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Living Stones News / Mt Hermon Herald           Spring 1999

A periodic newsletter reporting on the ministry of the Hull family on the Israel/Lebanon border.

Greetings from the Galilee in the powerful name of Yeshua!

Our youngsters are growing up! David is now 16. He is helping his dad prepare a new computer for use in broadcasting all our music from the hard drive. This involves a lot of technical know-how. David seems to be an expert in this kind of thing, so I go to him for advice all the time!

Laura is now 18, and she is starting to minister on the radio now. She is doing a two and a half hour English music shift on short-wave in the afternoons and seems to enjoy the opportuinity to express her faith and encourage the listeners. She has also found ways to connect with singers and songwriters to help us get some badly needed new music sent over here.  Thank the Lord!

Our new short-wave transmitter is supposed to be shipped from Costa Rica around the end of March. Please pray for a successful journey and that the installation here will go smoothly. We've all been very busy lately and I will let Laura tell you part of the story this time, since she enjoys sharing good news with our dear friends and prayer partners.

Laura writes, "Over the past three months the Lord has been pouring out His Spirit throughout the Galilee. The Lord started His outpouring as we discovered the openness to the Lord in the village of Ghajar. The people in this village claim to love Jesus very much.   Many have asked Jesus into their hearts and are now born-again believers.  We still have no idea how many have given their lives to HIM.  But we have given the "Jesus" video in Arabic to almost the whole village and at the end of the movie is the plan of salvation and the sinner' s prayer.  The Lord has given us such a love for the people that we feel as if we could burst.  The time is so short and the workers are so few.   We are praying for miracles that would reveal the glory of the Lord so that many will believe and their faith will be strengthened.  The village of Ghajar also needs to have regular Bible study meetings or a congregation planted.  Please pray the Lord will work all things according to His will.  The ones that have the Lord in their heart need to grow in Him and need to fellowship with others that do as well.  As we walk down the
streets of this village, we feel something different that fills us with joy.  The barefoot children run when they see us and ask for pictures of Jesus, Bibles and books, and anything we have about Jesus.  They beg us to tell them a story.  We were blessed to have a translator, named John, to be able to come with us regularly and help us as we visit the people in their homes.   Recently when we were in the village, the children ran after us and broke down a fence and said, "In the name of Jesus, give me a book!"  As we travel we have begun to see an enormous change in the Galilee.  Everywhere, people are now open to Jesus. 

We have also started visiting a Druze village, Ein Kunya, on the Golan Heights.  We had been there before, but not for a long time, since we had been so preoccupied with the village of Ghajar. We discovered that an elderly Christian lady was living all by herself in the center of this Druze village in very poor conditions.  There are only two families in the town that are "Christian" by name.  This woman, Janette, had taken care of a Maronite church for many years.   There were two churches in the town.  The one behind her home had been destroyed.  As we visited her in her home, Mom started crying because all the windows were broken and the cold air was blowing hard into the room. This had gone on for over 30 years! This poor old woman had no electricity and no water or toilet.  A few days later at a ladies meeting, Lorraine called on the women to pray for Janette and this Druze village.  After the meeting, someone donated money for the windows.  Soon afterwards, some Jewish believers also gave for Janette's windows.  We were able to get a window-maker from the same village to put in the glass.  He was excited to help out and was really touched that someone was finally going to help this woman. 

One day, while we were there helping make curtains for her, some young boys were curiously watching what we were doing.   We gave them three of our radios and soon there were kids from all around wanting to know what was happening.  When the other kids wanted radios we opened the car and they all spotted the JESUS videos and begged for them!  We had grown men
come up and ask for them.   We made sure they knew what they were getting and they still wanted it!  The Druze people have a secret religion and most of their people do not even know what they are supposed to believe.  There are very strong evil spirits that need to be bound, but the Lord is strong, and in the end He is victorious.  As we went to Caesaria Philippi at the base of Mt. Hermon, where Peter told Jesus He was the Son of God, we were standing by the side of the road praying near an old bombed out church. All at once a man stopped his car  and hollered out, "You gave me a radio!"  We greeted him and we were blessed to have a woman that spoke Arabic and was a strong believer in Yeshua. She went over to his car and could see the earnestness in the man's face.  He had already watched the JESUS video and was seeking. She told him how much the Lord loved him and that only God knew what hurt inside and cared for him with so much love.  She encouraged him to seek after the Lord.  There was another man inside whom she felt thought that what she was saying was ridiculous.  She looked right at him and said, "And you have to repent!  The thoughts you were thinking were not right."  He was shocked and said, "Yes, Yes, I need to repent".  They invited us to their home and a friend of ours has already visited one of them.  Many things have taken place and we are in a spiritual battle.

The salvation of the people in the land of Israel is what we want to see. Our main focus is in the Galilee and Golan Heights where the Lord Yeshua lived and ministered throughout his life.  We are praying for the people here to see His Light. "Land of Zebulan and the land of Naphtali, the way to the sea,  along the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles- the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the shadow of death a light has dawned."  Matthew 4:15   Please join our family for the intercession of the salvation of the Galilee. 

Gary concludes: High Adventure Radio obtained a Lebanese cellular phone in December to enable our listeners to call in for song dedications, prayer requests and testimonies. We have seen marvelous results as listeners from Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt and, this week for the first time, Saudi Arabia are calling in to testify about how much the broadcasts mean to them. We thank the Lord for each life He is blessing! We received over 400 calls in one month.  One listener described how her husband beat her and threw her out of the house because of her faith. But she refused to be intimidated. She returned back home and continued her regular prayers, this time in the bathroom. Her husband found her and rebuked her, but she rose up and declared, "You can beat me and throw me out, but you cannot get inside my heart to take my Lord Jesus out from there!" The husband withdrew, ashamed and went to the church he had forbidden her to attend and got a Bible for her!  God has given this woman great faith to persevere. 

That's what we want to do in these troubled times: keep on telling people everywhere the gospel of our Lord!

"Behold, I am coming soon!  My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done.  I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End."

"The Spirit and the Bride say, "Come!" And let him who hears say, "Come!"  Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life." Rev. 20

Please remember in prayer: 1. The Israeli election to be held May 17th.
2. The Israeli general over their operations in south Lebanon was killed in a roadside bomb just four miles from the radio station. The military situation here is very tense now. God is our refuge!
3. Laura will travel to Cyprus with her youth group for a ministry tour the first week in April.
4. Laura's new radio ministry
5. Gary's music on computer project
6. The new shortwave transmitter set up in April.
7. Outreach in the villages of the Golan Heights
8.  Luba, a local Israeli believer needs prayer as her husband just died. He was a believer for the past year.
Serving the Greatest King,

Laura, David, Lorraine and Gary Hull 
PO Box 587
Metulla Israel

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Shalom,

I am not sure what you may want to do with this, please email me you decision.  We also have more prayer request like a possible church that people in North Israel could have by rebuilding the bombed out one at Ceasuria Philipi. That is where Peter said Jesus was the son of God and where Jesus said on this rock he would build his church. Right now there are no churches in the North Galilee near Mount Hermon. 

We do meet in houses but it would be so wonderful is somehow we could get permission and help to rebuild this old church. People from all over the North could worship there.  This week we had Alilwee men say that they wanted a church that they could go to every day, with a bell and a Praise team! (Alilwees are a off shoot of Islam!) 

Praise the Lord, He is coming soon! 

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