| February - March 2005 Newsletter |
Hi everyone, Shalom once again from Jerusalem. Well there are just a few things to share with you this week. Work at the storehouse continues and it is coming up to the time that I will be on my own again in the Medical area. Towards the end of this month, Karen goes back to the UK. She may return in a couple of months, but that is something she is praying about and is not sure of at this time. Terri of course goes in the middle of April......well the 19th. This I am not looking forward to at all. I will miss her and I know my pets will. She may also come back a little later, perhaps for when and if I need to leave. I now am looking of course at the beginning of June for my leaving. If I go, I will need someone to look after my Kiki, HunBun and Sweet Sweet (Benjie). John from the storehouse is also leaving and so yes.....I will be on my own. Sheli came visited and had coffee with us on the Monday in the morning, on his way home from the JSPCA Clinic. He is interested in Zoological Vetenary work. He only has one shift a week now, at the JSPCA and so later on in the week I called the chief vet of the Safari Park to ask if there was any way there could be any work there for Sheli. Yigal is a friend of mine, and he said if it was important for me,for him to talk to Sheli, then he would. I think it will be unpaid at first but it would be a foot in the door for Sheli. It has been a tough time for Sheli for a number of reasons and I trust this could work out for him. Barry and Batya are away at the moment. They travelled to Florida for a conference and then on to Mexico for treatement for cancer for Batya. She is battling cancer of the breast at the present time. Remi is gradually getting over his pneumonia. I will try to get a photo of everyone for the next email so that you will be able to see who I am talking about. As far as orders go, I have received an sos from one of the emergency servies in Mevesserett. They are in need of O2 saturation monitors, which are special portable units that do a quick measurement through the skin of the Oxygen level in the blood. There are only 3 intensive care units in the Jerusalem, and they want to avoid calling them out of the city unnecessarily. If they have an idea of how bad things are, then they can better judge whether they should call them. - Please pray for Batya and Barry, that the Lords hand ould be on them as they face this - Please pray that there would be provision of the much needed equipment by the Emergency Services - Remi's continued recovery. He has battled fromalmost the time he arrived. - Please pray for others to come to be able to help in the work. - Please pray for Sheli. That this is a time that he will see that in this time of difficulty there is someone he can turn to - The Lord his messiah. You may well ask what a monkey is doing, on the page that I have just made. Well apart from the fact I happen to love animals of all kinds......yes ......three of us visited the Monkey Park and Sanctuary in Ben Shemen. Part is open to the public (the park) but the Sanctuary side is not. The sanctuary houses monkeys that have been confiscated from private homes, which is illegal here. They are rehabilitated and introduced to others of the same species. They are gradually formed into a new colony and a suitable home is found for the colony, once it is established. I learned much about Monkey buisness from both Ronnie and Tamar the keeper. We were picked up at a place called Latroon, by the chief vet of the National Parks and Wildlife Authority , Ronnie King and taken out there to visit them. It is such a lovely park, and many families were out picnicing in the grounds etc. Spring has certainly arrived and it was such a beautiful day for it. The flowers were out there as it is a little warmer there than Jerusalem, and the red poppy flowers were a site once again. We need to get up to the north in the next few weeks I think, to see it at it's best. Yigal wants us to come out to the Safari Park and so we may do that next weekend. He will come in and meet us (he doesn't usually work on Fridays) to take us around. B went up recently and said that it was lovely and green at the moment and definitely the time to go. They have also built a new hospital there for the animals and I am looking forward to seeing that. |
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