Never Again: The Holocaust Remembered
FROM THE
PRESIDENT
Dear friend,
Shalom in our Messiah, Jesus. I am so grateful for all
those who have sent us messages of goodwill in honor
of our 125th anniversary as a ministry. I am also very
grateful for those who have given to our CPM 125th
Advancement Campaign. We hope to reach our
target of raising an additional $1,250,000, which
will help us with our goal of reaching 125,000
people, both Jewish and Gentile, who either need
to be reached with the gospel or who want to share
the good news with their Jewish friends.
We have already engaged with more than 75,000
individuals online. To be specific, we now have their
names, home addresses, and e-mails for follow-up. By
God’s grace, two thousand of them are Israeli non-believers
who we met through our Hebrew Isaiah 53 campaign.
We are expecting to meet thousands more as 125 staff
and volunteers will pour out into the streets of New York
City during the last week of July and first week of August
for our Shalom New York outreach! The volunteers are
subsidizing themselves, but we are providing the funds
needed for our staff to come from across the globe. We
will even have a team of Israelis from Israel reaching
Israelis in New York City.
If it sounds exciting—it is! Our local New York
missionaries, congregations, Bible studies, and disciplemakers
are ready to do the follow-up with those seeking
the Lord. So please pray often, give generously, and
consider joining us for Shalom New York! There is still
space available for you. Visit shalomnyoutreach.com for
more information!
Holocaust Memorial Day
The United States Congress established May 2 as
Holocaust Remembrance Day. Many of us have expanded
this to the entire month of May and are holding various
lectures and memorial services to commemorate this
terrible moment in Jewish history.
As a Jewish person, I grew up under the dark shadow cast
by the Holocaust. My grandparents were pre-Holocaust
European Jewish immigrants to the United States. Like so
many others, they never talked about those tragic days.
They did not walk through it personally but knew a lot
more than they would ever tell us. Perhaps they wanted
to spare us from the horrific details of this nightmarish
chapter in Jewish history. I was raised with photographs
of my aunts and uncles that I would never meet because
they died in the Holocaust.
TRAGEDY
OPENS OUR EYES TO GOD’S
PRESENCE. IT IS DURING THE DIFFICULT
TIMES THAT WE RECOGNIZE HE IS
ALWAYS PRESENT AND POWERFUL,
AND THAT EVEN DEATH AND
DESTRUCTION CANNOT KEEP
US FROM HIM.
2 The Chosen People | MAY 2019
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