Dear Arnold tell us please about
the preaching of the Good News in Israel now.
- While the
preaching of the Gospel is not as widespread and obvious in Israel as it is in
the USA and elsewhere, it is being spread. Individual congregations are
sharing the Gospel with the Jewish people they come in contact with and those
who are brought into the services. Furthermore, several leaders of
Messianic Congregations developed an evangelistic committee and they organize
groups to do street evangelism in places like Tel Aviv and Haifa two or three
times per year. They pass out literature on the streets and also on the
beaches of Tel Aviv. They even had a plane flying across the beach with a
flyer behind it announcing the Messiah with a phone number that people could
call. Furthermore, Messianic leaders are printing a large amount of Hebrew
Gospel literature for the Israeli community.
Please tell us about your ministry and about
your work.
- As Director of Ariel Ministries, I have several responsibilities. First
of all, I am responsible to direct its ministry and to oversee its various
purposes. This is done largely through the Home Office staff that
serves as a liaison between myself and the various branches of the ministry. Without
the Home Office staff, the ministry would not be as effective. I am
also responsible to remain in contact with people who are interested in
supporting the ministry and answer their questions. Before e-mail, I
answered approximately 25 questions per week, but since e-mail, the
questions have become more numerous and I answer as many as 50-75 letters
per week. This is done primarily by dictating my answers on tape which
are then typed out by my secretary. My third area of responsibility is
to represent the ministry to Christian groups and churches. This keeps
me traveling around the world teaching in churches, usually in blocks of 3-5
days on different series teaching the Bible from a Jewish frame of
reference. That in turn is how people get blessed. When they get
blessed, they also begin to help support the ministry. Another
responsibility is the production of books, manuscripts, and tapes. I am
slowly working on producing a group of tapes that will teach on every book
of the Bible from this Jewish frame of reference. I have completed over
40 books to accomplish this goal. We also have about 200 manuscripts
that provide teaching on Bible topics in various areas. We have written
books and continue to produce books. Our goal is to have books and CD’s
that teach on all the books of the Bible, verse by verse. There are
other odds and ends I find myself needing to attend to but these are the
main functions. My most enjoyable duty is teaching yearly at Camp
Shoshanah. This is a program that spends a 3-week period teaching the
Bible for 5 hours per day on Monday-Friday. People have begun coming from
different parts of the world to attend and we are grateful for this.
And about your
family a little.