Temple Beth El Riverside 50th Anniversary Gala Tribute Book
J Cvent Nov 2009
1. GLOBAL EVANGELISTIC CENTER’S:
The Jewish Christian Network
Invites You To
Two Special Services: Saturday November 21st @ 7:30pm
Saturday,
and Sunday, November 22nd @ 10:00 am ( Main Service)
At Global Evangelistic Center:
407 N. Main Street, Kissimmee Florida 34741
CHRISTIAN FRIENDS of ISRAEL – JERUSALEM
Ray and Sharon Sanders - Co-founders & Directors
ZEPHANIAH 3:10: EMPOWERING THE DISPERSED!!
Come learn about and be connected with the Ethiopian Jews
Contact Information: Tel: (407) 931-1349
(Facebook) The Jewish Christian Network * Web Site: www.shalomcaribbean.com
2. Global Evangelistic Center’s:
THE JEWISH CHRISTIAN NETWORK
Dear Members,
The Jewish Christian Network is pleased to announce its first meeting to be held in
North America this November 21st and 22nd, 2009. We are inviting our entire
Network to be a part of this upcoming historic event, as we welcome the world
re-known co-founders and directors of Christian Friends of Israel to our church.
Our Ministry has officially established a relationship with Christian Friends of Israel
and this November’s meeting we will be hosting them and will be especially focusing
on their outreach to the Ethiopian Jews. They have been effectively working with the
Beta Israel for the last 10 years.
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November’s meeting is titled," Empowering the Dispersed". Our meeting’s theme is
taken from the Prophet Zephaniah’s prophecy (Zephaniah 3:10) regarding the end time
significance of Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Jews. We are inviting you all to be a part of
this event through your intercession, attendance and through your being a part of a
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Major airlifts by the special souvenir booklet that we will be producing to commemorate the event and to
Israeli Government and be a blessing to the Ethiopian Jews. Please see the next page for further information.
other agencies have
brought thousands of Members, as you stand with us in this undertaking your voice of support will be heard
Ethiopian Jews to Israel. worldwide as there will be extensive and strategic distribution of this production and it
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Join our outreach in (see will be posted on our Ministry’s web site with a link to our Facebook site. We invite
Pg.1 & 3) November as we everyone to participate and to reap the divine blessings associated with blessing God’s
find out more about them
and rise to be a blessing.
covenant people (Gen.12:3; Psalm 122:6; Zechariah 2:8; Isaiah 14:1; Romans 11:18)
3. Special Booklet To Help The
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Ethi i Jews:
Full Pg: $ 1,200.00
Half Pg: 600.00
Quarter Pg: 300.00
Eighth Pg: 150.00
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Your ad placement not only honors
you for your giving but enables The
Jewish Christian Network to bless the
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Ethi i Jews that have been settled
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co founder
in Israel as our Network will bless office with his wife Sharon. They have been
hundreds of them with much needed establishing and developing the ministry in Israel
items and supplies. since December 1985 when they were appointed
to build a ministry from the ground up. Ray is a
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graduate of Iowa State University of Ames, Iowa,
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and an Ordained Minister through Christ For the
Nations Bible College in Dallas, Texas.
Ray and his wife are a unique “husband and wife”
team and have been residing in Israel since 1985.
Sending: warm single and double-sized The State of Israel has awarded them the status of
blankets; high quality used clothing; Permanent Residents.
children & personal care products; Ray is a charter member of the Knesset Christian
backpacks with school supplies for the Allies Caucus and on the board of the European
Ethiopian children in Israel. Coalition for Israel.
4. Beta Israel: Ethiopia’s Jews
Because much of the Beta Israel's history is passed
orally from generation to generation, we may never
truly know their origins.
Four main theories exist concerning the beginnings of
the Beta Israel community:
1) The Beta Israel may be the lost Israelite tribe of Dan.
Dan was known as the tribe of great judges The most
judges.
famous was Samson.
2) They may have preserved Judaism from the
revelation that Queen Sheba received from “King
King
Solomon” (1King 10: 1-13; Matthew 12:42)
3) They may be descendants of Menelik I, son of King
Solomon and Queen Sheba.
4) They may be descendants of Ethiopian Christians
and pagans who converted to Judaism centuries ago.
BLACK JEWS:
5) They may be descendants of Jews who fled Israel
An Ethiopian Jewish soldier,
for Egypt after the destruction of the First Temple in
photographed by David Bicchetti, as
586 BCE and eventually settled in Ethiopia.
he guards the home land (Jerusalem)
(Excerpted from “Reunify Ethiopian Jewry,” World Union of Jewish Students)