Outreach & Bible Distribution

We have the wonderful opportunity to live and work in the Holy Land of Israel but unfortunately many do not have access to God’s Word.  We seek to proclaim our Messiah through a loving, clear presentation of the gospel of grace, peacefully and never by force.  We use the Bible, which are the Jewish scriptures, comprised of the Old & New Testaments to proclaim to the Jewish people the gospel message.

Our philosophy of outreach is to proclaim the gospel of grace through a loving but direct approach.  We believe if we are to fulfill the great commandments -- loving God and loving our neighbor -- we will attempt to bring the good news of the gospel to all with whom we come in contact.  We recognize we must deliver the bad news before we give the good news (gospel).  The bad news is that all are born into sin, have offended a holy God, and justly deserve only His wrath on our sin.  The good news is that Jesus (Yeshua) died, was buried, and rose again to save sinners from the coming judgement of God.  What good news!  Messiah’s death satisfies God’s wrath and gains God’s mercy on believers, all for His glory alone! 

We will never deceive people through any worldly gimmick that distorts the pure gospel as taught clearly in scripture.  We recognize it is not our role to ‘convert’ anybody but to “make disciples.”  We do that by being faithful to sow the seed of the Word of God and leave the increase to God and His convicting Spirit alone. 

We give out Bibles and other appropriate literature – in Hebrew or other languages when appropriate -- to those receptive to receiving the information.   We do not force anyone to receive our message who is not interested.  In addition to gospel outreach, we strongly believe in building personal relationships with those in our communities in Israel.  We believe in showing Christ to people through our good works and the love which accompanies the preached word of God.  We seek to increase our reach throughout the community by developing opportunities to help those in need and thereby showing our neighbors the selfless love of God in action.  We believe we must be ready and willing to do all we can, without compromising the gospel or the name of our Lord, to bring the message of saving grace to all men as the scripture exhorts us in 1 Cor. 9:20-22, summarized in verse 22: “I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.”

We go out regularly around the city with Bibles and outreach material. We often use a table with Scripture verses and Bibles in Hebrew, Arabic, Russian and English.  We place the material on the table with a sign indicating all the material is free and available for those who desire to have God’s word.  We keep Bibles with us at all times when walking in the city in case of divine appointment we are ready to give the precious Word of Life.  We also make it a regular habit to go to the Kotel (Western / Wailing Wall) to read our Bibles out loud and pray.  Our hope is to have encounters where people come and ask us about the hope that is within us. 

Many of our guests at the Guesthouse and those from our congregation join us.  All who are in the Land are welcome to come.