| Annette
Nolting
October 8th, 1941 - March 8th,
2011
Annette Nolting, 69, of Jerusalem, Israel and Germany
passed away Tuesday evening, March 8th, 2011 at the French Hospital
in Jerusalem.
Annette was an only child, born on October 8th, 1941 in Graz,
Austria in the midst of World War II. Prior to her birth, her
father, a German paratrooper, died on the North African front.
Annette was raised by her mother, a social worker, in Dortmund,
Germany in the home of her maternal grandparents. Her grandfather
was a Lutheran pastor.
In 1967, Annette’s mother passed away at the age of 52 and
her grandparents both died the following year. At the age of 27,
Annette essentially was left without family.
Annette, who was a trained librarian, became friends with a co-worker,
Lisa, while working at a library in Essen. Lisa introduced her
sister, Ilse Seegers, to Annette in 1973. Ilse, a born-again Christian,
led Annette to the Lord and became like a spiritual mother to
her.
In 1979, both Ilse and Annette began to hear from the Lord that
they would go to Israel one day. In October, 1982, during the
Feast of Tabernacles, Ilse arrived in Jerusalem—exactly
on the day that the chapel of Baptist House had been burnt to
the ground by arsonists. She immediately began helping clean up
the grounds. Annette arrived that following January, 1983.
For the next 17 years, Ilse and Annette sacrificially cared for
elderly Holocaust survivors full time. They also were dedicated
members of the Narkis Street Congregation at Baptist House, faithfully
serving the Lord and the community.
Just before Passover 2000, Annette and Ilse moved into the tiny
volunteer’s apartment at Baptist House because God had told
them to serve the four congregations in a deeper way. It was in
this narrow, prayer-filled, convent-like apartment that Ilse went
to be with the Lord, October 1st, 2003. Annette continued her
work as deaconess and doorkeeper up until she was hospitalized
in March 2010.
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“Better is one day in your courts
than a thousand elsewhere;
I would rather be a doorkeeper
in the house of my God
than dwell in the tents of the wicked.”
Ps. 84:10
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“How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord Almighty!
My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
Even the sparrow has found a home,
and the swallow a nest for herself,
where she may have her young,
a place near your altar,
O Lord Almighty,
my King and
my God.”
Ps. 84:1-3
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