Testimonies
At the heart of Chosen People Ministries is person-to-person, heart-to-heart evangelism. Below
are some stories of how God is using our staff to reach Jewish people where they are with
the life-saving message of Jesus, our Jewish Messiah!
Chosen People Ministries staff members are missionaries and
Cathy Wilson – Scottsdale, AZ
Shelly*: Shelly and I exchanged several e-mails and voicemails
before we finally connected in person. Shelly was
transparent and said, “I’m an atheist.” I asked her why. Her
animosity was overshadowed by her quivering voice, which
spoke to me of hope. She told me that she’d been calling out
to God for years regarding her chronic back pain and cancer.
“He’s not answering me,” she said. Following two very
lengthy conversations on the phone in which I relayed much
Scripture, during another phone conversation on September
6, 2017, Shelly prayed aloud, confessing her sin and placing
her trust in Jesus! After having known the Lord for two days,
Shelly asked me to pray that her faith would grow! A week
and a half later, Shelly shared that she’d been singing, “Jesus
loves me this I know, for His mercy shows me so.”
On June 24, 2018, while living in a group home, Shelly was
baptized. God did indeed transform a heart that had been
most resistant toward Him. She passed away some time
later and at the Jewish cemetery, I shared, “We are here at
Shelly’s grave-site, but Shelly is not here. Shelly is dancing
with Jesus!” We sang, “Jesus
loves me this I know for His
mercy shows me so.”
Alma*: Alma came to faith
in Jesus on December 15,
2016 when she entered the
coffee shop where we were
engaging in Bible study and
announced, as she came
through the door, “We have
no Temple, we have no altar,
we have no sacrifice. How
are our sins forgiven?” I
had told her the same thing
many times, however, she
had just listened to the testimony
of a Jewish believer
who mentioned the same.
God’s timing is perfect!
Immediately after praying
and placing her trust in
Jesus, she exclaimed, “I feel as if I just had a shekinah experience!”
I told her, “You have. God now dwells in you.” When
we walked out of the coffee shop that day, she looked at me
with a huge smile and announced, “I’m a Jewish believer in
Jesus.” And, she practically skipped to her car!
Doug Pyle – New York, NY
I was contacted by a religious Jewish young man to whom
I had given a copy of my book What the Rabbonim Say about
Moshiach with my phone number written in it. He called
me a month later and asked me to come to visit him in a
halfway house where he was living. After many trips to this
facility with pizza and soft drinks (and prophecy editions
of the New Testament and occasional Bible studies in the
Hebrew prophets) for him and his friends, he called me
up one Sunday night. He said, “I’ve been reading the New
Testament, and it had a page in it that tells someone how to
accept Jesus...and I did it! There is so much peace!”
Riding with him and others to a church service after that,
he announced to everyone in the car, “I’m a Christian!” At
that time, he himself was the first Jewish Christian he knew
until he was introduced to a Jewish staff member of Chosen
People Ministries. This young man became ill a few months
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