Month: August 2009

How is it to live in Rocket City?

Psalm 86:15

“But You, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious, Longsuffering and abundant in mercy and truth.” Although G-D is all this and more, it does not give me license; it does not allow you to do what ever we want as we take His kindness towards us.
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It doesn’t look like much… YET

In this weeks news letter I Inadvertently referred to the Almond Branch Initiative as the Olive Branch Initiative. It is indeed the Almond Branch Initiative. Sorry for the mistake. This week we had the joy to meet once again with the founder and director of the Almond Branch Initiative. They.
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Whos on Whos Side?

You’ve seen it before… the two football teams ready for the big game, they both pray to G-D for victory and one of the two praying teams looses… what happened they both prayed? I thought G-D was on our side, why did we loose? It’s not whether G-D is on.
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Brooke

I know we are Hope For Sderot and our stories should relate to the things we do and what is happening in Sderot, but I want to share a story that came my way. It is a story of a little girl who lives in Philidelphia Pennsylvania. This is the.
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This Weeks News

As I read the news this past week I am always surprised at what I read. I think the picture that goes with the news is apropos. On one hand you have Hamas that says there will be no peace talks until Israel ends it occupation to include Jerusalem. Fatah.
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Our Youngest Volunteers

Hope for Sderot has had a wonderful bunch of volunteers from the very beginning. Whenever we needed help to pack food, distribute food or unload trucks they have always been there. So when we got the phone call Sunday afternoon that our shipment of food would be delivered in two.
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Numbers 15:38-40

"Speak to the children of Israel: Tell them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a blue thread in the tassels of the corners. And you shall have the tassel, that you may look upon it and remember all the commandments of.
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What Hamas Wants

By Clifford D. May It’s not peace, reconciliation, or even an end to the carnage. A thought experiment: Imagine that Hamas announces it will immediately cease and desist from firing missiles into Israel, that there will be no more such attacks in the future, and that it will release Gilad.
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Soup Anyone?

Due in part to the Bernard Madoff scandal, the Soup Kitchen here in Sderot has closed it doors to some fifty people a day. For some it was the only hot nutritious meal they received. Please pray with us as we seek the heart of our Heavenly Father and our.
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What a Kassam does to a Family, a life

Mrs. O, her husband and five children live on a third floor of their apartment building. The top floor does not have a safety roof to prevent kassams from coming right into their bedroom or living room. In 2006, the home they were in was hit twice by kassams. Praise.
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