshipping around the Word, prayer and singing. We have enjoyed celebrating the holidays of the Bible, Israel, and even American holidays like Thanksgiving. The body came together for a wonderful time of giving thanks over an American style turkey dinner with all of the fixings. 
One area I was especially glad to see is the body uniting to help others. One of our member’s school she works at is next to a synagogue and yeshiva that suffered fire and water damage from a fire. She suggested we pray about helping them. We got an offering together and we were able to deliver it to the synagogue. The only person who was able to speak with us was a young yeshiva student named Meir. We had a good but short conversation with him in Hebrew, and he said he would deliver the gift and the letter from our Messianic (meaning followers of Jesus) congregation. As God would ordain it, we ran into him later in the day and he said they were very happy to accept the gift. We were worried they wouldn’t take it from Christians, but God gave us favor. Please pray for Meir and others at the synagogue that they would see Messiah in us and seek to know more about our faith. 
 
2019 Year End Progressing into 2020
We are amazed at how fast 2019 went. We had many things happen that were unplanned by us but known by God, Proverbs 16:9 A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps -- this verse has become so real to us. Every day, week, and month we have plans but God, in His sovereignty, directs our steps. As we finish this year, we have lots of hope for 2020. We saw our congregation continue to grow. We saw many new faces come and others leave but, by God’s grace he continues to keep us here in ministry. We met many people from around the world who came to visit the guest house and the congregation. We saw Abigail finish her IDF service and David more than halfway through his. Our family and our soldiers remained safe and secure even though Israel has been repeatedly attacked throughout 2019. Our family grew as we saw the birth of two more granddaughters: Robert and Ashley’s second daughter Naomi and Casey and Anne’s second daughter Elise. Beth’s sister Dawn went through her second rounds of chemo and surgeries to see the cancer apparently removed. We had our share of trials and difficulties in 2019 but we can say beyond a shadow of doubt that we have been greatly blessed by God and His mercy. 
 
Some Goals for 2020 
1) Increase our faith. 2)Spend more time doing outreach and follow up with those who we have given Bibles to. 3)If God so wills, one major goal is to see organic growth through new believers coming to the congregation. 4) Pray & fast twice per week for the ministry – using prayer cards to remind us of all our supporters and those who we have done outreach to. 5)For the guesthouse to have more visitors from our supporters and to further develop a “vacation with a purpose” curriculum for supporters to be a part of in 2020.
 
Again, we would like to give a special thank you to each one of you who continued to support and pray for us and our ministry through 2019. For those who have had a chance to visit us it was very special to see you here in the Land and for those that couldn't we hope to see you in 2020. We are very grateful for you all. May you all have a blessed New Year in 2020!

Love and Blessings in the Messiah,

Scott, Beth, Abigail, David, Mark, Levi
לוי ,מארק ,דוד ,אביגיל ,ג'יין ,סקוט 

“You don’t know what faith you have until it is tested"
Rees Howells