Jackie Fierman has been a Jewish believer since the age of 17, following a four-year process of searching for the truth about the identity of Jesus the Messiah. She had been raised in St. Louis, Missouri, in a Conservative Jewish home and synagogue where she received her religious education. After coming to faith, she encountered intense persecution from friends and family. But both of her parents eventually became believers in Jesus.
After earning a B.S. in Medical Technology in 1979, she served as a missionary in a bush hospital in Haiti with Worldteam missions before attending seminary at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. In 1986 she earned a master’s level Certificate of Biblical Studies with an emphasis in missions. She then learned French in Quebec City at Laval University for two years and began working as a missionary near Montreal with UFM International.
She continued her work back in Quebec City in 1990, which consisted of evangelism, both formal and informal discipleship of women, and also led a women’s Bible study for 14 years. Ariel Ministries Canada was established in 1996 in order to facilitate the ongoing work of evangelism and discipleship of Jews and Gentiles in Canada. Their teaching from a Jewish perspective of Scripture sheds light on passages that might otherwise be misunderstood outside of their historical context, and thus helps all people better understand the Bible and the Jewish thought used by its inspired authors.
Miss Fierman has been with this ministry since January of 2005, traveling and sharing about this unique ministry in Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick, Alberta, British Columbia, and in the U.S., as well as leading city-wide weekly Bible studies in French using Ariel materials for groups that have participants from up to 16 churches. She has also spoken on radio on numerous occasions, on television, and been a conference speaker at evangelistic meetings as well as at women’s retreats. In June of 2008, she moved to Montreal to facilitate the ongoing work of the ministry.
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