Three Incredible Years in Ashkelon

This month, we complete three super busy years in our Home for Moms in the southern coastal city of Ashkelon. We rented the lovely apartment when pregnant mother Hannah found herself in a very tough situation. She had been fired from her job when her boss discovered that she was pregnant. Hannah had no supportive family and had grown up in boarding schools. At thirty years old, her boyfriend had thrown her out. She had no income and nowhere to go. We chose to show her God’s love. Hannah, like so many of our moms, was rejected by the world but loved by God. Soon after, Miki joined. She had grown up in a religious home, her mother passed away, her father rejected her when he discovered her pregnancy, and she was dejected and depressed. As time went on, more and more women found protection in our Home, including a pregnant drug addict, new immigrants, and several young women who needed a temporary place to stay until they could rent their own apartment. Homeless, eighteen years old, and pregnant, Rahab (whom I shared about in former newsletters) was brought to our door by the welfare department. She stayed for a year to receive nurturing, training, and tender care from our loving house mother Yael. An immigrant fleeing from the war in the Ukraine who had been addicted to drugs and had no family in Israel moved to the apartment. She is now in rehab and hoping to regain custody of her baby who has been placed in foster care. Amalia, a Muslim woman whose life was threatened by honor killing when her siblings discovered her pregnant and unwed, is living in the Home with her four-year-old autistic daughter, her eight-year-old son, and her nineteen-year-old pregnant daughter. Soon they will be moving out to their own apartment. In August, we will renew the rent contract for this special Home of refuge and safety for our fourth time, looking forward with expectation to all the wonderful things that God will accomplish through His love.