"I think the power of these encounters is the message, 'You are valuable,' delivered to people who've been treated as worthless their whole lives. Desperate parents are watching their precious child die an agonizing slow death before their eyes. Then the grace of God bursts into the hopeless situation: life from the dead, unconditional love, mediated through those I've been told are my enemies. There's a lot of good news in this." Jonathan Miles, Shevet Achim coordinator.
"The only way a ministry like this is possible is through the only one who can supply peace, and that's Jesus. He is the master cardiologist. He knows how to heal hearts in every way—physically, emotionally, and spiritually." Kristina Kayser
"Maybe the ultimate good news behind our work is this: The New Testament is the only possible peace treaty between Jews and non-Jews. I believe the conflict in the Middle East is spiritual at its core. Accepting Jewish sovereignty over a single grain of sand is unthinkable to religious Muslims, since it contradicts the claim—which some Christians also like to make—that God has rejected His chosen people in favor of another. So you have two or three peoples in a death struggle over who is really chosen. Only the New Testament has the spiritual solution—affirming God's choice of Israel, but then gloriously revealing how the death and resurrection of the Messiah has torn down the wall which once divided Jews from non-Jews." Jonathan Miles
"Remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility." Ephesians 2:12-14
