Dear friend in Messiah,
I hope that you are enjoying the beginning of
your summer. The weather in New York City is
beautiful! Our New York staff is working hard
to prepare for 125 staff and volunteer evangelists
who will be joining us for one of the most significant
outreach campaigns ever conducted by Your
Mission to the Jewish People—Shalom New York.
We will focus our efforts this summer on
the greater New York area, which is home to
more than two million Jewish people. New
York has the largest concentration of Jewish
people in the world, which is why I sometimes
call it “Israel West”! This is why we have our
International Headquarters in
Manhattan and our training
and seminary program in
Brooklyn. It is also why we
will take the last week of July
and first week of August to
passionately share the gospel
with the Jewish people of
New York City.
Your prayers for our preparation
will be deeply appreciated.
We have already initiated
our digital media campaign,
offering our evangelistic book,
Isaiah 53 Explained, and the
opportunity to sign a petition
against antisemitism. We will
be reaching folks in the New
York area through intensified
Facebook and YouTube ads,
as well as promoting the more than eighty
testimonies of Messianic Jews on our website,
ifoundshalom.com.
Also, because we are developing such a great
love and burden for the ultra-Orthodox Jewish
people in this area, we are advertising the
Yiddish version of the Jesus film (thanks to the
generosity of Cru, formerly Campus Crusade
for Christ). In a previous experiment, hundreds
of Yiddish-speaking Jewish people watched a
ten-minute portion of the video, where they
clearly heard the gospel of our Lord Jesus in
their very own language.
It is our plan to have our volunteers who are
coming to New York City for this outreach
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follow up with the Jewish people with whom
we have made contact through these digital
media campaigns.
We are excited and looking forward to this time
of preparation for our on-the-ground campaign,
which will take place in parks, on the
beaches, and in other public places. Staff and
volunteers will be reaching out to Jewish people
through book tables in Jewish areas, by handing
out gospel tracts on the streets, as well as
performing skits and music.
Two Major Outreach Events
We are planning two major events for which
I ask your prayers. First, we will
conduct a seminar called “The
Value of the Old Testament
Scriptures for 21st-Century Life.”
We believe this will be of interest
to both the Jewish and Christian
communities. We have two great
speakers: a professor from Kings
College in New York City and
another from Trinity Evangelical
Divinity School in Chicago.
On Thursday night, August 8,
2019, we have scheduled a major
debate in Manhattan between
Dr. Michael Brown, a Messianic
Jewish apologist, and Rabbi
Shmuley Boteach, a well-known
Orthodox rabbi.
We are going all out this
summer, and what better way to
celebrate our 125th anniversary than to reaffirm
what Chosen People Ministries has been all
about for more than a century! Our mission
statement says it all: “Chosen People Ministries
exists to pray for, evangelize, disciple, and serve
the Jewish community everywhere, and help
fellow believers do the same.”
Your brothers and sisters who serve with
Chosen People Ministries in more than twenty
cities in the United States and in sixteen other
countries around the globe believe that Jewish
evangelism is a special mandate from God.
It can only be accomplished when men and
women who love the Messiah work together for
the salvation of God’s chosen people.
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JEWISH
EVANGELISM
Chosen People
Ministries exists
to pray for,
evangelize,
disciple, and
serve the Jewish
community
everywhere,
and help fellow
believers do the
same.
FROM THE PRESIDENT
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