International Ministries

You are making it possible for folks in Buenos Aires, Argentina to have free blood pressure screenings, basic medical care, meals, children’s activities, and medical transportation at the FOI Medical Clinic between three Jewish neighborhoods. Your support brings physical comfort and spiritual hope in the only One who saves. Thank you.

“Eugenio, 62, looking at the gauge where the needle was crudely telling how his blood pressure soared, told us: ‘How I wish I had an instrument like this to measure evil around us,’ he said as he stared at the crowd of passersby. Understanding his wish, we told him that the Bible has an answer to his request in Romans 3:23: ‘For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.’

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“Very often, patients that come to us in search of help for their sufferings in the flesh also express their lack of spiritual health. Eugenio, affected by persistent headaches and nightmares, told us about his meandering style of life, where his days swung from one state of mind to another. A few days after our conversation, he returned to us for spiritual help. Despite his attempts to find an answer to his spiritual quest, he still couldn’t find the answer he sought. His Jewish upbringing taught him how to pave the way to salvation through mitzvot, performing good deeds. He was pleased to know that it was not through muscle work that he would be granted eternal life (Ephesians 2:8–9). Eugenio, like many others we meet at the FOI Medical Clinic in Buenos Aires, finds the exam room as the right environment to expose the intimate, hidden side of their lives. We are grateful for believers’ prayers that reach heaven, returning in blessed opportunities to reach desperate people in our midst.”

—FOI Field Worker, Physician, Argentina

Thank you for your willingness to give financial help for the FOI Ministry in Poland and Ukraine, through which so many Jewish people, among them war refugees in distress, can be so greatly blessed. They are comforted by discovering they have sincere Christian friends on their side. Your support of our international ministry continues to bring hope and comfort to our Jewish friends in more than 18 countries. Thank you.

“I think my trip to Moldova best captures the essence of the FOI ministry in Poland after the Russian ground invasion on Ukraine. Suddenly we were told that there was an urgent need to go to Moldova to help a Jewish family fleeing from Odessa (the bombed Ukrainian town located just across the Moldovan border). I immediately agreed to drive the bus and supervise the trip.

“The post-Soviet republic of Moldova, the poorest European country, 930 miles away from Poland, had become a very important southern corridor for the refugee masses. Our non-stop journey took 30 hours to get there and another 30 hours to come back. We had to travel through Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania—-all the way around the Ukrainian war zone. The camp facility for Jewish refugees was located in a closed area of a former resort center on the outskirts of the city of Kishinev. It could house 300 people at a time. Each day 100 people come and another 100 set out for further destinations. I saw people for whom the world has ended. They walked the streets, crying and trying to understand something, anything, from this chaos.

“I heard terrible stories about what some of them had witnessed. I learned that a tear in my eye speaks better than any words of consolation I could have said. On the way back to Poland I told our anxious passengers: My name is Emanuel which means ‘God with us’ and I am strongly convinced that He is and will guard us and bring us safely home. And yes, He did—-through a fierce night snowstorm as the car wound through the serpentine of Carpathian Mountains in Romania; through hours of forced stay at the border controls—we had to cross eight state borders! I asked 82-year old granny Nina, what is the secret of her inner strength and calmness: ‘The family. Now it is everything I live for—to keep us together,’ was her answer. Natalia, the young mother (21 years old) onboard cared for her 2-year-old son Roman so tenderly, that only once I heard him cry. Their husbands and brothers had to stay in Ukraine, forced to

+1,200 Refugees housed at FOI facilities in Poland conscript. At 3 a.m., we arrived at the FOI farm near Warsaw. A warm welcome at the open doors of the house with bright light coming from inside was calling us like a safe haven after the storm. I am grateful to the Almighty for the opportunity to serve our Jewish friends and increase the good despite the pervasive escalation of evil.”