Welcome to Redemption 2000
CJF Ministries has a long history of Russian ministry. In the 1960s, during the height of the Cold War, we sponsored a Russian-language broadcast that was beamed into the Soviet Union over Trans World Radio. In 1991, as the world watched the concrete wall between East and West Germany being torn down, CJF Ministries was already busy laying the groundwork for a new missionary work in that part of the world. Up to that time, we had been limited mainly to broadcasting over the airwaves; but now we could actually have missionaries on the ground in the former Soviet Union! Our good friend Moishe Rosen (of Jews for Jesus) introduced us to a young and fiery Jewish preacher named Nickolai Haskin. Nick lived in Minsk, a city centrally located in the midst of the former Soviet Empire, and had a real heart for reaching his own people—that is, Russian-speaking Jews—with the Good News of Yeshua the Messiah. He already had a small volunteer staff and was busy doing the work of the ministry—and that’s what we like to see in our workers (that is, we want people who would be carrying on the ministry whether they’re paid for it or not).
Since that time, Nick has helped us build a lean but very effective work in the former Soviet Union. He says he and his staff have had many opportunities to share the Gospel with people while helping them with relief via our Redemption 2000 program. In fact, every time we help someone with food, clothing, medicine, medical treatment (like surgeries they couldn’t ordinarily afford), or whatever it may be, we make sure that person hears a clear presentation of the simple plan of salvation. Nick puts it like this: “I go to needy people with a Bible in one hand and a loaf of bread in the other.” Several of the Jewish believers who now attend our fellowship in Minsk originally heard the Gospel (and responded to it) through Redemption 2000.
It’s interesting that in the West (particularly in the US and Canada), messianic congregations and fellowships tend to be comprised mostly of non-Jewish believers (typically, 90% non-Jewish and 10% Jewish). In the former Soviet Union, however, the demographics are reversed (that is, 90% Jewish and 10% non-Jewish). Also, Russian-speaking Jews tend to be well educated, curious, and open minded. Many of them are leaders in their chosen fields. They are university professors, scientists, engineers, physicians, and musicians, for instance. They don’t want the rabbis to tell them what they must believe or what they can read. If they are told not to read the New Testament, it just makes them want to read it all the more. They want to examine the evidence and decide for themselves. We are committed to making the information available to them so they can make an educated and informed decision about Jesus the Messiah, who He is, and the role He wants to play in their lives.
Redemption 2000, Registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
CJF Ministries has a long history of Russian ministry. In the 1960s, during the height of the Cold War, we sponsored a Russian-language broadcast that was beamed into the Soviet Union over Trans World Radio. In 1991, as the world watched the concrete wall between East and West Germany being torn down, CJF Ministries was already busy laying the groundwork for a new missionary work in that part of the world. Up to that time, we had been limited mainly to broadcasting over the airwaves; but now we could actually have missionaries on the ground in the former Soviet Union! Our good friend Moishe Rosen (of Jews for Jesus) introduced us to a young and fiery Jewish preacher named Nickolai Haskin. Nick lived in Minsk, a city centrally located in the midst of the former Soviet Empire, and had a real heart for reaching his own people—that is, Russian-speaking Jews—with the Good News of Yeshua the Messiah. He already had a small volunteer staff and was busy doing the work of the ministry—and that’s what we like to see in our workers (that is, we want people who would be carrying on the ministry whether they’re paid for it or not).
Since that time, Nick has helped us build a lean but very effective work in the former Soviet Union. He says he and his staff have had many opportunities to share the Gospel with people while helping them with relief via our Redemption 2000 program. In fact, every time we help someone with food, clothing, medicine, medical treatment (like surgeries they couldn’t ordinarily afford), or whatever it may be, we make sure that person hears a clear presentation of the simple plan of salvation. Nick puts it like this: “I go to needy people with a Bible in one hand and a loaf of bread in the other.” Several of the Jewish believers who now attend our fellowship in Minsk originally heard the Gospel (and responded to it) through Redemption 2000.
It’s interesting that in the West (particularly in the US and Canada), messianic congregations and fellowships tend to be comprised mostly of non-Jewish believers (typically, 90% non-Jewish and 10% Jewish). In the former Soviet Union, however, the demographics are reversed (that is, 90% Jewish and 10% non-Jewish). Also, Russian-speaking Jews tend to be well educated, curious, and open minded. Many of them are leaders in their chosen fields. They are university professors, scientists, engineers, physicians, and musicians, for instance. They don’t want the rabbis to tell them what they must believe or what they can read. If they are told not to read the New Testament, it just makes them want to read it all the more. They want to examine the evidence and decide for themselves. We are committed to making the information available to them so they can make an educated and informed decision about Jesus the Messiah, who He is, and the role He wants to play in their lives.
Redemption 2000, Registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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