Jan Feb Newsletter

Dear Family and Friends,

January was a hard month financially, due to the holidays and ministry trips. January started off in Tel Aviv with youth and young adults with the plan to worship in the New Year. Near the end of January we went up to Nazareth with the youth worship team from Succat Hallel. We joined with a House of Prayer in Nazareth (H.O.P.E.) and some Arab Christian youth from there. It was a great weekend. Worship the first night was amazing. It took a while but fortunately some brave youth from both groups were willing to come out of their shells. The next day we went and saw the Church of the Annunciation and then to the Synagogue believed to be where Yeshua read the scripture from Isaiah. Then we went to Mount Precipice, where it’s believed to be where Yeshua walked through the crowd that was trying to throw him off the mount. Then we worshiped up there and had an amazing teaching. Everyone who took part in the event was very touched and changed.
As well, in January Stefan started meeting weekly with friends who are working on producing a CD with him. They have been working on lyrics and arrangements to make sure that the lyrics were biblical and that the songs didn’t all sound too similar. They are hoping to start recording two CDs this month: one in Hebrew, for the youth and young adults in the land and an English one to bring awareness around the world of Israel and the Messianic body.
February started off as if things had slowed down but it wasn’t like that in the least. Stefan shared at the first Tuesday Youth Night at Succat Hallel. His desire was to simply share what he has seen the Lord do in and around him, to help draw the youth into a deeper place with God, into a deeper relationship with the Holy Spirit. He hardly got halfway through his message when the Spirit of God came down and rested in the place. The watch ended up running late and still the youth stayed in the intimate place with God that He had drawn them into. That group of kids is usually hard to keep in one place for more than 20 minutes but God had their attention that night.
After the youth heard Stefan share he had the opportunity to talk with some of them and they shared their desire for more deeper things of God. As a result more Israeli youth are now coming to Soaking at our house on Monday Nights. Also the last week of every month we are starting to do a bigger focused activity, so the last two months we have done prophetic painting. It is amazing to see the talent the Lord has given everyone and amazing to see what the Lord wants to share with everyone.
Thursday night the 11th we went to Tel Aviv. Some friends had been trying for months to get Stefan out there to play at Dugit Outreach Center; it’s a free coffee shop. He was supposed to start around 8 but there weren’t enough people there. When he finally started most of the people there were old friends who wanted to hear him play again. Also the group we thought would be one of young people ended up being in their 40s and higher. Stefan played his set and the Spirit of the Lord fell. There was one old man who was sitting next to me. One of Stefan’s new songs, which had straight scripture in it, had this man singing with him in no time at all. At the end the old man went up and talked with Stefan and said, “What you said and sang moved my heart greatly.” The man is not a believer but he wanted to try to connect us with his orthodox son here in Jerusalem.
As of Valentines Day we are now full time staff at Succat Hallel. There isn’t a lot of change in what we do. It is still non-paid but we are now invited to Staff events. It all came about because a couple that we work with at Succat Hallel talked with the leaders and told them that we put in enough hours which should make us staff. The leaders agreed. So because we were able to get the application in that weekend we were able to go to the 10-year anniversary Staff Dinner. We are apart of the young adult watch, the youth watch and the healing watch. I lead a dance watch and also join in on one or two other watches.
And if this month wasn’t busy enough as of the last week of February I was put in charge of the Children’s Ministry of King of Kings for the next three months. I had already been helping the Children’s Pastor so when a few things came up and the Pastor had to leave for a while I willingly stepped in. So the first thing I did was a Purim Carnival. The last Sunday of February was the Feast of Esther, Purim. During service the kids came out to the foyer and played games, received prizes, had popcorn and had a good old time. It was definitely stressful but they all enjoyed themselves. The carnival was a success.
Now in order to be able to continue in these areas where we know the Lord has called us we need your support. We would greatly appreciate it if you are willing to pray for us on a daily basis. Please respond to themihaescus@gmail.com and let us know so we can put together a list of our intercessors to which we can send short emails of items to pray for. The warfare here is very real. We have just entered into a Third Intifada. We need spiritual protection as well as Holy Spirit discernment to know where and when to go places. We are not worried. It is simply not smart to do things without the Lord’s covering.
Secondly we need your financial support. As of right now we just barely make ends meet. We are in need of a consistent monthly support, not just a onetime gift. As we are sure many of you understand, we don’t even know how we make ends meet at the end of the month but God always comes through. Even though we know many of you are in a tight spot right now financially would you ask the Lord if He would desire you to sow into our work here in Israel. We are planning on coming back to the States to speak and we can only do that if we have the money for the flights. We both feel strongly that I need to start Ulpan, Hebrew lessons, come June and that is $200 a month. As well as to buy supplies for Monday night Soaking. We also need money to be able to sow into the youth during special times like their birthdays or ministry events, i.e. Nazareth trip.
If you would like to donate please make checks payable to Hearts in Mexico. Do not put our names on the check but simply put a note in with the check that it is for us. You can mail that to:
Hearts in Mexico
7727 Eisenhower St
Ventura CA 93003
It is a tax-deductible donation. If you are willing to support us monthly which is what we need please email us at themihaescus@gmail.com and let us know so we can keep track of how much we can expect each month.

God bless and Shalom,
Stefan and Samantha Mihaescu

King of Kings www.kkcj.org
Succat Hallel www.jerusalempraise.com
H.O.P.E. www.hope-nazareth.org