We had the unique opportunity to eat a Ramadan meal together with Abu Muhammed’s family this year. During the month of Ramadan, most Muslims fast from food, drink, and tobacco from very early in the morning (around 4:00AM) until almost 8:00PM. As you can imagine, it can be quite difficult for them to fast from [...]

The White Harvest was blessed by the donation of a slightly used IKEA closet recently, and we decided to take it to Abu Muhammed’s family as a gift. We took the closet apart and managed to barely fit it inside Bishara’s van before driving to the village. Bishara drove slowly so as to not upset [...]

I recently had several opportunities to work with a traveling team that spent a few weeks in our part of the country. They are all foreigners, but they are studying Arabic and doing an intensive year of ministry in the Arab world, so we had some unique opportunities together. On one day in particular, we [...]

We arrived at the house of Abu Muhammed a little earlier than usual. Most of the younger children were in the house this time, though we were a little disappointed that many of the teenagers and young women who had been so curious the last few times were not present. Bishara began by telling the [...]

When we arrived at the house of Abu Muhammed, we were greeted by the neighbor I had spoken with during our last visit. He motioned to us to enter, so we mounted the stairs to the family’s house with a box of groceries, a guitar, and a few small books to give as gifts. The [...]

We left our house after 5:30pm and headed for the house of Abu Muhammed, the family we have been visiting in the village. This time, I did not forget the guitar! When we arrived at the family’s house, they were clearly waiting for us. As we settled into our seats in the salon, a young [...]

This was our third visit with this particular family in the village. We had promised to come Monday evening. During our previous visit, we had noticed that they had no tables and very few chairs, so we had also promised to bring some furniture for them. When Monday came, both two of us were feeling [...]

At around nine in the morning we set out in two small groups to walk and pray for the Arabic village. We brought a list of specific prayer points in order to focus our time, a few New Testaments and Jesus films, and the hope that God would work through us to bring healing and [...]

  After buying several bags of essential groceries for a needy Muslim family we had met a few months ago, we began the drive to the village. As we drove past the house, Bishara slowed down and greeted a few men standing around outside. “Do you remember me?” he asked them. It seemed to take [...]

On Wednesday evening, a team of five Europeans arrived in Nazareth to minister with the White Harvest for four days. Bishara started off their time by giving them an orientation to Nazareth and the Arab population of Israel. On their first morning in the area, Emily and I (Jonathan) led them on a prayer walk [...]