Olga recently immigrated to Israel with her husband and three young children. Their move to Israel took place very fast, but it also proved very difficult for them, with many obstacles to overcome. We met them at one of our recent events, and had invited them to attend our Alpha Discipleship Course which was about to kick off.
We also invited them to visit a local home group in their area, to which they gladly agreed. They had such a wonderful time at the home group and grew in their knowledge of Yeshua, and shortly afterwards Olga also started helping as a volunteer at our congregation.
During one of the home group meetings, Olga shared that it had always seemed to her that God was with her, but she didn’t know anything about Him and that she had never read the Bible before. Olga testified that ever since she had started attending the home group and congregational meetings, that she experienced God’s love in her heart, and that it was so overwhelming and life changing, that she couldn’t quite express it in words.
After her very first Shabbat meeting at Beit Hallel, she told herself that it would mark a turning point in her life and that she would become an active member of the Beit Hallel community by getting involved with the projects and by doing everything in her power to learn more about Yeshua. She said that the greatest thing in her life was the moment she gave her life to Jesus and was born again!
Beit Hallel is a Messianic Jewish congregation in Ashdod, led by pastor Israel Pochtar, serving holocaust survivors and the poor and needy locally and throughout the nation of Israel, while building up the body of Messiah in the promised land of Israel.