Arrows: 10 Days of Repentance
Day of Atonement begins Sunday Sept 20th
September 18, 2026
Arrows from Zion Summary of Prayer Points for Israeli Ministries
Prayer Requests & the Chronicles of the Remnant of Faith in Israel
Jackie Santoro, Glory of Zion & Ahavat Yeshua congregation in Jerusalem writes, “September 11 marked the beginning of the Fall Feasts as we ushered in Rosh Hashana, known in the Bible as the “Day of the Blowing of the Trumpets”. Traditional Judaism celebrates it as the Jewish New Year (5787) and although blowing the shofars is done throughout the nation, very few people actually know why! I was in the hospital visiting a friend on Sunday which was the second day of the Feast and the first time the shofars could be sounded after the end of Shabbat. One very religious man came into the room and asked if we wanted to hear the shofar. He and his partner were going to every room so that each person could hear. Of course, we eagerly said “yes“. I then asked him why was it important for us to hear the blast of the shofar. Amazingly, he didn’t know! He called in the other religious man who was with him and the man answered that it was a call to invite Abba, Father to be King and reign over us. Amen! May they know Him whom they have pierced and crown Him King in our day!”
“June was an intense month with the 7th anniversary of Eddie’s passing, a car accident which totaled my car, my beloved granddaughter moving to Italy for a year, my 80th Birthday and it all culminated with me undergoing Fusion back surgery on July 31. It was a lot emotionally to deal with at one time, but God has brought me through, drawing me ever closer to Him and giving me a new sense of purpose and a hope that will not fade!…I am happy to report that the surgery was very successful and 6 weeks later, I am able to walk with no problems and to drive as much as I want and have returned to life in the fast lane that is Israel and especially Jerusalem! I anticipate so many wonderful things that will be taking place in this special nation in the days to come and I am so honored and privileged to be involved in all that is happening, especially as a part of the leadership team of the congregation which is growing at a rapid rate.
“Our young people are strong, dedicated and full of energy. And the incredible thing is that they are all sabra Israelis with Hebrew as their mother tongue, not only soldiers in the Israeli army but brave warriors in the army of God, declaring Yeshua their commander and King! Hallelujah! At the same time, the older generation is esteemed and honored and sought after for the wisdom that comes only from the years lived. Ahavat Yeshua is a blessed multigenerational congregation.
“….Pray with us that this New Year will see many extraordinary events- from the fall of the evil Iranian regime to a revival that will sweep the earth and especially here in this Land! As always, I thank you for standing with me and encouraging me forward. May we continue to labor together declaring the name of Yeshua to a world desperate for His love. And may we live to see all Israel saved.”
Last issue I told you about an opportunity to join the Tel Aviv congregation Tiferet Yeshua in a special Zoom celebration with their native Israeli leader, Moti Cohen, for the Feast of Trumpets. This will take place on Saturday, Sept 19 at 9pm Israel time, 3 pm Eastern time in the USA. Here is the link to connect with the meeting. Moti will share a teaching (in Hebrew with translation) about the significance of God’s ordained “times and seasons.” There will also be a time for questions and answers and mutual prayer.
Howard & Randi Bass of the Nachalat Yeshua (Yeshua’s Inheritance) congregation in Beer Sheva.Howard writing, “Repent, for the Kingdom of God is near! This, I believe, is the message of the Day of Remembrance of [Trumpet] Blasts/Yom Zicharon Teruah, leading up to the Day of Atonements/Yom haKippurim. This is what John the Baptizer proclaimed in the power of Elijah the prophet; this is what Yeshua/Jesus proclaimed in the love and righteousness of God the Father; this is the great commission that the Lord gave for His disciples to preach until the end of the age… until the Day of YHVH/the LORD. Yeshua calls the churches to do the same — to whoever has ears to hear.
“….Trumpet blasts have been being heard especially since the reestablishment of the modern State of Israel in 1948 — calling the Jews, and also the nations to remember that there is a God in Heaven and on the Earth, who made the seas and the dry land; calling people everywhere to repent and give Him the glory from their whole being. (Jonah 1) Self-judgment is essential, as is national repentance, especially on the part of Israel, YHVH God’s chosen nation to bring praise and glory to His holy Name. (Do you know that the book of Jonah is read in synagogues on Yom Kippur?!)
“….The wars of the last three years up till now are affecting the nations in a way unthinkable before they began (including between Russia and Ukraine!). When they first began, and the way that they have unfolded and expanded threaten the established order. Antisemitism, anti-Zionism, anti-Jewish and Christian outrage is growing and getting louder, and the political landscape and economies are each going in the wrong direction, as a whole. God is shaking things; He is giving “trumpet blasts” to wake up His own people, first of all; Jesus is fully in control of events, having all authority in Heaven and on Earth!” DD: To the Jew first, but also to the Gentiles.
Howard also sends wonderful photos of families from Yeshua’s Inheritance enjoying their two days/three nights camping trip from this past Friday through Sonday, corresponding to the Jewish “New Year” holiday here. . . .we traveled about 3 hours to arrive at the Jordan River Park, located walking distance from Bethsaida, and a ten-minute drive to Capernaum. We went to those two significant New Testament sites in the life and ministry of Yeshua/Jesus. . . .It was a wonderful and Holy Spirit-blessed trip for the congregation. Most of the members participated, and contributed to the strengthening of the fellowship of the different members of the one congregation. Our time together provided many opportunities to get to know each other better and more personally. There were some very good and significant discussions going on, and fun for all. The young children and teens also became more acquainted with each other. We really have much to thank and praise God for Nachalat Yeshua!
“Many thanks to you for your prayers, support, encouragement for us, and for some of you for a very long time! There was great cooperation in volunteering for the necessary tasks, such as food preparation and clean-up. There was some time for praise and worship, some short teachings and testimony, and praying. A great time was had by all! When Randi and I finally got back home, we basically plopped down into our beds for the night. 🙂
Chaim Malespin of Aliyah Return Center and the Faithful Galileans sends Day 1062 video update from Chaim “Commandos Restoring Security” from the Lebanon border. | ALSO: “The Day of Atonement is just around the corner. . . .As we draw nearer to this sacred day, there is a deep longing to draw closer to God in holiness. In the midst of our busy lives, it can be difficult to set aside time to seek the Lord. . . .The Day of Atonement offers us an opportunity to pause, reflect, and search our hearts. It is a time for prayer and fasting, for repentance, and for surrendering any resentment we may be carrying. . . .God is full of mercy and grace, and as we draw near to Him, He will draw near to us. May His presence bless strengthen, and encourage you as you draw near to Him. And may His truth set you free from anything that entangled you in the past year.”
Reuven Doron of One New Man Today in Jerusalem writes, “Today is the biblical Feast of Trumpets. Most people, both in Israel and abroad, call it ROSH HASHANAH. However, as noted in the video above and as most of our readers already know, the ROSH HASHANAH title and associated traditions are mostly man made and the product of Babylonian culture that worked its way into the Jewish exile in Babylon after the destruction of the first temple. We respect our ancient sages and greatly value their contribution to the preservation of our Jewish identity across the difficult centuries of exile and tribulation. However we anchor our convictions in the word of God alone. The bible is clear that our ecclesiastical year starts in the month of the spring just before the Passover as the Lord spoke to Moses. “Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, this month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.” | WATCH HERE Reuven’s 32-minute teaching on God’s Atonement Power in Your Hands of Yom Kippur, The Day of Atonement | READ First of Nations
Dani & LuAnne Sayag of the Carmel Congregation write, “Our prayer is that this will be a year of the Word of God—a year in which we hunger and thirst for His Word, go deeper in its truth, and draw nearer to the Lord. The sound of the shofar is a call to awaken, to listen, and to turn our hearts toward Him. During this season, may our spiritual ears be open to hear the voice of the Lord and to receive whatever He desires to speak to us—both individually and as a congregation. As the trumpets lead us toward Yom Kippur, may we humble ourselves before Him, allow Him to search our hearts, and respond to His voice with repentance and obedience. May His Word be our foundation, His voice our guide, and His presence our deepest desire throughout this coming year.” WATCH HERE as pastor Dani Sayag teaches on Revival on the Feast of Trumpets
Eitan Shishkoff has been leading these Katzir/Harvest Youth Camps for longer than I have known him I think (2002). I can’t remember when Katzir camps were not a major part of ministry at Tents of Mercy, and of course, when Eitan handed off the pastoral role to Avi Tekle, he remained engaged in the Katzir camps, joined by Joel Jelski who has become the Director of the camps and the invaluable help of Christian Arab Ruby Bishai. Eitan’s report on the latest camp is really heartening. They are giving Israeli teens roots deep into the faith, and their young adult counselors too. So many strong believers and leaders have come from these 3 times a year youth camps. It is an equipping camp for those who will lead in Israel’s major spiritual harvest. Worth the investment. WATCH this VIDEO from the camp and consider becoming a partner in the Chanukah Camp Dec 9-12. Click here for more info.
Avner Boskey of David’s Tent/Final Frontier Ministries has been showing up A LOT in my Facebook News Feed with the launch of their Ezekiel 37 teaching series. On FB I Want What You Have! And Why don’t You choose somebody else? And Remember Noah | On YouTube The Irrevocable Calling | ALSO READ Making the Crooked Shofar Straight | Keeping Track of How God Tells Time | A Day But No Atonement
Avi and Chaya Mizrachi at Dugit Ministries Outreach write “Our media team is also working hard behind the scenes to produce a brand-new video for our YouTube channel, and we are so excited to share it with you soon! In the meantime, don’t forget to watch our first video – Avi’s incredible testimony of how he came to know Yeshua as his Messiah: I refused to be converted!
Jennifer & Eliahu Guetta in the Galilee Plant Hope Israel write about Jennifer’s return from a couple of months in the United States, with “The highlight of my trip was going to Sid Roth to record my testimony and talk about the Feast of Trumpets. The show aired Sep 14 but watch it here on Facebook. So keep an eye out for it online. You can also see my personal behind-the-scenes pictures and video below! We recorded 2 shows, 2 podcasts, and several other media events. It was such a blessing to be back there, and the people are like family.”
Tony and Orna Sperandeo in Kfar Saba leading the HaMaayan congregation send the link to their ministry update which the put online with lots of lovely pictures. They shared this GOOD NEWS: What a miracle! This week we witnessed the testimony of 2 of our members healed from cancer and other serious diseases! This makes the third healing in a few months. God, our Great Physician, heals body, soul and spirit! Read all of their doings online, plus the congregational prayer requests.
Sally Shiff, also of the above HaMaayan congregation sends two videos that express how to pray for Israelis: The Shofar Sounds Across Israel — Praying for Healing, Peace and Hope in 5787 and Oxford Union Goes QUIET As Israeli STUNS Them With This Photo!
Leon and Nina Mazin of the Haifa Return to Zion Center write about Feeding the City Together. This request came in early AM Thursday 9/17 so it is still an active need to fill! At the official request of the Haifa Municipality, our community has joined an emergency aid program. We are currently regularly assembling and delivering food packages to those who find themselves in difficult life situations: needy families and single people. Although our main target audience is Jewish, in the face of need, the boundaries of nationalities and faiths are erased. The Municipality turned specifically to us, and among the recipients of this aid today are Jews, Christians, and Muslims. We are convinced that kindness and mercy have no nationality, and we cannot remain on the sidelines when our city needs our support.
According to Israeli law, we cannot preach the Word when helping the needy. But the Heart and Light of God cannot be hidden. Please pray with us for our neighbors, that the Trumpet Call of God may enter every heart. To continue this work and purchase food packages for those who truly need them, we need your help. We invite you to become a co-participant in this good work! Every donation of yours is real food on the table for those who have been left to face hardships alone. Helping the city together is strength.
Israel and Vicki Pochtar of Beit Immanuel and Voice of Judah Ministries send these updates. YOM KIPPUR: Once a Year. Once for ALL – watch & also view Pastor Israel’s Deeper Teaching on Yom Kippur |
Read: they are telling Israelis The Story then never heard | VIDEO The Sound That Still Speaks | READ & SEE Let Joy Reach Further | VIDEO When the Shofar Sounds: Remember the God who Still Speaks | Receive Our Special Updates on Telegram | When Yeshua looked at a multitude, He never saw simply a crowd. He saw the person within it. He Saw Them —Rosh Hashanah and Sukkot Evangelism Campaign | VIDEO Beyond the Familiar: Praying from Jerusalem with Israel Pochtar | When God Speaks of Zion VIDEO | VIDEO Praying for you from biblical Jaffa: God Still has the Final Word | VIDEO How will they hear? And how shall they preach unless they are sent? Romans 10:15 | READ A Testimony: Anna had only recently made Aliyah with her three children. As a single mother, she was beginning again in Israel with a 20-year-old son and two daughters, sixteen and five—new surroundings, a new rhythm of life, and so much still uncertain. Then, during one of our recent times together with new Olim, our team began sharing personal testimonies and speaking about Yeshua. Anna’s son sat listening quietly, but as he heard what God had done in the lives of others, tears began running down his face. His mother was watching. Something was reaching her children in a way she had not expected.
Rania Sayegh of HOPE (House of Prayer & Exploits) is in the final countdown to their “Arab Deborah’s Arising” conference in Nazareth Oct 2-3. They have 83% of their budget raised, and need $5,200 to underwrite the cost so the precious Christian Arab pastor’s wives, intercessors & daughters of the LORD can come together for again for refreshing, recharging & restoring the LORD’s vision for all the believers in Israel. Watch this VIDEO – A Season of Expansion. There are many kinds of Christian Arabs, but Rania has the Gospel of Kingdom and the support of the Israeli Messianic Jewish ministry leaders. This is how unity in Israel is planted, tended and harvested. Good soil: To donate
Joseph Magen’s KehilaNews has the latest video news reports and messages released by the Messianic Israelis within hours! Go there for a believeable resource you can listen to direct from the believers in Israel. You get spiritual perspective and plenty of choices of things to listen to from news, messages, and even worship. No better source of videos from the Israeli body of Messiah. Here are some recent VIDEOS: Symbols of Rosh Hashanah with Michael Beener of City of Live Ministries | Have you forgotten? The Song Moses Wanted Israel to Remember with LuAnne Sayag of the Carmel Congregation
Youval & Valerie Yanay and the team at Revive Israel The days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur carry a different weight in Israel. Across the country, people are thinking about repentance, forgiveness, and making things right before the fast begins. For us, these days are also a call to prayer. We come before God asking for His grace and mercy over our people, and we give thanks for the forgiveness and atonement we have received through Yeshua. Our prayer is that hearts across Israel would turn toward the Lord and come to know the Messiah who has made a way for us to draw near to God. Please pray with us:
As Yom Kippur approaches, pray for the people of Israel, that hearts would turn toward God and come to know the forgiveness and mercy found in Yeshua.
Pray for the Almeida family as they travel through Germany and Switzerland, for protection, grace, unity, and fruitful opportunities to share about the Kingdom of God.
Pray for Youval as he teaches believing soldiers and for the young people hearing the Word, that they would be strengthened in their faith.
Thank the Lord for the six young people helping us during this intensive planting season, and pray for blessing over everything planted for the winter.
Pray for the upcoming discipleship program. Thank God for those who have already registered, and ask Him to call and prepare the additional young people He wants to bring.
As Israel prepares to enter Yom Kippur, we are praying for mercy, forgiveness, and revelation over our people. May many come to know the One who has opened the way back to the Father. Partner with us in prayers and in giving into our ministry work.
Carolyn and Richard Hyde of Heart of G-d ministries writes: May you be encouraged by the testimonies and prophetic acts described in the video from the recent PAJ in Jordan and Israel. The King of Israel moved mightily in our midst as we listened to His voice together and then followed His leading. “This was the most challenging and intense PAJ, with the most favor from G-d and the most powerful testimonies!” and “We heard that local pastors in town who’d ceased to meet, now plan to gather for prayer together again!” Arab and Jew – one new man breaking bread together in communion.
Ronit Bender sends her monthly update from northern Israel with an update of the celebration of Terri Morey’s life last month in northern Israel: I have never seen a support group like the one for my friend Terri, who graduated last month. It seemed like hundreds were on that group. . . People from around the world prayed, supported, encouraged Eric her beloved husband and Michael her cherished son, who had flown in from the USA. It is easy to say nice things about a person that departs the earth, but in this case, Terri was an exceptional woman of God, who hungered and thirsted for her Maker, and for others to know Him. She was small in stature, but a giant in the Faith. The celebration of her life reflected it and was so special and sensitive and very anointed. She would have loved it. May the many seeds she has sown over the years with Eric sprout and flourish, and may the impact she has had on our lives endure to bear much fruit.
My teeth needed doing, I was directed to a local Russian dentist, Denis, trusted by many believers here. The price even after a discount was 20000 shekels ($6,586). The procedure required I have 10 teeth extracted. It was no picnic. During the procedure, I took comfort knowing that people both local and around the world were praying for me. What does someone do that does not have this kind of support? For three days, I was toothless, and on the third day I got my dentures. Then, more dentures and crowns in the lower part. The teeth look nice, but my gums are not sure what is going on! My friends around the world contributed and the cost was covered. A big “thank you” to all those of you who helped – and to those who prayed. Please continue to pray for perfect healing.
Asher Intrater, Ariel Blumenthal and Jeremy Similovici of Tikkun Global send these: Asher Intrater VIDEO The Holy Spirit from Creation to Revelation | ARTICLE by Jeremy Similovici The One We Denied Became Our Atonment | VIDEO Ariel Blumenthal God is Love.
On Thursday Sept 17th, Tikkun Global conducted a ZOOM gathering to heed the call of the Feast of Trumpets to awaken, gather, and return to God. Even though I was unable to ‘arrive’ at the beginning of the Zoom (all slots were taken already is what the message told me when I tried to join), I tried again later just in time for the final worship song before Asher Intrater began his teaching. I’m glad I made it through because it re-affirmed the things I believe about where we are in God’s plan and where things are going.
I say that because most of what I hear in the United States from mostly Christian ministries is not what I believe. It’s not only because I have sat under Asher’s teaching for the past 24 years, which I am 100% grateful for, but because this is what I see by the grace of the Holy Spirit in God’s Word too. What he was teaching and what I believe also, is a far, far cry from most of the Christian prophetic & ministry in general is teaching.
As I wrote on the Tikkun Global Facebook page seeking to know if they were going to put the recording of that teaching out, “I saw you were recording it (the Zoom). Will you be sharing the replay? One sentence in Asher’s teaching I missed, and I want to hear exactly what he said.
“The message he was talking about in what is coming – the overtaking of the Harlot by the Beast is exactly what I believe is beginning to unfold here in the United States. I’m pretty alone in my thinking on this – most believe we are going to have a miraculous recovery and get them kicked out in time to save ourselves. (When I say “ourselves” I don’t mean the remnant of faith, but the USA as we know it.)
“I don’t really see that (miraculous victory over Islamists in North America) as far as everything that is prophetically aligned. I think this comes from most others not factoring in Israel as strongly as needed to know where we are in the biblical prophetic buildup.
“If I’m honest, at 75 I am torn between not wanting to be alive for all that, but knowing I’m more mentally prepared and battle hardened that most others I see in denial of what is actually unfolding right now. Texas has a particular problem with how infiltrated we are by stealth jihad all over the state. It is in our neighborhoods all over the state. Anyway, I would like to see the rerun of Asher’s teaching yesterday.”
I don’t think this is just about the United States. The UK and Europe are even farther along in the struggle between the Harlot and the Beast, and the Harlot is losing that battle. The Remnant of Faith that goes through these times have great promises of supernatural power and help too. There will be victory, but it will be the return of Messiah of Israel that ultimately gives us the final victory.