CFI FOUNDERS RAY SANDERS & SHARON SANDERS FELT THE CALL OF GOD ON THEIR LIVES, AND MOVED TO ISRAEL FROM THE USA IN 1985, to start CHRISTIAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL. GOD CALLED THEM TO BRIDGE and REPAIR THE GAP BETWEEN CHRISTIANS AND JEWS., and to spread GOD'S MESSAGE to the WORLD, that GOD WILL TRULY BLESS THOSE NATIONS, AND PEOPLE THAT BLESS ISRAEL; and that our MESSIAH YESHUA JESUS WAS BORN SON OF GOD, INTO A CHOSEN JEWISH FAMILY, MARY AND JOSEPH, DESCENDANTS OF ABRAHAM, ISAAAC, AND JACOB.
RAY & SHARON SANDERS, and their VISIONARY MINISTRY, CHRISTIAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL , HAS BEEN BASED IN JERUSALEM, SERVING, IN ISRAEL, FOR OVER 35 YEARS. THEY HAVE DEVELOPED MANY PROJECTS, AND BRANCHES AROUND THE WORLD. TO PRAY FOR, AND BLESS THE HOLY ETERNAL LAND, CHOSEN BY GOD, AND PRECIOUS, THE PROMISED LAND FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY..
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CHRISTIAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL - CANADA is a REGISTERED CANADIAN NON - PROFIT, and a BRANCH OF CFI - JERUSALEM, reaching into the heart of ISRAEL with LOVE, PRAYER AND PHYSICAL SUPPORT for HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS, VICTIMS OF TERROR, and STANDING WITH BELIEVERS in the PROMISED LAND. CFI ALSO REACHES OUT TO THE IDF SOLDIERS, has a nonprofit BRIDAL SALON, and the WALL OF PRAYER, covering ISRAEL and the WORLD LEADERS in PRAYER.
GIVE TODAY, and BLESS the ETERNAL LAND OF ISRAEL, THE LAND OF THE BIBLE, and the CHOSEN PEOPLE OF GOD.
TAX RECEIPTS are issued yearly. CFI - CANADA BN# 831936539 RR0001
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REVEREND PAUL and MARGARET COLLINS, of VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA worked with CHRISTIAN FRIENDS of ISRAEL in JERUSALEM, in 1990. PAUL managed the CFI DISTRIBUTION CENTRE,, and MARGARET worked in the CFI HEAD OFFICE. This was during the dissolution of the USSR, and they experienced many MIRACLES. In 1994, they created CHRISTIAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL- CANADA, a BRANCH of CFI JERUSALEM, to stand in the gap for ISRAEL and JERUSALEM with PRAYER, INTERCESSION, MATERIAL SUPPORT for the Distribution Centre, and FINANCIAL PARTNERSHIP, as well as teaching in their community on the IMPORTANCE of remembering ISRAEL. PAUL COLLINS recently moved home to be with his Lord and Saviour, April , 2023.
"I AM ALPHA AND OMEGA, THE BEGINNING AND THE END, THE FIRST AND THE LAST."
REVELATION 22:13
REVEREND KENNETH & ILENE SMITH led CHRISTIAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL - CANADA from 2014 - 2019. They had both attended EASTERN PENTECOSTAL BIBLE COLLEGE, in ONTARIO. REVEREND KEN HAD MOVED TO CANADA AS A TEENAGER WITH HIS FAMILY FROM ENGLAND, and came to FAITH IN CHRIST in Ontario. ILENE , having JEWISH ancestry, came to college from MICHIGAN, USA. There they met , and were married while in college, and had a family of four boys. REVEREND KEN & ILENE PASTORED ACROSS WESTERN CANADA, and started with CFI-CANADA as EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS in 2014, leading many tours to ISRAEL., and working tirelessly to get the nonprofit status for CFI Canada. REVEREND KENNETH SMITH PASSED AWAY, MAY 2022 in CASTLEGAR, B.C.
" FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE." JOHN 3:16
REVEREND DENNIS & EWA SPENST TOOK THE LEADERSHIP IN 2019 BUT DUE TO PREVIOUS COMMITMENTS WITH FULL GOSPEL BUSINESS MEN'S AND HART MINISTRIES, THEY PASSED THE TORCH ON IN 2020.
" THEY THAT BE WISE SHALL SHINE AS THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE FIRMAMENT; AND THEY THAT TURN MANY TO RIGHTEOUSNESS AS THE STARS FOREVER AND EVER." DANIEL 12:3
ELAINE NEWMAN TOOK THE TORCH IN 2020 AFTER ATTENDING WITH HUSBAND STEVE, THE CFI JERUSALEM CONFERENCE & TOUR, AND AGM IN 2015, 2017 & 2018., IN ISRAEL AS THE WESTERN CANADIAN DIRECTOR. STEVE & ELAINE NEWMAN HAVE BEEN MARRIED 47 YEARS, AND HAVE 5 CHILDREN, AND 14 GRANDCHILDREN. STEVE WORKS IN THE RANCHING AND TRUCKING INDUSTRIES, CO - OWNING T-1 TRANSPORT, LLOYDMINSTER WITH TWO OF THEIR SONS.
BE THOU EXALTED, LORD, IN THINE OWN STRENGTH: SO WILL WE SING AND PRAISE THY POWER." Psalm 21:13
