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You Can Make Twice the Impact!

October 30, 2017

Early next year, our team of skilled and dedicated medical professionals – most of whom volunteer their time – will finally head to Chitsungo, Zimbabwe, to serve a community called the Lemba. These are Jews who, according to their oral history, migrated to Africa from Israel about 2,500 years ago!

They’ll host a 5-day Medical Clinic for thousands of impoverished Jewish people and their neighbors in this remote village in the northern part of the country.

I say “finally” because we’d planned to go in July. But the trip had to be cancelled due to heavy rains and washed-out roads that cut off our access to thousands of people in need of healing and hope.

While we care for everyone who comes to us, we’re especially called to minister to Jewish people in remote parts of the world, many of whom are descended from the Nation of Israel that was scattered.

We call them “Lost Tribes” – pockets of Jewish people who often live in poverty and isolation. Because of their ancient Jewish customs, they often are rejected and isolated – and in some places persecuted by the surrounding cultures.

And almost always, they struggle with a lack of access to even the most basic services, like medical care.

So much suffering! Won’t you help?

While it’s painful to me and our team to see the depth of suffering and need these people experience every day, I’m convinced our work in Chitsungo can have a dramatic lasting impact – both physically and spiritually.

But I need you to stand with me and other Jewish Voice partners to ensure that these impoverished people get the help they need.

Will you join me by sending the most generous gift you can to care for these struggling, isolated Jewish people?

Each $30 you send right now will provide them:

  • Medical care, surgeries and emergency treatment
  • Dental and eye care
  • An opportunity to hear the Good News of Jesus, their Messiah

Through your gift today, you’ll be the hands, feet and heart of Yeshua (Jesus) to these desperate people. Just as the Lord healed so many, you now can help these precious people find healing and hope.

The average cost of care for one person at a Jewish Voice Medical Clinic is only $30. But right now, your gift will accomplish even more to help the Lemba people of Chitsungo, Zimbabwe. Here’s how …

DOUBLE your gift. Reach TWICE as many Jewish people!

Right now, a $400,000 Matching Grant provided by some generous partners of Jewish Voice will DOUBLE any gift received by November 30.

That means when you give by that date, your gift effectively will be matched dollar for dollar. You can bring physical healing to TWICE as many Jewish people in Zimbabwe.

But most important, as we gain the trust of those we serve, we’ll have the opportunity to share with them the motivation behind our care: our faith in Jesus, the One who died for them and wants them to receive the gift of eternal life.

And that’s what we – and YOU – want to do above all else. These Jewish men, women and children will see that our kindness comes from an earnest faith that compels us to reach out with compassion in the name of Jesus, the Messiah.

During our recent Medical Outreach – in Buhera, Zimbabwe, just a few months ago – we were able to treat 9,610 patients. An amazing 315 of them accepted Yeshua as Messiah for the first time!

Miracles still happen today. God can work among His people through you!

Our experience with a woman named Memory is just one example of how your gift can transform lives.

Memory, who is about 44 years old, was brought to the Clinic on a stretcher by her sister. She was suffering from a variety of serious medical problems, including near total paralysis that kept her from walking or talking.

After being examined by our medical team, we prayed in faith for her healing. In a miraculous display of His limitless power, the Messiah healed her body.

Memory stood up … she walked … and talked! She was so happy, she asked our counselors to guide her in a prayer of salvation. Her sister, who witnessed her healing, also prayed to receive Jesus.

Word of the miracle – and you can’t call it anything but that – spread quickly, prompting several members of the local medical team working with us to come to faith too. Soon, the news had spread community-wide!

This is the kind of impact you can have when your financial support is multiplied by the $400,000 Matching Grant I mentioned earlier.

Miraculous results like these will be possible, but only through your generosity. And with the Chitsungo Clinic coming quickly, your gift is urgently needed.

Through your generous gift today – doubled by the $400,000 Matching Grant – you’ll bring healing in the form of medical, dental and eye care to those in desperate need.

What’s more, as you help us address physical suffering, many people will be moved to open up to the message of God’s love we’ve come to share.

Your gift of $30 will go TWICE as far, providing care for two people. $90 will care for six people. And $150 will care for 10 people!

The more generous you can be, the more people you’ll reach with real help, and also hope through an introduction to their promised Messiah and Savior, Jesus.

As my way of saying thank you for your support today, I’d like to send you a special gift in appreciation for your partnership in this important outreach.

For a gift of any size, I’ll send you a boxed set of 12 Light of the World Holiday Note Cards. Featuring Isaiah 9:2 on the front, they’ll help you share the true light of Yeshua during the coming holidays.

If you can give $40 or more, you’ll receive the note cards, plus the photo book Comfort, O Comfort My People, which chronicles our outreach to the Beta Israel of Ethiopia, and the 2018 Jewish Voice Ministries Calendar.

And if you can give at least $100 now, I’ll send you – along with the gifts above – a lovely Chanukiah, just in time for the Chanukah season. The brochure I’ve enclosed for you gives more detail on these gifts.

Won’t you please send your most generous gift possible right now to provide both physical and spiritual care to the Jewish people of Zimbabwe? Thank you!

 

Multiply the impact of your prayers!

October 26, 2017

Praying for these leaders will help multiply the impact of your prayers!

 

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Through prayer, you can impact the life of one person or even a room full of people. What if your prayers could impact a room of almost 400 individuals, and all of them were leaders – leaders who, once they were on the receiving end of the Lord’s answers to your prayers, left that room and went on to impact the thousands and thousands under their care and influence?

This is your invitation to have that kind of impact through your prayer!

From November 6-8, Jewish Voice Ministries will be hosting nearly 400 leaders of the Messianic Movement in a special three-day gathering.

The attendees head up Messianic Jewish Congregations, Messianic para-congregational ministries, or are pastors of churches with Jewish ministries within their churches. They come from all around the United States as well as from Israel and other nations.

As these brothers and sisters gather to be transformed in their leadership, there is the potential that the entire Messianic Movement across the world could be touched in some way. Your prayers can help unleash that potential when you come before the throne and seek the Lord on their behalf.

Let’s pray now for:

  • Jewish Voice Ministries to effectively host this event and accomplish our part in seeing the prayer requests (below) answered, as we trust the Lord to do far more than what we can
  • All logistics to come together smoothly
  • The Lord to prepare the hearts of every speaker, presenter and attendee
  • The presence of the Lord to be in every meeting, conversation, and aspect of the gathering
  • God to be glorified and, ultimately, thousands of Jewish people including Messianic Believers to be impacted through this gathering of many leaders

Please pray for the Messianic Jewish leaders in attendance to:

  • Be encouraged, edified and strengthened in vision, faith and our mutual calling
  • Share wisdom, insight and experiences with one another that will help co-laborers bear increased fruit in Jewish ministry
  • Come into greater unity and fellowship with all those called to Jewish ministry
  • Be motivated and equipped to reach out more effectively by experiencing the practical teaching, training and interactive dialogue of this gathering
  • Have greater awareness of what the Lord is doing through each person present to reach the worldwide Jewish community

LORD, we take your Gospel to the Jewish people first, as Your Word says, and also to their neighbors. Would You help us bless these many leaders and see them grow – along with the Messianic Jewish community they represent around the world – and see Your gospel spread throughout the earth? We pray this for Your glory and in Yeshua’s name, AMEN.

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Unlocking the Prophetic Mysteries of Israel

October 30 - November 5, 2017 | Jonathan Bernis

Messianic Rabbi Jonathan Bernis teaches from his exciting new book, Unlocking the Prophetic Mysteries of Israel. You’ll gain new understanding about the amazing role Israel plays in the End Times and how you, as a Believer, play an important part in what’s to come!

 

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Unlocking the Prophetic Mysteries of Israel (cont.)

November 6 - 12, 2017 | Jonathan Bernis

Messianic Rabbi Jonathan Bernis continues to share vital insights from his exciting new book, Unlocking the Prophetic Mysteries of Israel. Learn about the miraculous events surrounding Israel and YOU in the Last Days!

 

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The Paradigm

November 13 - 19, 2017 | Jonathan Cahn

Is an ancient blueprint for our future being revealed in these Last Days? Are the catastrophes happening in the world today a countdown to the return of Yeshua (Jesus)? Rabbi Jonathan Cahn returns to Jewish Voice with fresh new prophecies and discusses his bestselling book, The Paradigm.

 

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DNA Testing for Jewish Ancestry

November 20 - 26, 2017 | Bennett Greenspan

DNA researcher Bennett Greenspan says more and more people are getting the unexpected news that they have Jewish ancestry. Could you be among the biblical descendants of the “Lost Tribes of Israel”? Watch this fascinating show to learn more!

 

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Messianic Jewish Family Bible

November 27 - December 3, 2017 | Daniah Greenberg

Could a new version of the Bible help you better understand the Jewish roots of your Christian faith? Daniah Greenberg, founder of the Family Bible Society and the visionary behind the Messianic Jewish Family Bible, sits down with Jonathan Bernis to discuss how vital it is not only to read and meditate upon the Scriptures, but also to study the original Hebrew language and context.

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Best-selling author and prophecy teacher Cindy Jacobs sits down with Jonathan Bernis to mentor, enlighten and help you hear from the Lord and interpret divine messages.
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Bring Hope to the Poorest of the Poor

October 20, 2017
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Many Jewish people – especially those who belong to the lost and scattered tribes of Israel that live in Africa – struggle just to survive.

They’re the poorest of the poor … without enough to eat, without clean water for drinking and bathing, without medical care and, saddest of all, without hope.

But through your generous gift, these precious descendants of the Nation of Israel will get the medical, eye and dental care they so urgently need.

Together, as we help heal their physical pain, we’ll earn the right to share with them the Good News of Yeshua (Jesus), their Messiah.

You can change lives today …

Two must-read reports on developments in the Middle East

October 20, 2017

One thing about the Middle East: it’s never boring.

Two new developments impacting the region have dominated the news during the past week.

1. Hamas and Fatah, once bitter rivals, have reconciled

Negotiators from Palestinian rivals Hamas and Fatah signed a reconciliation deal last week, ending their bitter, decade-long split.

Following talks mediated by Egyptian diplomats in Cairo, the two groups signed the agreement, which will give the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority full governing power over the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip by December 1, The Times of Israel has reported.

The two Palestinian factions have been quarreling for 10 years, since Hamas seized Gaza from Fatah in a violent coup in 2007.

The next step, reports The Times, is likely to be formation of a government that will unite the various Palestinian political movements. Those negotiations are expected to take place at a follow-up meeting in Cairo on November 21.

The disarming of Hamas is a key issue yet to be resolved.

Hamas is not prepared to disarm, according to reports from Egypt broadcast by Israel Radio. The reports indicate that the Islamic terrorist group has instead agreed not to use its weaponry without approval from a joint panel.

The “Big Unknown”

With the fate of Hamas’ vast, 25,000-troop military force unknown – and in light of the failure of many previous attempts at reconciliation – observers worldwide are viewing this latest reunion with caution.

Reconciliation could make an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal more difficult. Hamas does not recognize Israel and has vowed its destruction, while the Palestinian Liberation Organization, led by PA President Mahmoud Abbas, takes a more moderate approach regarding Israel.

Hamas is blacklisted as a terrorist organization by Israel, the United States and the European Union, and that’s unlikely to change. It has fought three wars with Israel since 2008, even as conditions in the blockaded Gaza Strip have deteriorated from a scarcity of electricity, water, medical care and food.

Faced with increasing isolation and frustrated Palestinian citizens, Hamas was forced to seek help from Egypt, which has agreed to provide fuel to the Gaza Strip. In turn, Egypt has pressed Hamas to move forward on reconciliation with Fatah.

2. The U.S. will withdraw from UNESCO

The United States announced late last week it is withdrawing from the United Nations Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

The decision came down to financial considerations, the need for reform and the organization’s “continuing anti-Israel bias,” said State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert in The Times of Israel.

The withdrawal will take effect on December 31, 2018.

According to a report in Foreign Policy magazine, cited by The Times late last week, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made the decision to withdraw several weeks ago, but has agreed to remain in the organization until a new director-general is elected in the coming weeks.

U.S. officials have not decided how to address the mounting unpaid dues owed to the organization. America suspended its funding of UNESCO when the organization granted full membership to Palestine in 2011.

Many saw the vote to include Palestine as proof of long-running, ingrained anti-Israel bias within the United Nations, where Israel and its allies are far outnumbered by Arab countries and their supporters.

Israel follows suit

Hours after the U.S. announcement, Israel said it plans to leave the organization as well, The Jerusalem Post reported.

In a statement issued by his office, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called America’s move a “brave and moral decision, because UNESCO has become a theater of the absurd.”

Israel’s Ambassador to the U.N., Danny Danon, said UNESCO has become a forum for Israel-bashing and has forgotten its original purpose. It is now “paying the price” for the “shameful” decisions it has adopted against Israel, he said, adding, “A new era is dawning” at the UN in which “anti-Israel discrimination” will carry consequences.

Israeli officials have charged the U.N. with passing one-sided resolutions that obsessively target Israel.

In 2016, UNESCO’s Executive Board passed two resolutions ignoring Jewish ties to the Temple Mount and one in 2017 that disavowed Israel’s sovereignty in Jerusalem. Over the summer, UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee declared the Cave of the Patriarchs and Hebron’s Old City as endangered Palestinian sites.

What do these developments mean to us as supporters of Israel and her people?

America, always a staunch ally of the Jewish state, has said of the U.N.’s anti-Israel bias, “enough is enough.”

We’ll have to wait and see how things play out. Rest assured, Jewish Voice will keep you informed.

In the meantime, keep praying for Israel and her people. Please pray for us at Jewish Voice also. We are thankful to be on the same team with you, caring for and supporting Jewish people – in the Middle East and throughout the world.

Your partnership with us means so much as you help us stand with Israel and take compassionate humanitarian aid to Jewish people in need.

As a token of our appreciation for your gift of $35 or more today, we’ll send you a meaningful piece of artwork. The Soldier at the Wall statue depicts an Israeli soldier – a defender of Israel – praying to the One who is the tiny nation’s ultimate protection.

Kechene, Ethiopia & Mberengwa, Zimbabwe Recap

October 16, 2017
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Huddled together under raggedy umbrellas, thousands of people tried to stay dry as they waited to be seen at our Kechene Medical Outreach in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, last month.

It was the rainy season in Ethiopia. The neighborhood of Kechene sits upon the slopes of the capital city’s tallest mountain, and during this time of year, everyday life is disrupted by water – flowing, pooling and pouring down from thundering skies.

Weeks earlier, JVMI Ethiopian staff spent days rebuilding the outdoor drainage system at the neighborhood clinic where we conducted our Medical Outreach. Without this work, flash flooding would have cut off the site’s main passageway.

The Jewish Voice team of medical professionals provided needy patients with specialty health care while our Prayer Partners helped the local Bet-Abraham Messianic Congregation host an off-site prayer and counseling open house.

Once the Ethiopia Outreach concluded, part of the staff traveled to Mberengwa, Zimbabwe, where they joined staff already there to immediately begin the next Medical Outreach. The Outreach Partners united to share the love of Yeshua (Jesus) by serving thousands more people in desperate need of medical care and the Good News.

JVMI marked two historic – and fantastic – milestones during these back-to-back Outreaches:

  •  In Mberengwa, Jewish Voice treated our 400,000th medical patient since our humanitarian efforts began in 1999
  •  In Kechene, we welcomed our 1 millionth ministry recipient. We’ve served 1 million through various outreaches including Medical Clinics, Israeli eye and dental services, and International Festivals of Jewish Music & Dance

You helped make these exciting ministry milestones possible, and we are so grateful for all you’ve done. Take a look at some of the other things you helped us accomplish in Kechene and Mberengwa:

Addis Ababa/Kechene, Ethiopia

August 31-September 10, 2017

  • 8,973 patients treated, including
  • 1,339 dental patients
  • 2,269 people who received eyeglasses
  • 77 people received eye surgery for cataracts or trachoma
  • 159 people received minor surgery
  • 342 people visited our off-site prayer room
  • 53 people professed that they received Yeshua as their Messiah
  • 64 people received Bibles in their own languages

 

Mberengwa, Zimbabwe

September 7-18, 2017

  • 8,124 patients treated, including
  • 1,278 dental patients
  • 994 people who received eyeglasses
  • 73 people received minor surgery
  • 2 babies were born
  • 3,227 people visited our prayer room
  • 367 people professed that they received Yeshua as their Messiah
  • 2.172 individuals received personal LifeStraws®
  • 8 families received LifeStraw Family® units
  • 624 children had a wonderful time through our Zehra Kids Program

How can we thank you enough for your prayers and support? Through your partnership, more than 19,000 Jewish people and their neighbors received healing and hope in these two recent Outreaches. That’s amazing! And with your continued help, we can reach thousands more in needy communities like Kechene and Mberengwa.

Thank you so much for standing with us in taking the love and message of Yeshua to a hurting world. You’re making a big difference.

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