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From thankful parents

19 Friday May 2017

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Last summer, on August 7, 2016, the wonderful family of Ohevi and Rachel was reunited with their daughter, Merea. This is part of that story, beginning with everyone waiting for her arrival after her court ordered release to her family and return to her community!

FROM MEREA’S HEART
Hello everybody!
I am so thankful for all your prayers in those three years.
I am thankful for your encouraging letters.
Thank you. I am happy to be home.
Merea Kallah

Dear brothers and sisters,

We are so grateful that Merea is with us again. After almost three years in state custody all the rights were given back to us parents. We know we are in great debt to you all who prayed for us, wrote letters of encouragement and continued in faith.

It was so wonderful that without resentment and grudges we were able to spend a whole day in the home were Merea lived. Many educators came along to say good-bye. We truly made friends there. Now many want to come and visit us were we live: in the Twelve Tribes community.

Coming home Merea was welcomed with a big celebration. Even the whole clan of M. Zehrovice came for the feast on Shabbat. We spent a day of singing and dancing and had a few games for everybody to participate. Merea was there with us all, “like a fish in the water.” After that Merea jumped in to the busy week before the wedding. She participated wholehearted in everything that was going on.

We see the faithfulness of our Father in all that is happening. It is a real miracle how our daughter’s heart was kept. It strengthens our faith. We are well aware that we have to continue to cry out to our Father and turn our hearts to HIM and our children in order for them and us to be saved and to make it to the end.

From thankful parents, Ohevi and Rachel

A mother’s hope; a daughter’s faith

17 Monday Aug 2015

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More on the remarkable saga of the Schott family

“Rekah said that in the beginning when the children were taken, there was a time when she almost lost hope. But there was Abiyah (her husband) – he was like our Master – he helped me just to receive whatever it was – and just take the next step and not lose hope. And Abiyah always brought me back to that –- to have them on the altar and be faithful and let our Father do what He has to do. And the letters that the girls wrote were so much encouragement to do that too.

“She recalled how Ishah, the youngest one, just 8 years old when she was taken, had sent a little card with a picture of a weasel coming out of a tunnel in the ground that looked almost as if it was smiling. Ishah wrote that she chose this card because the little animal had made it through the tunnel and made it out. She didn’t know it would be two years, but they made it through.”

(Written to her parents in October, 2013. Posted in English on November 8, 2013! “We will Make it through the Tunnel.”)

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Dear Ima and Abba,

How are you doing? I am doing well. I and Besorah share one bedroom. I have different subjects in school. English is the most enjoyable one. At school, we are also learning how to ride bicycle. I received a safety helmet. I also have a new friend called Emma. I hope to see you all soon and give you a big kiss!!! I chose this card because the weasel (meerkat) made it through the tunnel and is happy now. We will also make it through the tunnel.

See you soon, Ishah

“They have a story of faith to tell their children; it’s theirs forever.”

_MG_0388(Quotes are from a letter describing the amazing return after such a long captivity.)

The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. Deuteronomy 29:29

 

I am an ordinary citizen,

16 Sunday Aug 2015

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The writer visited us recently, but has watched us closely for a long time…

Good day!

First of all, I’d like to say that I’m not a part of any religion — I’m an ordinary citizen of a small Swabian town. And still, we do live in a civilization that is strongly marked by Christianity and thus my values are based on Christian values.

When I heard that right in Germany several dozens of children were forcibly taken from their parents, I was – mildly speaking –appalled.

Without prior talks, without any verification, apart from the Jugendamt [Germany’s Social Services]… where are we living? In a state under the rule of law or in a state that takes the law into its own hands, where everyone can do whatever he wants?

Who ordered this raid? Who judged and condemned the behavior of these parents? Who is responsible for this? I would like to know so I can personally turn to the responsible one.

My world has been turned upside down and I am severely opposed to this very undifferentiated approach.

You may like or not like some pedagogical concepts, but equating a rather mild disciplinary measure with child abuse is more than scary to me.

I myself would get a “thrashing” from time to time when I was a child — never as an expression of violence, but rather as a symbolic act. This did not damage me by any means, I’ve turned into a decent citizen acting responsibly and “ethically correctly.”

I think it’s an expression of human and ethical degradation that violent games and films are accepted and allowed by society and the state (perhaps because people make a lot of money with these?), but a rather mild disciplinary measure, purposely applied, is classified as a crime.

It seems to me that these children are supposed to be “forcibly civilized” – thus are separated from their parents as long as possible so they would “finally” end up in “normal” life. The only question is whether what we view as “normal” and “civilized” today is actually still “good.” Isn’t a child that has learned to share and that plays with others outside rather than being hooked to the TV or the smartphone, valuable for a future society? Are only children and youth who at a “normal” TV consumption have already watched 18,000 casualties by the time they are 14 and who spend hours typing into their cell phones rather than meeting with their friends, “normal” and “socially acceptable” these parts? Sad, sad…

Go and visit this community! Get your own idea. There still exists a bit of an intact world – right in Germany. Whoever cannot take this is free to go on living his “great, civilized life,” but please leave these people alone.

Give these children back to these people! It is child abuse to separate children from their parents! This measure did much more psychological damage to these children than a few rod strokes they might have gotten.

I wonder what ever happened to common sense…

Yours appalledly,

Mona Ziegler
Tübingen

…only children with bright eyes…

13 Thursday Aug 2015

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During my two-week stay in the community of the Twelve Tribes I only saw children with bright eyes. One boy took my boy by the hand right away, because he was a bit shy at first and he showed him everything and was explaining things very patiently.

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He really always had such nice, shining eyes. After two years my son still talks about him and wants to help him to come back to his wonderful parents. The boy Noah drew many pictures with my son AND THEY WERE ALL JUST SUNNY, HAPPY PICTURES!

At a common supper one woman talked about her daughter who stayed in the so-called “free world” and went down a wrong path. While she was talking, she started crying; a five-year-old boy got up, left the room, and came back shortly after that and gave that woman a handkerchief. He said,

“Don’t cry, it will all be good again.”

Back then I was deeply touched and thought, ‘What child his age would respond that way where we come from?’ From my own experience as a mother I know that children this age are still very selfish.

The little children there did not know what it meant to take away a toy from another. They are used to sharing everything and helping each other. Do the 2 to 4-year-old children in this technocratic world act that way? I ask all mothers this question.

It really is a shame for us to scorn such kind-hearted people, and to take away happy, compassionate, helpful children from their parents, who only taught them all the good in life, and to conform them to our behavior patterns by force!!! … with all that goes along with it – television full of crimes, thrillers, violence, sex, and negative news, computer games, smartphones, which only harm our children.

These children differ in the way they treat each other, the adults, and the animals from our children in the positive! And all this good you, “dear ladies and gentlemen,” who think you are civilized, want to destroy??? … instead of being happy that there are still a few children and adults like that on our planet… living like in little oases, being self-sufficient, and not harming anyone else, but only helping everyone else.

img_2457In the Twelve Tribes there is a place for everyone who does not see a chance in the world anymore. Also outcasts, abandoned, and handicapped people were welcomed, and they feel loved and only change for the better. I only saw people like that there.

Even the animals there live like kings. The cows have a bright, huge barn with the gate wide open and they can go in and out as they please. The goats, who were described to me as aggresive by many Austrian owners, there they are friendly and tame. The goatherd who I talked with about this phenomenon, said to me, “If we understand them and love them, then they improve in their character.”

With this letter I send my appeal to all who can still think and sympathize and who the fate in life of these wonderful, unspoiled children souls depends on.

With hope and kindness,

Irina Seelinger

Degrees of Nothing

10 Monday Aug 2015

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More of what our Youth think about the World

This youth grew up in our Communities in Spain…

Slaves to the State

Governments nowadays want individuals to be useful to the state. That is why they make all those laws so children belong to the state from birth.

Right now we are engaged in battle because we do not want to have that way of life nor become someone who eventually is a slave of the state.

They offer a lot, but later you will suffer for it.

A human being now in this society often finds himself in loneliness, sad, stressed, trying to survive and not be stepped on, oppressed under the spirit over Europe. We are being formed while suffering persecutions. We are making a place where people without hope to live may come and find people that love them, even if they don’t have any qualifications. They can be a humble disciple without any degrees of “nothing.”

Emunah (age 16)

Let’s Run the Race Together

10 Monday Aug 2015

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What do our Youth think about?

Those who grew up in Klosterzimmern, for instance…

Here is an article one of those wonderful youth wrote earlier this year (2015), for one of our Freepapers. So she wrote this about one and one-half years after the terrible Raid of September 5, 2013.

Let’s Run the Race Together

Are you looking to extend the earth’s time?

Try as you might to back time up and coerce this selfish consumer society into ‘saving the planet,’ will you succeed? Or will the careless greed that has gotten our planet into the state it’s in…prevail?

How was life meant to be? How should we restore it? Well, as you devote your life to this very admirable quest, I am giving every once of my energy and future, giving up my own thoughts, speculations, and ideas, to bring an end to this evil age. There is only one solution.

Few human beings retain enough of the image of God to abide by the natural law inside them. They are the ones who seek after food, clothing and shelter in an honest and honorable way. Providing for their families, they control the greed and evil within them and their children. God will reward every man for his righteous deeds.

The one solution, that I live, must transcend that righteousness. It is for the broken, the needy, and all those who are willing to give up their rotten, stinking lives. It is for those who lack the power to fight the selfish and destructive nature within them. Although I grew up in this new and living way, I am without a doubt one of the needy. Having been spared from a lot of the devastation that is bound to accompany self life, I have experienced the ugly fruit of my own selfishness and seen my desperate need. My love has limits. On my own I’m powerless against the forces that have wreaked havoc on this planet. We have a Savior! He died for us and paid for our sins in death. Now we no longer live for ourselves, but to see His kingdom come to this earth. We love Him by obeying all of His commands, and most importantly by loving the nearest one to us.

He even said,

“Do not worry, then, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or “What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear for clothing?’ For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you…” (Matthew 6:31-33)

That is how we live. He told us:

“If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine. And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” (John 8:31-32)

“Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word he will never see death.” (John 8:51)

We have been set free to love others, care for others and share our eternal hope with others.

You must come and see the witness of His love here on earth. Come, give up your life, be forgiven and we’ll run the race together!

chavivah 2013

Chavivah

Note

One week after the Raid, we posted a video of Chavivah on the Internet. 

See and read what she had to say about how she was raised: “Chavivah’s Testimony.”