Who is Moishe Rosen and why has he invested 45 years of his life answering that question?

TODAY, Sunday, August 24th, from his wheelchair, Moishe Rosen, 76, will bravely face skeptics, sinners, and saints as he shares the Answer to all of life's questions.

Moishe Rosen (born 12 April 1932 as Martin Meyer Rosen) His given Hebrew name was Moshe or Moses and Moishe is the vernacular Yiddish.

Rosen is the founder and former Executive Director of Jews for Jesus, an evangelical Christian missionary organization working to proclaim and promote the message of Christ amongst the Jewish People.

According to Rosen his mother's parents were "Reform Jews from Austria", his paternal grandfather was Orthodox, and although Rosen's father regularly attended an Orthodox synagogue he was "not religious" and viewed religion as a "racket".

Rosen married Ceil Starr on 18 August 1950. They became Christians in 1953. After graduating Northeastern Bible College, Rosen made a commitment to be a missionary to Jews from 1956.

He was ordained as a Conservative Baptist minister in 1957. He felt a need for a more visible kind of evangelism and developed new techniques of communication which culminated in what became known as The Jews for Jesus movement in 1969.

In 1973 Rosen left the employment of the American Board of Missions to the Jews (now called Chosen People Ministries) to incorporate a separate mission which became known as Jews for Jesus ministries.

In 1986 he received a Doctor of Divinity Degree from Western Conservative Baptist Seminary in Portland, Oregon. He stepped down from his position as Executive Director in 1996, but continues to be employed as a staff missionary and remains one of fifteen board members.

Rosen is known as a flamboyant figure with a strong personality. He openly calls himself both a "Christian" and a "Messianic Jew" - Within the Messianic movement, which comprises a spectrum of beliefs ranging from evangelical Christianity with a Jewish flavour at one end, to beliefs and practices seeking to emulate Orthodox Judaism with Yeshua added at the other, Rosen is firmly at the "evangelical pole" of the spectrum.

Despite some controversy, he has remained in the evangelical mainstream.

Tomorrow, Sunday, August 25th, Mr. Rosen will share a message from the Book of Romans entitled "The Great Divorce".

Mr. Rosen will speak at the regular Sunday morning service at Bell Road Baptist Church, 707 Bell Road (Auburn Exit 123 at Interstate 80). The service begins at 10:15 a.m.

For more information:

Pastor Rob Patterson cell: (530) 366-2924