Our journey to the Holy Land 
...began in 1995.  After hearing the alarming news of a suicide bombing on the radio, Hank traveled to Israel and talked to people on all sides of the conflict. He returned home with some clarity of the complex issues, difficulties, and fears faced on a daily basis by those who call Israel their home.

 We journeyed to Israel many times since 1995 making many new friends: some Jewish, some Armenian, some Greek and some Palestinian.  As we became more involved in their lives we were made aware of the many personal needs: material, physical, emotional and spiritual. Our heart felt desire to help meet some of these needs grew with each passing year.



 In 2006, we met a three year old Palestinian girl named Jumanah, who was fighting leukemia. Jumanah's name is Arabic for "silver pearl", and her little life was truly a pearl of great worth. 
Upon learning of the difficulties Palestinian families can face in finding access to quality health care, we helped to raise money and awareness for Jumanah's medical treatment.   
   




We have worked for the past four years helping to bring children into Israel for life saving heart operations.
  




Our firsthand experience and personal observation of life in Israel and Palestine has clearly revealed to us the desperate need for the concrete, practical demonstration of God's eternal love and compassion.