Source: Joseph Project International, November 13, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cCan anything good come out of Nazareth?\u201d one of Jesus\u2019 disciples asked, according to the Gospel of John. Today, an avalanche of \u201cgood\u201d\u2014in the form of humanitarian aid\u2014is coming out of Nazareth, the historic Israeli city where, the Bible says, Jesus grew up as a boy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What makes this humanitarian aid effort truly extraordinary is that it\u2019s being led by an Israeli Arab pastor and his congregation, determined to help not only needy Arab families but also Jewish families struggling to put food on the table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since Bible times, there\u2019s been animosity and distrust between Arabs and Jews in the Middle East\u2014a reality that Saleem Shalash, pastor of Home of Jesus the King Church in Nazareth, knows only too well from firsthand experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not easy,\u201d said the father-of-two, who speaks both Hebrew and Arabic. \u201cAs Israeli Arab Christians, we\u2019re in the middle, like a piece of cheese between two slices of bread.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But that does not stop Pastor Shalash and his congregation [from] delivering aid packages to more than 150 families every month, including Arabs, Jews, Muslims, and Christians. They run the largest Israeli-Arab aid center in Israel, supported by Joseph Project International<\/a>, the largest importer of humanitarian aid into Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe good news is that this piece of cheese gives the taste to the bread,\u201d Pastor Shalash said. \u201cGod put us here in this special place, Nazareth, to serve all people and be peacemakers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read the full story<\/a> and watch a short video clip<\/a> from Pastor Shalash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Joseph Project International, November 13, 2024 \u201cCan anything good come out of Nazareth?\u201d one of Jesus\u2019 disciples asked, according to the Gospel of John. Today, an avalanche of \u201cgood\u201d\u2014in the form of humanitarian aid\u2014is coming out of Nazareth, the historic Israeli city where, the Bible says, Jesus grew up as a boy. What makes … Continue reading Israel: Arab Pastor Helps Hurting Jews and Muslims in Nazareth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13412,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13411\/revisions\/13412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}