Shani
Shani is a believer in Yeshua and a second generation
Israeli with Persian family roots. Shani was raised in
a moderately observant Jewish home. In a 7th grade religion
class at school, Shani had a revelation that the negative
presentation of Yeshua as a founder of a new religion was
inaccurate, which led her to begin to ask questions about
this historical figure. Her
questions began to be answered after observing something
special about a Messianic Jewess in her high school, who
began to introduce Shani to Yeshua as the ultimate expression
of God’s
love. After reading of the many healings performed by Yeshua
in the synagogues, she saw the connection between what
the Holy Spirit had been doing in her heart and what she
was now reading. She saw that in effect, it was the same
thing, the same story, and the same "person." Shani
gave her heart to Yeshua and confessed Him as Messiah after
visiting a local Messianic congregation, where people were
free to proclaim their love for God with singing, dancing,
and freedom.
Since that time, Shani has been trained by a discipleship program in Cyprus called Gateways, served in the IDF as a social worker, and has joined Revive Israel Ministries. Shani began as a student in the Revive Israel Equipping Center in 2004 and is now the CFO.
Shani has a heart to see the Body in Israel and around the world grow in the likeness and character of Messiah Yeshua. One way that she contributes to that growth is by sharing from the Word of God and encouraging the Body to both function and have influence in the market place, as well as in congregations. She believes that this generation is being released to use the tools of this world, such as finances, business, and law, to increase the Kingdom of God on Earth not only spiritually, but in the earthly things as well.
Shani envisions the Body as a whole working as one. Her heart is to bless the worldwide Body from Israel as the body blesses them as well. A mutual blessing: One new man working side by side in order to build up the Body. Shani wants to be used to give those who have been “grafted in” a chance to see, hear, experience, taste, and be connected to the root. So when asked why a group of people should invite her to come and speak, she answers it best by saying: “It is a little slice of time for us to come together and have our hearts encouraged in the move of God in this hour. To let the Holy Spirit lead us and give us revelation that encourages us to enter in and surrender more to the Lord and His work in our lives. If we don't sit together, how can we have fellowship? If we don’t come to the table, how can we break bread together?”
Letter of Recommendation
August, 2008
Mevasseret Zion
Dear Friends,
We are delighted to be sending Shani to the U. S. again this year for a brief three week tour, in which she will be sharing her own personal testimony, an update on what is happening in the state of Israel, an inside view on the Body of Messiah here, an update on our ministry activities at Revive Israel, and a variety of her own special prophetic teaching messages.
Shani is an amazing young lady, Israeli born, raised in a traditional Jewish family of Iranian background. She came to faith as a teenager, has grown in a variety of training programs, such as Souled Out (Chicago), Gateways Beyond in Cyprus, JAMM youth ministries in Jerusalem, Tiferet Yeshua congregation in Tel Aviv, and for the last 5 years at Revive Israel.
Don't let her youth and beauty fool you; she is a serious and dedicated member of our fivefold ministry team. She has served on the leadership of the Katsir national youth conferences with Eitan Shishkoff; she is a regular participant in our prophetic praise watches (often sharing "new" songs, visions or poems in original Hebrew); she also serves as the chief financial officer of our Amuta (NPO) in Israel.
In her capacity as CFO, she has a vision for raising the standard of financial accountability for all the Messianic NPO's in Israel, and believes in aggressive generosity to further the congregations, ministries, marketplace, and needy in the Body of Messiah here.
We send Shani to you as a full representative of our team. She shares our heart with integrity and anointing. She brings to you a little bit of all of us.
For the whole team at Revive Israel,
Asher Intrater
