This summer, Fellowship staff – as well as our President and Global CEO, Yael Eckstein, and U.S. Board Chair Bishop Paul Lanier – visited Fellowship-funded soup kitchens in Ashdod, Beit She‘an, Tiberias, Ashkelon, and Jerusalem. During this time, they visited six elderly beneficiaries in The Fellowship’s With Dignity and Fellowship program, who were provided with food boxes packed with essential aid and necessities.
However, it wasn’t just these six. The Fellowship is proud to have distributed 150 food boxes at Meir Panim Tiberias Soup Kitchen. Elderly Israelis were also able to fill bags with fresh produce and other quality food they would not have been able to afford otherwise.
Fellowship staff arrived at the soup kitchen at 8 a.m. on July 28. Already, groups of Israeli seniors had arrived early before the doors even opened. “The hardship in the city is increasing, and more needy people are coming to the soup kitchen. The Swords of Iron War … and the difficult economic situation primarily affected the weakest populations. That is why the distribution organized by The Fellowship is so significant for many elderly in the city who are unable to purchase basic food,” said Meir Panim Tiberias Soup Kitchen manager Yehudit.
“The Fellowship is here –on the ground, shoulder-to-shoulder with the people of Israel,” said Yael, “As I walk through this soup kitchen and I see the faces and I hear the stories, I hear God saying, ‘I am with you in your despair.’ We are here as so many people are despairing from being evacuated from their homes to missile attacks daily. They come in with the face of despair, and The Fellowship is here to say, ‘we are with you there as well.’”
“He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; He set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand.” (Psalm 40:2).
