\nSuzanna is a young lady from Olive City who was forced to leave her house, her dreams, her country, and everything she once had. After five long years, she was finally able to visit her hometown and see first-hand all that the war had destroyed. At the end of her difficult and distressing journey to her hometown, she found she couldn\u2019t even say to herself, \u201cI\u2019m home!\u201d because everything had changed. The roads had become dangerous and difficult; the ways she had known were now unrecognizable, not to mention the checkpoints and foreigners now stationed along them. Most buildings were now empty\u2026destroyed and unusable. To her they seemed forlorn, burned up by the war, along with her fond memories. Even worse, a pall of death now seemed to hang over what once were the happy, lively faces she had known, faces that now betrayed anger and anxiety. She came to a somber realization: \u201cThe Olive City I knew so well is dead and gone! It will never again be the way it was!\u201d<\/p>\n
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<\/a>But after she had mused on these things for some days, suddenly she realized there were children playing in the street\u2026there were people laughing as they went about their daily lives\u2026the street markets were open\u2026the city was coming alive again! People were living here! There was hope for the future of Olive City! We can all easily see how much the people of Olive City need God\u2019s love to bring light into their darkness. And in fact God has already prepared their hearts: churches have opened their doors and welcomed those in need, and people have become more open-minded: they agree to send their children to church, and the church knows how to receive them with open hearts and help them. A Great Awakening has begun! Harvest Time has arrived!<\/strong> We must prepare workers; we must train them and help them to answer God\u2019s call: To pursue the rebirth of \u201cNew Levant, New Olive City\u201d according to His plan!<\/strong><\/p>\n Levant\u2014Tree City: Hair Salon run by Olive City\u2019s Nina<\/strong> Rebirthing \u201cNew Levant\u201d and \u201cNew Olive City\u201d<\/strong>
\nSuzanna visited some families to find out how they had survived that horrible war. They said, \u201cWe had no chance to escape. We had hoped the war would end soon, but as the days went by we felt more and more unsafe until we got to the point we didn\u2019t even care anymore. We felt too discouraged even to accept the reality of what was happening in the war, and we felt completely abandoned. Our menfolk\u2019s involvement in the war made it even worse.\u201d Broken and wounded hearts need to be healed!<\/strong> (God\u2019s presence is needed!)<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>
\n\u201cKurd City\u201d is a miniature of the future of Olive City in the Levant. Arabs and Kurds live together, defending their borders, uniting to face the brutal enemy, Death. In order to survive they\u2019ve had to overcome their hatred for one another.
\nHowever, their desire for revenge has bound them to a false belief\u2014they think that money and power are the only things that can guarantee their safety! Despite this, they were touched by the power of Suzanna\u2019s joy and peace. She gave glory to God, and they knew she had become a Christian.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>
\nNina is the wife of Brother Jake, one of the Center\u2019s coworkers. She opened a hair salon just next to the Center. Winters in the valley are extremely cold, and it snows sometimes. People wear hats and wrap their heads in a scarf to keep warm. Few people want haircuts, and the salon\u2019s business is very slow. Even though the Center gave out coupons for free haircuts to refugees, it still became very difficult to keep the business going. Nina has decided to close the business and try to make a living some other way.
\nBrother Jake first came to know the Lord in the Center, then later became a coworker there. When Nina saw the change in her husband and felt the warmth and love in the Center, she felt drawn, and she started coming with her husband and their five-year-old son to meetings and activities. She used to have lower back pain, but the Lord healed her. With just this little bit of experience of the Lord\u2019s presence, she began to open her heart, bit by bit, and started reading God\u2019s Word.
\nAfter praying about Nina\u2019s situation, the Center decided to help her, at the same time using her hairdresser\u2019s salon as a ministry platform. They began giving free haircuts to seniors and had Nina train some of the refugee young people so they\u2019ll have a skill they can use to support themselves and their families after the war is over and they return home. Also, through the training situation these young people can come to know God\u2019s love and power (through discipleship training)<\/strong>.
\nThe hair salon was remodeled and new fixtures were purchased. May God use Nina and the hair salon so that many people are blessed through it. Please pray for the rent and operating costs of the salon, as well as the ministry and future plans there!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nThe Old Testament book of Nehemiah records of revival. The word revival is the combination of re- meaning again, and \u2013vival meaning life. Revival means a return to the condition of being alive. Revival happens when God\u2019s people see how low their spiritual lives have fallen, and they turn and seek Him. It is also the result of God\u2019s arrival on the scene, which transforms the low spiritual state of God\u2019s people to a high, lively state. It is a process that transforms them from a critically needy condition (almost dead!) to one full of life and love.
\nTo rebirth \u201cNew Levant\u201d and \u201cNew Olive City,\u201d we are seeking the help that only God can provide! We\u2019re asking for His revelation, His Word, His wisdom, and His provision of every kind to bring a revival to this place. As we take courage and move forward with the power, resources, and instructions that He has put in every one of us, using the heavenly as well as earthly authority He has granted us, bravely standing in the gap, stopping up the breaches, building up lives\u2014we can usher in His revival!<\/p>\n<\/a>