JEWISH VOICE BLOG

June 15, 2018

Just a few days after Israel’s 70th anniversary, at the conclusion of the 2018 Jewish Voice Israel Tour, Jonathan Bernis hosted a dinner in Israel. It was an informal gathering with Jewish Voice ministry partners. These ministries are ones that we partner with to see the goodness of our Messiah Yeshua (Jesus) expressed in the Land of Israel. An important part of Jonathan’s purpose for the evening was to thank these leaders for their amazing and diligent efforts in the Land. We work with mo...

June 15, 2018

This week’s summit featured a historic handshake and the U.S. president showing off his ride to the leader of North Korea. But the impact of the first-ever U.S.-North Korea meeting could be far-reaching for Israel. During his post-summit comments, President Trump said the meeting would not have taken place if not for Otto Warmbier, the 22-year-old Jewish college student who died after 17 months of captivity in North Korea. “Otto is someone who did not die in vain,” President Trump said. ...

June 12, 2018

As soon as we opened the Jewish Voice Outreach Clinic in Debre Birhan, Ethiopia, the skies broke open with a downpour. But heavy rains discouraged none of the hundreds of people waiting in line to see medical professionals. An elderly woman near the front lavishly thanked two Jewish Voice Outreach Partners for being there. Throughout her verbal expressions of appreciation she never stopped kissing their hands. The woman had come to the Jewish Voice Ministries Clinic for eye treatment. Vision ...

June 08, 2018

They didn’t know what else to do. The disciples had seen the risen Messiah twice. But still, after giving up everything to follow Him for three years, what could they do now? They went back to the place where Yeshua (Jesus) originally found them and resumed what they had been doing then: They went fishing on the Sea of Galilee. They didn’t catch a single fish all night. At dawn, dejected, they headed back to the shore. Then they heard someone shout from the beach, “Throw your net on the ri...

June 08, 2018

Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad boldly lied in an interview last week on Russian TV, saying “We do not have Iranian troops” in Syria. “We never did,” he said, – despite conclusive proof to the contrary. Syria refuses to recognize Israel’s right to exist, as do a number of Arab states, and has warred against the country since Israel’s inception in 1948. The U.S. and Russia brokered a fragile peace between the two countries in 2016, but any hope for that peace was shattered as Syria’s civil w...

June 07, 2018

Thank You for your Faithful Prayers! “The effective prayer of a righteous person is very powerful” – James 5:16 (TLV) Thank you so much for your prayers during our recent Medical Outreach in Enfranz, Ethiopia. God used your prayer to undergird the ministry taking place in Ethiopia and we saw great fruit. With your prayers, we were able to treat thousands of patients during the week. Hundreds visited the prayer room and many were transformed with new life in Messiah when they came to...

June 05, 2018

At our recent Medical Outreach in Debre Birhan, Ethiopia, Jewish Voice distributed an astounding 12,000 LifeStraws®. Thanks to the partnership of people like you, 12,000 men, women and children will enjoy a year or more of clean water. That’s one year of freedom from the debilitating water-borne illnesses and possible death they would have endured drinking water from polluted rivers and wells. We can’t overstate the importance of what you, our partners, helped us accomplish. But we can st...

June 04, 2018

Many of the Jewish people and others that we serve on Jewish Voice Ministries’ Medical Outreaches are live in rural settings without access to medical care or modern conveniences. Family members bring to us loved ones seated in burro-drawn carts and wheelbarrows, carried on their backs or lying on homemade stretchers. Some of the stretchers are more refined than others. The one below is made from two metal pipes and woven meshing.

June 01, 2018

Still reeling from Israel’s successful strikes on its Syrian bases, Iran faces important decisions about its nuclear program. Last week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo outlined 12 steps Iran must take before the U.S. would enter into a new nuclear deal with the country. The same steps are necessary, Pompeo said, to avoid what he called “the strongest sanctions in history when we are complete.” During his speech at the Heritage Foundation, Pompeo called out Iran for a long list of “malign a...

May 30, 2018

Opening day of the Jewish Voice Ministries (JVMI) Enfranz, Ethiopia, Medical Clinic saw an estimated 3,000‒4,000 people in line. We opened for a half-day on Sunday after spending the morning finishing the Clinic set-up. We were able to treat about 500 people in the short, first day.