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Loren Jacobs
My experience with Jews for Jesus is one for which I am grateful.
I was introduced to Jews for Jesus in 1976, when I was 20 years old and living in the Chicago area. I had been a Believer for about a year. I started volunteering with the Chicago branch, especially by handing out broadsides (which I loved doing!) and also learning how to print them!
I am grateful that through my association with Jews for Jesus, my own Messianic Jewish identity was strengthened.
I am grateful that the leaders of Jews for Jesus were able to recognize that God intended me to serve Him with my life, and encouraged me to prepare myself. Jews for Jesus directed me to the Jewish Studies program at Moody Bible Institute, and then gave me a scholarship to help me attend.
I am grateful to Jews for Jesus for imparting a good vision that has stayed with me—a vision of bold, courageous, innovative evangelism, directed to our Jewish people first, but also to the Gentiles—and then equipping me to fulfill that vision.
I am grateful to Jews for Jesus for training me, and then giving me opportunities, to teach Bible studies and speak in churches.
I am grateful that through Jews for Jesus, I met some wonderful people (some of God's best servants), including my beloved wife!
I am grateful to Jews for Jesus for imparting to me ethics to conduct myself in the field of Jewish ministry.
I am grateful that after I left the staff, I continued to have a mutually beneficial relationship with Jews for Jesus that endures to this day.
Loren Jacobs
Rabbi of Congregation Shema Yisrael
Southfield, Michigan |
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