The most important thing now is not to forget all the great things that the Lord has done for us in these difficult times, He did alot of real miracles for us, He really rescued lives.We need to take the time to tell about it, and give the glory to the God of Israel.

During the war about 2 million Israelies were in a zone of missile fire. According to the officials, in the Northern part of Israel alone there were about 4500 missiles that fell, which is equal to the number of bombs that fell on Great Britain during WW II. However there were much more missiles that fell here.They were really weapons intended especially for the mass destruction of human life. Each missile was filled by thousands of little metal balls, able to defeat within a radius of 500 meters. They could make holes in concrete and in iron.The missiles destroyed complete floors in some buildings. In spite of the fact that 80% of civilians remained in a zone of missiles fire, the losses however among them were less than 50 people, and the majority of them died, because they didn’t fulfill the instructions from the rare office. Just on the city of Kiryat-Shmone alone, with population less than 20 thousand people, there had fallen more than 1 thousand missiles. As a result of that,only one man died during the whole war,which is very unbelievable if it were not Gods protection, the death toll could of been thousands from what was counted by “Hezballah”. During the war, just in our church alone, alot of miracles happened. I’ll write about some of them.

August 10th was my birthday. Perhaps the most unusual one in my life. From early morning there was heavy fire. We were asked to help evacuate several families from Zfat. Guys from the rehabilitation center went in the van to help save those people. When they were approaching the city,a the missile blew up about 10 meters behind them . Actually they had no chance of escape,and not one single splinter hit their van. They didn’t even feel the blast wave, it was like God Himself covered them by His own protection. He is indeed the Shield of Abraham! Guys picked up the rest of the blown missile and brought it as a present for my birthday. Now it’s in the hall of my house in a eminent place. It may be that this is the most precious gift in my life. The memory of rescued friends.

One missile exploded 50 meters from my house and some cars on the street just blew up. Some neigbours houses were riddled with splinters, but our house was not hit with one single splinter and nobody in the neigbourhood was wounded. One brother from our church who works in a plant which continued to work during the war,a missile blew up not just in the workshop, but on his working place. however it happened on a Saturday, the only day when they don’t work.

One young couple was asleep in their apartment on the third (the top ) floor and didn’t hear the air-raid siren. A missle hit the first floor in their house. Praise God that people had time to hide themselves because the first floor was almost destroyed. But our guys were sleep and God kept them.They were visited by an ambulance, and were treated just for the emotional shock they had experience.

Also amazing was the opening of the summer camp. Far back as 1-5 years, we planned to begin it in Latrun, a monastary close to Jerusalem. According to plan it was to open, but the very same day the fire began. That was prepared place to evacuate children to. The camp was prepared for only 30 people and they accepted about 80. The camp accepted also non-believers, who even repented there. God, knowing all beforehand prepared a place of salvation. From that day, God’s planning has been perfect.

Lot of things have happened during that time and impossible to write it in one letter. The main important thing is to give glory to Him who «keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep». Thanks to Him who saved our lies and kept us during the Second Lebananes war! Thank You, our Lord!

Your brother Gleb Samburski.