The Current Situation

ARDF is currently partnering with churches and Christian organizations in Israel and Palestine to provide relief aid. Here are some of our partners:

CMJ-Israel is providing aid for those in Israel displaced by the war. Their current efforts include:

• Distributing food, hygiene products, clothes, and children’s toys to displaced families.

• Providing housing and legal aid to access resources and services.

• Offering remote support to Christian families currently in Gaza.

• Offering ongoing spiritual support through music and church services, holding out the hope of Jesus.

Telos Group is providing aid to its network of partners in Israel and Palestine. Some efforts include:

• Distributing medical supplies to Al Ahli Anglican Hospital in Gaza.

• Providing aid to Palestinian families who have lost incomes.

• Supporting Palestinian students and families at Christian schools in the West Bank with relief needs.

• Stocking a food warehouse in Gaza and facilitating food aid.

• Supporting local organizations committed to long-term peace-building in the region.

The Bible Society is providing relief aid in support of the minority Palestinian Christian community in Gaza and in the West Bank. They are:

• Supporting Palestinian Christians in Gaza by meeting their needs as they shelter.

• Providing hot meals in Gaza and coordinating food aid when possible.

• Supporting Palestinian families who have lost incomes and Gazans in the West Bank to meet basic daily needs, including food and tuition assistance.

• Offering an online program to provide spiritual and psychological support to those in Gaza, the West Bank, and in Israel.

Local churches in Israel are meeting the needs of their congregations with shelter, food, and other relief aid, and are also reaching out to pray with and support other pastors and congregations across Israel and Palestine. Churches in Israel are:

• Supporting those whose family members are deployed in the military or still held hostage in Gaza.

• Providing groceries and other aid to families who have displaced from their homes in Israel for months now.

• Providing food aid to Arab Israeli families in Anglican churches in Israel.

• Providing spiritual emotional care for those dealing with trauma as well as the growing number of people suffering from depression and anxiety.

Please Pray

• For peace and restoration.

• For the local church and all who minister to those suffering.

• For aid corridors to open so that relief may be brought to those in Gaza.

• For strength, comfort, and support for those who have lost loved ones.

• For freedom for all the current hostages.

• For provision for those who have lost homes and material possessions.

• For spiritual and emotional healing to all facing pain, loss, and grief.
  

Eternal God, in whose perfect kingdom no sword is drawn but the sword of righteousness, no strength known but the strength of love: Strengthen and protect those suffering in Israel and Palestine, and so mightily spread abroad your Spirit, that all peoples may be gathered under the banner of the Prince of Peace; to whom be dominion and glory, now and for ever. Amen. - Adapted from the collect for the Peace of the World