| January 2004
Shalom Dear Contributors and friends of
the Olim Fund,
We are most grateful to you all for your
continued faithful support that has gotten the Olim fund off to
a great beginning in the New Year. I am delighted to say that
a total of $7,140 in January was used to bless 20 especially hurting
families throughout the Galilee.
Praise the Lord that He has enabled us
to make much progress during the past month:
1. Our application to make the fund, operating
under the new name of "the Olim fund of Israel" has
now been submitted to the government and we will begin operating
under this new cover starting this month. While this official
tax free Israeli Charity ("Amutah") will give us more
flexibility of working with Word of Life and the Olim Fund of
North America, it will not in any way impact how and when you
are to make future donations.
2. My DVD college level teaching developed
for Faith Seminary and the general Christian Church entitled "The
Jewish Origins of Christianity" to be mass marketed by Sid
Roth of Messianic Vision has now been fully funded and all technical
issues have been resolved. Thus, this new offering will be introduced
for sale possibly as soon as late next month.
Finally, on behalf of the Board of Advisors
I thank you all from the depths of my heart for continued outreach
to our new immigrant families here in the Land of their inheritance.
Again, you can be sure that blessings will flow to you from the
storehouse in heaven as you continue to bless His people Israel.
Following is the report of distributions
for January 2004.
With love and blessings,
Bob Fischer
OLIM FUND OF THE GALILEE
January
2004, DISTRIBUTION
|
Family Size
|
Location
|
Monthly Income
|
Overview of Situation Funded
|
Gift
|
|
7
|
Nazareth
Illit
|
$591
|
Physically disabled widow with six children
is unable to seek employment. She is currently unable to
meet school payments, provide adequate clothing and even
is having trouble providing more than a survival level of
food for her family. As a result, she has fallen into considerable
debt by buying food on credit.
|
$432
|
|
3
|
Nazareth
Illit
|
$716
|
Mother of 18 month old is about to give
birth to second child. Husband is employed part time but
half of his salary goes to pay damages incurred during an
automobile accident. Money is needed for a layette and a
baby bed for the expected new arrival.
|
$364
|
|
2
|
Nazareth
Illit
|
$591
|
Retired couple living on a bare bones government
pension. She has been struggling with skin cancer that finally
led to surgical removal of her entire nose. They managed
to buy a prosthesis on credit but are unable to fund very
expense associated materials involved in connecting this
device to her face. These must be imported from the UK.
Consequently, she has been forced to wear a bandage over
the gaping hole in her face. This gift will resolve the
problem for a time.
|
$568
|
|
2
|
Haifa
|
$939
|
Woman held technically responsible for an automobile accident that occurred
during a heavy rain storm. She must pay for damages to both
cars and has no insurance or other means to meet this obligation.
|
$364
|
|
3
|
Natania
|
$954
|
Divorced mother
unable to pay for education expenses and adequate
clothing for her two young children.
|
$273
|
|
4
|
Haifa
|
$1591
|
Head of family was victim lost his professional
gardening tools in a robbery. He also must pay for expensive
and costly process to secure an Israeli driver’s license
or be unable to continue his business which is, for now,
providing adequate support for his family. He is not able
to fund either of these urgent needs.
|
$364
|
|
2
|
Haifa
|
$537
|
Young married couple struggling to survive
from his part time employment. She is unable to find work,
nor he additional working hours.
|
$273
|
|
4
|
Haifa
|
$659
|
Divorced mother of three young children
unable to seek employment since she needs to care for her
family the youngest of which is only 5 months old. She is
currently unable to meet the school expenses for her older
children and provide adequate clothing for them.
|
$432
|
|
1
|
Haifa
|
$182
|
Young divorced woman is struggling to complete
her university training. She is currently not able to pay
all of her educational expenses and has been barely able
to provide food for herself.
|
$364
|
|
3
|
Acco
|
$884
|
Wife has been unemployed for 8 months,
consequently family has fallen into debt and are unable
to meet survival level expenses. They have been forced to
buy food on credit and their situation grows worse each
month.
|
$273
|
|
6
|
Haifa
|
$795
|
This is partial payment for the second
installment of extensive dental care required by the head
of the family.
|
$364
|
|
1
|
Afula
|
$341
|
Single man needs extensive dental care
which is being partially funded by his congregation.
|
$364
|
|
2
|
Haifa
|
$454
|
Invalid, divorced mother of 12 year old
son is unable to work and struggling to survive on small
government stipend. Her current need is for extensive dental
work which she cannot begin to afford.
|
$364
|
|
|
Migdal
Haemek
|
$432
|
Divorced pensioner woman with two unemployed
adult children living at home. She has accumulated a huge
debt and her creditors are taking legal action against her
to take from her what few assets that remain.
|
$364
|
|
1
|
Haifa
|
$545
|
Young single woman struggling to survive
on small part time income. One time love gift.
|
$227
|
|
2
|
Haifa
|
$523
|
Young new immigrant couple from Hungry
have run out of government support and are both still unable
to find work. She has enrolled in a course to become certified
as a teacher and needs help to pay cost along with basic
survival needs for them both as he struggles to find work.
|
$432
|
|
Three
families
|
Tiberias
|
n/a
|
This is a payment to the Tiberias dental
clinic for the continuing care of three members of different
local families. The clinic is run by a former Lebanese immigrant
who offers his services to us for a very low fee.
|
$977
|
|
1
|
Katsrin
|
$205
|
Separated young woman is trying to survive
on small part time income. She is unable to pay current
utility bills and rent while she desperately looks for more
work.
|
$341
|
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|
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Total monthly gifts
|
$7,140
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