What is "Redemption 2000" and how did it get its name?

Redemption 2000 is CJF Ministries’ program to provide immediate, material relief (in the form of food, medicine, healthcare services, clothing, and other necessities), and to maintain a state of readiness to provide emergency evacuation services if and when believing Jewish families in the former Soviet Union are endangered by pogrom-like anti-Semitism in the areas where they live.

Dr. Gary Hedrick chose the name “Redemption 2000” in 1999 because of the numerous parallels between the current plight of Jewish believers in the former Soviet Union and that of their Israelite ancestors in Egypt nearly 3,500 years ago. Just as the Lord provided redemption for His people when they were in Egypt, and ultimately led them out of bondage and into Canaan, we are making ourselves available as vessels the Lord can use to redeem His people both spiritually (out of the bondage of sin and into a new life in Messiah Jesus) and also physically (out of their precarious circumstances in the former Soviet Union). Russia, especially, has a long history of anti-Semitic violence and persecution—and therein lies our concern. History does tend to repeat itself.

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