October 2011


Connections Manipur Memories


A publication of Jewish Voice Ministries International


to the east, you will see rice fields dotting the landscape. Ten you will enter the city of Churachandpur, where a hospital has been turned into a makeshiſt medical clinic almost overnight, and discover a place where dust swirls from the roads as open-air taxis zigzag through the narrow streets under a massive patchwork of telephone lines criss-crossing the crumbling buildings above. Despite these rugged conditions, you definitely want


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to be here because you know there is no greater joy and honor than to live out Scripture. Last October, while ministering in the prayer tent


during our medical outreach to the Bnei Menashe, I met a man who was probably in his late 20s or early 30s. Te only reason he reminded me of the Messiah was because of that wonderful Scripture in Isaiah 53:2 that says of our Lord “there was nothing about his appearance that anyone would find desirable.” Ten minutes later, that young Jewish man had not


only been treated for a physical injury, but he was also spiritually healed because he had turned his life over to Yeshua. I saw thousands like him last year. Most had the same


blank stares of wonderment on their faces when they first entered the medical clinic aſter patiently traveling for days and enduring a long wait in line. You could almost see them questioning, Why would these medical volunteers who know little of our native language of


anipur is one of the most remote and strangely unfamiliar locations you will ever visit. As you travel in fertile valleys nestled by mountains


Hmar and who live on the other side of the planet come to treat our sicknesses and direct us to the One and Only God? Our 2010 Manipur medical outreach prayer team led


hundreds to Yeshua, and at the end of the week, we were tired and spent, but most of all, we were blessed. Lives were changed! Te joy of knowing that fewer people would have to die from otherwise treatable illnesses and that someone came to Yeshua because God chose you to do it is completely thrilling! Is it tough to put it all into words? Absolutely! Better


that you should find a way to get here yourself. We’re going again October 27–November 7, 2011. Whatever sacrifice you have to make, I can promise you, you’ll be glad you did. —By Jack Zimmerman, Staff Evangelist


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