History
The organization was founded by Moishe Rosen an ordained Baptist minister (who was born Jewish and converted to Christianity at the age of 17) and Jhan Moskowitz an ordained Christian and Missionary Alliance minister and son of a holocaust survivor. Rosen was the head of the San Francisco arm of the American Board of Missions to the Jews (an organization now known as Chosen People Ministries). In 1973, Rosen broke off from that organization, and in September of that year, incorporated Jews for Jesus as Hineni Ministries with its headquarters in the San Francisco area. Over the next few years, it established branches in other cities. From September 1979 - June 1980, it shut down its branches to retrain its missionaries. It then went on to open more branches, mostly in United States cities, in the 1980s, as well as abroad in the 1990s. Rosen remained its executive director until May 1996 when he was replaced by David Brickner, also a Baptist minister. Moishe Rosen died in May 2010. The organization has maintained its headquarters in or near San Francisco, California since its inception.
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