“Jesus for Jews” campaign spends $1.4-million, wins 241 Jews for Christ
I know they reached 10.000’s of people, but the endresult seems kind of “Meh” to me, but you decide. In the meantime, thousands of blogs, media outlets, churches and synagogues were all talk about one of the most controversial and intensive campaigns that more than 150 Jesus-believing Jews made “unavoidable” this past month.
The result of the “Jesus for Jews” July campaign: 502 first-time decisions for Jesus Christ (241 of them being Jews) and incessant talks about the Gospel throughout the cities.
“Our goal to make the messiahship of Jesus an unavoidable issue to Jews of the Greater New York area this summer, I believe was accomplished,” commented Susan Perlman, associate executive director for Jews for Jesus. “Jewish people as a whole are committed not to believe in Jesus. So we’re reaching into a Gospel-resistant community. That that many have indicated that they’re willing to make this kind of radical decision is significant.”
Just beating the scorching heat wave that caused record-breaking temperatures in the East Coast this week, Jews for Jesus on Monday made their grand finale for the “Behold Your God” evangelistic campaigns, which covered 54 cities outside of Israel with a Jewish population of 25,000 or more.
Jews for Jesus missionaries from around the world distributed more than 1.8 million Gospel pamphlets in all five boroughs along with Westchester County, Northern New Jersey, and Long Island. The $1.4-million campaign not only got the ministry contact information from 11,755 people with whom they met door to door, over the phone, via e-mail and snail mail, and on the streets, but also televised coverage by 13 news programs.
“People who would not walk into a church but would turn on their TV and watch a news clip” would hear the Gospel, said Perlman, still “numb” from the campaign. “And every time we had an opportunity, we tried our best to use it not as an opportunity to boost Jews for Jesus but to bring the Gospel to people.”
“I got to say that ‘Jesus rose from the dead and died for our sins’ many times on national TV,” Perlman added. “That was pretty cool.”
The concerted effort with over 700 churches and local believers continues as follow-ups are currently in progress including literature distribution, connecting those who indicated interest with churches, and conducting Bible studies and prayers. The follow-ups themselves have been fruitful with more Jews coming to faith in Christ, according to Perlman.
Following what the ministry considered a “successful” campaign, Jews for Jesus plans to open a Brooklyn branch in addition to its Manhattan office in the fall. More and continuous outreach will also be done in New Jersey, Long Island and Westchester.
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