New Wineskins / 40th Anniversary celebration recap

After a Thursday morning board meeting, we kicked things off in earnest with our Israel: Key to Reaching the N ations pre-conference. We had nearly 40 people in attendance . Rev. Alex Jacob, Tuvya Zaretsky, Rev. Philip Bottomley, and Rev. David Pileggi all gave rich talks.   

We apologize to those who attempted to join us via live stream. Sadly, the app facilitating all the New Wineskins live streams had many technical difficulties. We were able to record and stream the pre-conference. You can watch the recordings here.

Midday Friday, we hosted 100 friends at our 40 th Anniversary L unch with Archbishop Foley Beach. ++ Foley told his personal testimony of learning late in life that he is half Jewish and how this revelation is impacting his life and ministry. He also reviewed the Jewishness of the Gospel story and of Jesus himself and encouraged and exhorted attendees to be motivated by this truth to fight antisemitism in our country and to reach out to our Jewish neighbors in friendship and ministry.  

The m eal ended with Bishop Neil Lebhar hono r ing Theresa Newell for her more than 40 years of faithful service to CMJ USA. Theresa is the founder of CMJ USA , has been an aid and counselor to CMJ USA staff throughout the years , and has help ed thousands of Christians discover Israel through Shoresh Study Tours.  

We missed seeing former directors Rev. Alfred Sawyer, Rev. Canon Daryl Fenton, and Cheryl Gonzeles, who were unable to join  us. Rev. Philip Bottomley and Marcia Lebhar celebrated with us in person.