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Jews for Jesus Newsletter July 2000

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Evangelism and Prayer by David Brickner

I can't exactly prove it. However, I believe that July remains one of our most fruitful months for evangelism because of the increased prayers on our behalf during this time. If you read last month's newsletter you know we are holding our annual witnessing campaigns in New York City, London, Paris and several other cities around the globe. True, Jews for Jesus campaigns are an all-out effort, but no amount of energy can explain the successes we experience at this time. We can't change people's hearts by our efforts any more than we can arrange to be in the right place…[ Full Article ]

Dear Jews for Jesus

Last July we received the following encouraging letter. Hope it will encourage you to pray for our New York City Campaigners as they hand out tracts this 4th of July. (We've enclosed the tract to which the writer refers.) Dear Jews for Jesus, Words fail me…but I had to write. You see, I am an American Christian living in Trinidad in the West Indies (off the coast of Venezuela). I have been praying for my 31-year-old son for years and years. The last time he visited me (April of this year) he even refused to go to church with me (my husband was the late…[ Full Article ]

The Prayer Push by Karol Joseph

I sensed the first time I met Rhonda that it was only a matter of time before she would accept Jesus as her personal Savior. Only a few days after Rhonda met one of our volunteers at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto during our Summer Witnessing Campaign, she was on the phone to our office asking when the literature we promised would arrive. I offered to come and bring it to her in person, and she eagerly agreed. I met Rhonda the very next evening. She recounted to me the many people she'd already spoken with about Jesus, including a pastor of a local…[ Full Article ]

A Message from Moishe on Prayer by Moishe Rosen

Ilearned to protect my intimacy with God early on in my Christian life. It is not that I hoard my relationship with God for fear that another person will become His favorite. It is just that somehow the very intimate aspects of a relationship seem to me to become common and profane when verbalized. Everyone who has ever been in love knows that "code words," special things people say to each other, would sound silly or worse if exposed to scrutiny. There is such an intimate level of knowing God that we must seek privately, and it has much to do with prayer.…[ Full Article ]

More Campaign Stories from 1999

We didn't have enough space last month to print all the encouraging campaign stories from 1999, so thought we'd include a few more to inspire you to pray for this year's Campaigns. It was Keith Greenberg's first sortie (tract-passing expedition) of the Campaign and he prayed with three people to receive the Lord! He approached a young Muslim woman and after he explained the gospel she acknowledged that Jesus is God and asked him to pray with her! Two other people—one man from Tibet who'd never heard of Jesus and another man from China—were both open to…[ Full Article ]

40 Years of Camping Wasn't Enough—Camp Gilgal by Joshua Sofaer

Long summer days, laughter, mediocre food, friends forever, crazy skits, games, songs and a campfire. These are memories that many people associate with their summer camp experiences. But if you were a Jewish kid who's been to the Jews for Jesus-sponsored Camp Gilgal, you would add Hebrew, Shabbat and the Gilgal Gazette (our camp newspaper) to your list of camp experiences. It's been noted time and time again that one of the best places for children to receive Jesus into their lives is at camp. Our Camp Gilgal is no exception, and we've seen many come to faith in…[ Full Article ]

Bits from the Branches

Missionary trainee Dinah Sered reports from New York, "Our computer-generated directions simply were not getting my husband Dan and me to our destination: a church in Brooklyn where we were to speak. As soon as we realized we were headed toward Queens, we got off the expressway and asked a policeman for directions. Somehow we were unable to find the street we asked him for, but we did find another that took us in the right direction. In fact, each time we thought we were lost, we would find a different street that would lead us to the church. And that is exactly how…[ Full Article ]