Forty percent of Israeli Jews – 80% of them Orthodox – believe funding from evangelical Christian organizations should not be accepted by Jewish groups. An overwhelming 70% of secular Israeli Jews said it was fine to accept Christian charitable donations. There are plenty of interesting statistics shown in the poll, which you can read for yourself, but one area I would like to point out that is really outrageous to me and that is that the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews led by Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, said it received $87 million from Evangelical Christians LAST YEAR for a variety of charities including immigration, absorption, social welfare and defense needs.

NOT ONE PENNY went to the support the Lord’s work in Israel through the indigenous Body in Israel. In fact, there is not any ministry – Christian or indigenous believers – that comes anywhere close to receiving that kind of Christian charitable giving for Israel. We are called to be good stewards of the money God puts into our hands and for the life of me, I cannot figure out why so many Christians think it is okay to all those donations into the hands of an unbeliever rather than into the hands of a believer who knows the heart of God for Israel’s harvest. This is crazy.

Donna 2/24/09