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May the coming year be filled with
health, happiness and prosperity
for all our family and friends

Guy and Nora Barron
and our son
Marc Barron

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May the coming year be filled
with health and happiness for
all our family & friends.

IISHANAH TOVAH!

Maureen and Bob Shapiro
Falls Church, Virginia

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• I May the coming year be filled
with health and happiness for
all our family & friends.

AWA

SHANAH TOVAH!

Hillard & Joanne Fealk
Gary, Sharry, Matthew, Jennifer & Allison Fealk
Joel, Staci, Brandon & Mandi Fealk

wish Ouf friends el family a very healthy,
happy and prosperous New Year.

Dr, Richard Williams
Mrs, Carol Cooper

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tor of the Jewish Community
Council of Metropolitan Detroit,
said he had no knowledge of any
community effort to pressure anyone
to cancel Jacob's participation or
event. He declined to comment
about those who might have done
so.

"Street-Corner" Evangelism

Teams of BYG volunteers from Jews
for Jesus were seen at last Sunday's
University of Michigan-Miami of
Ohio football game in Ann Arbor
and at the Ford Detroit
International Jazz Festival in down-
town Detroit.
Dressed in blue and white T-shirts,
they distributed leaflets that used
football and performance terminolo-
gy to gain attention to their message
of salvation through Jesus. Observers
reported that the ground was littered
with brochures as most who accept-
ed them soon dropped them.

same as Christianity. It is a part of
Christianity, a movement within
Christianity."
To assure them that they can be
successful, he told them, "Most Jews
don't know the Bible. Provide them
historical evidence. The case of Jesus'
resurrection is very strong." He also
said, "Salvation has come to the
Christian people to make the Jewish
people jealous."

Face-to-Face Evangelism

While Jacobs has said there will like-
ly be door-to-door visits, he has
declined to say where they will be,
and how Jews for Jesus will deter-
mine which homes to visit.
However, during the telephone
training, about a half-dozen
members of his congregation dis-

Jews for Jesus
pamphlets

Telephone Evangelism

On Sept. 3, about 20 people who
volunteered to contact Jews by tele-
phone to try to interest them in
Jesus, gathered for the last of three
training sessions at Congregation
Shema Yisrael, housed in Cross of
Christ Lutheran Church in
Bloomfield Township. Each partici-
pant was given a packet of written
information and asked to make 100
calls during the next few weeks.
Jacobs, who heads Shema Yisrael,
told the group of mostly middle-
aged and older men and women how
best to reach out to Jews with their
message.

His advice:
• It's OK to say Jesus, but use
Yeshua a few times.
• Use "Messiah" instead of Christ.
Christ means messiah.
• Do not say convert to Christian-
ity. Say become a "Messianic Jew."
• Tell them they can be Jewish and
a Christian. Christianity is simply a
follower of the Messiah.

Other statements by Jacobs seemed
designed to assure his Christian
audience that his message was 100
percent Christian. For example:
• "I'm the rabbi of the synagogue,
not the pastor of the church. But I
am the pastor of the church, but I
prefer to go by the rabbi of the syna-
gogue.
• "Messianic Judaism is really the

cussed various plans, including put-
ting together "Shalom Baskets" for
Christians to send to Jews for Rosh
Hashanah.
The congregation's Web site says
that for $20, "Shalom Baskets may
be just the way to open the door to
a dialogue about your faith in the
Jewish Messiah! ... Receiving such a
lovely gift from a non-Jewish person
will make your Jewish friend wonder
how you became so culturally sensi-
tive, opening an opportunity to tell
them about the Jewish Messiah."

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