Your prayers for the Home will be greatly appreciated! God hears and answers prayer, on very specific things as well! In general, these are our prayer requests:
Prayer for the Management - the senior staff of the Home need to make important decisions and need much wisdom, taking practical and spiritual matters into consideration. Please pray for wisdom for the management of the Home, including committees that decide on who enters the Home and who doesn't. Is is very important that only real believers enter the Home.
Prayer for the Residents - the residents are elderly, and some of them suffer from a few sicknesses at the same time, which makes it very hard for them. Please pray that the Lord will help them and make any suffering bearable, and that He will help them to remain joyful in their spirit. It is also important to pray for good relations among the resident. How easily the devil can cause two brothers or two sisters to be at odds with one another, especially when taking into consideration the completely different backgrounds from which these residents come. Please pray for true love and unity of the Spirit among the residents.
Prayer for the Staff and Volunteers - We really thank the Lord for the wonderful staff and volunteers He has given us. Things work well in the Home; the staff is trustworthy, reliable, and caring. The volunteers are committed, willing, and they're a lot of fun too! Please pray this situation continues and that God will let this Home be a testimony to all who come in contact with us.
Prayer for Protection - During the summer of 2006 many rockets fell on Haifa, some of these being in the area of the Ebenezer Home. The Lord answered the prayers of many saints around the world and protected us throughout the war. Some of our staff almost lost their lives but were spared both death and injury! Please pray that God will keep rockets away from Israel and from Ebenezer Home, as such period are quite stressful.
Prayer for Provision - Ebenezer Home lives mainly on donations of believers. We receive financial support from organisations and from individuals. The reason for this is that most of the residents in Ebenezer Home do not have the necessary means to pay the full price that would be required in order to upkeep a Home of this nature (the actual costs are very high); yet, it is for those people that this Home was intended. "Thus far the LORD has helped us"; please pray that the Lord will continue to uphold us and provide what we need to keep the Home running.
Apart from that, please stay in tune for specific updates and prayer requests by reading our newsletter.
Preliminary note on Tax Deductable donations: Organisations or individuals from the USA and from the UK can make tax deductable donations to Ebenezer through CAF USA, 1800 Diagonal Road, Suite 150, Alexandria, VA 22314-2840, USA, or, through CAF UK, Charity Payment Department, Kings Hill, West Malling, Kent ME19 4TA, England. For Germany please contact EDI.
Donating directly to the Home can be done in two ways:
Donating via Bank Transfer - bank transfers are the quickest and safest way to send funds to Ebenezer Home. Here are the details for bank transfers:
Bank Name: Mercantile Discount Bank Bank Number: 17 Branch No.: 650 Account Name: Norwegian Church Ministry to Israel - NCMI (Ebenezer Home) Swift Code: BARDILIT Bank Address: 65 Ha'Atzmaut St., Haifa.
Here are account numbers for currencies we most commonly receive:
If you do not receive a letter to confirm your donation in timely manner, please do contact us, as we might have an insufficient address to send to. Feel free to give us a call any time between Sun-Fri 08:00-15:00 (local time) to ask about it. The telephone number is 00972-48529730.
For Europeans, our IBAN number is: IL44 0176 5000 0000 1085 419.
Donating by Cheque (Check) - it is also possible to donate by sending a cheque to PO Box 525, Haifa 31004, Israel. Please make the cheque out to "Ebenezer Home". Donating by cheque is preferred for relatively small amounts of money because there are less commissions for cheques than there are for bank transfers.
Donating online with credit card through PayPal - you can pay online using any major credit card through PayPal, which is the most popular way to pay online (over 150 million users in 2008). You have to state the amount you would like to donate in US Dollars; PayPal will then withdraw the equivalent amount from your account in your own currency. To donate through PayPal please click here.
You can make a general donation to Ebenezer Home or, if you choose, you can request that your donation will go towards covering a specific project. For the list of projects, please give us a call or send us an email (this is relevant to some organisations that, for legal reasons, can only donate to specific projects). Please provide an address for us to send a receipt and letter to.
Please see our volunteering page for more information on how to volunteer to Ebenezer Home. We have a few volunteers at a time, and we might have to ask you to apply in the future, if we are full for a few months.
Ebenezer Home will gladly accept volunteers from around the world. Please note though, that because of difficulties and restrictions imposed on us from the Ministry of Interior, it is hardly likely for us to be able to accept a volunteers' visa for volunteers from Africa and Eastern Europe. The reason for this is that the State of Israel has experienced that in general, people coming from these areas overstay their visa and work illegally, so this works against sincere Christian volunteers as well. If you do come from these areas, please understand the difficulty and note that though we would gladly accept you, some things are beyond our control. Perhaps the Lord will lead you to help in another place which He has chosen for you.
You can greatly help Ebenezer Home by telling people about it. In that way, people will be interested to know about us, will ask for our newsletter and Annual Reports, they will come for visits, pray for us, donate, visit the website, etc. That way, the Ebenezer Home can be on the hearts and minds of many people who would like to help believers in Israel in a very practical way. Ebenezer Home is the only home for aged believers in Yeshua who live in Israel. It is a sad reality that in modern days, many believers suffer from loneliness in their old age and do not receive the love and care that they need in their later years. With God's help, and yours too, the Ebenezer Home can provide a loving, spiritual environment for many residents, where they can receive help with daily life, where they have fellowship, activity and receive all the necessary medical care that they need in their golden age.
Thank you for taking the time to read this page. May the Lord bless you!
Ebenezer Home 41 Meir St. PO Box 525 31004 Haifa ISRAEL
