Final Follow-up (I hope) to the "Cowboy Thing"

4 Kislev 5784
Erev Shabbat Kodesh
Parashat Toldot

[The "Cowboy Thing"]

If any of the readers are in Efrat, or know anyone in Efrat, please see that they get all of this information.  I'll include some quotes below from two very recent interviews which provide more details.  Other than that, I'd just like to emphasize that our ultimate battle is with the Erev Rav because there is no Christian missionary in Israel that was not brought in by an Erev Rav Jew.  And it goes to the highest levels of the government.

Interview Transcript #1:

Interviewer to Cowboy:  "Tell us about the decision to come during these challenging and difficult days in Israel."

Cowboy:  "It was hard to hear what happened and we immediately knew we wanted to do whatever we could do to help and so we actually started a fundraiser back home ...but then Joshua Waller from Hayovel contacted me.  He called me and I've been friends with him for a while now and he said, 'Hey, we could really use you here on the ground if you can actually come physically and help,' and so it was an easy answer.  I mean we already knew we wanted to help, so ...

Interviewer:  "Now you're here and you went out with Hayovel to the fields in Judea and Samaria near Har Brachah...  What are you guys doing practically speaking?"

Cowboy:  "We've been doing a few things like we've been putting in some security roads, uh, what Hayovel is doing is Operation Itai getting supplies to the communities around there, like bulletproof vests, thermal drones, stuff like that, humanitarian, uh, defense stuff for the communities, so we've been building a warehouse to store all that and distribute it, from preparing for that and then also just in the communities helping out.  All the men are off working or they're off to war now. 

 Interview Transcript #2:

Interviewer:   "I want to tell you a little bit about the place where I am today because this is pretty cool so ...I'm at a place called Hayovel and Hayovel is a Christian Community, very small, just a few families that decided about 20 years ago that they wanted to come here and be a part of fulfilling prophecy from the Bible and support Israel and help with things that need help.  Joshua Waller, who is the son of the guy who founded this whole thing, he's got ...four kids so far.  He's in his mid-30s, great guy, great guy.  These people are my kind of people, let me tell you, they love Jesus!"

"Now these Christians don't own this land.  This is Jewish State land but they've been allowed to come out here and help and you see here 'Hayovel Heartland Volunteers'."

"That's pretty awesome!  These guys come here and they just basically showed up and said to the Jews who live in this area, 'We want to support you, we love you because we're commanded to and we want to help you.' and they were like, 'Why do you want to help us?'  And they're like, 'Because we're supposed to and we love Jesus and Jesus loves you.' And they're like, 'You cannot steal our souls by proselytizing out here.'  And they said, 'That's okay, we just want to help you and want to love you.'  And yeah, so that's what they've done and they've grown acres and acres and acres of these grape vines...."

"...You see all these grape vines here planted by this Christian Community Hayovel and you know if you want to come and help these people they have trips.  They bring in people all the time who come in here and they stay for a week or a month or a year.  They have housing here for them and they go help farmers all around Israel do their planting, do their harvesting, and they just want to help the Israelis, to help the Jews, because they feel like that is a fulfillment of biblical prophecy."

Interviewer:  "...introduce yourself."

Waller Son:  "I'm Brett Waller.  I work in operations here at Hayovel.  I'm the logistics manager, so all the ins and outs of vehicles and all that..."

Interviewer:  "Okay, so one of the Waller family.  Explain to me who is the Waller family.  What is Hayovel?"

Waller Son:  "So my dad started the organization almost 20 years ago now, ...just saw big need in these areas, especially that the people living here are completely alone in a worldview, I guess you could say, and in a very hostile place.  It's [a] non-permissive environment, like by definition right, and the other big thing for my dad was he came here and in the middle of all this political kind of turmoil and this and that, people taking sides in the middle of all this, there's things happening like actually back here behind us you can see some vines that were prophesied about by Jeremiah and [in] Jeremiah it says you shall yet plant vines on the mountains of Samaria and that's where we're at right now is in Samaria and this has not happened since the time of Jeremiah."

Interviewer:  "So you guys are like, here's our chance to fulfill prophecy, maybe we'll get in the next chapter."

Waller Son:  "That's right, so we were actually, at the time, farmers in the States and so my dad just really kind of grabbed hold of that, of the agricultural kind of redemption that's happening here in Israel and so that was really what connected him and the guy*, the farmers here said, 'Hey, we need help.'  A lot of these guys were just starting out."

Interviewer:  So if people wanted to join you in that and come help you, how do they do that?"

Waller Son:  "Our organization is Hayovel or just, serveisrael.com is the easiest way to check us out.  We work in all of the agriculture from sheep and vineyards and olives and everything all throughout Judea and Samaria,...." 

Interviewer:  "...so you guys have been here for about 20 years ...and there's what, four, three, four, five families or something?"

Waller Son:  "Yeah, it's much more than a Waller-family thing now.  There's a lot of different families on staff, a lot of young people coming through, so yeah."

Interviewer:  "That's great and how many people do you have come through here every year, do you know?"

Waller Son:  "We have between 300 to 500 volunteers coming through every year."

Interviewer:  "That's a lot, wow!  So, now with the war on, you guys have sort of pivoted a little bit.  Tell me about that."

Waller Son:  "Yeah, so we never really were involved super a whole lot in security.  I mean we'd helped out different things here and there, a farmer needed help with night shift or something, we'd send some volunteers, but then all of a sudden the war happened and because of being here for so long, we're actually the only Christian organization based in this area and so because of that, being American and being connected here, we've, over the years, hosted a lot of political figures, Senators, Congressmen, a lot of people from the States have stopped by here to just see what's going on, a lot of different people have connected, so in the middle of all this, all of a sudden, we became a link, kind of, to the United States State Department, to the Christian World, connecting to particularly here, and then again, just seeing a huge need in these areas...."           [*Nir Lavi]

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