Shalom!
I have exciting news:
Our fourth global conference on Russian Jewish church planting will take place on September 14-17, 2016.
Let me explain why this conference in Warsaw is perfect for honoring the past and affirming the bright future we have because of Jesus!
- Before the Holocaust, Poland was home to the largest Jewish community in Europe.
- Poland today still values its rich Jewish history.
- Chosen People Ministries was at work in Warsaw before the Holocaust and touched the lives of many Jewish people for the Lord.
We expect more than 100 Russian Jewish believers to attend. These dedicated people who are leading or planting congregations in the former Soviet Union, the United States, Canada and of course, in Israel!
Over the last 25 years, thousands of Russian Jewish people have come to know Jesus as their Messiah and Lord!
Because of 70 years of atheistic communism in the USSR, Russian Jewish people often have a strong cultural and ethnic identity as Jews, but know little about God, the scriptures, or the Messiah.
Today we find that Russian Jews are hungry to know more about the Lord.
Since the fall of the USSR, 1.5 million+ Russian Jews returned to Israel — and most believers in Israel would say that 60% of the Messianic Jews within Israel speak Russian as their mother tongue!
Your Mission to the Jewish People is a vital part of this movement: evangelizing, discipling, planting congregations and raising up leaders among the Israeli-Russian Jewish believers.
In fact, the director of our Israel work is a Ukrainian Jewish believer who found Jesus in Israel!
Israel has provided wonderful opportunities and a new start for Jewish people who have come to the Holy Land from areas of the world where they were persecuted. And many Russian-speaking Jewish people bless Israel with their advanced degrees, expertise in the arts, technology, medicine and many other skills.
Other Russian Jewish people are elderly and in desperate financial straits, relying on welfare as many are too old to work and unable to learn Hebrew with adequate proficiency to continue their professions.
With your help, we’re providing food, clothing, enrichment programs and so much more. Many of those we reach are Holocaust survivors. Our being there for them opens their hearts to Yeshua.
War-Torn Ukraine
We are also working intensively in various areas of Ukraine and in Moscow where we have begun two Chosen People Ministries’ Messianic congregations. Just this summer:
- We sponsored 14 services at Purim and Passover, attended by about 500-600 people.
- At the same time, we visited 179 Jewish families to distribute food.
- We launched three new “Fellowship groups” in 3 different cities: Kherson, Belaya Tzerkov, and Sevastopol.
- We funded humanitarian aid for disabled people, widows, elderly and needy Jewish people.
- 16 Jewish people became believers and began to attend to local Messianic congregations.
- And one new congregation in Chernigov was started.
The Future Is Bright for Russian Jewish Evangelism
As you can see, the Lord is doing a great work today among Jewish people! And your support makes all this, and more, possible.
The Russian Jewish Leadership Conference in Warsaw will greatly enhance our vision and work.
Yours in Messiah,
Dr. Mitch Glaser
President
Dr. Mitch Glaser 