Meeting Young Seekers on the Trail to Faith

After years of responsibility and pressure during mandatory military service, countless young Israelis head to India and Peru in search of peace, meaning and God. That’s why Jews for Jesus sends out short term mission’s teams, called Massah (“journey” in Hebrew) to meet Israeli backpackers along those popular routes. They step into conversations about faith, offering hope and truth in the very places where Israelis are searching for meaning.

In Peru, one Massah participant, Liron, shared this story: “The afternoon before Yom Kippur, I spoke with a young woman named Tikvah about faith. She was curious, but we had to leave before finishing our conversation. The next day, we came back and found eight Israelis, including Tikvah, playing board games. She immediately said, ‘I wanted to ask you a really big question about what we discussed.’ Suddenly, the whole room fell silent as we shared about faith in the Messiah. By the end, thirteen people had heard about Jesus. I had hoped for just one conversation with Tikvah, but God gave us so much more!”

Please pray for all those we met and ministered to along the way that they would find real freedom in Yeshua.