Serving in California
Los Angeles alone has a population of over 600,000 Jewish people and Chosen People Ministries has had a presence in Southern California for over fifty years. The hub of the Mission’s activities is located in Orange County, with Congregation Shuvah Yisrael (Return O Israel), a thriving Messianic congregation of about 225. Chosen People Ministries’ staff in Southern California carries out evangelistic outreach, youth ministry, discipleship programs and home Bible studies and fellowship groups.
Staff Members
BRIAN AND LIZ CRAWFORD
Brian and Liz Crawford met in college in their native California. Although neither one is Jewish by heritage, they grew in their passion for Jewish evangelism after traveling to Israel with their church in 2005. After returning, they became heavily involved in their college’s Jewish club…read more
MICHAEL AND LISA COHEN
A native of the San Fernando Valley, California, Michael Cohen was raised in a conservative Jewish home. Nonetheless, he attended Hebrew School as a boy, and after his Bar Mitzvah, he went on to excel as a student of history…read more
TONY AND JOAN SAVARESE
Tony Savarese was raised in a Conservative Jewish home in New York City, where he met his wife, Joan, whom he married in 1974. They have two sons. Tony came to faith in through the witness of committed believers in 1976 while working at a radio station in New York City…read more
JOSEPH AND SARAH RYAN
Joseph was raised in a secular home in Norwalk, California. On Christmas Day in 2003, at the age of 26, Joseph heard and responded to the gospel through the witness of a homeless man at a shelter in Pasadena, California…read more
JON AND TIFFANIE DAVIDSEN
Jon Davidsen came to faith in Yeshua (Jesus) in 2005 after many difficult years of being a drug addict and alcoholic. When he came to the point of being homeless and almost losing everything, he turned to God…read more