SOOTHING THE SICK AND HURTING OF JERUSALEM An unlikely harpist, this Israeli believer is living a ministry dream that seemed impossible...Story & photo by Rebekah Kolber, Staff Journalist; The Messianic Times - July/August 2005 |
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For two years, Margolis has been visiting hospitals throughout the Jerusalem metropolitan area, sharing music and the love of Yeshua. Margolis, who made aliyah from California in 1997, felt the Lord prompting her to minister to others through harp music for years before her ministry became a reality. "Music from the harp helps people to have a calm spirit and it helps change the spirit, the way David did with Saul," says Margolis. "For years I had a burden to minister in this way to those in the hospital and to people with difficulties such as autism."
The next day Buck was standing in the hallway of her hotel when friends returned the harp to her. At that moment, Margolis happened to walk by looking for another hotel guest. She noticed the harp and struck up a conversation with Buck, who began to wonder if this was the person the Lord wanted her to leave her harp with. When Buck heard that Margolis was on her way to minister to terrorism survivors she decided then and there to give her the harp. The next day she too was on her way to Hadassah hospital to minister in the children's ward. "Bringing the harp to the hospital was a way of bringing comfort just as Isaiah's words said 'Comfort ye my people.' It was a great honor, a great privilege to be the bearer of comfort one beautiful day in Jerusalem." In the three years since, Margolis has performed for thousands of patients. She plays for paralyzed children, cancer patients, injured soldiers, and terror victims. Margolis also uses the harp at healing prayer services for believers. Those she ministers to are just as moved by the music as by the story of how she came to play the harp, says Margolis, "Sometimes I take the harp onto the streets of Jerusalem and I just play and praise the Lord and worship Him. When people ask I tell them about how I got this harp from a Gentile as a gift from her and an answer to prayer from the Lord. I tell them that as a Levite I feel so honored and special to have this blessing because it came from God." People are amazed that a Christian tourist would just give away such an expensive gift, says Margolis; it touches them because it makes them realize how much Gentile believers love the Jewish people. "When I tell the story they can't believe it at first and then they do believe it and they wonder what it is that makes Christians love them so much. I tell them it is Yeshua the Messiah because He is both their Messiah and our Messiah." Without the Lord's provision in Connie
Buck's gift, Margolis says she never would have had the resources to start
her musical ministry. Harps can easily retail at several thousand dollars,
well beyond the reach of the average music ministry. When Rick and Mary
Woods of Jubilee Harps finally met Margolis at the Messiah 2003 conference
they immediately recognized who she was from Buck's story and decided
to give her a harp case, amplifier, tuner and music books for her ministry.
"The Lord's working through Elisheva and we wanted to support that,"
said Mary Woods. "The Lord is touching people through her."
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