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Her Eyes Were Opened Rebecca* sensed something was missing in her life, but she was not sure exactly what it was . . . or where to find it. Her Jewish identity and traditions gave her a framework for her beliefs, but they fell short somehow. She just…

Every year, Chosen People Ministries organizes Shalom New York: a week-long mission trip for sharing the good news of the Messiah, especially with the Jewish community, throughout New York City. This year, Shalom New York 2026 took place August 1–8, and the participants had many testimonies to tell about…

From Mitch’s Desk Dear friend, This past June, my wife Zhava and I had the privilege of gathering with ministry leaders from more than twenty countries for our Chosen People Global Ministries International Leadership Conference. For three days we listened, prayed, wept, and rejoiced together. When it was…

“It is Yeshua—He Has Been There All Along!” For decades, an older Jewish man had observed Passover the way his family always had—the prayers, the Seder plate, the retelling of the Exodus. It was sacred. It was home. It was his. But he had never seen what was…

In our last study, we looked at Paul’s thankfulness for these believers in Ephesus and his prayer for them that God “may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him” (Ephesians 1:17). As he elaborates on that prayer, he prays “that the eyes…

For Jewish people, faith in Jesus raises difficult questions about identity, theology, family, and history. Each of the Jewish believers featured here wrestled with such questions. Their testimonies remind us that faith is a transformative yet often complex process, touching every dimension of life—the personal and familial, the mind…

Dr. Mitch Glaser’s Jewish Missions in the Shadow of the Holocaust (Kregel, 2026) tackles a task that, taken at face value, would seem impossible—namely, to survey and analyze the history of missions to the Jewish people in continental Europe by Protestant missionaries during the first half of the twentieth…

“I love watching Jewish and Gentile believers come together to further the kingdom—especially when sharing a story of redemption with a Jewish person who hasn’t yet met their Messiah.” –Ryan Karp The Messianic Jewish community, Chosen People Ministries, and the broader body of…

Lebanon and its capital city, Beirut, were jewels of the Middle East for centuries. Beirut emerged from the Ottoman Empire as an exceptional city. According to the New World Encyclopedia, prior to 1975, the country was considered the banking capital of the Arab world and was widely described as…

“Four-Hour Visit Ends with a Life-Changing YES!” When our missionary suffered a fractured ankle and had surgery, she was stuck at home, first confined to a wheelchair and then slowly learning to navigate life on crutches. Rather than being a time of isolation, it became something unexpected—a fruitful season…

Paul begins Ephesians 1:15–17 with “For this reason”—three words that carry tremendous weight. Those three words serve as a hinge that connects everything he had just declared in Ephesians 1:3–14 to everything he is about to pray. That opening section is one very long sentence in the original Greek,…

During times of war, life can seem to come to a standstill, with many people frozen with fear and losing hope. Yet within Israel’s bomb shelters, God is moving! In the safe spaces, anything and everything becomes a topic for dialogue—even Jesus.  The word “sheltering” is how our…