SEPTEMBER 20, 2010 REPORT
To our Dear Brothers & Sisters in Jesus:
I would like to share with you a few highlights of the Table Ministry from August and September. During the summer we conducted several outreach events at several of the parks in Jerusalem, during holidays and weekends, in the afternoons and evenings.
On a recent occasion at the Liberty Bell Garden Park, hundreds of people (including Jews and Arabs) were in the park with their children. Many were having a picnic. Some were riding bicycles. Others were playing football (soccer), or watching their children using the playground. There was music, cotton candy and food being shared by large and small groups of families. Our outreach was assisted by members of the Jerusalem Alliance Church, along with participants of a visiting ministry group from churches in the USA. Our outreach concession was to twist balloons into playful shapes for people in the park and to paint the faces of children. Some of our team played Christian music on a guitar, accompanied by a drummer.
Of course, our media table was positioned in a prominent location where most of the people would walk. People crowded around our table and the members of our team. Our ministry is primarily prepared to reach nominal Arab Christians and Muslims. People were happy to be entertained and many were happy to receive a gift of something to read or listen to. In spite of all the loud commotion around us, many were anxious to talk about spiritual truths and realities. Several conversations with members of our team were always going-on simultaneously. Not everyone was happy to hear our message of good news available for everyone, only through Jesus. Most defended the way they had been taught to believe or hold-on to since their birth.
A sad-looking, 40 year old woman, tired of life, and apparently chain-smoking her way through life, walked slowly by our table. She gave a lingering look while she passed the table and went nearby to sit on a perimeter wall, with a determination to watch us. After noticing her continued interest, Rima and I went over to start a conversation with her. She opened-up her heart to Rima and they spoke together for about an hour. She felt alone. Her 12 year old daughter was a big concern to her. Their conversation was concluded with prayer. After praying, the woman sensed a new kind of joy and happiness. She stood-up and began to mix and talk with our ministry team members. Before leaving, she sought out several of the team members to give them a special hug and an expression of gratitude.
A 35 year old married Muslim man with children came up to the table. He received a New Testament and said, “I want to be a Christian!” He said that a friend was going to a Bible meeting and asked him to attend the meeting with him. However, he was afraid of the repercussions that would inevitably follow, if he did this. I spoke with him about the love of Christ and explained the “Four Spiritual Laws”. He willingly listened and was willing to pray in response to my invitation. I gave him a copy of the “Jesus” film and he left his phone number with me, so we could talk again. This is the reason we do this ministry.
God not only leads us to people in Jerusalem parks and through the media table set-up along the street, but often people I have never met contact me through the ministry’s mobile phone number. On a typical occasion, a Muslim man from Jerusalem named “Usammah” phoned me and asked why we give people things that talk about Jesus. He asked me if I believed that Jesus Christ is the Lord? I told him I could answer him in one of 2 ways. First, if I say “Yes, I believe that Jesus is the Lord, you would say I was a crazy heretic. Or, I could send you a gift of the Bible and you could read God’s answer within its pages. It will speak to you and you will discover my answer to your question there.” He asked me to send him a Bible saying, “Maybe I will become a believer in the future!”
A young Muslim man from Um El Fahim was given a tract in the streets of Jerusalem. The tract discussed the purpose of spiritual fasting and how to do it in a way that pleases God. After reading and thinking about it for 1 week, he telephoned me and said he never realized how ignorant he was about fasting. He said he still did not understand what it really meant for him, especially as a Muslim. He asked if he could find out more and know more about Jesus Christ. I answered some of his questions and tried to encourage him. After closing the telephone, one of the first things I did was to send him a Bible in response to his request.
Please pray for me to show the love of Jesus to lost people.
To our Dear Brothers & Sisters in Jesus:
I would like to share with you a few highlights of the Table Ministry from August and September. During the summer we conducted several outreach events at several of the parks in Jerusalem, during holidays and weekends, in the afternoons and evenings.
On a recent occasion at the Liberty Bell Garden Park, hundreds of people (including Jews and Arabs) were in the park with their children. Many were having a picnic. Some were riding bicycles. Others were playing football (soccer), or watching their children using the playground. There was music, cotton candy and food being shared by large and small groups of families. Our outreach was assisted by members of the Jerusalem Alliance Church, along with participants of a visiting ministry group from churches in the USA. Our outreach concession was to twist balloons into playful shapes for people in the park and to paint the faces of children. Some of our team played Christian music on a guitar, accompanied by a drummer.
Of course, our media table was positioned in a prominent location where most of the people would walk. People crowded around our table and the members of our team. Our ministry is primarily prepared to reach nominal Arab Christians and Muslims. People were happy to be entertained and many were happy to receive a gift of something to read or listen to. In spite of all the loud commotion around us, many were anxious to talk about spiritual truths and realities. Several conversations with members of our team were always going-on simultaneously. Not everyone was happy to hear our message of good news available for everyone, only through Jesus. Most defended the way they had been taught to believe or hold-on to since their birth.
A sad-looking, 40 year old woman, tired of life, and apparently chain-smoking her way through life, walked slowly by our table. She gave a lingering look while she passed the table and went nearby to sit on a perimeter wall, with a determination to watch us. After noticing her continued interest, Rima and I went over to start a conversation with her. She opened-up her heart to Rima and they spoke together for about an hour. She felt alone. Her 12 year old daughter was a big concern to her. Their conversation was concluded with prayer. After praying, the woman sensed a new kind of joy and happiness. She stood-up and began to mix and talk with our ministry team members. Before leaving, she sought out several of the team members to give them a special hug and an expression of gratitude.
A 35 year old married Muslim man with children came up to the table. He received a New Testament and said, “I want to be a Christian!” He said that a friend was going to a Bible meeting and asked him to attend the meeting with him. However, he was afraid of the repercussions that would inevitably follow, if he did this. I spoke with him about the love of Christ and explained the “Four Spiritual Laws”. He willingly listened and was willing to pray in response to my invitation. I gave him a copy of the “Jesus” film and he left his phone number with me, so we could talk again. This is the reason we do this ministry.
God not only leads us to people in Jerusalem parks and through the media table set-up along the street, but often people I have never met contact me through the ministry’s mobile phone number. On a typical occasion, a Muslim man from Jerusalem named “Usammah” phoned me and asked why we give people things that talk about Jesus. He asked me if I believed that Jesus Christ is the Lord? I told him I could answer him in one of 2 ways. First, if I say “Yes, I believe that Jesus is the Lord, you would say I was a crazy heretic. Or, I could send you a gift of the Bible and you could read God’s answer within its pages. It will speak to you and you will discover my answer to your question there.” He asked me to send him a Bible saying, “Maybe I will become a believer in the future!”
A young Muslim man from Um El Fahim was given a tract in the streets of Jerusalem. The tract discussed the purpose of spiritual fasting and how to do it in a way that pleases God. After reading and thinking about it for 1 week, he telephoned me and said he never realized how ignorant he was about fasting. He said he still did not understand what it really meant for him, especially as a Muslim. He asked if he could find out more and know more about Jesus Christ. I answered some of his questions and tried to encourage him. After closing the telephone, one of the first things I did was to send him a Bible in response to his request.
Please pray for me to show the love of Jesus to lost people.
Please pray for regular volunteers and sufficient media materials for this ministry.
Please pray for the finances to reach more people.
Your Brother in Christ,
Rami Mishriky
C M A
P.O. BOX 50
Jerusalem 91000
Isreal
