Blessings, missings, and new lessons..

Shalom and blessings from Brooklyn,

  So it's three weeks till I am back in California and I have been thinking and learning allot this week. I have much to share. This week much has happened and it's been great. So much to experience and so much to learn.
    Tuesday,  I was in the office at CPM for chapel ( a requirement for the employees and students of CPM), and I got to hear Ted Peirce sing and that was wonderful but then CPM missionary Mark spoke and his message was a hit home for me. His message was that whether you are a missionary, volunteer, student, or  just someone who loves God and loves Yeshua , we need to be not afraid to be proud that we have Yeshua in our life and that we should be joyful about the mission God has individually put in everyone life. I have come to see that I have been a mixed bag when I should be joyful and that was wonderful to hear. Later that evening, I was back at CPM office to part take in the young messianic and christian bible study MetroMoses where we are talking about being believers in Yeshua, the Jewish community, and living in NYC.  Wednesday, my Ryan (my boss) and I got up early and drove up to my college Philadelphia Biblical University (PBU) in Langhorne, PA to learn how to talk to Christians about the importance of Jewish ministry and learn how to recruit students for internships with CPM and missions trips with CPM to India and New Zealand.  While I was there I got to run a book table and see some very influential people in my life (professors and friends) and talk to a Jewish Christian student, who has Jewish family that are unsaved and gave him wisdom and some books that he could give his family to read (conn. with Isaiah 53). Then yesterday  I went with Doug (another assoc. of CPM)  to a new college we had not been at prior. We went to Hunter College in mid-Manhattan and set up a book table. Two police officers came to our table and took a book and several born-again Christians  came up to us really amazed and happy that we were out there sharing Yeshua ,we also had several Jewish people come up and happily talk to me and learn to their amazement  that Isaiah 53 was talking about Yeshua as the Messiah. Doug and I also learned a very valuable lesson yesterday..... Satan likes to disrupt the work of God when unbelievers especially Jewish people are being reached. Yesterday, about fours into our being their, the young man who was a mason came up to our table and started talking to Doug about being a Christian (ref. to himself) and distorting scripture. Then he started getting loud about being anti -Semitic and this was just at about the time this orthodox man came up to the table and was wanting to know what we were doing.  I started telling him that we were wanting people to the Isaiah 53 passage and tell us who they think it is talking about, because we were wanting people to think critically for themselves. I told him that Rabbis tell people that they are not read this passage because it lead them astray and that it talks about Jesus. He said that he thought that was great and started reading it and then picked up a book that explained Jesus and the importance of Isaiah 53. Just at that moment the mason started yelling at the man anti-Semitic curses and made the Jewish man angry, so he walked off yelling curses at myself and our table. Because of that I was unable to share with him. We learned that if we encounter someone like the mason we take them away from the table and talk to them. After that point no one wanted to come to our table because that young man was chasing people off.
  This week has been wonderful and an experience. I learned this week that I need to have more patience with people and that when Gods work change takes place but so does  resistance from Satan and so I must be strong and fight. I have also learned that prayer is stronger than prayer is often given credit for. This whole time I have been in NYC finances have been tight, making friends have been hard, and ministry has been hard. I have been praying and now that I look back God has answered prayers in more ways than I could think. God has provided for me financially which floors me, he has brought people my way that I have gotten to know as friends and ministry has picked up so that I am involved and helping people in the Russian community and in the Jewish community in particular, but most of all with my friend Chaya. That's a big prayer that God answered recently. The week after Thanksgiving CPM is having a Thanksgiving party/study and I invited her and she said she would come!!!! THEN, I invited her to a shabbat dinner at my place the next week where there will also be a small bible study and she said YES! This is huge! She came to a shabbat dinner at my place before and heard a message and had no problem with it and she enjoyed it! This time she is willing to come again and so I hope and pray that I can introduce her to more Jewish believing friends so that when I leave she will be in touch and hanging out with Jewish believers and be involved. Please continue to pray for her. I really want Chaya to see Yeshua. Anyways sorry this update is all over the place. I have posted pictures below. Take a look. Blessings in Yeshua , REBEKAH

                      Rachel and Allyson helping me with F.R.E.E.  at Brooklyn College, getting the awareness out about human trafficing in NYC.

            PBU, on Tuesday. The book table and recruiting table.

  Ryan and Prof. Krewson whose class I sat in to hear my boss present... Great prof.

Ryan talking on Romans and the need for Jewish mininstry.