Heartbeat Israel
Heartbeat Israel is our monthly segment where Grant and Gregg help us stay in touch with what the Lord is saying and doing in “the land” of Israel by interviewing those whose “ear is to the ground”. Whether it’s messianic outreach, Aliyah, the temple mount, anti-Semitism, biblical history, houses of prayer, methods of economy, Hebrew covenantal life culture, signs and wonders – we want to press into the Father heart of God as Israel is the apple of His eye and God’s prophetic time clock. Click the link here for previous episodes…
Jim Schutz
Jim Schutz has lived in Israel for over 37 years and served in multiple ministries and organizations. He has been a relationship builder, whose heart is both for strengthening the local Body of Messiah in Israel and for demonstrating God’s love to the people of Israel, both Jewish and Arab. He is also passionate about helping believers in the nations grasp God’s heart for Israel and the nations together in the form of the one new man.
In 1974 Jim came to faith in Jesus as Lord as a young law student at the College of William and Mary in the USA. After graduating in 1977 and working 2 years as staff attorney for the US Court of Appeals in Virginia, Jim left a promising legal career in response to a personal call to serve the Lord full time in the nations. This eventually led him and his wife Leslie to Israel in 1986 with a vision to serve God in whatever way He would lead and specifically to get involved with the aliyah of Jews from the former Soviet Union.
A life-changing trip in 1987 to encourage suffering Jewish “Refuseniks” in the USSR led to an invitation to head the Soviet Jewry Department of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ), where he served for 21 years.
In addition to helping with the Aliyah and absorption of many thousands of new immigrants from the FSU, Jim became ICEJ’s official liaison to local believers and an international speaker for the organization, while also serving on the leadership team of a local Messianic congregation in Jerusalem.
More recently Jim served five years as the Executive Director of The Joseph Project, a Messianic humanitarian aid outreach that imports and distributes aid around the country to all segments of Israeli society. He also represented Focus on Israel, a UK based organization that teaches pastors about the importance of Israel and supports local ministries in Israel.
Jim also serves with Emmaus Way, Arnie Klein’s ministry of which Grant partners with and brings prayer tour groups as part of Reconnecting Ministries visiting from the nations.
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