ALGEMEINER
By Yael Eckstein
May 6, 2014
….Every day the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (The Fellowship) receives thousands of pieces of mail from Christians around the world with a financial gift to help Jewish people in need. Often there is a note enclosed explaining why they felt moved to give.
They are people like Diane, a young single mother in Oklahoma who gave up buying her beloved Starbucks coffee every morning so she can donate $4 each day to The Fellowship to help the Jewish people. Or Peggy, from California, who wrote to me, “I want you to know I will always help [the Jewish people]. When you visit them, please tell them I love them, and will do everything I can for them. Please tell them to smile, and not to cry, because they will always have a friend in the United States who loves them dearly.”
I’m often deeply moved by these letters. Last week, when I read one from a Fellowship donor named Robert explaining why he is so dedicated to helping Jews in Russia, chills went down my spine.
“I did have a prayer fulfilled on January 4, 2013,” he wrote. “I was given Social Security disability. This came just seven days before I totally ran out of money. I had been out of food and falling behind on bills for several months. During the worst of these times, I had people, Christians included, tell me that I needed to spend my money on myself, instead of helping others, but they were wrong. This is why I give to The Fellowship, because I have had bad times in my life, but the Jews in Russia have had a lifetime of this.”
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