Building Life-Changing Community for Holocaust Survivors
"The table is a very ordinary place. So routine and everyday it is easily overlooked as a place of life changing community. By setting a table and sharing a meal, we provide the context for which people feel loved, where people feel heard; a place where God's spirit can move."
We saw this statement recently on Facebook, posted by Bridgetown, a Church in Oregon, USA. Gathering around a table and sharing a meal together is the heartbeat of one of our partners in Israel: Helping Hand Coalition (HHC). They are building life-changing community for hundreds of Holocaust Survivors living in Israel. HHC regular brings groups of these elderly survivors together where volunteers put huge amounts of love into preparing a lovely meal and making the table look beautiful and welcoming. These gatherings are called 'Shalom Houses' and the Holocaust Survivors who have lived through such awful experiences at the hands of human hatred are now overwhelmed by the love and acceptance…
We saw this statement recently on Facebook, posted by Bridgetown, a Church in Oregon, USA. Gathering around a table and sharing a meal together is the heartbeat of one of our partners in Israel: Helping Hand Coalition (HHC). They are building life-changing community for hundreds of Holocaust Survivors living in Israel. HHC regular brings groups of these elderly survivors together where volunteers put huge amounts of love into preparing a lovely meal and making the table look beautiful and welcoming. These gatherings are called 'Shalom Houses' and the Holocaust Survivors who have lived through such awful experiences at the hands of human hatred are now overwhelmed by the love and acceptance…
