Board Member

Wichita, Kansas

Mission Advocates are close partners in our ministry. What does an Apple of His Eye (AOHE) mission advocate do?  Quite simply, a mission advocate is part of a team of caring Christians who share our passion for reaching the lost and equipping fellow believer to do the same. Mission advocates join us in advancing the Gospel as empowered by the Holy Spirit. Specifically, our mission advocates help us by:

• Speaking with those who are interested in the Gospel
• Making others aware of our Mission in various venues
• Meeting with others to pray for our mission and the salvation of the Jewish people
• Helping identify those who might want to support the mission
• Providing or presenting our materials to your local congregation 

If you are interested in becoming a Mission Advocate and supporting our work, please contact us. We may be reached at:

(888) 512-7753

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We are organized around a set of CORE VALUES which link us together.

God's Promises Concerning the Jewish People

We believe that God is the same yesterday, today and forever. The promises that He has made concerning the Jewish people will be consummated in His time (Jer. 31:35- 37; Romans 11:24-26). We stand against anti-Semitism in all of its forms, and view withholding the Gospel from the Jewish people to be the worst form of anti-Semitism.

Direct Jewish Evangelism

It is vital that we focus energy on a clear presentation of the Good News of life and salvation in Y’shua to unsaved Jewish people world-wide. (Romans 1:16)

Lutheran Biblical Doctrine

We value sound Biblical grace-oriented teaching as we equip people to be witnesses to the life we find in the Messiah, Y’shua.

Planting Messianic Congregations

The planting of worshipping congregations with a messianic Jewish heritage is an important outcome of our ministry.

Nurturing Mishpochah (Family)

We value a caring and committed community which will rejoice with one another in victory and mourn with those who mourn. We recognize that for some, faith in Y’shua may lead to loss of family and Jewish community support, and we willingly stand in the gap to provide support and community for those Jewish believers.

Awareness and Training for the Church in Jewish Evangelism

We value raising the awareness level of Lutheran congregations for their Jewish community neighbors and we work to lift their zeal and skills in sharing their faith with them.

Leadership Development

We prize the discovery and usage of the Spiritual Gifts and talents of Jewish and gentile believers, and we invest time and energy in training and deploying them to carry out God’s mission in the community and the world.

 

Apple of His Eye Mission Society is a not-for-profit 501c(3) organization. We file a Form 990 annually for the public disclosure of all our finances.

mis·sion (n)

• the vocation or work of a church or other religious organization or of individuals in communicating their faith in a variety of ways to the wider community

• an area assigned to a missionary or missionary group

ad·vo·cate (n)

• somebody who supports or speaks in favor of something

• somebody who acts or intercedes on behalf of another

What is a Mission Advocate?

A Christian who is invited to share the passion and purposes of The Apple of His Eye and volunteers their time and talents, as the Lord leads, to fulfill His mission of reaching the lost.

Activities of a Mission Advocate in a given area are established by the Advocate in coordination with Apple of His Eye. Mission Advocates serve to to get the gospel out, equip others to get the gospel out and raise awareness of Apple of His Eye so that others may pray, volunteer, participate in outreach and support our work.

Some of the activities of a Mission Advocate include:

• Speaking with those who are interested in the Gospel
• Making others aware of our Mission in various venues
• Growing in their skills in personal evangelism
• Helping our missionaries when they are in your area
• Meeting with others to pray for our mission and the salvation of the Jewish people
• Bringing materials or forwarding them to area churches
• Being creative to find ways to further the mission
• Help us identify those who would want to support the mission
• Helping those in your sphere of influence better understand Jewish roots/holidays
• Encouraging those on the front lines as they move forward in ministry

As an advocate, you are a close-in partner in ministry joining the cloud of witnesses from long ago in advancing the Gospel empowered by the Holy Spirit as God leads you using your talents for the opportunities at hand.

If you are interested in becoming a Mission Advocate and supporting our work, please contact us. We may be reached at:

Apple of His Eye Mission Society
PO Box 1649
Brentwood, TN 37024-1649, USA

(888) 512-7753

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We have come together because we desire a changed future

The change we desire is lost souls being found in Christ; churches including Jewish people in their overall mission focus; and Christians overcoming their reticence to witness and boldly presenting the message of salvation to those they know.

We are a faith mission

We rely on God to provide the resources through churches and individuals to carry out our mission efforts. Our support does not come from governments or non-believers, but from those who agree with us that the Bible is true and Jesus is the only way for salvation (John 14:6). We rely on the prayerful, sacrificial donations of time, talents and treasures of those who agree with us to enable us to carry out our mission.

Our role supports the building up of the church as a whole

Ephesians 4:11-15 It was He who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God’s people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ.

God called some to serve the church as evangelists, people who are broadcasting the Gospel to those not yet followers of Christ. As evangelists serve, they not only are declarers of the Good News, but are also part of God’s plan to prepare the church to mature into powerful witnesses who will speak the truth of Jesus, in love, to a lost and dying world.

Jewish missions presents some unique challenges

We face a challenge in brining the Gospel to a Jewish audience:

• There are over 16 million Jewish people scattered over 134 countries of the world.

• Missiologists acknowledge that over 98% of the Jewish population today is unsaved.

• Not only do we face indifference by many regarding spiritual matters, but that is colored by the long history of anti-Semitism which, by some in the Jewish community, is linked to the church.

• It has long been declared by Jewish leaders that one cannot be Jewish and believe in Jesus. Yet the first followers of Jesus were Jewish, Jesus was Jewish, and the Apostles were Jewish. We believe that the most Jewish thing one can do is follow the Jewish Messiah, Jesus!

• We cannot piggy-back the Gospel onto an agricultural mission, a medical mission or an educational mission. We do not need to translate the scriptures into a native tongue. The Jewish people have taken a desert and made it bloom. They are on the cutting edge of medical technologies and are highly literate. The Old Testament was given in their original tongue, Hebrew. This means that the only thing we can do is to tell people of Jesus in as loving and direct manner as possible.

 

Apple of His Eye Mission Society is a not-for-profit 501c(3) organization. We file a Form 990 annually for the public disclosure of all our finances.

The term “Apple of His Eye” comes from the Bible. It refers to the “small man” or pupil of the eye that is protected by the Lord:

Remember the days of old; consider the generations long past. Ask your father and he will tell you, your elders, and they will explain to you. When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided all mankind, he set up boundaries for the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel. For the LORD’s portion is his people, Jacob his allotted inheritance. In a desert land he found him, in a barren and howling waste. He shielded him and cared for him; he guarded him as the apple of his eye, like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, that spreads its wings to catch them and carries them on its pinions. The LORD alone led him; no foreign god was with him. - Deuteronomy 32:7-12

Our name sprang from an outreach event in 1990, our very first one in The Big Apple, New York City. We aim for Lutherans to associate the phrase today with Jewish evangelism.

We are a mission society in that we are going; and giving the Gospel wherever we go: public events and places, giving presentations in churches, through our personal lives, and in the development of materials and technologies to tell the Good News of Messiah.

We are a society in the sense that we are an group of people who share an interest, aim, and profession of faith.

 

Apple of His Eye Mission Society is a not-for-profit 501c(3) organization. We file a Form 990 annually for the public disclosure of all our finances.