When I woke up on October 7 and my daughter Emily texted me that Israel was at war, the very first person I messaged was my Christian sister, Callie Mitchell. You may recognize her name, as she was a guest on the show earlier this year sharing with us about Messianic Judaism. When she responded, she said her family were safe and that they had spent the day in a bomb shelter. Now that she's had some time to process the recent events in her country, I've asked her to come on and talk to us about what happened and how to best pray for our Christian family who live in Israel.

Questions we discussed:

• How did you come to love the Jewish people, and how did you, as an American, come to live in Jerusalem?

• Tell us about the day of the invasion and what your family and your community has been going through?

• How is the Messianic community responding to the crisis?

• What is the difference between a Jew and a Zionist? And why do I keep seeing pictures on Twitter of Orthodox Jews saying that they aren’t Zionists and that they support Palestinians?

• What can you tell us about the history of Hamas? Do they represent the Palestinian people?