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Elizabeth Mickel-Cassutto founded LightBeacon Ministries in 1996, after she realized that the Church was missing out on understanding its role and relationship to Israel, her Judeo-Christian roots, and role of Israel and the nation in the End Times. In 1997, she attended the Messianic Jewish Alliance of America or MJAA, an international conference of believing Jewish and Christians, held every summer in Pennsylvania. Having just published her prophetic book, Buried Treasure, while attending the events at MJAA, Liz was also a booktable vendor at that conference, in the Messianic Marketplace.

In the meantime, Ben Cassutto was attending his first Messianic Jewish conference. His parents, were Holocaust survivors from Holland who became believers in Yeshua, (the name of Jesus in Hebrew), during World War II. Ben's father, the late Rev. Dr. Ernest H. Cassutto, even took his faith a step further and became a minister and missionary to the Jewish people. In 1974, he published his experiences during the holocaust in an autobiography entitled, The Last Jew of Rotterdam. Over the years, Ben and his siblings have received many requests for the book, but it was out of print. At the conference, the Lord had put it on Ben's heart to update and revise the book. It was there Ben met Liz. He was attracted to her colorful book table, her clear love for the Jewish people, and the book she had written. Ben read the book in one night and knew that this woman was to be his wife. Ben was in the U.S. Army at the time, and he was about to hop on a plane to Okinawa, Japan. In the next few days after he got to the conference,  he got Liz' address, and for eight months they increased the profit margins of long distance carriers. In Febraury of 1998, Ben proposed to Liz while on a vacation, where Liz came to meet him. They were married on June 7, 1998 in Allentown, PA. where Liz was born. During this time, Ben earnestly researched his family experiences during the Holocaust, both in Holland and in the United States. His mother, Elisabeth Rodrigues, was also a Holocaust survivor from Holland. Finally, in September of 2001, The Last Jew of Rotterdam, the revised edition, was published by Purple Pomegranite, a division of Jews for Jesus.