If you are ever in Baltimore on a Friday evening, you can find Yehuda Mordechai in the basement of an old Jewish synagogue. Allegheny East Conference’s Berea Temple now occupies the building, but its Jewish history holds special significance to Mordechai, who is working to build up the newly established Baltimore Hebrew Adventist congregation in an area with a large Jewish population. It is in this place that Mordechai leads a Friday night Shabbat service designed to reach Jews for Jesus.
Baltimore Adventist Community Services (ACS), the city’s lead agency for the 19th Annual National & Global Youth Service Day, mobilized more than 250 young people to volunteer for the event Friday, April 20, through Sunday, April 22, in Baltimore.