Preparing for a Unique Opportunity in July

Thirty-one days. This July holds a special opportunity to touch Jewish lives. Love Your Jewish Neighbor Month is a global movement that encourages Christians — individuals and churches – to intentionally express love, friendship, and solidarity with Jewish people in their communities.

Antisemitism is growing faster than we could have imagined even just a few years ago. It’s touching Jewish people all over the world through targeted comments on the street, on social media, and through outrageous violence and vandalism. Love Your Jewish Neighbor Month is an effort to counter the heavy weight of antisemitism on Jewish communities through deliberate acts of kindness and support.

A Month of Showing Support and Love

Participation looks different in every community. For congregations, Love Your Jewish Neighbor Month could involve organizing service projects at a Jewish synagogue, school, or nursing home — or focusing their teaching on the biblical relationship between the Jewish people and Christians. Others might organize prayer gatherings, community conversations, or interfaith get-togethers, or collect a donation for a synagogue to upgrade its security. On an individual level, Love Your Jewish Neighbor Month might look like small actions: a conversation, a note of encouragement, inviting Jewish neighbors over for a kosher dinner, or joining with other Believers for a weekly time to pray for the Jewish community in their area.

Would you join with us in praying for Love Your Jewish Neighbor Month? It’s coming for the first time this July across the U.S., Canada, the UK, and, hopefully, worldwide. This has the potential to speak hope and encouragement into Jewish hearts all over the world.

Here’s how you can pray.

• Vision and Excitement
  Pray that individuals, pastors, churches, and organizations catch the vision of Love Your Jewish Neighbor Month.
• Creativity and Meaning
  Pray for God to inspire creative ideas for connecting with local Jewish communities in meaningful ways.\
• Wisdom and Sensitivity
  Pray that those participating in Love Your Jewish Neighbor Month will seek the Lord for wisdom and sensitivity in supporting their local Jewish neighbors, synagogues, and communities.‍
• Connection and Reception
  Pray that the Jewish people receiving these acts of kindness would feel genuinely loved and supported.‍
• The Movement and the Future
  Pray that Love Your Jewish Neighbor Month grows into a special movement that helps Jewish communities worldwide feel seen and cared for. Pray that Christians everywhere will be filled with God’s heart for the Jewish people and long to get involved as a way to counter the world’s rising antisemitism.

Thank you for your prayers. This is an exciting opportunity, one with the potential to make a dramatic impact in the Jewish community as they actually experience Christians standing with them.

Learn more about Love Your Jewish Neighbor Month.

Let's Pray

Lord, You have called us to “comfort, yes, comfort” Your people. Would You use the body of Messiah to come alongside Your covenant people with meaningful and significant acts of love and support through this movement of Love Your Jewish Neighbor Month. Direct Believers and churches worldwide to exactly the right ways to show their Jewish communities that they do not stand alone. Prepare Jewish hearts to receive the kindnesses and may they feel the warmth and relief of knowing they are supported. In Yeshua’s name, Amen.

“‘Comfort, yes, comfort My people!’ Says your God.”

— Isaiah 40:1 (NKJV)