Meet Mike Evans - zio-Christian(?) bullshit artist

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Says his daddy tried to choke him.  Pity he didn't succeed. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E76XBU7yjPM&t=1024s

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https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-jerusalem-a-christian-zionist-leader-makes-it-his-mission-to-save-ukraines-jews/

Angry at being alive
Evans grew up in western Massachusetts with a Jewish mother and Christian father, whom he described as an antisemite who drank and accused Evans's mother of cheating on him with a Jewish man.

"He never said he loved me, he never affirmed me," Evans recalled. "Only abuse. Violent abuse."

When Evans was a boy, his father would regularly come home drunk and beat his mother. Evans, helpless, would sit at the top of the stairs and cry.
One day, when Evans was 11, he decided he wouldn't remain silent any longer, and screamed at his father to stop the abuse.

"He ran up the stairs, he picked me up by my throat way above his head, and he strangled," said Evans. "I remember looking in those bloodshot eyes and thinking, it's over. I'm dead."

Evans blacked out, and woke up later in a fetal position.

"When I came conscious, I screamed at God in the dark in a rage. I was angry that I was alive," he said.

Though the boy hadn't believed in God until that point, he had a revelation after nearly being strangled to death.

"I couldn't even defend just one Jew against a Jew-hater," recalled Evans. "But my reason for being born was to defend all the Jews."

He says he decided to dedicate his life to combating antisemitism. "Helping suffering people is very personal to me, because I suffered," said Evans.

Initially, his efforts to save Jews involved bringing them closer to Jesus, as happened for him. In the late 1970s Evans founded the Messianic B'nai Yeshua congregation on Long Island in New York, with the express purpose of reaching out to the area's Jews to convert them. Meetings by the group drew protests, including from the militant Jewish Defense League, and the Anti-Defamation League also raised concerns.

"We see our fellow Jews as living in a burning house," a Bna'i Yeshua staff member told The New York Times in 1978. "If you saw that wouldn't you tell them there is a safe house across the street?"

Today, though, Evans says he is focused not on proselytization, but rather helping needy Jews in Israel and elsewhere, especially those now suffering in Ukraine.

Strength and comfort
Evans and his son Michael II have been feeding Jewish Ukrainian orphans and Holocaust survivors for over ten years. They also built a community center and apartments for Ukrainian Holocaust survivors in Jerusalem.

"Every Holocaust survivor that needs our help, we're giving it to them," said Evans.

Evans has won plaudits from Israelis for his charitable work.

"Mike does a lot of tzedaka for the neediest in Jerusalem and Israel," said Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, using the Hebrew word for charity. "Whether it is Holocaust survivors, lone soldiers, injured soldiers or needy families, Mike is a source of understanding and much-needed resources to many of our most needy populations."

Hassan-Nahoum also lauded Evans's creativity in his support of Holocaust survivors.

"He established a hotel for Holocaust survivors next to his museum where he regularly holds bar/bat mitzvah celebrations for those who never celebrated one when they were in concentration camps," said the deputy mayor. "A few months ago I was invited to a beauty contest for female Holocaust survivors. Incredible how these 80-plus women were enjoying themselves, how good they felt and how seriously they took it."

"I mean, who thinks of these things?"

Evans says money for the group's activities comes from donations from Christian Zionists, including his Jerusalem Prayer Team. A tax filing from 2019, the last year publicly available, shows that Evans's group received over $1.7 million in donations, and spent over $3.3 million on email blasts, social media, self-published books by Evans (a former New York Times bestselling author), ad campaigns aimed at combating antisemitism, and running his Friends of Zion museum in central Jerusalem.

The organization said it spent another $55,000 on aid for needy Jews in Israel, including survivors. 

Website for Evans https://mikedevans.com/

Dr. Michael D. Evans
Dr. Evans has been standing in defense of Israel for fifty years. As a strong voice for the Jewish people, he is leading a massive worldwide prayer army of Believers to pray for the peace of Jerusalem.