Volunteers Worldwide Reply God’s Name to Serve Israel

From Mexico

Rogelio Quintero was a medical scholar in Guadalajara, Mexico when God started chatting with him, by means of associates and religious leaders, about utilizing his coaching to serve with Magen David Adom, Israel’s emergency providers system. He utilized in spring of 2022 and was accepted as a volunteer for the summer season months. It was a life-changing expertise!

After finishing a week-long coaching course, he started working in Jerusalem alongside the paramedics occurring ambulance runs. Regardless of the demanding tempo of their work, “they put all their humanity into treating sufferers,” Rogelio noticed. “They don’t let private emotions information the best way they look after sufferers, however they apply the identical compassion and professionalism irrespective of who it’s.,” a mindset Rogelio now carries with him as he treats his sufferers.

However extra vital than the skilled classes he gained in Israel, is the encounter Rogelio had with God whereas there.

After his shifts, Rogelio usually visited the Church of the Holy Sepulchre within the Outdated Metropolis of Jerusalem. He knew he was removed from God however was looking for a better relationship with Him. Someday after the church doorways closed, Rogelio was sitting on the church steps when a person wearing white approached and requested him, in Spanish, “Why are you so distant from God?”

“He didn’t ask my identify. He didn’t ask what language I spoke,” Rogelio mentioned. It was clearly a divine appointment and the person’s query hit dwelling. “I used to be very distant in my relationship with God. My habits and my life-style weren’t in God’s path.”

The 2 males talked for 20 minutes about God’s mission for Rogelio in Israel each now and sooner or later. Their dialog usually sustained Rogelio when he returned to Mexico and was tempted by his outdated life-style. In 2023, he rededicated His life to Christ and seeks to honor Him by means of his medical coaching which can, in actual fact, take him again to Israel. Regardless of the future holds, Rogelio has assured God of this: “I’m following your means. I’m your soldier. I’ll love my life to serve you, not the world. I’ll by no means be separated from God once more.”

Rogelio isn’t the one one who adopted God’s result in serve Israel.

In Israel

Yasmeen Mazzawi, is an Arab Christian from Nazareth, the hometown of Jesus, who’s dedicated to serving the folks of Israel.

When she was nonetheless in highschool, she realized she may solely actually perceive the Jewish folks she labored with if she had a greater understanding of their historical past. She knew nothing of the Holocaust, which was noticed yearly on Holocaust Memorial Day. So, she visited Auschwitz. She was pushed by her religion not solely to deliver a larger understanding and compassion to her work as a volunteer paramedic with Magen David Adom, however “to bridge the hole between us, and assist folks discuss collectively. What higher technique to begin than with myself and my journey,” Yasmeen mentioned.

As a citizen of Israel, she was impacted by the occasions of October 7, and as a volunteer paramedic she has rushed to the scene of a number of terrorist missile assaults.

From america

Jack Storm, president of WS Power Providers, lately devoted an ambulance the corporate donated to Magen David Adom. When he visited Israel in 2011, “I developed an enormous caring and love for these nice folks, the apple of God’s eye,” Jack mentioned. He started offering monetary help to Magen David Adom, a mandated emergency medical service manned primarily by volunteers and privately funded.

Even when the oil market bottomed out in 2015, they continued help this trigger whereas they have been making an attempt to scrub out and reuse gloves to economize, not a straightforward job when the gloves are lined with oil from the fields. “I let the Lord take full management,” Jack defined. “I knew the Lord’s voice and I knew what He instructed me to do. We wished to be good stewards and assist the Jewish folks. My accountant most likely thought I misplaced my thoughts!”

God faithfully supplied throughout these lean years and continues offering abundantly, exhibiting Himself devoted to His devoted servant.

Magen David Adom (Purple Defend of David) is a frontrunner in mass-casualty response and EMS providers. Though it isn’t a Christian group, many Christians choose to help MDA’s work as they transport at the least a million folks to hospitals yearly, reply to disasters worldwide, and likewise gather, assessments and distributes blood to medical services. To study extra, go to savinglivesinisrael.org.

Photographs used with permission from Magen David Adom.