Answer God’s Call to Comfort His People

Dear Friend,

Have you ever met a Holocaust survivor? 

Many people haven’t…but I’ve met not one or ten or a hundred or even a thousand. I’ve met tens of thousands of them because thanks to partners like you, we’ve been helping them for over a decade.

We operate a Community Center for Holocaust survivors in Jerusalem in a massive underground bomb shelter…the largest in the city. 

Every day Holocaust survivors come to eat and sing and visit their friends. Every day these precious people are seeing true Christian love in action, which is something many of them have never seen before.

We also have a major outreach to Holocaust survivors in Haifa. The city was called the Port of Tears. 

After the Second World War, ships loaded with survivors tried to land there only to be turned away by the British and sent back to Germany. After Israel was miraculously reborn in 1948, hundreds of thousands of Holocaust survivors entered the country there, and many of them still live in Haifa.

For more than a decade, we’ve been working there. We provide food and clothing. We’ve renovated apartments for them. We’ve done everything possible to help.

These Holocaust survivors endured unspeakable hell when they were very young. 

Now, the painful memories of the past have been brought back to the surface by the constant attacks from Iran. 

On the last day of the war, just hours before the ceasefire, a ballistic missile from Iran rocked the building where these survivors live and meet. 

From the bomb shelter they called and told us they thought they had been hit, but when they were able to get out, they saw that the building had been spared. 

Thankfully, no one was injured physically, but the emotional and mental impact is huge.

I’m thinking today about three precious elderly ladies I met there in Haifa. All three of them were at Auschwitz as children. They survived the war, but they were separated and didn’t see each other or have any contact for decades. Each of their husbands died, and each of them decided to move to Israel.

They came to the outreach for Holocaust survivors and were placed in the same room! Imagine the joy after so many years. They slept on the beds we provided. They sat on the chairs we provided. They ate the food that we provided. They wore clothing we provided and took medicine we provided. 

You touched their lives in a remarkable way.

I’m hearing this Scripture in my spirit right now. “Do not cast me away when I am old. Do not forsake me when my strength is gone” (Psalm 71:9.)

I feel so strongly that is a word from the Lord for you and for me right now. These precious, suffering Holocaust survivors urgently need our help.

This is intensely personal to me. Many of my relatives died in the Holocaust, and I was named after my great grandfather, Rabbi Michael Katz-Nelson, who was burned to death in a synagogue with 2,000 other Jews.

When I was four years old, I was watching cartoons. When the cartoons went off, Billy Graham came on. My mother ran into the room and shut off the television and said, “Never watch this again. Christians hate Jews. Christians kill Jews. Billy Graham, the pope, and Adolf Hitler were all Christians.”

Of course, you and I know that no real Christian could ever do that, but I can tell you this: many professing Christians did just that. 

I thank God that you’re not just a professing Christian. You’re a real Christian, filled with the love and compassion of the Lord.

And there is more. We are receiving urgent appeals for help for widows and orphans. There are more now than at any time since Israel was miraculously reborn in 1948. 

Almost 900 IDF soldiers have been killed since the October 7 attacks. James tells us what God thinks: “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress” (James 1:27).

We must reach out to these lambs — both old and young — and show them true Christian love in action.

So today I am sharing with you these urgent appeals from Israel asking for our help. 

For the sake of precious hurting Holocaust survivors, I’m asking you to give the most generous gift you can today. 

This will be a holy offering indeed in the eyes of the Lord. 

Thank you in advance for being the answer to the prayers of the Holocaust survivors, and God bless you for blessing His Chosen People in this vital way.

Your ambassador to Jerusalem,

Dr. Mike Evans

P.S. The immediate war with Iran may have paused for the moment, but no one knows how long that will last. And even with missiles no longer falling, the war in Gaza and the threats from Hezbollah and the Houthis remain. The Jewish people, especially the elderly Holocaust survivors, urgently need our help right now. So please stand with them by sending your holy offering today.