The Isaac Ishmael Initiative is all about Jesus Christ – every bit of who he is, what he taught, what he claimed about himself. Everything begins and ends with Jesus.
God is fundamentally FOR the Jewish people and Muslims. In fact God is FOR “all creatures here below.”
Followers of Jesus are called to extend grace and love to Jews and Muslims – always.
In 2011, Brian founded The Isaac-Ishmael Initiative to bring together the three monotheistic faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Born and raised in a Muslim family, Ashraf was groomed from a young age to become the next leader of the family after his grandfather.
Elias Nawawieh joined The Isaac Ishmael Initiative in 2018. He co-leads our Holy Land tours and is the leader our refugee work in Jordan and beyond.
Our work centers entirely around the person of Jesus Christ – his teaching, his claims, his life, death and resurrection. God’s grace is expressed most exactly in Jesus as Lord and Savior. People come to a personal understanding of and submission to Jesus Christ to be in relationship with God. (Romans 10:10-14)
The purpose of Israel and the Church is to be a blessing to the nations and to bring people to God and into His Kingdom – what is called the Missio Dei (God’s Mission). The Church and Israel each have unique places in God’s redemptive plan. The Church has replaced Israel. We promote a view that national Israel today is equivalent to Israel in the Bible. Our theology is a broad Kingdom mission theology that includes Israel and the Church in God’s purposes.
Kurds Flee Attacks in SyriaThey are a people without a country. More than 25 million Kurds live in their ancestral lands of eastern Syria, Turkey, Iraq, and Iran and yet they are not free. In some cases they have been oppressed for decades.
In October, 2019 the fragile balance of power in northern Syria changed overnight and more than 2 million Kurdish men, women, and children are in danger. They are fleeing an invasion by the Turkish military into Syria.
The Kurds have few “safe havens” to move to. One of them is the semi-autonomous Kurdish Region of Iraq. This is where The Isaac Ishmael Initiative is partnering with N2N, a local non-profit in the city of Sulaymeniah.
We have launched an emergency assistance project to provide shelter, food, medical care, and other supplies to the displaced who come to Iraq.
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