Lift up prayers for the victims(our brothers and sisters)

Let us hold the victims and the families in prayer in the recent terrorist attack in Jerusalem as well as the bombings in additional parts of Israel.

Below you will find details about the life of Mary Jean Gardner. She died in the terrorist attack in Jerusalem.

For more than 20 years Mary Jean served the Lord through Bible Translation.

In the recent bombing in Jerusalem only one person died, and she was a Bible Translator.
(Thirty-nine were injured, and we need to remember to keep them in our prayers).

Mary Jean Gardner was here in Jerusalem as a Wycliffe Bible Translator studying Hebrew
at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, and worked with other Israeli Messianic Scholars and Bible Translators
She loved Yeshua (Jesus) and wanted others to know that He was their Messiah. She was
originally from England, and 59 years old when she passed away a few days ago.

Mary Jean spent many years in Togo, West Africa doing Bible translation work, and came to
Israel to study and work with other Bible translators in order to translate the Hebrew Jewish
Scriptures (Tanakh) into the lfe tribal language which is spoken in both Togo and Benin, Africa.

"She was a quiet, sensitive and introverted person, highly motivated. She had a
seriousness and commitment that is to be admired, being over 50 and coming to
study Hebrew, archaeology, the land of the bible and the history of the land.
You need a commitment for that, and you saw that language was really her life,"
said Miriam Ronning, a Messianic Bible translator who co-founded the center in 1995.

Eddie Arthur, executive director of Wycliffe Bible Translators, described Mary Jean
as a "lovely lady who was very popular" and will be "sorely missed."

Let us pray:

Psalm 29:10-11: "The Lord sat enthroned at the Flood, and the Lord sits as King forever. The Lord will give strength to His people; The Lord will bless His people with peace."
God, we lift up our voices with the cries in the land of Israel today. We come into agreement with our brothers and sisters and cry for mercy. We cry for strength to be imparted into Israel. This death and all injured affects an entire nation as well as the remnant across the nations. We grieve and mourn with them before Your throne of grace. Engulf us with Your presence. Come quickly, Lord.