The church grew to 70 and above before the war broke out in Sept 2001. People in surrounding cities and villages were coming for our main service of the week; which was Thursday nights. We thank God for His favor on our lives to share the Gospel.

God opened a door for us in ministry in Israel in 1991 with the Assemblies of God private Christian school for Palestinian children in East Jerusalem. This school goes from 3 years to 12^th grade and is in its 16^th school term this year. The school uses the Abeka Curriculum and teaches Bible everyday. Alene taught in Jerusalem School for 2 years. The first year teaching 2^nd grade and the second, teaching kindergarten. In 1994, Ross Byars, the director of Jerusalem School and senior missionary with the Assemblies of God asked us, to begin a work in the West Bank City of Ramallah. Our first year in Ramallah we established The Church at Ramallah and Alene directed the kindergarten program and taught the K-4 class at Jerusalem School-East Jerusalem. In 1996 Alene pioneered the kindergarten in our church in Ramallah, which is an extension of that Jerusalem School. The first year, we had 3 students. The 1997-98 school year we had 12 students. The 1998-99 school year we had 25 students. Then in 1999-2000 we had 42 students and turned away over 100 families. Then 2000-2001 we had 45 students and turned away over 60 families. God granted us favor and sent us key people to help establish the church and school. One of those key people was Yassar Arafat’s helicopter pilot. With his help, we were able to license the church through the Ministry of Interior as a non-profit organization and license the school through the Ministry of Education as the only private, Christian school holding license with the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Gaza.