Growing a Family

1. The birth of Chosen People ministries --
Setting the stage --
In Europe --
In England --
In America --
The Warszawiak story --
2. Leopold Cohn: the Rabbi who found Yeshua --
The early life of Leopold Cohn --
Searching for the Messiah --
Arrival in America --
The rabbi reads the New Testament --
Leopold Cohn accepts the Messiah --
Persecuted for his faith --
Life in Edinburgh --
Reunited with his family --
Return to America --
The Warszawiak scandal --
Becoming a Jewish mission --
3. The Brownsville mission to the Jews --
The Bernhard Angel story --
Problems of Jewish missions --
The Brownsville mission begins --
The Chosen People magazine initiated --
The Baptists decide to help --
The Williamsburg mission to the Jews begins --
4. The fires of affliction --
The death of Rose Cohn --
A Jewish \"matchmaker\" --
Events leading to incorporation --
A major donor to the rescue --
The fresh air farm and problems --
A building in Brooklyn --
A smear campaign --
Neuowich and the plot against Cohn --
Schapior and Spievacque join Plot --
The strange story of Izsak Joszovics --
A committee searches for the truth --
Cleared of all charges --
5. The winds of change --
Some early workers --
Miss Sussdorff and Miss Bigelow --
Philip Englander --
Harry Burgen --
Joseph Hoffman Cohn --
The Brooklyn building enlarged --
A gospel mail established --
A cemetery for Jewish believers --
Sar Shalom association and congregation --
The Plaza Branch --
A 1919 report of the ministry --
Winona Lake prophecy conference --
The changing of the guard --
A Yiddish and English newspaper is born --
The mission\'s name is changed --
Hewes House --
Quest for new workers --
Harry Burgen: the Philadelphia branch --
Leopold Cohn honored --
The death of Leopold Cohn --
6. The vision expands in America --
Early life and training of Joseph Cohn --
Marriage and family of Joseph Cohn --
Methodology looks beyond the immigrants --
Marston memorial hall --
August Sussdorf: her story --
Bernhard Schatkin: the plaza branch --
Chicago branches and student training --
Ben Kolton: his story --
Charles Lee Feinberg: his story --
Oscar Wago: the Columbus, Ohio branch --
Sanford Mills: Washington D.C, Columbus --
Elias Zimmerman: the Los Angeles ministry --
Helen Graber: Los Angeles --
Joint ministry with Keith L. Brooks --
Herman Juroe: field evangelist --
Herbert Amster: field evangelist --
Walter Atkinson: his story --
Daniel Fuchs: his story --
Expanding the branch ministries --
Radio: a new venture --
The Coney Island branch established --
Hilda Koser: her story --
Larry Feldman: his story --
Steve Schlissel: his story --
Ending an era --
Emil Gruen joins the staff --
Victor Buksbazen: his story 7. The vision expands to Europe and beyond --
Branches opened in Lithuania and Russia --
Ministry begun in Palestine/Israel --
Frank Boothby --
Sigourd Biorness --
Haim Haimoff --
The McClenahans --
Israel through the eyes of Charles Kalisky --
Peter Gutkind --
Expanding the ministry through radio --
Jacob and Leah Goren: their story --
Joseph Alkahe: his story --
Mary Ann Sleichter: her story --
Continuing the witness in Israel --
Avner Boskey: his story --
Albert and Gretta Davis: their story --
Networking in Europe --
Henri Vincent: the Paris ministry --
Emanuel Lichtenstein: his story --
Herbert Singer: relief ministry in Europe --
Work among refugee Jews --
The Vienna ministry: Emanuel Lichtenstein --
Lottie Furth --
Josef Herschkowitz: his story --
Lichtenstein forced to flee Europe --
The Buenos Aires branch --
A congregation established --
Victor and Deborah Sedaca --
Buenos Aires building dedicated --
David Sedaca --
South American board established --
Robert Passo: his story --
Elias Habif --
Otto Samuel: ministry in Germany --
Moses Gitlin: ministry in Poland --
The Paris ministry and the Nazis --
Ministry among the refugees --
A children\'s home --
Soup kitchens established --
Vincent taken prisoner --
Liberation of Paris: ministry resumed --
Andre Frankl expands the Paris ministry --
Andre Rene Boulagnon --
Jacque Guggenheim --
The Russian ministry and the war --
Joseph Rabinowitz --
Leon Awerbuch --
Ministry in England --
Anne Rayner: her story --
Final days of ministry in England --
8. A vision in the midst of dissension --
Abraham Machlin: his story --
A Buffalo, New York branch established --
Herman Centz: the Buffalo branch --
Problems of Joseph Cohn --
Resignations provoke confrontation --
Attempts at reconciliation --
A spilt in the board of directors --
The A.A.J.E formed --
Loss of support --
Dr. Ironside apologizes --
Final attempt at reconciliation --
9. Till death do us part --
Yiddish New Testament --
1st congress on prophecy --
Dr. Harry Marko: his story --
Jack Schwartz: his story --
Alexander Marks: his story --
The mission in Manhattan --
The Manhattan building dedicated --
Eleanor Bullock: her story --
Paul Wilson: in Cuba and Buffalo --
Helen Johnson: in Buffalo --
Joseph Serafin: in Manhattan and Buffalo --
Ruth Wardell: her story --
Recruiting new board members --
The Tribulation Fund --
The American fellowship of Christian Jews --
Rebuilding the ministry in Europe --
Supplying Yiddish New Testaments --
The World fellowship of Christian Jews --
Elias and Margaret den Arend: their story --
Herman Newmark, a possible successor --
Sydney Parker: in Manhattan --
Replacing aging board members --
Replacing aging staff members --
Arnold and Margaret Seidler: in Pittsburg --
Elmer S. Davidson: field evangelist --
Establishing foreign corporations --
Ruth Backus: the Portland, Oregon branch --
Personal memoirs penned --
The death of Joseph Hoffman Cohn --
10. The vision rekindled --
Searching for a new leader --
Harold B. Pretlove: executive secretary --
Historic staff conference --
An editorial staff appointed --
Tension among the mission\'s staff --
A new administrative structure --
Daniel Fuchs appointed to the board --
Rabbi Asher Tzadik Levi: his story --
Martin and Ceil Rosen: their story --
Investing reserves in missionary outreach --
Henry Heydt: his story --
A Minneapolis branch established --
Albert Runge: his story --
Clara and Joe Rubin: their story --
The Huntington station branch established --
The Queens branch: Beatrice (Kaufman) Maggi --
The flushing branch --
Bill and Jo Ennis: their story --
At the Dallas Branch --
At the Flushing Branch --
Establishing a deaf ministry --
Directing a summer camp program --
Opening the Hollis branch --
The East New York branch --
Arnold Fruchtenbaum: his story --
Max Doriani: the Rockaways branch --
The Levittown branch --
The Los Angeles ministry expanded --
A new training program developed --
Network of volunteer workers developed --
Thomas McCall: his story --
Developing the Dallas Branch --
Dedicating a new building --
Assisted by student workers --
Martin Waldman: his story --
A new building in Los Angeles --
Participating in the world\'s fair --
Development of district methodology --
New workers recruited --
Emil Olsen --
Mogens Mogensen --
The author: his story --
Henry Johnson --
Irvin Rifkin --
Harry Bucalstein: his story --
Opportunity for merger in Chicago --
Harry Jacobson: in Minneapolis and Chicago --
David Woods: his story --
Terryl Delaney: developing Denver --
The beginning of media evangelism --
Changes in leadership 11. The vision in kaleidoscope --
Moving the training program to New York --
Restaffing Los Angeles --
Theodore Paul: his story --
Barbara Benedict: her story --
Developing special services --
A Messianic Bar Mitzvah --
Messianic holy day services --
The summer intern program --
Larry Jaffrey joins the staff --
Richard Cohen: his story --
Developing the training program in New York --
Tension develops over the training program --
New Methodology developed --
Lola Weir: a veteran missionary joins the staff --
Jonas Cohen: last baptized by Rabbi Cohn --
David Juroe: his story --
Raymond Cohen: his story --
Martin Klayman: his story --
Changes on the horizon --
Focus of the mission program changing --
Media a priority --
A trip to Japan, a change of direction --
The Passover telecast --
Staff changes add to tension --
Plans to transfer Rosen --
A change of direction for Rosen --
Reaching out with broadsides --
Moving to San Francisco --
Participating in Explo \'72 --
The \"Jews for Jesus\" branch wins approval --
Sam Nadler: his story --
The liberated wailing wall --
New districts, new staff --
Arthur Katz --
Daniel Goldberg --
Charles Eisenberg --
Income versus media --
Opposition to The Passover telecast --
The \"smiling faces\" ad --
New training program in Los Angeles --
Changes in policy affect branches --
Washington D.C: Bob and Althea Miller --
Baltimore: Dan and Arlene Rigney --
Philadelphia: Terryl Delaney --
Los Angeles: Richard Cohen --
San Francisco: Moishe Rosen --
The media blitz continued --
Headquarters moves out of Manhattan --
Direction of communications appointed --
The author and his family move to New York --
A gracious gift causes problems --
The San Francisco Branch closed --
Chapter 12. The vision refocused --
Controversy and confrontation --
New media events --
Separating from the name \"Jews for Jesus\" --
Implementing new mission policy --
The ministry in Maryland --
The ministry in Los Angeles --
The ministry in Miami beach --
Reports from other branches --
Changes in administration --
Missionaries and support --
Staff changes create new problems --
First annual workers\' conference --
A Messianic statement creates controversy --
The growing Messianic movement --
Jerome and Mildred Fleischer: in San Francisco --
Rachmiel Frydland --
New titles, new positions, new policies --
A pension and salary program --
A volunteer missionary program --
A regional missionary program --
The bi-centennial celebration --
The congress on prophecy in Philadelphia --
A special media ad --
Proclamation on Israel and rally --
Jonathan Singer: his story --
George Samson joins the staff --
Evangelicals united for Zion established --
Struggling with vision and finances --
Seeking to relocate headquarters --
A new organizational chart --
New board members elected --
Reorganization of staff --
A new literature program --
Changes in the Jewish calendar --
Changes in the mid summer letter --
Radio ministry --
Changes in the ministry in New York --
Responsible Jewish evangelism --
Ark II: Stanley Watin --
A unique tour developed --
The conference ministry: Tom Walker --
A financial crunch --
Difficult decisions and much prayer --
God answers our prayers --
A support raised program adopted --
Developing a policy manual --
The Chicago ministry develops a pilot program --
Ben Alpert --
John Bell --
Roy Schwarcz --
Linda Block --
Michael Schiffman --
The olive tree congregation --
Messianic congregations in other areas --
The policy struggles continue --
Joseph Caplan --
Memo from a board member --
The board responds --
The Western region under Daniel Goldberg --
Eliezer Urbach --
Louis Lapides --
Bill Katin --
Curly Dalke --
Donna Jean Wood --
Sidney Stern --
Wilbur and Edith Freeman --
Artis Clotfelter --
Christopher Melisko --
Steven Sinar --
The southeast region under Larry Jaffrey --
Arthur Watson --
Mitchell Triestman --
David Bowers --
Tom Huckel --
Larry Caruvana --
Barry and Dyann Budoff --
Perrin Cook --
Scott Brown --
The Southwest region under Irwin (Rocky) Freeman --
National church ministries director appointed --
Barry Rubin: his story --
Steffi (Geiser) Rubin: her story --
S.T.E.P program developed --
Policy issues and programs --
Policy statement formulated --
New staff for the northeast --
Michael and Eva Rydelnik --
Steve and Lisa Cagan --
Jerry Gross --
Martha Aller --
Highlights of the ministry: 1985 --
Continued financial concerns --
Roy Adams joins the staff --
A new missionary director: John bell --
New workers for the Midwest --
Galen Banashak --
Barry Berger --
Howard Silverman --
Goldie Rotenberg: her story --
Jeffrey Branman: his story --
The mission\'s name is changed --
Report of the ministry: 1986 --
Five year plan adopted --
Headquarters moved south --
Plans for the future --
New leadership positions outlined --
The death of Daniel Fuchs 13. The vision: one hundred years and beyond --
Adjusting to change --
The Northeast region under Sam Nadler --
Daniel Siegel --
Jim Bates --
Elaine Fenchel --
Gary and Mary Lou Derechinsky --
Israel and Judy Cohen --
Frank Potter --
Larry Feldman rejoins the staff --
Stewart and Shoshannah Weinisch --
Irving Salzman --
A new executive director appointed --
New board members elected --
A new administrative director: Bill Caldwell --
The president\'s baton is passed --
Board and staff changes --
David Henschen joins the staff --
Ken Alpren: in Philadelphia --
James Fox: in the northeast --
Rich and Julia Freeman: in the northeast --
Kirk Gliebe: in the Midwest --
Michael Campo: in the Midwest --
Winn Crenshaw: in the South --
The Russian ministry reopens --
Vladamir Winer: in Kiev --
Dan and Arlene Rigney: in Kiev --
Lydia (Onbreit) Wechsler: her story --
Full circle --
14. The vision in the dominion of Canada --
Canada headquarters in Hamilton, Ontario --
The ministry in Montreal --
Karl Goldberg --
Helen Carrell --
Martha Singer --
New staff in Montreal --
A Montreal report: 1949 --
Ashton Holden and Margaret Seidler --
The mission incorporated in Canada --
Toronto, under Fred Bergman --
The Bible conference ministry --
Using the media in ministry --
Rachmiel Frydland: his story --
Leslie Jacobs: in Toronto --
New board members elected --
Winnie Marriner: her story --
Staff problems and reorganization --
A regional structure for Canada --
More new board members appointed --
New workers and programs in place --
Rob Styler: in Toronto --
Ben Volman: in Toronto --
Staff changes and reorganization --
Larry Rich: area director, Canada --
Percy Johnson: in Montreal.