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1. 1. Jews for Jesus Canada

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   Published on: 5/16/2008   Last Visited: 5/16/2008

   Director of Jews for Jesus Canada
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   Staff Evangelist, Jews for Jesus Canada
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   Office Administrator, Jews for Jesus Canada
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   Newsletter Editor, Jews for Jesus Canada
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   Board Member of Jews for Jesus Canada
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2. 2. Jews for Jesus Canada

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   As Jews for Jesus we take that a step further, recognizing that we are dependent on God and His Word for all that we do.Apart from Christ and the power of His Spirit, we can do nothing.Yet we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us.And through Him we can commit ourselves to certain values.
   
   I think it is important for individuals and organizations alike to be mindful of the values that help define us.Recently, our Jews for Jesus staff articulated a "Core Values" statement to help us rally around our fundamental commitments.Core values don't represent an exhaustive list of all our commitments, nor are they meant to serve as a doctrinal statement.They do point out key scriptural principles that serve to identify us and how we conduct our ministry around the world.Core values help define what makes Jews for Jesus unique.Our Boards of Directors around the world unanimously adopted our "Core Values" statement (please see list at end).
   
   I wanted to share those core values with you, our friends and supporters of Jews for Jesus, to encourage you and to help you understand our basic commitments.
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   Yet throughout history, many Jewish missions and missionaries who began by wanting to talk to Jews about Jesus have ended up talking to the Church about Jews.
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   Jesus didn't tell us to go into all the world and plant churches.
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   That is why you will find us Jews for Jesus out on the streets and on college campuses handing out our gospel tracts.
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   We Jews for Jesus don't shy away from the word missionary, but we like to describe our ministry as apostolic.That's apostolic with a small "a."
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   At Jews for Jesus, we see missionaries as those who are willing to have "bility": availability, vulnerability and mobility.
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   The fact that they openly identify as Jews for Jesus allows interested Jewish people to find them, but it also makes them targets of virulent anti-Semites.
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   We have a saying at Jews for Jesus: reach out to many to win a few.
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   Most Jews live in and around major metropolitan areas; therefore Jews for Jesus is an urban ministry.
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   Jews for Jesus currently has stations in nineteen cities, and only two full-time mobile evangelistic teams.But most of our missionaries are away from home on ministry business several weeks out of the year.
   
   In fact, this month you may have received notice that one of our Jews for Jesus missionaries will be in your area presenting Christ in the Passover.We have staff all over the world traveling and ministering as they deliver this dynamic evangelistic message.If we are coming to a church near you, I hope you will be able to attend a presentation.You might even bring a Jewish friend, or any friend for that matter, who needs to hear about Jesus.
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   If we are to continue making the Messiahship of Jesus an unavoidable issue to our Jewish people worldwide, we need "bility"-availability, vulnerability and mobility.
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   We at Jews for Jesus identify ourselves as being principle-based because we have prayerfully thought through our principles and standards and committed ourselves, in advance, to certain courses of action, even before we face the decision.
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   It happened one hot, muggy afternoon when a team of Jews for Jesus was handing out tracts on 47th Street in mid-town Manhattan.For those who don't know, 47th Street is known as the Diamond district, and many Orthodox Jews work there.Before long, a handful of young Jews for Jesus in their late teens and early twenties were surrounded by scores of Orthodox Jews.The crowd quickly turned into an angry mob.Just as our team members were facing the potential for real bodily harm, one of New York's finest, an Irishman named officer O'Malley, waded into the midst of the crowd and began berating our team."How dare you come here like this," he shouted at them.
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   But I still believe this principle is right for Jews for Jesus because, when your name is Jews for Jesus, you better maintain truth in advertising.
   
   Many non-Jews serve in positions of great importance on our staff.But when it comes to direct missionary work and the public proclamation of the gospel, our ministry has a unique contribution to make.We are proof-positive to the world that you can be Jewish and believe in Jesus.
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   They willingly serve with us behind-the-scenes because they recognize the unique contribution that our ministry makes as Jews for Jesus, and we are thankful to have them serving with us.
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   While it is considered traitorous for Jews to believe in Jesus, our perceived "treason" might be overlooked if not for the fact that we are committed to making our personal beliefs public, committed to making the Messiahship of Jesus an unavoidable issue.This is looked upon as a violation of "the Jewish way" of treating religion as a very private matter.
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   This has been a great benefit to Jews for Jesus and helps keep us motivated to try to be above reproach.
   
   Most of us have a natural resistance to accountability and that is why we need to commit ourselves to systems and groups.Such systems and groups can hold us accountable when we don't feel like it as well as when we do (and isn't it when we don't feel like being accountable that we need it the most?).Jews for Jesus has internal and external accountability systems (see Related Content below)that protect us from scandal as well as enable us to be more effective as a mission.
   
   Our accountability to one another is not an authoritarian hierarchy.We work hard on mutual accountability through a commitment to teamwork.Everyone has a chance to give input.
   
   I deeply appreciate our Jews for Jesus staff because while I am responsible to hold them accountable, I know many of them would do the same for me.If I were inclined to say or do something contrary to the stated commitments of Jews for Jesus, my co-workers would be quick to point it out.
   
   In addition to protecting us from error and stirring us to good works, accountability offsets our natural tendency to think more highly of ourselves than we ought.The very fact of accountability is a reminder that we need help from others in order to be what we should be.And in Jews for Jesus, our internal accountability prevents us from posturing ourselves as being smarter or braver or just generally better than we really are.
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   As believers in Jesus, we are God's royal priesthood.
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   We at Jews for Jesus would appreciate your prayers for us to be true to this core value of integrity and faithfulness, that each of us would continually be conscious of pleasing God, who sees everything.
   
   Faithfulness is not only a matter of morality; it's also a matter of enduring.Summer is always a time of trial and testing as many Jews for Jesus staff and volunteers are handing out broadsides (tracts) on the hot and humid streets of New York, London, Paris, Moscow and St. Petersburg.I'm joining them in New York for part of this month and I can tell you, standing out on the streets and in the subways four times a day to hand out gospel tracts is not a glamorous task.It is often mundane and boring and generally uncomfortable-though the discomfort seems to disappear when we meet people who really want to hear about Jesus.
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   If we are to make the Messiahship of Jesus an unavoidable issue to our Jewish people who are committed to avoiding it, we must bring to bear every ounce of creativity we can.
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   The other is the pain, the anguish that we feel over the lost, that leads us to keep digging deeper to find some new way of challenging people to consider Jesus.These are the elements the Holy Spirit uses to guide and draw forth our creativity.When I ask you to pray that we in Jews for Jesus will continue to strive as a creative communications cadre, it is a spiritual request.Complacency is the enemy of both joy and anguish.It can dull our sensitivities and our edge-and it is inevitable apart from spiritual renewal.So, please continue asking God to renew us!
   
   When I became the executive director of Jews for Jesus, I told our staff that I believe the best songs have yet to be recorded; the best books have yet to be written; the best literature has yet to be developed and the best methods of outreach have yet to be employed in proclaiming the gospel.
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   No, I don't think we Jews for Jesus are the most courageous or heroic people on the mission field.
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   You see, before his termination from the ABMJ, Moishe and some of those young, Jewish, ex-hippies for Jesus had committed themselves to staying together, working side-by-side for 12 months.So with no certain source of income to support his wife and two daughters, Moishe took a risk-and Jews for Jesus was born.
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   Because of their courage and willingness to take risks, today there are 30 Russian Jews for Jesus staff members in the former Soviet Union: in

3. 3. Jews for Jesus Canada

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   But now they are Jews who believe in Jesus as the Messiah of Israel!
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   When Amy was just old enough to speak, her parents and older brother prayed with her to live her life for Jesus.
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   Like young Amy's prayer to live for Jesus, it is another example of a simple childhood experience making a lasting impact and charting the course of an individual's life.
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   More recently, Amy served in Canada as our Children and Youth Worker.
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