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Article: Jews for Jesus to hit streets of D.C. Evangelism effort stirring debate.(PAGE ONE)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- August 10, 2004
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Byline: Julia Duin, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Dozens of evangelists with Jews for Jesus will hit the streets of Washington starting next week for a monthlong campaign at Metro stops, downtown areas and college campuses aimed at the Washington area's 215,000 Jews.
More than 600 people took an evangelism-training course last month at the 10,000-member McLean Bible Church to prepare for the "Behold Your God" campaign. The blitz also will involve radio and newspaper ads.
"We want to make the messiahship of Jesus an unavoidable issue to Jewish people in the Washington area," said Stephen Katz, Washington director of Jews for Jesus. "We want to ask them: ...