Petach
Tikva is based in the Cape province of South Africa, just
outside Cape Town. A few years ago the Alon leadership felt the
call of God to extend the work to the Southern most tip of
Africa, to the Cape region. They spied out the land assuming
that the work would be similar to the base in that it would
perhaps be another farm. They did not for one moment consider
that it could be suburban or close to the city of Cape Town, and
so they searched along the south-eastern coast, prayerfully
looking out for the place God
would
show them, but to no avail. Nowhere along the south-eastern
coast did they feel the peace of God. And so they laid the
vision down and allowed the excitement to die. Then one day
during 1997 sometime after all of this, Davit and Sara happened
to be in Cape Town at a public place called the "Waterfront" and
his eyes fell upon a discarded newspaper which he picked up and
turned to the classifieds. He immediately saw the advert for a
property situated where he and Sara had been called from so many
years before, the town of Somerset West. He had absolutely no
intention of ever returning to this town as God had completely
removed any love for it from their hearts - but somehow as he
read this advert, something in him became alert to the leading
of God and he sensed that the Lord was raising up His plan once
more. After hurriedly rushing out to view the property he knew
that this was to be the place God wanted him to build and to
establish the extension of the Alon farm. It was to be called
Petach Tikva, the Door of Hope, and it was to become a wonderful
door for broken people and for those seeking a deeper reality in
the Lord Jesus to find Him and His calling and plan for their
lives.
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Petach
Tikva is based in the Cape province of South Africa, just
outside Cape Town. A few years ago the Alon leadership felt the
call of God to extend the work to the Southern most tip of
Africa, to the Cape region. They spied out the land assuming
that the work would be similar to the base in that it would
perhaps be another farm. They did not for one moment consider
that it could be suburban or close to the city of Cape Town, and
so they searched along the south-eastern coast, prayerfully
looking out for the place God
would
show them, but to no avail. Nowhere along the south-eastern
coast did they feel the peace of God. And so they laid the
vision down and allowed the excitement to die. Then one day
during 1997 sometime after all of this, Davit and Sara happened
to be in Cape Town at a public place called the "Waterfront" and
his eyes fell upon a discarded newspaper which he picked up and
turned to the classifieds. He immediately saw the advert for a
property situated where he and Sara had been called from so many
years before, the town of Somerset West. He had absolutely no
intention of ever returning to this town as God had completely
removed any love for it from their hearts - but somehow as he
read this advert, something in him became alert to the leading
of God and he sensed that the Lord was raising up His plan once
more. After hurriedly rushing out to view the property he knew
that this was to be the place God wanted him to build and to
establish the extension of the Alon farm. It was to be called
Petach Tikva, the Door of Hope, and it was to become a wonderful
door for broken people and for those seeking a deeper reality in
the Lord Jesus to find Him and His calling and plan for their
lives.