In Chicago, Melissa Moskowitz happily reported what she hopes is the first of many witnessing opportunities resulting from her Jews for Jesus Family Cookbook. Melissa's friend Lillian, a Jewish believer in Y'shua, invited her to make challah (a braided egg bread, traditionally eaten on Friday night). Two unbelieving Jewish friends, Pam and Harriet, also came. Melissa says, Maybe it was the warmth of the kitchen or that we all had our hands in the dough. Whatever it was, we immediately started talking about spiritual matters. I told my testimony to Harriet, who latched onto my words like a ship that needed a place to drop its anchor!"

On my way to visit a Jewish man who had expressed an interest in Jesus, I decided to drop in on one of the local churches. That particular church belonged to a mainline evangelical denomination, and though I had never met the pastor, I was hoping to introduce myself. We like to know the pastors of such congregations because it provides us with a good list of churches we can recommend to people we lead to Jesus. Often some of the church members will even undertake to pray for us as we are ministering in their locality.

The one ministry of Jews for Jesus that is not directly evangelistic is deputation. Through deputation, we win the hearts of God's people to our cause so that they become involved in witnessing, praying and giving to the end that Jewish people might be saved. We present ourselves to be deputized by the church and its individual members to proclaim the message of the Messiah.

His back to my face, the street straight ahead,
He turns, says, Thanks," and accepts my tract.
His face to the wind and also to me, now he sees my shirt,
Reacts to "Jesus" with internal flack.