“But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd.”
Matthew 9:36
When Yeshua looked at a multitude, He never saw a number. He saw faces. He saw stories. He saw lives unfolding before Him—people carrying pain, questions, disappointments, fears, and needs that perhaps no one else could see. Matthew tells us that when Yeshua saw the crowds, “He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd.” Others may have seen a mass of people. Yeshua saw each life within it.
Those words speak powerfully to what lies ahead for us this Fall. During Rosh Hashanah and Sukkot, we will bring hundreds of Israelis into the Galilee for a full day of relationship, biblical discovery, testimony, and the clear proclamation of the Gospel. We speak about hundreds because that is the scale of the outreach—but we never want “hundreds” to become simply a number. Every seat will hold a person. Every person will bring a story.
And God already knows every one.
Matthew tells us that Yeshua went throughout the cities and villages, teaching, proclaiming the Good News of the Kingdom, and ministering to the people. Then, looking at the multitude before Him, He said to His disciples,
“The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.”
Matthew 9:37–38
And notice what happens next. Yeshua sees. He is moved with compassion. He tells His disciples to pray—and then He sends them. In the very next chapter, they are going out to the people. Compassion did not remain an emotion. It became movement.
That same Galilee where Yeshua once walked among the people will become the setting for this outreach. Our guests will journey north together, share meals around tables, visit biblical places, and sail across the Sea of Galilee. Along the way there will be time for conversations, testimonies, questions, and opening the Scriptures together—helping Israelis discover the Jewish identity of our Messiah Yeshua in the very landscape where so much of His ministry took place. Then, at the heart of the day, everyone will gather for the clear proclamation of the Gospel. For many who will be sitting there, it will be the first time in their lives they have ever heard the Good News of Yeshua clearly explained and preached to them.
Yet even when the buses are full, and hundreds are gathered together, we want to remember how Yeshua looked at a multitude: He saw the person within the crowd. God will see the woman carrying a burden she has told no one about. He will see the man who has spent his life believing Yeshua has nothing to do with him or his Jewish identity. He will see the family that simply accepted an invitation, unaware of the conversations and moments that await them. We will not know every story when the journey begins. But God will.
That is how we see this outreach—not first as hundreds, but as one. One Israeli sitting in one seat. One life with questions, hopes, struggles, and a story known fully by God. One person hearing a testimony over a meal, opening the Scriptures during a conversation, standing beside the Sea of Galilee where Yeshua once ministered—and then sitting beneath the preaching of the Gospel.
One person given the opportunity to hear clearly who Yeshua is and what He has done.
We cannot know what God will do in that person’s heart. We cannot manufacture an encounter with Him, and we cannot open another person’s heart—that belongs to God. What we can do is make room. We can invite and welcome, sit beside them, open the Scriptures, share what Yeshua has done in our own lives, and proclaim the Gospel clearly. Then we trust God to do what only He can do.
Approximately $100 makes this complete day possible for one Israeli—transportation to and throughout the Galilee, meals, visits to biblical places, the Sea of Galilee boat trip, and the evangelistic gathering. But behind that $100 is something far more important than the cost of a day: it is one person given a place to come, to hear, and to encounter the Good News of Yeshua—perhaps clearly for the first time in their life.
You can help make room for that one person.
Whatever amount the Lord places on your heart, your partnership helps bring us closer to the day when the buses are filled, the tables are ready, the Scriptures are opened, and hundreds of individual lives are gathered in the Galilee to hear the Gospel.
Two thousand years ago, Yeshua looked upon the multitudes and saw them. He was moved with compassion, He called His disciples to pray, and then He sent them into the harvest. Today, that same compassion still calls us toward people. This Fall, we are ready to go.
Will you help us make room for one more?
