Your Mission Report: March 2026
Jesus is Jewish
On a Friday evening in Manhattan, as candles flickered and the Sabbath blessings were spoken, an unexpected guest stepped into our gathering. She was an Orthodox Jewish woman—faithful, traditional, cautious—yet something had drawn her there.
Just days earlier, she had attended a service hosted by a church that met inside a synagogue. Something stirred deep within her. She could not name it, could not explain it, but she felt the unmistakable presence of Jesus—alive, real, and reaching out to her.
The experience left her amazed and hungry for understanding. That longing brought her to that evening’s Sabbath dinner. After the meal, the ministry team explained the heart of the Gospel—how Jesus suffered and died for every person, offering forgiveness none of us could ever earn. Tears welled in her eyes.
“But I can’t stay Jewish if I follow Jesus, can I?” she asked quietly. “Won’t I have to become Catholic or something?” A soft smile answered her.
“Why would you have to become something else? Jesus is Jewish.”
She blinked, stunned. “Jesus . . . is Jewish?”
“Yes. Jesus is Jewish. He is our Messiah.”
The truth washed over her like light breaking into a dark room. She was not betraying her heritage—she was discovering its fulfillment. It was a moment of revelation, of healing, of God’s Spirit moving powerfully. Vanya’s journey is still unfolding. Pray for her salvation!
A Journey from Ritual to Revelation
Daniel grew up in a Russian-Israeli family that immigrated to Israel in the 1990s, carrying dreams of a new life in the homeland. Like many young Israelis, he later entered the army. There, amid the pressures of service, he made a serious turn toward Orthodox Judaism. He kept the Sabbath. He followed kosher laws. He prayed every day.
But inside, something was missing. Daniel felt no living connection to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. His heart longed for an encounter that was real—something deeper than repeating the same words day after day. As that longing grew, he began searching for meaning elsewhere.
His search took him into Jewish mysticism . . . then Buddhism . . . then Japanese philosophy. One step led to another until he moved to Japan itself, enrolling in a language school and hoping the change of culture might bring clarity to the questions stirring inside him.
While in Tokyo, Daniel stumbled across our Instagram page filled with testimonies, teachings, and stories of our ministry among Israelis. He knew almost nothing about the New Testament, yet something in those posts touched him deeply—more deeply than anything he had encountered in all his searching.
On his own initiative, Daniel asked to attend a special evangelistic gathering for Israelis living in Tokyo. And there, for the first time in his life, he heard how Yeshua is woven into the Hebrew Scriptures he had known since childhood.
It was not a debate. It was not pressure. It was revelation.
After a long, thoughtful conversation, he received a New Testament. Within days, he shared that he had already begun reading the Gospel of Matthew—absorbing the story of the Messiah he had never truly been introduced to before.
Please pray that he will receive the life changing revelation that Yeshua is the Messiah of Israel—and that he will entrust his life fully into His hands.
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