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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR / PRESIDENT
Dear Friends,
When I think about The Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry (FOI), I don’t think of an organization, I think of people like you who love Israel and want to bless the Jewish people. You are a friend of Israel.
You can join us in our mission by giving online further down this page.
Help a Jewish Person Return Home
Aliyah Return Fund
Israel is preparing for an influx of more than 250,000 Jewish people returning to the Land in the next 3-5 years. Most are desperate to leave situations of poverty and extreme anti-Semitic persecution in countries like Ethiopia and Ukraine. We can see how the Lord is gathering His people as more and more people make Aliyah (immigrate) to Israel each year. You can be part of God’s plan to rescue the Jewish people and bring them home, help them learn Hebrew, find a home or school, receive job training, and integrate into Israeli society.
Overcoming Anti-Semitism
Living Bridges Program
Anti-Semitism is growing exponentially in Europe, even in Poland, where many Jewish people died in death camps during the Holocaust. Living Bridges is a unique program that builds relationships between Israeli and Polish youth. For several weeks, Christian youth in Poland and Jewish young adults from Israel come together—first in one country, then in the other. They spend time learning about one another’s culture and history, and work together on a shared service project for children with disabilities. Barriers are broken and lifelong friendships are created through mutual understanding and relationship-building. You can stem the tide of anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe today by sponsoring these intersections between Christians and our Jewish friends.
Save a Life
Medical Care
Nearly 100 sick and injured people, desperate for good medical care, cross our clinic's threshold every day. Many people cannot afford the high cost for even basic medical care. At the clinic, every person receives individual treatment by a certified nurse or physician, or is transported to a major hospital for intensive care. No patient leaves without being offered spiritual support. Your gift today will cover basic medical care for one patient. With your gift of $50, you make a difference for one person who receives the medical treatment they desperately need.
Stock an Ambulance With Lifesaving Supplies
Medical Equipment
Restock the two FOI ambulances responding to more than 5,000 emergency calls every year in the heart of Argentina. The need for personal protective equipment, first-aid supplies, glucose test strips, syringes, and critical medicine is urgent. Can you restock our ambulance today?
Open the Word for Seekers in Eastern Europe
Holiday With the Bible
Believers and seekers, both Jewish and secular, from Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, the Czech Republic and Poland come together throughout the summer months to learn about the Bible, study, and enjoy fellowship. For many, it is the first time they have ever held a Bible in their hands. You can give a Bible to each participant and help them answer God's call.
"I’ve never read the Bible before.
I want to take it with me [wherever I go] and read it.”
- UKRAINIAN WOMAN
I want to take it with me [wherever I go] and read it.”
Feed the Needy in Eastern Europe
Eastern European Relief
Send food and other vital aid directly to the most vulnerable people in Jewish communities in Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia. The need is urgent as conditions worsen in the Baltic region. For mere dollars, you can feed a family for a month. Help meet physical needs by supplying food, medicine, and clothes today.
Launch a Worker for Christ
North American Mission Launch
Exhilarating, sobering, challenging, and yes, daunting are a few of the emotions felt on a journey to serve in full-time ministry with The Friends of Israel. We call it a blessing, and that is what you will receive when you make any part of that journey a reality for one person called by the Lord into Jewish ministry. Your gift will equip, train, and prepare new field workers for serving the Jewish community in your neighborhood and teaching in your church. You can be the one who launches the next FOI worker whose impact for the Lord knows no bounds!
Open New Mission Fields
International Mission Launch
Just in the last year, thanks to your support, two new field workers began ministry in Israel, and a new field worker joined FOI serving Ukraine. We need your help to raise up new workers as the Lord calls each one. Your support will equip a new international worker with the tools they need to transition into full-time ministry building and ministering to the Jewish people in spiritual and physical need. You can help launch a new worker through the International Mission Launch Initiative today and watch it bear fruit for eternity.
Sponsor a Gift Basket
Holiday Baskets
A small gesture of love can go a long way! Every year, Friends of Israel workers around the world prepare and hand-deliver thousands of gift baskets for Hanukkah and other Jewish holidays to our Jewish friends. Delighted to receive a basket of delicious and thoughtful goodies, the recipients are often overwhelmed by this act of kindness. When you sponsor a basket, you are making a special moment possible. You are sharing the love of the Messiah and showing that it is that love which compels us to remember our Jewish friends during their important holiday season. You can put a smile on someone’s face by sponsoring a gift basket today.
Be the Hands and Feet of Christ in Israel
Ministry Trips to Israel
Volunteers from across America come together on our ministry trips to Israel to serve the Jewish people. This immersive experience ingrains the significance of the Jewish people into the hearts of the volunteers—and ingrains the significance of Christian love into the hearts of Israelis. When you help sponsor one volunteer, you are sending the love of the Messiah directly to the Jewish people.
Encountering Judaism
Ministry Launch Programs
There is no better way to learn about the Jewish people than by encountering them in everyday life. Your donation provides an encounter with Jewish people for a person interested in future service to the Jewish people. This experience includes touring an Orthodox synagogue, spending a Shabbat evening with a Jewish family, and hearing a lecture given by a member of the Jewish community. Paired with a unique internship program, Bridges allows young adults to serve actively in the Jewish community. Your gift to this program will help mentor and shape interns whom God might call into full-time ministry with The Friends of Israel. Please consider a gift to help these potential workers encounter Judaism and ministry first-hand.
Comfort My People
Elderly Care Fund
The late years in life can be the loneliest time. Spending time and helping an elderly person is a blessing and the perfect way to demonstrate Christ’s love. You help form unique friendships with these precious people by supporting the Elderly Care Fund. Through your support, you send workers to spend time with our elderly friends near and far. You bring them food, medicine, help transport them to doctor appointments, assist them with small projects around the house, and give them spiritual support. Please help provide life-giving support through medicine, food, and love to our elderly Jewish friends worldwide.
Give Hope on Campuses
Campus Ministry
Do you remember your days on the mall of your college campus? Today, students are denying Christ in an effort to express themselves. That’s why we have made it a priority to reach young adults on their own turf in multiple ways. Maybe you can’t make it to your alma mater to share God’s truth, but you can help to spread truth and the love of Messiah in the harsh spiritual climate of academia. When you give to FOI’s campus ministry, you are opening hearts and leading a new generation to life in Christ.
Be a Peacemaker
Thank God for Israel Day
Common ground enables all of us to see beyond our differences and embrace our similarities. Jesus calls all of us to be peacemakers. You are a peacemaker when you support the intersection of Christian and Jewish communities at Thank God for Israel events. You provide an opportunity to build bridges connecting churches and synagogues in a show of support for Israel. You make it possible to connect people who may not otherwise be connected—all in an effort to build understanding, common ground, and peace between Christian and Jewish people.
Give the Gift of Listening
FOI Today Radio
As a friend of Israel yourself, you surely appreciate the importance of Israel in God’s plan—past, present, and future. Whether learning in the car, listening through your headphones, sharing a podcast with your friends—God reaches you and more than 1.6 million listeners through FOI Today Radio and podcast every year. FOI Today Radio is a listener-supported program featuring biblical teaching, dramatic readings, Israel news, and interviews— all tools He uses to engage and encourage believers and non-believers alike. Maybe you know someone who is seeking Christ. When you support FOI Today Radio, you are helping people find their way to Christ and encouraging others in their walk with Him. Your gift produces weekly podcasts and broadcasts FOI Today Radio on the airwaves on more than 500 stations.
Share Your Love of Israel
Israel My Glory Magazine
Israel My Glory (IMG) magazine has been in existence since 1943. Because of donors like you, this publication with strong biblical teaching and a connection to the Jewish people, has touched more than a million people worldwide. Each issue contains important news from Israel, exciting scriptural studies, vital news on the persecuted church, and articles on trends that impact Israel and you. You can make a difference in the lives of shut-ins, prisoners, or folks who otherwise are not able to afford their own subscription by sponsoring a subscription today. Your support enables IMG magazine to continue to publish and distribute solid, biblical teaching— even to those who cannot afford a subscription. If you have read and loved Israel My Glory magazine, please give the gift of a subscription to share this beloved resource with someone today.
Reach the World for Jesus
Digital Teaching Initiative
The world is thirsty for sound, biblical teaching. In the last year alone, the pandemic has probably forced your church online, and people are spending more time online than ever before. Thanks to you, The Friends of Israel’s content online has long been free and available to churches, small groups, Bible studies, and individuals. By creating digital content and utilizing the array of digital outlets available today, our unique teaching can reach people around the globe who are hungry for truth. Please join us in this endeavor to edify the church, evangelize the lost, and enlighten people to the importance of Israel. Your gift today will help create and expand capacity for biblical truth through digital content and open the gospel to new audiences in far off places.
Save a Life in Israel
Israel Relief Fund
When missiles and mortars rain down on Israel and citizens have 10-15 seconds to find shelter, you protect thousands of people from destruction in bomb shelters. When a mother fears she cannot keep the baby growing in her womb, you encourage her to save her child’s life from needless abortion. When a drug addict lies helpless in the streets of Tel Aviv, thirsty, dirty, and desperate for a Savior, you minister to him. When a child is so hungry they cannot concentrate in school, you feed them. When a Lone Soldier in the Israel Defense Forces has nowhere to go for the Sabbath rest, you give him a family. And when a woman is desperate to escape the abuse of her husband, you give her sanctuary. When you give to the Israel Relief Fund, you are tangibly and directly serving the least of these in Israel.
Bless a Holocaust Survivor
Holocaust Care Fund
Around the world, Holocaust survivors are forgotten, impoverished, and suffering. It can be difficult for them to do basic tasks on their own, and the global pandemic has only increased their fear and reminded them of days they were hungry, cold, and unable to escape their suffering. You can be a hero to a Holocaust survivor and their family today. Your support delivers food, clothes, medicine, eye glasses, coats, cleaning supplies, and much needed spiritual support.
Be a Friend of Israel
Where Needed Most
Just as you love God, so do we! We love God, His Word, and the Jewish people. Just as you, we share our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, support Israel’s right to the Land, oppose anti-Semitism, and live lives of humility, integrity, and respect for others. The Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry is a worldwide evangelical ministry proclaiming biblical truth about Israel and the Messiah, while bringing physical and spiritual comfort to the Jewish people. Our vision is to see everyone believe in God’s Son and understand God’s plan for you. When you give to the greatest need at The Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry, you are demonstrating that you are a true friend of Israel and follower of the Lord.
"I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
Gen. 12:3
