First Resort Update

This Thanksgiving, we at First Resort are thankful for so much!  

• We are thankful that over 1,100 women in an unplanned pregnancy received help and hope in our medical offices this last year.  Ana and Mateo   

• We are thankful that through our supporters, women and men can receive all of our services absolutely free!       

• We are thankful for YOU and all you do to help women and babies facing abortion!

• Most of all, we are thankful for God, who bends low to hear His children and loves each of them more deeply than we can understand.

Have a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving!
The First Resort Team                            
 

Bay Area Rescue Mission Update:

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From Drug User to Teacher...
God is blessing Bernita!

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Bernita decided she needed a new direction in her life. “It was like a hole inside of me that needed to be filled,” she says. Early in her life, she had tried to fill the hole with drugs. But when she became pregnant, it was clear that changes needed to be made.

Bernita’s husband kept telling her “everything will be OK.” But then, he would go back to “doing things of the streets,” living a life she didn’t want for herself or their unborn child.

The final straw came when Bernita’s husband abandoned her when their daughter was just five days old.

Because she could not stay with relatives, she and her new baby eventually ended up here at the Rescue Mission. “We had no clothes, no nothing,” Bernita remembers. “But it was the change I had asked God for.” And it was good!

“Since I’ve been here, my whole world has changed.”

                          Valley Bible Church's Israel team...Ready for action
  
              Adriana's (front row left) reflection on this adventure witnessing on the streets of Tel Aviv.

I am so thankul at this amazing experience. It is truly a blessing to be here in Israel evangelising to God's people. Even though the enemy tries to oppose, our God is greater!!  I was out on a sortie handing out tracks, when I came across a group of Jewish men sitting at the beach playing dominoes. I approached them and attempted to hand them a track, when they seen what it was they began to yell at me saying "GO AWAY ''  "SATAN ( in Hebrew) . They refused the  tracks. I began praying within my self asking God to open the hearts of his people. All of a sudden a man stood up calling me towards him. When I walked towards him he reached out for a track, I handed it to him, he looked up raised his hands to praise God , he looked at me again bowed his head to me and says Todah , todah !!! ( Thank you , Thank you ) The other men begin to yell at him and try to retrieve the track from him.  He argues back and stands his ground refusing to let go of his track. He continues to thank me repeatedly. I am really seeing God's light and his love move here in his people. 

Thank you all for your continued prayers and support!!!

In Christ

Adriana Ledesma

EXCITING BLOG CONCERNING THIS OUTREACH:   

HTTP://SHALOM2YOU.TYPEPAD.COM/