Jewish Community

Pics: Private park in a Jewish neighborhood across the street from Los Arcos

There are 50,000 Jews in Houston.  Salem Oaks team is currently head quartered at Los Arcos apartments which is located directly across the street from the largest community of Jewish people in the city.

It's a special type of neighborhood called an Eruv, surrounded by walls that make certain Sabbath day practices possible, allowing the people to continue following the Jewish law while living in the midst of a city of "gentiles".

The apostle Paul wrote to the Roman believers about the Jews, saying,

"Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved... if they do not continue in their unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again. For just as you were at one time disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience, so they too have now been disobedient in order that by the mercy shown to you they also may now receive mercy" (see Romans 10 and 11).

Current day ministry among Jewish people looks very different from Paul's ministry, as well as from disciple making among refugees. The  team has little to no experience or knowledge of it.

So, June 13th and 14th we are hosting a training with a brother in Christ who has experience ministering to Jews.

»» pray for this community as a whole to be softened and prepared for the gospel

»» pray for a key man/family of peace to be found among them who will have influenced in the test of the community

»» pray for a married couple with a calling to minister to the Jews to join the Salem Oaks team and move in to this community by the end of the year

»» pray that the rest of the team and our disciples will be empowered through the training in June to pray and minister effectively