LANDRUM SPEAKS AT EISLEBEN CHURCH

SCOTT CITY -- Mark Landrum will be speaking today at 6 p.m. and Sunday at 10 a.m. at Eisleben Lutheran Church, 432 Lutheran Lane in Scott City.

He and his wife Rahel are evangelists with the Jews for Jesus organizations's Chicago branch.

A native of Chicago, Landrum's mother is Jewish. He spend a summer in Israel to learn more about his Jewish roots.

Landrum received a bachelor of arts in Biblical studies from Columbia Bible College in 1986. Through a summer graduate program, he is currently pursuing a master's degree in missiology with emphasis on Jewish studies from the Fuller School of World Missions in Pasadena, Calif.

In 1988 he participated as a volunteer in the Jews for Jesus Summer Witnessing Campaign, an outreach consisting of 8-10 hours a day of evangelism on street corners in New York City.

He joined the Chicago branch a few months later. Landrum has since led teams of volunteers on street witnessing expeditions and has been a conference speaker at Jews for Jesus-sponsored ingatherings.

Jews for Jesus is an organization of Jewish people who have accepted Jesus as the Messiah. It was founded by Moishe Rosen.

The organization has permanent branches in nine North American cities: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, Dallas, Boston, New York City, Washington, D.C., and in South Florida. There are more than 70 chapters in about 30 states. International branches are headquartered in Johannesburg, Buenos Aires, London, Paris, Odessa, Moscow and Tel Aviv.