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One Year On
It
is hard to believe that it has been a year since we came back to Israel
but we can confidently say that the Lord has been very good to us! So
much has happened in our lives and in the ministry, yet through it all
we have known the presence of the Lord with us.
The Children’s Bible Story book has been a
“best-seller”. In addition to the complimentary copy sent to each of
the congregations, some 400 copies have already been sold and we have
received some encouraging feedback. We are currently working on three
commentaries from the Let’s Study series published by the
Banner of Truth Trust.
The translation of Sinclair
B. Ferguson’s book on Philippians has been completed and
we are now at the editing stage. We have also started translating
Ferguson’s book on The Gospel of Mark and a commentary on II
Peter and Jude, by CWI’s Vice-Chairman Mark Johnston, is next on
our list.
We are constantly
re-assessing our long-term goals. One of these is to train the next
generation of translators, editors, writers and graphic artists. To
that end we are currently working with three young people. One is
writing a short children's story that might develop into a series of
stories. The other two are graphic artists in their early twenties who
are helping us with our book catalogue and covers for our books. We are
excited by their involvement in the work and hope that our new
catalogue will be available soon in both Hebrew and English. Also, we have been asked to reproduce
one of our evangelistic booklets, dealing with the subject of
repentance. Having designed a new cover for this and updated the
language, we plan to produce about 5,000 copies.
During my
recent trip to the USA, we received the rights
for distributing and selling certain publications in Russian and this will help us better serve the
very large Russian community. Whilst travelling, I had the opportunity
to do some work on a one year Bible-reading programme in Hebrew and we
hope to post this on our new website www.ha-gefen.org.il that will be
online soon. On the site, we also plan to make available in digital
format various books and articles that we have previously published.
As a family, we have
many opportunities for personal witness to various people including my
physiotherapist and the estate agent who helped us to find the house we
moved into during July. This is the sixth house we have lived in during
the past four years but hopefully we will be here for a while! During the summer Eti
has been teaching at a summer camp in Jerusalem and prior to that our
children finished their school year with flying colours. One of them
was even chosen from all the fourth graders to write an article in the
school's yearbook. She wrote about the experiences and challenges we
faced in coming from the USA to Israel. At the end of the article, she
wrote, “but this is my country and this is my home!”
We can certainly agree with her wholeheartedly.
David
Zadok
David Zadok is CWI's Field Leader in Israel and heads up the work of HaGefen Publishing.
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