Equipping Our Neighbors and Churches to be
Peacemakers in the Holy Land and beyond.

Big news:

I’ve officially joined the team of Palestinian Christians full time!

This is an answered prayer that started back in November 2023 of asking how God was calling me to engage with the realities of this conflict.

⇐ We took a few days at an AirBnb as a family to celebrate this huge answer to prayer.

My New Team

Munther Isaac was the main speaker in our 2025 “Sermon to the West” video. He’s the co-director of my team.

IN 2025, as I was getting involved in my London media mission trip I realized I would be working alongside a lot of the Palestinian Christians I’d already been following on social media and through podcasts.

At this same time Munther Isaac and his long-time friend, Anton Deik, horrified at the Western Church’s response to Gaza, saw the desperate need for a team within Bethlehem Bible College dedicated solely towards amplifying their message towards Western Evangelicals.

Out of this work the Bethlehem Institute for Peace & Justice was started.

We’re currently 4 full-time employees with a lot of help from volunteers & part-time helpers.

Our Aim:

To equip the Church for true peacebuilding and justice in the Holy Land and beyond

My Role: Helping Tell Their Stories

I’m serving as the Creative Director on the team.

Here’s a few ways I contribute day-to-day:

Messaging:Helping craft the right wording, story and tone to reach conservative American Christians. Certain wording and academic terms that seem harmless to my team are very much politicized in our current American culture. I help make sure our intent is being authetnically communicated across cultures.

Audience: Our Waco neighbors, Texans and Americans are exactly the type of people our team is aiming to reach. I’m in a great position to help my team connect with this community on an emotional level.

Graphic Design: I personally dislike social media, but it is a cornerstone of how people digest and see the world and their own beliefs. Compelling graphic design is life-and-death for Palestinians.

Video: Producing world-class content to challenge preconceived notions & narratives Evangelical Christians bring to this conversation.

Ultimately my work serves as the front porch for almost all our team’s efforts.

99% of people’s first encounter with our message and our voice will be through graphics, videos and websites that I spearhead.

Some of my design work:

Fundraising Efforts

Starting in August the team will be able to fund about 60% of my salary.

Our initial goal is to raise $2,100/month to help offset our immediate financial needs.

I’ll be reaching out soon to many of y’all individually to share more about my work and ask to consider becoming a monthly partner.

If you don’t want to hear from me, a great way to do that is to preemptively sign-up as a monthly partner. 😀😀😀

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Gaza & West Bank Updates + Prayer Requests

A lot has taken place since my last newsletter. I’ll highlight a few.

#1. Report details a vast amount of evidence that Israel has purposefully and repeatedly targeted Palestinian Children even AFTER the Oct 2025 ceasefire.
It also details how Gaza has the highest number of children amputees in the world, with many of the amputations being done without anesthesia.

Prayer: For our neighbors and churches to be willing to open their eyes to the realities on the ground. That we would refuse to accept this as inevitable. That we would speak out in our immediate communities and insist on finding another way.

#2. Israeli newspaper reports most homes and nearly all businesses destroyed in Gaza.
We need new theology. A theology that is recognizes hard truths as it unfolds, not waiting until it is convenient.

Pray for the church willing to open its eyes to the desperate need to take peacemaking seriously.

#3. Munther Isaac is banned from entering America. Palestinians are on the list of 75 countries the US is denying all visas too. This has massive implications for millions of people around the world and for Palestinians specifically. Sadly Munther and his community are no longer allowed to visit America making it easier for American Christians to justify and ignore an important perspective only they can bring to this conversation.

Prayer: This policy may be being reviewed over the next month. Please pray for Trump and his administration to choose a different path and allow Palestinians the same rights as others to visit.

Thank you for reading & supporting.

- the Purcells -