Hong Kong believers have continued to participate in the Shalom Brooklyn outreach each summer.
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Emet Ministries works with the local church body and has
been involved in various forms of Jewish evangelism, such
as personal ministry, Shabbat services, numerous equipping
events in which we teach the local body how to reach Jewish
people with the gospel, and through this, by the grace of God,
Jewish people (as well as Gentiles) have come to salvation.
We also partner with local Messianic ministries and
congregations in South Africa, as well as with Messianic
ministries and churches in Israel, America, and Ukraine,
working with them to share the gospel with Jewish people in
South Africa and around the world.
Emet Ministries’ vision is to expand Jewish ministry throughout
South Africa, and to take the truth of God’s heart for the
Jewish people and Israel to the church.
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Chosen People Ministries has had a warm and supportive
relationship with Hephzibah Evangelistic Center, an
independent local church in Hong Kong, since the 1930s. This
church is deeply committed to supporting Jewish missions
and gives 10 percent of its regular offering income toward
evangelistic work among God’s chosen people.
During the early 1990s, former Chosen People Ministries
president Sam Nadler visited Hong Kong and began
strengthening relationships between Chosen People
Ministries and Hong Kong believers. Later, current
president Mitch Glaser visited in 1998 and was similarly
warmly received. Since then, Dr. Glaser has returned almost
every other year, sharing at different services and public
meetings. These meetings are received warmly by the
believers in Hong Kong.
In the meantime, several Hong Kong believers joined the
Summer Training and Evangelism Program (STEP) in New
York City, which is now called Shalom Brooklyn. Two of them,
Gershon L. and Mark Lam, with encouragement from Dr.
Glaser, went to Moody Bible Institute for the special one-year
Jewish Studies program. Gershon and Mark have remained in
fellowship with Dr. Glaser and have assisted him greatly during
his visits to Hong Kong. A shared dream of setting up a Hong
Kong office of Chosen People Ministries began to grow.
In the fall of 2007, Chosen People Ministries Hong Kong
finally came into being, and Gershon and four others formed
the board of directors. Mark Lam serves as the Executive
Director. We have five Hong Kong Chinese workers serving
the Lord in Hong Kong, New York City, Israel, and at times
in Australia and New Zealand as volunteers.
Our main goals in Hong Kong are reaching Chinese churches
and other Christians about issues relating to Jewish
evangelism and culture, praying for Israel and her salvation,
holding missions trips and seminars, and helping raise
finances toward Chosen People Global Ministries.
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Cedar Ministry International (CMI) is our CPGM global
partner in South Korea. CMI is led by TaeKwon Jung.
TaeKwon shares, “After I completed YWAM’s Discipleship
Training School (DTS) in 1998, the direction of my ministry
became clear. Through three months of valuable training, God
narrowed down my ministry to ministry to the Jewish people,
saying to me, ‘To the Jew First.’ In line with this guidance, I
applied to an M. Div. program at Presbyterian University and
Theological Seminary with which Onnuri Church had been
associated. I started my journey in the Seminary in 1999.”
The first and utmost mission of CMI is to return the Jewish
King Messiah Yeshua to the contemporary Jewish people so
that they would see Him, their King Messiah again in this
end time.
The core ministries of CMI include Jewish evangelism in
Israel, Thailand, India, and the United States, Israel education
through seminars, Bible study programs for pastors and
churches, and modern and biblical Hebrew classes, leading
an Israel tour which includes worship, prayer, evangelism,
fellowship, and much more.