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Warsaw

From 3 to 9 September 2007, the city of Warsaw, Poland, hosted a Jewish cultural festival, just before Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. We sent a team of four Jewish believers in Jesus and two German believers in Jesus. Once there, we were joined by some Polish Christians who have a desire to see the Gospel brought to our Jewish people, and who have a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed to the Polish people from Jewish lips. Perhaps for the first time since the end of the Second World War (maybe even in all history), Jews, Germans and Poles stood on the streets of Warsaw, proclaiming the Good News of the Messiah Y’shua. What a testimony of the reconciling power of the cross! In add ...[ continue reading ]

Shalom from Jews for Jesus in Germany

Why Germany?

In 1991, the Jewish population of Germany stood at 31,000 German-speaking Jews. Today, the population stands at 230,000 Jewish people, and 200,000 are Russian-speaking Jewish immigrants who've moved to Germany, mostly in the last 15 years. This has made Germany one of the largest Jewish mission fields in Central Europe. To meet that challenge, we Jews for Jesus have established our German office in the city of Essen, with volunteers in Berlin, Frankfurt and Stuttgart. Leonid Dolganovsky leads the work, and serving along side him are two other full-time missionary outreach workers, Dina Markova, and Yulia Sokol. Our part-time adminstrative worker, Ilse Malekshahi, keeps the office running so that the missionaries can concentrate on the day-to-day evangelistic work of handing out literature, visiting people in their homes, conducting personal and small group Bible studies – and doing everything else they can do in order to bring the Good News to our people in Germany. Avi Snyder, the European Director of Jews for Jesus, also lives in Essen with his wife, Ruth. From Germany, Avi oversees our ministries in Europe and in the former USSR.

Jewish Evangelism in Germany is Unique

Twenty years ago, no one would have envisioned either the collapse of the Soviet Union or the emigration of 200,000 Russian-speaking Jews to a united Germany! The fact that so many of our people have moved to this land can't be seen simply as a series of unexpected political events. God is behind these events, and it makes sense to ask, "What's He doing?" We Jews for Jesus have an idea. We think that God has brought 200,000 Russian-speaking Jews to Germany for at least three reasons:

• so that these Jewish people may hear the Gospel and be saved,
• so that German non-believers may hear the Gospel from Jewish lips and be saved,
• and so that all Germany and perhaps all Europe may see Jews and Germans, proclaiming the Gospel together.

Some Recent Highlights

Though our work in Germany is fairly new and still building, God has blessed us with some wonderful victories. For example...

The World Cup Games. Last summer (June, 2006), teams of staff and volunteers traveled to eight of the cities hosting the World Cup games. Though our numbers were few (just 2 – 4 in each city), we were able to hand out over 63,000 of our Jewish Gospel "broadside" tracts and interact with Jewish and non-Jewish people from all over the world. Standing on the streets with our shirts that said "Jews for Jesus" in German and English caused a good Gospel stir, and no small number of football or soccer fans turned astonished heads when they saw Jews proclaiming the Gospel in Germany without shame or fear. Look at the encouraging article, "An Unexpected Flag at the World Cup," for a better understanding of the impact that the Lord allowed us to have.

Our "Behold Your God" campaign in Berlin. During the month of July, 2005, a team of twenty "Jews for Jesus" and ten "Germans for Jesus" took to the streets of Berlin. In three and half weeks, the team handed out over 300,000 of our broadsides and gathered the names and addresses of 115 Jewish people and 370 non-Jews who wanted to know more about the Lord. Think of it. For the first time in recent history, a significant number of Jews and Germans stood side by side, proclaiming the Good News together. What a testimony to the love of God and to the reconciling power of Messiah's cross!

How to be Involved from Afar

If you’d like to be kept up-to-date on our efforts in Germany so that you can pray for us, we’ll be happy to send you an electronic version of our German "Rundbrief”(Newsletter) in ENGLISH. Just click here ...

Please pray...

Now that you’ve read a little bit, would you please pray…

• For God to continue opening the hearts of our Jewish people in Germany
• For more staff missionaries, especially German-speaking Jewish believers in Germany
• For more and more German Christians to come along side the work of Jews for Jesus with the prayers and support

Before you go...

Perhaps you've never given your heart to the Messiah Y'shua If you haven't, then that's probably why God gave you the interest in looking at this page. You can know his love and forgiveness, and you can receive His free gift of an everlasting, intimate relationship with Him by believing that Y'shua died for your sins and rose from the dead, just as Moses and the prophets promised before hand in Tanach. Are you willing to take that step? Or would you like to know more?.