June 2025

The Chosen People Newsletter

Recently, a Jewish woman named Janet* contacted our ministry after hearing our weekly radio show. Janet was raised in a traditional Jewish home and is drawing ever closer to accepting Yeshua (Jesus) as her Savior! She wrote to us saying:

I have been searching for my relationship with God—searching to know who Jesus is. An ad for Chosen People Ministries appeared on my Facebook page, so I started listening to your podcast. The testimonies, especially from those who had the same fear as me—the fear that they were turning away from their Jewishness—were comforting. I heard someone say, “I have not turned away from who 
I am as a Jew, but it has completed me to find Jesus.” I cried so hard when I heard that. I thought, I am finally on the path to re-establishing my relationship with God and who I am as a Jew! So, 
I am eager to learn more about who Jesus is.

What a testimony of the moving of the Holy Spirit! Our staff in New York City has been in regular contact with Janet, answering her questions and pointing her to the truth of Jesus as the promised Messiah. Please pray that the Lord would continue to draw her to Himself, open her eyes, and bring her to saving faith in Jesus!

*Name changed

One of our staff members in Texas regularly attends a young adult Chabad (Orthodox Jewish) group every Tuesday with a fellow seminary student. The rabbi discusses topics like “Judaism and Demons” or “Judaism and AI.” They are aware that our representative attends a Christian theological seminary and is Jewish. Our staff member is making many great connections and is amazed that the group is open to him.

An atheist who attends the Chabad group invited our staff member and his friend to a Sabbath dinner with another Orthodox Jewish group. It was a lively Sabbath dinner filled with music. A Jewish woman approached our staff member and his friend and expressed her appreciation for evangelicals. She talked about how Jewish people and evangelicals have so much in common. She mentioned a song—“The Blessing” by Kari Jobe—as an example since it is a Christian song with the words of the biblical Aaronic benediction (Numbers 6:24–26). Our staff member was surprised that a Jewish woman seemed to be interested in Christian things. Even more surprising, she recognized that Jesus is Jewish, and she said she intended to read the New Testament. Our staff member encouraged her to do so.

Please pray for more encounters like this. Our staff members across the country and around the world are seeking to make more connections by attending these types of Jewish groups. With so many of our staff juggling multiple responsibilities, please also pray for their endurance.

Our staff in Japan have a special prayer request for Eitan.* Since he was a teenager, Eitan has loved Japanese culture, especially Japanese anime. After completing his mandatory military service in Israel, he pursued East Asian studies and spent a year in Japan through a student exchange program. He arrived in Japan early before the start of the academic semester and spent time with our staff at our Chosen People Ministries guesthouse in Tokyo—Beit Samurai. Afterward, he needed to travel to another part of Japan where he would eventually start his studies. Our staff introduced him to a church in that area that loves Israel and prays for the peace of Jerusalem and the salvation of the Jewish people. They welcomed Eitan with great love.

Recently, our staff traveled to this area to meet with Eitan and encourage the church members to continue their ministry to Israelis traveling in Japan. During dinner, Eitan enthusiastically shared how warmly the church members accepted him and that he started attending their gatherings. He mentioned he has learned much more about the Bible in just a few months than throughout his entire experience in school in Israel where the study of the Old Testament (Tanakh in Hebrew) is part of the public education curriculum.

This conversation is reminiscent of the words of the apostle Paul in his letter to the Romans: “Salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make [Israel] jealous” (Romans 11:11). Please pray that the seeds of the gospel our staff sows bear the fruit of salvation and that Eitan receives revelation about Jesus as the promised Jewish Messiah.

*Name changed