My dear friends, Emotionally, I knew the return would be difficult. I was expecting this season to be a time of healing from multiple past friendships/relationships, and that certainly has happened. There's been a lot of redemption and restoration that's happened - places that once brought me bad memories I can and have now filled …
The Zealous Israel Project participants We have come to Mount Zion, city of the living God. Heavenly Jerusalem, by His blood we have come. "Mt. Zion," Jonathan David + Melissa Helser It's been six months since my last blog. Honestly, I've been trying to figure out how exactly to put into words my experience living …
Dear friends, If you haven't heard already.... I'm moving to Israel. For a year. Crazy, huh? It's all very surreal to me, too. I'll be moving at the end of July as a part of the Zealous Israel Project with Bridges for Peace, an 11-month servant-based discipleship program. I'll be living and working in Jerusalem …
Waiting sucks. I'll just say it outright. Unfortunately, we all wait for something - many things, typically - during our lifetime. Christians, it seems, tend to wait more than the average person. What is God telling me? When do I act on what He is telling me? How do I act? And what if I …
Hospitality Defined As Dr. Peter Lim notes, "hospitality is the practice of attending to others (strangers and friends) through invitation, presence, embrace, conversation, and encounter...inviting others into community in such a way that they are no longer other, but family–an interdependent part of the community. Hospitality cannot be understood apart from being a receiver." I love …
RAE HELMER 