March 2025 Newsletter.
Word from Rabbi Alex.
Shalom from Zambia.
With so many things going wrong all around the world, it is easy to lose one’s peace because of all the chaos out there in the world. But remember that you are in the sight and safe keeping of the Great God of Israel. We can all touch and feel after Him through our faith. In Him we find peace and assurance. He is a solid Rock for Israel and for all His children.
“The natural man must know in order to believe; the spiritual man must believe in order to know”. A. W. Tozer.
Have a wonderful day!
Zambia.
The New Israeli Embassy in Lusaka, Zambia.
The good news coming out of Zambia is that Israel is coming back again to open the Israeli Embassy in Lusaka, Zambia to serve Zambia and five other African countries in Southern Africa. The Israeli Embassy was closed about 53 years ago in 1973 after the Yom Kippor wars. Even though Zambia re-established diplomatic ties with Israel in about 1991, there was no Israeli embassy in Zambia.
I was privileged to go and pray at the site of the soon to open Israel embassy in Lusaka.
Continue to pray for the peace of Jerusalem and for the salvation of the chosen people.
Zambia Messianic Fellowship News.
The Torah dedication!
As a congregation we have been blessed with a Sefer Torah!! Our old Torah scroll is about 150 years old, it survived the holocaust and suffered some damage hence missing many parts.
After years of prayer and looking we found a perfect Sefer Torah which once served with an IDF unit and is now ours.
We thank the Lord for Rabbi Michael Schiffman for locating the Torah scroll for us.
We had a joyful parade led by the Zambia Police brass band as we welcomed our Torah scroll and marched through the streets of Lusaka to our Congregation.
Some from the local Jewish community joined us in welcoming our new Sefer Torah.
Also our Messianic Jewish community joined the rest of the Jewish community in lighting the menorah during Channukah last December. It was such a powerful show of joy and unity.
Paul Wilbur Ministries is coming to Zambia to drill wells among the Lemba Jews.
Congregations.
Our Purim celebration!!
School.
We lost some of our prized teachers to the government who offered better pay. But the Lord has been restoring us, we now have a new head of school and have been recruiting new teachers with a heart for orphans.
We hope to soon take back our position as the number 1 school in both academics and sports.
Some of our children have begun computer lessons, to most this is the first time they have ever seen a computer. They are making good progress and loving the lessons.
All the children from K1 to K12 and those in colleges are doing well.
Our funding for sponsoring the children has dramatically reduced, please pray for more funding and help recruit more sponsors.
We thank the Lord for those who have faithfully given to help feed and educate the orphans under our care.
We have over 300 children.
Yalenga family.
The Yalenga family is doing well thanks for your prayers and support. Our oldest Tamar will be graduating her pre-med degree in the USA in May this year and our second born Eliana will also be graduating her International Baccalaureate (IB) diploma this June in Zambia.
Other reports.
- We have received above normal rains in Zambia ending the drought that had hit the nation.
- There is going to be a good harvest for all the country of Zambia.
PRAYER POINTS- Please join us in prayer for the following:
- Good health of all the children and staff.
- Growth and wellbeing of all the congregations that make up ZMF.
- Protection, prosperity and salvation of the Zambian traditional Jewish community.
- Salvation of Zambia’s Muslim community and African tribal communities.
- Open doors for the gospel especially among African Kings and queens.
- Pray for sponsorship for our day school students, half of the 300 children are not sponsored.
- Pray for our Shalom Zambia radio outreach and that it will bear fruit among the 2.5 million listeners.
- Finances for ministry needs, including a sponsor for each child under our care, financial support for the Yalenga family and for the needs of the other congregations under the Zambia Messianic Fellowship covering.
NEEDS
- $80 a month will allow a child to stay at our orphanage giving them a safe place, warm bed, three meals a day and school. Children will be taken in only after a sponsor is found.
- $45/month will sponsor, feed and educate one orphan for the whole month at our school. We still have many children in need of sponsors.
- $90 will sponsor one radio outreach program to over 2.5 million people.
- $150 will help pay the monthly wage of one teacher at the orphanage day school.
- $6 will buy a bible for a new believer.
- Monthly support for the Yalenga family who are in full time ministry taking care of several congregations, a radio ministry, over 300 orphans, outreach programs, discipleship and raising new leaders.
- $100 to help build a playground for our orphanage.
Thank you for being a blessing.
Shalom, Shalom.
For more information contact
zmforphanage@gmail.com
To Donate
Donations are tax deductible in the USA and are received with thanksgiving. For tax-deductible contributions in the United States, write checks (please designate Zambia) to:
Roeh Israel
PO Box 6147
Abilene, TX 79608-6147
Those in the UK (and Europe) can now support the work here in Zambia in £ or euros (cheque, money order). Cheques should be made to B’Nai Maccabim (http://www.bnaimac.co.uk) with Zambia on the back.
If you have questions or are looking for possibilities of supporting the ministry, sponsoring an orphan or supporting the Yalenga family, please contact Maria Schmitt at zmforphanage@gmail.com or 719-487-9061.
When you donate to the Zambia Messianic Fellowship you can be sure that you are contributing to an organization that is witnessing to the lost, discipling believers, raising new leaders, taking care of orphans, planting congregations around Zambia, fighting anti-Semitism, teaching the church about their roots and responsibility to Israel and to the Jewish people, lobbying government for biblical values and helping the poor masses with viable economic activities.
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Shalom.
