Stories tagged with: southern baptist messianic fellowship

• Messianic believers, USCIRF decry rising anti-Semitism

  by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, January 10, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

  AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez. Used by permission

  NEW YORK (BP) -- Southern Baptist Messianic believer Michael Herts is on alert at the ministry he directs in New York City to bring Jewish people to faith in Christ. Hate crimes against the Jewish community have continued almost daily in his vicinity.

  "The mood of the Jewish community is very concerned about being attacked for being Jewish. Most of the attacks have been among the ultra-Orthodox community, which is the most easily recognizable," Herts told Baptist Press Thursday (Jan. 9). "But I think the church needs to stand up and come alongside the Jewish community, so that Christians don't hate Jews." Read More

• 'Much prayer,' 'much power' after synagogue massacre

  by Diana Chandler, posted Monday, October 29, 2018 (5 years ago)

  

  ABC Detroit screen capture

  PITTSBURGH (BP) -- Pastor John Freeman walked into the local Jewish Community Center hours after the Oct. 27 synagogue massacre of 11 and was at once on mission.

  Freeman, pastor of the H2O City Church in Squirrel Hill, said the FBI was using the community center as a temporary hub where family members awaited news of victims who attended Tree of Life synagogue.

  "I sat in there for a couple of hours, just listening to people, talking to people and comforting people, just being with them as they were waiting," Freeman told Baptist Press today (Oct. 29). Read More

• Lausanne conference focuses on Jewish evangelism

  by Daniel Woodman, posted Friday, June 24, 2016 (8 years ago)

  ST.LOUIS (BP) -- The Southern Baptist Messianic Fellowship's partnership with the Lausanne Consultation on Jewish Evangelism remains valuable in reaching Jewish people across the globe. Read More

• Evangelicals support Israel, disagree on why

  by David Roach, posted Thursday, July 09, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- With Israel in the news related to Iran nuclear negotiations and the formation of a coalition government following the reelection of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in March, conservative evangelicals largely agree that Christians should support the Jewish state. But they don't agree on the reason for that support. Read More

• Hanukkah an 'evangelism opportunity'

  by David Roach, posted Tuesday, December 16, 2014 (9 years ago)

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Each holiday season Ric Worshill looks forward to the celebration that provides him with a natural opportunity to tell his friends and family that Jesus is the light of the world.

  But it's not Christmas. Read More