Loving back to Life
'AHAVA' - love |
Your People My People partners with a Jerusalem based
ministry that supports and encourages victims of terror and their
families. Ahuva*, who leads and runs
this organisation, has invested many years reaching out to those who are
working through this kind of trauma. Having
family members who have experienced terror attacks first hand, currently she
has developed a focus on women, particularly mothers who have greatly needed
the kind of love and support being offered.
“Our summer has been a full calendar”, shares Ahuva. “And we are taking a group of around 12
ladies away for some time out, to love on them and treat them kindly in ways they
are not usually used to. We show them
the ongoing kindness and love of our Father, a King who is passionate to lavish
the goodness of His Face upon them.”

Ahuva continues, “There are those, of course, whose hearts are so shut down, that without intention they pour out negativity and thus have a tendency to poison the entire group!! Each time when we have taken a group away, we have been privileged to see huge steps forward, or that almost silent but key, moment of breakthrough, where a significant piece of information was unwittingly released which then takes both relationship and the ability to heal into a different place, literally pushing the fast forward button. We expect shouts of joy and victory to come up from this camp.”
Ahuva also had a family evening planned in the city with a special singer who has worked with them before. It was an evening of chilling out in the middle of a hot summer for those who have no holiday on any horizon, no time away, no respite. “Our desire is to bring the families together, to sing Israeli folk songs known and loved by all, through the generations. This was also an opportunity for us as a team, a time to gently press in to relationships with those who still stand on the outside and are reluctant to come closer.”

“It is a huge step for these women to both acknowledge their need and to be prepared to access these hidden places. David writes in Psalm 51 “Behold You desire truth in the inward parts and in the hidden part You will make me to know wisdom. Create in me a new heart oh God and renew a right spirit within me. Do not cast me away from Your Face and do not take your Holy Spirit from me.”
Please remember to pray for Ahuva and this ministry as they work to bring these women out of darkness and death into God’s light and love!
*Name changed