Monday, September 11, 2006

Jews for Jesus on Campus

While googling for something else I ran across this article written by a Jews for Jesus worker who spends her time on campus doing outreach to Jewish students. The interesting thing about the article is that if you switch out the references to Jesus to instead be references to being Jewish, it's almost exactly what many of us are doing on campus. Here is a description:
Since graduating from college, I have become a follower of the Messiah. Now I find myself back on campuses, from Texas to California, handing out Jews for Jesus tracts, postering, staging debates and generally creating a stir as I lift up the name of Jesus. Finally I have found a cause truly worth defending, proclaiming the Good News of salvation in Y'shua to my Jewish brothers and sisters. Though anti-war and anti-establishment protests are a thing of the past, there is still one issue to which my people respond, and that is Jews believing in Jesus.
It is certainly useful for those of us who work on college campuses doing outreach with Jews, to know what some of the other competing organizations are. This rundown on Jews for Judaism lists many of the prominent missionary groups that are targeting Jews for conversion and what they are doing.

Does anyone have any stories about seeing these groups on campus or have any good ways to react if these groups are targeting local students?

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