Last Saturday Jewish people around the world celebrated Purim. This holiday commemorates the book of Esther from the Jewish Scriptures. One of the things we seen in this story is that God uses improbable or unlikely people to accomplish great things. Esther certainly was an unlikely hero. We celebrate by reading the book of Esther or acting out the book in the form of a play. Traditionally children and some adults come to services dressed up as Esther, Mordecai or Haman. In recent years the Jewish community has celebrated this holiday as more of a costume party. And pretty much anything goes. So you could see Darth Vader posing as Haman and Sleeping Beauty as Esther. We have even seen the Seinfeld characters acting out the play. Our Jews for Jesus staff decided to hit the streets in two Jewish neighborhoods the last week to interact with people about Purim and unlikely heroes.
We asked this man, "Do you have a hero?" This gave us opportunity to talk with people about Jesus.
When Shosh asked these kids who their hero was, they replied, "Our Dad!" They put his name on our board and then we took a photo of them with our board and emailed it to their Dad.
Here is the celebration at our congregation last week.
Please pray that those people to whom we extended
ministry will consider the fact that Jesus who laid down his
life for all of humanity was the greatest hero ever!
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