A Whole Lot of Money

I find it baffling that so much money is spent on converting the Jewish people. For a group that numbers about 13 million people world-wide, the money is just rolling in to people who want to convert Jews. I also find it baffling that people in the Messianic movement express so much doubt that converting Jews is a big money issue.

Let's give the expenditures of a few large Messianic organizations to put this in perspective. All numbers are coming from the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA). The ECFA is a Christian entity through which various Christian groups (including Messianics) submit their financial information so their financial status is more transparent.

For each of these Messianic organizations, total yearly expenditures for 2007 are given:

Messianic Vision: $6,020,804
Jewish Voice Ministries International: $7,584,179
Jews for Jesus: $17,349,114
Chosen People Ministries: $8,637,940
Ariel Ministries: $1,431,021
The Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry: $8,758,107
Maoz Israel Ministries: $2,633,743

In total, those seven organizations spent more than $52.4 million dollars in the business of converting Jews to Christianity. That is about $4 for every single Jewish man, woman and child in the entire world-by just seven Messianic organizations! And who said that missionary work to the Jews was not big money?