2018 Q3 Connections Newsletter

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With deep gratitude for your gift today!

Share the gift of healing and health with Jewish people!

For your gift of $30 or more . . .

Rugged terrain, temperatures of 115 degrees and the threat of attack by dangerous wildlife. These are the challenges the Jewish people of Chitsungo, Zimbabwe, faced in order to receive treatment at a recent Jewish Voice Medical Clinic in their community.

Comfort O Comfort My People photo book This beautiful coffee table book is filled with photographs and stories chronicling Jewish Voice’s outreach to the most impoverished Jewish people in the world. See how your support has helped the poorest of the poor Jewish people. Soft cover, 80 pages, 8½ x 11 inches.

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Jewish Voice Key Chain Each time you use this two-toned key chain, you’ll be reminded of your partnership in the vision of Jewish Voice Ministries: To transform lives and see all Israel saved. On one side, you’ll find our logo. The Star of David and wheat sheaf represent the spiritual harvest of Yeshua (Jesus). The other side includes the encouragement of Psalm 46:10: “Be still and know that I am God.” (Item # 2048)

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Still, they came out by the thousands – more than 7,000, in fact – with a variety of ailments, ranging from minor infections to serious, lifethreatening disease. And they waited in the scorching sun, for up to two days, to receive free medical treatment. That’s how desperate they are.

Thank you for transforming lives through your love and compassion!

Because these precious people endure such incredible suffering, Jewish Voice continues to return to Zimbabwe. But we can do so only because you and other wonderful partners pray and give generously. Through every $30 you give today, you’ll provide a wide range of critical medical care for one Jewish person or a neighbor in Zimbabwe or around the world. And you’ll give each one who comes for help the opportunity to hear about Jesus and His love for them.

Here’s how your generous support is being multiplied to transform even more lives

Please give as God leads, remembering He promises to bless you when you bless the Jewish people.

It seems obvious that lives are immediately transformed when a Jewish Voice Medical Clinic gives someone back their sight through cataract surgery. Or provides clean, healthy water. Or treats a serious and painful dental infection.

Let us say thank you for your generosity today with one of these gifts!

But sometimes Jewish Voice Clinics transform people’s lives in ways that are more than just immediate. Sometimes those lives are transformed in ways that continue to impact others for many years to come . . .

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The first time our Jewish Voice medical teams saw Demes, he was a shoeshine boy at a community clinic where we held a Medical Outreach in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Partially deaf, and from a slum area, Demes did not seem to have many opportunities in life. But Demes was inspired by what he saw happening in our Outreach, and he asked if he could help. For a few dollars a week, he became a patient assistant and translator.

Through your support, Demes was inspired to help others.

This simple experience transformed Demes’ life forever! Thrilled that he could actually help others, and moved by the love and

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compassion he saw expressed by Jewish Voice workers and volunteers, Demes decided he would do something more with his life.

Because of her work, Selam is both preventing and treating disease, to bring physical health to her people, while also sharing the Good News of the Messiah.

Studying hard, Demes achieved high marks on exams and got into dental school in Addis Ababa. In two years he will graduate as a Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS). But he’s already traveling throughout Ethiopia and Zimbabwe as a dental hygienist with our team, treating people with dental problems in the name of Yeshua.

Your support multiplies the impact of transformed lives

Selam: Reaching out to her own people Selam is a young Jewish Believer who – like Demes – also started as a JVMI helper, escorting patients at Jewish Voice Medical Clinics in her community in Ethiopia. Catching a vision for all she could do to help her people, Selam entered nursing school. Now a nurse, she’s able to both help her community and support her family, while also leading the clean water education efforts at many of our Jewish Voice Clinics.

Indeed, there are many layers of help provided by our Jewish Voice ministry efforts in Africa. Some people are physically healed from long-term afflictions. Others receive the spiritual healing that comes from a first-time relationship with Yeshua. And for some, there is all this PLUS the opportunity to find meaning by showing the love of Jesus to others in practical ways. All of this is part of Jewish Voice ministry. And it’s all made possible by you and the many other generous partners who pray for this ministry and give to multiply our efforts so that even more Jewish people can be reached with help, healing and hope. Thank you!

ASK THE RABBI

Covenant concern

By Jonathan Bernis

I’m often asked, Why doesn’t the covenant God made with Moses cover the salvation of all Jewish people? This question refers to the Mosaic Covenant, God’s law and standards for the ancient Jewish people. Under this covenant, which is a corporate covenant for the Nation of Israel, there’s no plan for individual salvation. But it does clearly point to the coming Messiah, to whom the Jewish people would look for redemption and liberation. Unfortunately, when Yeshua (Jesus) did come, the Jewish people were under Roman rule and tyranny. They expected Him to be

a physical deliverer – a military and political leader. But Yeshua came to bring spiritual salvation. Even in the Old Covenant Scriptures, Jesus is presented as the only means of personal salvation. Read Isaiah 53, for example. You’ll see this is not just a New Covenant concept. This covenant of salvation, established only through Yeshua, was seen by the prophets of old literally centuries before Jesus came. So you see, while the Mosaic Covenant provided standards of conduct before God, it’s the New Covenant in Yeshua that brings us personal salvation and the removal of sin. He alone is the way, the truth and the life. No one can come to the Father except through Him (John 14:6). And there’s no other name under heaven by which we can be saved (Acts 4:12). This is true for the Jew first and then the Gentile (Romans 1:16).

For your gift of $90 or more . . .

Peace Blessing Afghan This lovely afghan is woven in white, blue and gold and carries the inspirational call of Psalm 122:6-7 to pray for the peace of Jerusalem. It also features the Jewish Voice logo as a reminder of how your partnership with Jewish Voice shares the warmth of Yeshua’s love with Jewish communities worldwide. Measures approximately 48 x 60 inches. (Item # 2049)

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• Comfort O Comfort My People photo book • Jewish Voice Key Chain

For your gift of $300 or more . . .

Oryx Shofar Through the ages, the shofar has been used to call Jewish people to prayer, as a musical instrument and even to rouse the Nation to battle. We have a limited number of these shofars made from the horn of the oryx – a large African antelope. This would be a wonderful keepsake. Measures 22 to 26 inches. (Item # 2051)

In eight Medical Clinics – three in Ethiopia, three in Zimbabwe and two eye clinics in Israel – we were able to serve 60,122 patients! This included 447 eye surgeries for cataracts and trachoma, 621 other surgeries, and dental care for 8,807 people. Nearly 29,000 LifeStraws were distributed, providing a year’s worth of clean, healthy water to thousands of individuals and hundreds of families. And more than 11,000 people received needed eyeglasses.

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Thank you for your investment in transformed lives!

Celebrating on Earth and in Heaven! By Jonathan Bernis I recently was reviewing the results from our Medical Clinic efforts in the past year. And I was moved by all God has done – and continues to do – to meet both physical and spiritual needs through the work of Jewish Voice.

Your gift today will provide medical care, surgeries and medicines that save lives.

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Our medical team celebrates the great work of Jesus – and your support to make it possible

joy to God’s heart. As Jesus said in Luke 15:7:

In our Israel Clinics, we were able to help 791 elderly Holocaust survivors.

. . . there will be more joy in heaven over one repenting sinner than over the ninety-nine righteous people who have no need of repentance.

Most important of all, more than 12,000 of our Clinic patients visited our Prayer Rooms to receive personal prayer, and 1,612 professed new faith in Yeshua the Messiah!

A great part of my joy – and I trust part of the joy the Lord feels as well – is in knowing that all this physical and spiritual caregiving was made possible by the prayers and gifts of our friends and partners.

All of this (especially the new personal relationships with the Lord) brings great joy to my heart, as I know it brings

For your part in this – for your compassion and support – I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

ALSO INCLUDES

• Peace Blessing Afghan • Comfort O Comfort My People photo book • Jewish Voice Key Chain

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