HELPING BUILD TSIYON!  GIVING INTO YAD HASHMONA   We have been able to send another $5,000 to Yad HaShmona!   PRAISE YHWH!    Our goal was $25,000, and we were able to bring $12,000 to Yisrael, then an additional $5,000 was sent, and now $5,000 more for a total thus far of $22,000!   That means we only need $3,000 more to reach our goal…      For giving into this opportunity to sow into the land and hearts of Yisrael’s children!   Here are some recent email excerpts from Ayelet, Executive Director of Yad HaShmona, and a picture of the playground equipment they have ordered.    Dear Constance…   I am sending you pictures of the playground equipment we ordered for the kids, it is very nice and they are very happy.  The picture you see has some changes in it of the last moment but it is almost the same.  It will take time to receive… your gift will go directly to that!   We will still need to complete after putting the structure in the ground, the soft bedding around it and benches.   Thank you to all so very much for the amazingly generous gift.    I can’t tell you enough HOW MUCH we appreciate it and what a joy it will create here among the little kids that are waiting to see it stand.     Here is a picture of the final proposal of the company and with it comes a double swing and a see saw (...I think that’s the name of it...)   Many blessings,   Ayelet      Isn’t this beautiful and colorful?  Here are pictures and reminders of the little ones who will be the ‘hosts and hostesses’ of the Yad HaShmona sportcourt/playground.  We were with these children and they are as precious as they appear:          These two were taken this Pesach under ‘Abraham’s Tent’… Ayelet is playing the guitar   This sportcourt/playground in Yad HaShmona the only Messianic kibbutz in Yisrael is becoming a reality thanks to your generous gifts.    Let us reach that goal as together… as one… echad… we help His people have a place for children and young ones to gather and share and witness one to another, amein?  This is so exciting!      Help us reach the goal…   Send your perfect seed, YOUR GIFT of any size to:   CONSTANCE FISCHER ONE STICK MINISTRIES 318 SPRING HOLLOW NEW BRAUNFELS, TEXAS 78132   And note ‘YAD-HASHMONA’ on the memo line on the bottom of your check   OR     You can GIVE by credit card by going to:   www.onestickministries.com   and on the left hand side at the bottom click on ‘DONATE’ and note for Yad Hashmona   Here are excerpts and pictures from our last update and note from Ayelet:  I am sending the pictures of the big progress of the children's field.  Yes, there is a progress.  The area of the field received more filling that had to be condensed in the ground, the tribunes are being built these days and hopefuly in 2 weeks the first layer of the cement floor.  It does not look very impressive but I will try to take pictures in the next few days with the kids.  They are visiting there every day.   (Constance:  It actually looks very impressive!  This is a big piece of property and it takes time in Israel.  These precious brothers are doing a great job!  Let us get the rest of the needed funds to them, amein?  Here is the picture of the field we saw while we were there… then look at the pictures of the progress…what a big difference, yes?)    Original field we saw at Pesach this year                         (From Ayelet):  I am sorry progress takes so long here, but the sports area is being used daily and the kids just love it!     They go there every day, play, even dance there when we do Israeli folk dances... it is a great blessing.   I want you to know that my husband Daniel is building it as the contractor, all as a volunteer work.  He is not paid for it and spends many, many hours there with the workers, to save Yad-Hashmona funds.     (Constance:  Great job Daniel and all the volunteers from Yad HaShmona!)   Much love in our Lord Yeshua, who has ALL the answers when I feel like I have none... Ayelet    (Constance:  Here is a picture of me with Anja, Hilka, and Limor, the original Finnish women who founded Yad Hashmona, when Golda Meier was Prime Minister.  We are standing on the space where the new sportcourt/playground is now emerging!):      There is no better ground to sow into during this time of the ‘restoration of all things’ than into Yisrael.    As you may recall, we were introduced to Yad Hashmona on our Pesach 2008 ‘Abba’s business’ assignment, because our guide, Yonatan Bar David was a member of this Messianic community.   Want to include this picture of Yonatan and his brother raising the flag of Israel at Yad Hashmona…   What a picture of united brothers contending for His land, His people… His return!        And will again include this amazing video news report about Yad Hashmona that appeared on Israeli television!   This is the link to the site with the TV show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sEBAldf4L0   Note from Ayelet concerning this video: There is an amazing story behind it, how the journalist came to us to do the article, but it ended up being the MOST positive thing EVER done on believers in Israel and definitely the biggest thing.  There were over 300,000 people who watched it the night it was on TV because channel 2 is the biggest TV channel in Israel.   We could not believe the impact.  We received so many phone calls from everywhere... people called me to ask questions, to ask about our faith, even to argue... it opened doors like we NEVER imagined.  (Praise Him!)   For me it was the exact reason why we are in Yad-Hashmona as a Messianic place.  So that people can freely come and they have an ADDRESS of believers to turn to without feeling threatened by non-Jews trying to "change" them into another religion... it was a miracle!  So short and yet did a major impact.  Thank you again and many blessings on your work and ministry, it was a great joy to read and see,   I will pray for you, Ayelet   (END QUOTE)   And now He has given us an opportunity to help build a sportcourt/playground where children can come together with those who know and love Him.   He has shown that Yad-Hashmona represents our Mashiach and therefore, we want that place to shine!     We want to sow the perfect seed into the perfect soil.      What an opportunity to give into:   ERETZ YISRAEL (the land of Yisrael) YEHUDAH (the Jewish people) BELIEVERS IN YESHUA   A threefold cord that can’t be beat!      Send your perfect seed, YOUR GIFT of any size to:   CONSTANCE FISCHER ONE STICK MINISTRIES 318 SPRING HOLLOW NEW BRAUNFELS, TEXAS 78132     And note ‘YAD-HASHMONA’ on the memo line on the bottom of your check   OR     You can GIVE by credit card by going to:   www.onestickministries.com   and on the left hand side at the bottom click on        “And it shall be in that day that יהוה sets His hand again a second time to recover the remnant of His people who are left, from Ashshur and from Mitsrayim, from Pathros and from Kush, from Ěylam and from Shinʽar, from Ḥamath and from the islands of the sea.   And He shall raise a banner for the nations, and gather the outcasts of Yisra’ĕl, and assemble the dispersed of Yehuḏah from the four corners of the earth.   And the envy of Ephrayim shall turn aside, and the adversaries of Yehuḏah be cut off.  Ephrayim shall not envy Yehuḏah, and Yehuḏah not trouble Ephrayim.”   Yeshayahu/Isaiah 11:11-13   In His perfect shalom by Him Who is the Perfect Seed, Constance      “…And they shall be ONE in My Hand.”   Yehezqel/Ezekiel 37:19 http://www.onestickministries.com/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sEBAldf4L0http://www.onestickministries.com/shapeimage_3_link_0shapeimage_3_link_1shapeimage_3_link_2