As a child, I received a love for Israel and tasted the richness of diversity in the Body of Christ. I first heard about TJCII in 2004. My father and his wife Ans had been to the TJCII Consultation in Vienna and came back from it full of enthusiasm. I heard the stories, saw their enthusiasm, but it was “my father's thing” and not for me. In 2008, Abba, my Heavenly Father, called me to go to Israel for a year of study. I started learning Hebrew and the Jewish roots of our Christian faith. That first year (I ended up staying more than 3 years) I lived in the guesthouse of a monastery in Jerusalem. Less than 50 meters from my bed was the monastery chapel, where the Eucharist was celebrated daily. But I had also gone to Israel with a list of contacts from my father and Ans. And these were almost all Messianic Jews. Through 1 of those contacts I also became connected to a Messianic congregation.

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So on Shabbat and on Monday evenings I was in the congregation and on Sundays and whenever I wanted during the week I went to the Eucharist. For me this was a rich life, but I also noticed, how much division there was in the Body of Messiah in Israel. Everyone was basically living on an island. Then when some young men from my Messianic congregation were going to visit another congregation, I gladly went along. On the way back we walked around talking about how good that was, and that we should do something like that more often. One of the young men suggested that we could also visit a church. So I said, “Yes, the Catholic church sometimes, too.” The response was, “Yes, to evangelize.” Well I completely understand this reaction, because that is how I feel about 90% of the time when I am in the Catholic church. But in that moment, something else happened.

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Indeed, in that moment, God broke my heart! He broke my heart over the brokenness of His heart because of the division in the Body. And then I knew: I have to go to TJCII sometime. That was not through my earthly father, but through my Heavenly Father! So that is how I came to TJCII and never left. And along the way I have seen how God uses my personal life's journey for His work in TJCII. In my personal life, I have had much experience with repentance and reconciliation to repair broken relationships. This also helps me now in participating in God's work of restoring broken relationships on a universal level within the Body of His Son Yeshua. I am very grateful that I can testify that God makes all things work together for good to those who love God, namely, to those who are called according to His purpose (Romans 8:28). All glory to our God, the Holy One of Israel!

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I am active within TJCII as intercessor, ambassador for TJCII Europe, and God has given me a burden for South America and the history of the Inquisition and the Catholic Church there.