The Hebron Herald

Earlier this month I went away for a couple of weeks and the feeling of driving through the entrance gates and down the drive to my place of refuge was one of such immense relief and shalom.  The busyness of travel, catching up friends and family, and being on the move takes its toll and my soul was in need of time at home. Our little flock of motley dorpers are doing well and should be delivering a batch of lambs in a few weeks.  I'm not happy with the breeding of some of these young ewes and I did come across a new breed of sheep in Victoria that I'm keen to check out.  This week we (myself, Riley and Tyler) picked a half bucket of our first olives.  The birds had made a meal of most of our fruit crops this year so looking forward to netting the whole orchard before next season! We will also be fencing in the vegie patch area to keep the rabbits and roos from helping themselves.  There are grand plans of redesigning the play area, chook pen and extra seating a...

On the last day of the Pesach feast three of our community were baptised and it was an absolute cracker of a day. The Bremer River runs through the back of the Pike family's property, Shekem, at Salem and was a perfect setting. It was a fitting end to the week of unleavened bread and such a joy to come together as a community to witness Bonnie, Rob and Sonya being baptised into the name of YHVH. John has previously shared the importance of baptism and his notes are worth reading and then studying the scripture references again: Water baptism is an extremely important part of a persons salvation and there ongoing walk with Y'Hovah as Scripture attests.  I am not saying that everyone has to be re-baptised if baptised by immersion in the Christian Church, but many are baptised wrongly in Christian circles and many a spiritual life is very empty and shows a real Ruach HaKodesh lack in their faith and their walk. So often, to be baptised with a ne...

  The blessing of coming together to celebrate Pesach and Unleavened Bread at Hebron was only tempered by the fact that not everyone who are part of the Healing to the Nations fellowship could be there.  Those who were unwell or unable to come were deeply missed. I, in particular, thoroughly enjoyed preparing the room and meal with dear friends.  There was a lovely sense of shalom and fellowship over the entire weekend.  As we read scripture, gave thanks, drank the cup and ate the matzah we were keenly aware that this was not only a powerful reminder that Yeshua is the Messiah who came, suffered and defeated death but is more importantly a prophetic declaration that He will come again to rule and reign from Jerusalem.  Hallelu Yah!    Over the years it has become popular in some Messianic fellowships to have a feet washing ritual at Pesach and yes, Yeshua did wash the feet of the disciples and taught them the true nature of leadership - to humbly serv...