Shalom Dear Friends,
Todah Rabbah (thank you very much)!
Welcome to the month of November, during which we set aside a special day to thank the Lord for His blessings. In that vein we want to set aside this issue of the HaDavar newsletter to thank the Lord for His local and international blessings.
Local Blessings
We have been amazed and gratified regarding how the Lord has blessed our outreach on the University of California Irvine (UCI) campus this year. Statistics cannot tell the whole story, but they can provide a snapshot of our evangelism outreach.
Professions of Faith January through October 19, 2012: 118
We cannot gather names and addresses on campus. We can only encourage a brand new Believer to get involved in a Bible believing local church. To that end we give every student who professes faith in the Lord a Bible and Irvine Community Church information. Please pray for these UCI students, that they would read the Bible they have been given, and that they would follow-up by attending a good church. Thank you Lord for these expressions of faith in Yeshua. Please oversee their ongoing growth into discipleship.
Our classes have been well received and are being used to disciple Believers throughout Orange County, CA. The HaDavar School of Biblical and Jewish studies is averaging around 112 students per week.
Thank you Lord for all these students, eager and serious about learning Your Word. Help them to keep growing in their walk with You. Enable us to do a competent job of presenting the Bible to them in a conservative, relevant manner from a Jewish perspective.
International Blessings
We have also been amazed and gratified regarding how the Lord has blessed our world-wide Internet teaching ministry through our audio classes and YouTube channel. On the YouTube channel we are averaging around 425 views per month since we started posting our class sessions eight months ago. To date our YouTube classes have experienced 26 Subscribers and 3,614 classes viewed.
YouTube subscribers receive an e-mail notification as soon as a class session is uploaded to YouTube. Please consider becoming a subscriber and learning with us. Our audio and video classes reach around the world. Recently we received an e-mail from A. C. in Puerto Rico:
Shalom. I want to report that I have finished listening to the audio classes of hadavar.org. I just want to share that the school is amazing and the themes are just so full of Scripture foundation that I have grown so much and I just want to thank you servants of Elohim [Hebrew for God]. Holding a diploma from this school will be an honor. I thank Yah [shortened form of God’s personal name] for allowing me to find such an educational ministry.
A. C. had listened to 23 classes we currently have on our audio school and we have sent him 23 Certificates of Completion!
In addition, translating our web site into modern Israeli Hebrew continues steadily to completion. Thank you Father for allowing our outreach to extend to the ends of the Earth.
Thanks for your partnership.