Micha Cohen has been stationed in Chicago for roughly 6 years, following six months of coursework in Jews for Jesus’ New York City training facility. This is somewhat of a homecoming for Micha. Prior to his training in New York, he earned his B.A. in Jewish studies from Moody Bible Institute in Chicago under our approved student program. Micha’s parents, Steve and Jan, were missionaries with Jews for Jesus for many years. Micha professed faith at a young age, but it wasn’t until high school that he fully surrendered his life to the Lord.
Micha is married to Leah, a Jewish believer who also has missionary parents and a similar faith journey to Micha’s as she learned to trust God on her own. Even though Leah is not officially on staff, she took the training course with Micha in New York in order to better understand and be involved with his ministry. In addition to normal missionary work, Micha takes Moody Bible Institute students out for weekly evangelism to College campuses as well as to the diverse “Devon” section of town, where Orthodox Jews, Russians, Muslims, and Hindus all live in close proximity to each other.
His favorite part of the work is going occasionally on what we call “campaigns,” where people go out for 2-4 weeks in one area doing evangelism 3-4 times per day. His favorite place to do campaign is of course Israel!
He and Leah have two beautiful young daughters, Selah (6) and Tikvah (5).