Missions 9/09: Chosen People Ministries

FOCUS OF THE MONTH:
Chosen People Ministries
Dr. Mitch & Zhava Glaser, Miriam & Jenni

Mitch Glaser is the president of Chosen People Ministries, which was started in 1894 in Brooklyn by Rabbi Leopold Cohn. It was then known as The American Board of Missions to the Jews. Rabbi Cohn accepted Jesus and was gripped with the need to reach Jewish people with the Good News. With outreaches today in thirteen countries, Jewish and Gentile believers join together to bring the Good News to the Jewish people.

Please pray for Mitch as he leads the International work from New York City. Both he and Zhava have extensive experience in ministry to the Jewish people, both in the US and abroad, with a great burden for the City; Mitch was born in Brooklyn and raised in New York. He became a believer in 1970, graduated from Northeastern Bible College, as well as Talbot School of Theology, and earned a Ph.D. in Intercultural Studies.

Zhava is multi-lingual and orig inally from Argentina. She earned a bachelor’s in Judaic Studies at the University of Southern California and a Master’s Degree in Missions from Fuller Seminary. She is the Director of Publications as well as manages the website for Chosen People Ministries. They have two daughters in graduate school, Miriam and Jenni.

PRAYER REQUESTS:

• Messianic leaders in Moscow – for the work to grow as Jewish people seek to connect with their spiritual roots after so many years of repression under Communism.
• Soviet Union Jewish people in Chicago area – pray for Kirill Swiderski and his family as they minister in that area.
• Brooklyn Messianic Center – pray they continue to bear fruit through worship services and special outreach programs to Russian Jews.
• Victor & Julia B. receiving further training at the Feinberg Center for Messianic Jewish Studies – preparing to return to Israel to resume their ministry.
• “To the Jew First” Advancement Campaign – to enable expansion of staff, facilities and ministries around the world, seeking to bring the Good News to even more Jewish people.