West Frankfort native waited 40 years to enter Israel

http://www.wfgazette.com/features/west-frankfort-native-waited-years-to-enter-israel/article_decf1942-7a29-11e7-ae96-1315e8669a3c.html

WEST FRANKFORT, IL – (Tim Hastings, West Frankfort Gazette.  Please click the link above for the full story.  Here is an excerpt below.)

Nathan Lewis – WF Gazette Photo

An 83-year-old West Frankfort native, who has lived in Israel for more than 40 years, said he knew from age eight his life’s purpose had something to do with the nation many consider to be the Promised Land.

“When I was a child I heard my mother and my aunt talk about our possible Jewish ancestry,” Lewis said. “I wasn’t paying particular attention and I have no proof that it is true.” Lewis told his story last week seated in a comfortable chair in the living room of his childhood home on South Day Street in West Frankfort. He has been in the U.S. for several months for medical treatments and hopes to return to Jerusalem in September.

“As a child anything that pertained to Israel—books, magazine, or speakers—tugged at me,”Lewis said.  “I knew from eight-years-old I had a call to Israel. I just knew that God’s presence was in me somehow. I knew that somehow my destiny was connected with Israel.”