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The Sunday Why Israel/CUFI Israel Course message caused the lead pastors of the church to both stand up and state how they were signing up for the next CUFI Israel Course Webinar and encourage the congregation to do the same. Over 30 families did so with many of them also becoming CUFI members. Immediately following the Sunday morning message we...
CUFI Israel Trip alumna Pastor Steve Schmelzer hosted CUFI’s first meeting in Medford, OR, but Pastor Steve insisted there will be more in the future. The audience of seventy plus included about a dozen interns from the Bible College run at Joy Church, all of whom enthusiastically embraced connecting with CUFI On Campus.
Pastor Steve has...
About forty people gathered for CUFI’s Why Israel message at Crossfire Ministries in Springfield OR. Attendees eager to understand what triggered the latest surge in the conflict took over an hour for Q & A after the presentation was completed. Event hosts, Oregon State Directors Pastors Aaron and Kristy Taylor, received a generous offering...
Pastor Neil Malakas hosted the Why Israel event for his congregation. It was the first in-person service they have held since the COVID-19 pandemic. The attendees enjoyed the presentation, many gained the desire to visit Israel and asked their pastor to organize a trip next year. They also pledged to pray for the Jewish people. They are planning...
The event was hosted by Pastor Neil Malakas, who was one the Asian American Pastors who joined our CUFI Asian Pastors Trip in March 2020. The Pastors were glad they attended the Why Israel presentation and want to support CUFI. They want to host another Pastors event and invite more pastors. They said the information they heard opened their...
Pastor Greg Hurley/Solid Rock Worship Center is a participant of the 2019 CUFI Pastor’s Trip and the West Virginia and Western Maryland UPCI District Superintendent. He was able to gather over 60 pastors for their first CUFI Breakfast at his church and many of them heard of our work for the first time. Several showed interest in participating in...
Pastor Greg Hurley/Solid Rock Worship Center, Pastor Rob Holly, Voice of Pentecost, and Pastor Jacob Pac/United Pentecostal Church all participated in the 2019 CUFI Pastor’s Trip and were able to combine their influence and have CUFI participate in the first UPCI WV/Western Maryland District gathering in two years (due to COVID) West Virginia is...
Pastor Mike Alix invited me to lead his Wednesday night Bible study to deliver the Why Israel? message. Even though the weather was poor, we were encouraged by the size of the crowd we gathered. He informed me that it was one of the larger groups he has gotten. His midweek study had taken a big dip in attendance due to the Covid pandemic but it...
During the month of April, our Dallas, Texas Based CUFI Field Coordinator Rev. Peter De Jesus and our San Antonio District Director Pastor Daniel Gonzalez of Cornerstone Iglesia conducted four weekly CUFI Facebook and Radio Spanish programs with the La Nuestra 1130AM Radio Station based in San Antonio, TX. Our 27-minute programs were aired LIVE...
CUFI offered its first event in Hood River Oregon, hosted by Israel trip alumni Pastor Fritz Stranz of Hood River Covenant Church. CUFI’s Why Israel presentation resonated with the audience of about 80-90, many of whom stayed later to ask questions and learn more about CUFI. A generous love offering was received for CUFI On Campus. Among the...
A small live studio audience gathered for a CUFI Why Israel presentation hosted by CUFI Washington State Director Pastor Mark Biltz of El Shaddai Ministries. The presentation was live streamed to the tens of thousands of El Shaddai members around the world. A financial gift was given for the work of CUFI On Campus, and El Shaddai requested to...
Iran’s deputy foreign minister Ali Bagheri Kani, who is also the Iranian chief nuclear negotiator spoke to his Chinese counterpart this week, according to reports in Iran. Tasnim News says that the “Senior Negotiator and Deputy Foreign Minister, this evening (Wednesday, December 8) called Chinese Vice President Zhaosu to discuss the Vienna talks.”...
Talks to salvage the 2015 Iran nuclear deal formally resumed on Thursday, with a meeting of the remaining parties to the deal, which does not include the United States, Russia's top envoy to the talks said on Twitter. The meeting ended within an hour.
"The meeting of the Joint Commission is over. It was rather short and constructive," Mikhail...
A new report by the Anti-Defamation League has found that rhetoric used by anti-Israel groups on US college and university campuses frequently demeans and ostracizes pro-Israel Jewish students, and occasionally descends into antisemitism.
In preparing the study, ADL experts identified what, they said, was “a pattern of anti-Israel groups and...
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid met on Thursday with Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in Cairo, where the two discussed the Iranian threat, and Israel’s attempts to reach an agreement with the Hamas terror group in Gaza.
On Iran, Lapid and Sissi spoke about Tehran’s nuclear program and the threat to regional stability posed by its support...
Israeli and American military leaders are set to discuss possible military drills to practice destroying Iranian nuclear facilities in a potential worst-case scenario, a senior US official said on Wednesday.
The comment came as the faltering nuclear talks were set to resume on Thursday in Vienna, and as Defense Minister Benny Gantz flew to...
A Pastor’s Meeting was held at Grace Point Church in Bristol TN. The TN event also had 3 pastors in attendance from just across the line in Bristol, VA. Those contacts were passed on to Field Coordinator Victor Styrsky. A couple of pastors in attendance were already members of CUFI, but there were 11 more who signed the pledge card, and 4 checks...
Pastor Adam Tripp first heard of CUFI at a 2021 CUFI Pastor’s Luncheon hosted by a pastor who had participated in a 2020 CUFI Israel Trip. The excitement of the pastor’s testimony and the Why Israel message he heard at the luncheon caused him to join the membership of CUFI and request that he be allowed to apply for the upcoming October 2021...
Leaders from the small town of Iuka, KY gathered to hear the biblical reasons to stand with Israel and the Jewish people. The congregation of the host church embraced us with open arms.
The Church at Liberty Square is without a doubt the most vocal and active pro-Israel church in this part of Georgia with a monthly giving budget supporting numerous works in Israel and dedicating every Monday night to “praying for the peace of Jerusalem.” It has been over 12 years since Senior Pastor Jacob King first visited Israel, and is hoping...