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Israel announced on Monday that it expanded a program to install rocket-proof protection in the homes of another three communities located along the country’s northern border with Lebanon.
Under the Israeli Defense Ministry’s plan, dubbed “Northern Shield,” private homes in the communities of Metula, Shlomi and Shetula will be fortified to...
Jewish residents in the Californian city of Beverly Hills were subject to hate crimes when they found throughout the city anti-Semitic pamphlets linking their community to the Covid pandemic.
“Earlier this week, and then a few weeks ago on the first night of Hanukkah, hundreds of anti-Semitic leaflets were distributed around neighborhoods in...
Apostle Carlos Vega, is the founding pastor of the Freeport Bible Center church, and host of the Centro Biblico International Annual Conference where I was asked to bring the CUFI Why Israel message. The teaching was done through an interceptor for the bilingual audience gathered for the three-day conference. Repeatedly interrupted by applause in...
Pastor Jerry Daidi hosted the first CUFI Why Israel event at Abundant Life Int’l Ministries in Minneapolis Minnesota. Field Coordinator Abel Taye presented CUFI’s Why Israel message to about 60 attendees from three area churches. The event included remarks by CUFI African Outreach Coordinator Dr. Francis Tabla, and CUFI State Director Deb...
CUFI Field Coordinator Abel Taye presented CUFI’s Why Israel message to an audience of about 60 members of Ebenezer Community Church in Brooklyn Center MN. The event was hosted by CUFI’s African Outreach Coordinator Dr. Tabla. The evening included messages by Pastor Francis Tabla, CUFI State Director Pastor Deb Campbell, and CUFI Campus...
About thirty attendees from three area churches gathered for CUFI’s first event in Warroad, Minnesota. The event was hosted by Pastor Gus Booth at Warroad Community Church.
Pastor Booth expressed great appreciation for CUFI’s message and is considering joining a future CUFI pastors trip to Israel. A love offering was received to sponsor area...
This Pastor’s Meeting was an opportunity to connect with some pastors in central Illinois and with District Director Denise Myers. There has not been much activity in Illinois, so this was a great “recon” mission to identify some new starting points. Contact was also made at this event with Mark Burn from Great News Radio, who will be setting up...
This bilingual Why Israel Event was held at the church on a Sunday Morning. The church put on a Celebration of Israel presentation before the Why Israel Presentation. The pastor interpreted into Spanish for Field Coordinator Bob Scott, who gave the CUFI messaging and gave opportunity for all in attendance to join (using the new QR code slide for...
The Why Israel event was hosted by Pastor Frederick Virtucio. who is an Alumni of our CUFI Pastors Israel tour of February 2020. Since he came back from the CUFI Pastors Israel trip, he has been sharing with his church the importance of why Christians should support Israel and has also networked with other pastors to organize an Israel tour for...
This was the 2nd Annual NTHI at Chapelhill Church and was a great success. There was not only the Chapelhill Church family in attendance but also a good contingency of CUFI leadership from the region as well as a strong contingent from the Jewish Community. The evening consisted of the singing of the national anthems of both the US and Israel, an...
The Quad Cities (Iowa/Illinois) held their 18th Night to Honor Israel on October 16, 2021. The Jewish Federation of the Quad Cities and local Pastors coordinated this event, and Dr. Randy Caldwell was the keynote speaker. The event was filled with music, the National Anthem sung by Congressional Liaison Russell Christ and a video of Ethiopian...
This was a trip follow-up Pastor’s Meeting from Israel Alumni Jeremy Price and Darren Givens at Pastor Givens’ church. Pastor Price had already participated in a Zoom / Virtual event with Lyndon Allen as a part of his trip follow-up. State Director Jason Dillon was also in attendance. I was able to give the Why Israel briefing as well as have the...
The Canton, Mississippi was really two opportunities to speak to the pastors of this Ministerial Association. The Ministerial Alliance of Churches have just been meeting back for a couple of weeks together, and I was able to share around 7-8 minutes during the meeting about the work of CUFI. After their regularly scheduled meeting, Pastor Jonathan...
I had the honor of doing 3 Pastors Events. The first was at Rock City Church, the second was at Pluckers in San Antonio, and the 3rd was virtual for those who could not attend the San Antonio Meeting. They were all set up by former CUFI or IC trip attendees or district CUFI coordinators. I also was able to give a Why Israel presentation to those...
The people of Rio Communities were very receptive of CUFI's Why Israel message. We had one of our CUFI on Campus coordinators, Cherith Runyon, as one of our keynote speakers. Cherith was able to connect with NMSU students. The church that hosted the event, Abundant Life Christian Center, is very pro-Israel and have been supporting CUFI’s work for...
The TV interview was done at the KCHF TV station. Mrs. Mary Kay Gonzales conducted the interview with Randy Neal, Abel Taye and Pastor Barney Carbajal.
On September 19th, we held a Why Israel event in Farmington, NM at Day 3 Church. The people of the church were very receptive of the Why Israel Message. Pledge cards were signed and Cherith connected with University of New Mexico students. An offering was collected to support the work of CUFI.
The Why Israel event was hosted by Pastor Andy Antenor, who is a CUFI Pastor Alumni. Since he came back from the CUFI Pastors Israel trip, he has been encouraging his church members to support Israel. For the last 3 Sundays before I came, he has been preaching about the blessings that come when Christians pray for Israel. He told me that he wants...
The event was organized by Pastor Alex Cabansagan with the Church of the Nazarene.
Most of the attendees heard of CUFI for the first time, and many felt conviction for their lack of support for Israel and the Jewish people, so they pledged to support CUFI to be more pro-active in strongly advocating for Israel and the Jewish people.
After coming with CUFI on a Pastor’s Israel trip, Pastor Dr. Kenneth Larter returned to the states a Christian Zionist. He went to work with his board of elders to remove the Deerfield Presbyterian Church (founded almost 300 years ago!) out from the staunchly anti-Israel Presbyterian USA denomination and has continue to work with CUFI.
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