Stan Meyer Comes Back to Bagels and Blessings!

For those of you who missed Stan's first interview, I had the pleasure of speaking with him again recently.  I know you'll enjoy the GREAT music and this inspiring interview!

Stan Meyer served with Jews for Jesus since 1985, and has served as the Los Angeles and South Florida directors. He was raised in San Antonio, Texas. He prayed with his Messianic Jewish mother to receive Yeshua. Stan went on to the University of Texas where he was called to serve in Messianic ministry. In Jews for Jesus he met and married his late wife Holly. They flew to China where they adopted their daughter, Carrie-Fu. Sadly, Holly passed away in 2011 leaving him to raise his daughter as a single dad. In 2014 he married Jacqui, also a Messianic Jew. Today, the Meyers live in Phoenix where Stan is finishing his doctoral work and they serve with Tree of Life Messianic Congregation. Stan holds an MA in Intercultural Studies from Fuller Seminary and is completing his Phd in Intercultural Studies from Biola University.

Jonny Welch Interview

Jonny Welch is a Messianic Worship leader from Nashville, TN.   He grew up in a house with a Jewish mother and a Pastor for a father.   It was refreshing to hear his story and to see how God is using him today.   Jonny is currently ministering with Jonathan Bernis and Jason Manarchuk in an organization called Heritage Los Angeles, or Heritage LA.

Enjoy great music from Joshua Aaron and Yair Levi, Paul Wilbur, Sue Samuel and Rachel & Avner Boskey!

Here is a little more about this vibrant group in Los Angeles:

https://www.influencive.com/meet-las-new-gathering-heritage-la/

Shimrit Hanes-Zemer Levav

You are in for such a treat!   Today's show features the music of Zemer Levav and an interview with Shimrit Hanes.   She sings beautifully and plays the harp too!   Also she just wrote her first book, The Dreamers, the Terra Colony Project Book 1.

Shimrit is a songwriter/vocalist/harpist and never intended to become an author. A home school mom of five, her three adult daughters challenged each other to write a book in a month. Desiring to be helpful, she read “No Plot, No Problem” by Chris Baty aloud to her busy middle daughter while she worked. Suddenly an incredible story idea came to mind. Now she had a plot, and a problem. This was her girls thing! MOM!
At the end of the month she and one other daughter had their manuscripts finished. After three years of re-writes and fine tuning, Shimrit had a finished book, and outlines for a second and third! Thus “The Terra Colony Project” series was born.

Enjoy!!

Justin Kron returns to Bagels and Blessings!

It was wonderful to catch up with this inspiring young man! 

Justin Kron is the founder of the Kesher Forum, an inter-denominational gathering based in Chicago, IL for Christians who are interested in learning more about Jewish culture and building bridges with their Jewish friends and neighbors. He is also the founding director of eXperience Israel, a spiritual pilgrimage program for Christian young adults, and he writes and speaks frequently on topics related to the Jewish heritage of the Christian faith, Christian anti-Semitism, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He and his wife, Judy, have three teenage children and reside in the Chicago area.

He is the co-creator and producer of the wonderful film "Hope in the Holy Land," about peace between Israelis and Palestinians.  Please visit the website below for more info:

https://hopeintheholyland.com/#home

 Enjoy some wonderful music including new songs from Paul Wilbur and Joshua Aaron (with Yair Levi).