London Branch Staff

London born and bred, Julia first worked with Jews for Jesus as a volunteer.

Julia grew up knowing three things: she was Jewish, there was someone called God, and her family didn’t believe in Jesus. The sudden death of Julia’s mother caused her to question God’s existence. She went to psychics and mediums but found no peace.

In her late 20s, Julia met a Christian who told her that Jesus was the Jewish Messiah. She was challenged to read messianic prophecies found in the Tanach (Torah) that point to Jesus. She discovered that Jesus had all the credentials that the prophets said the Messiah would have. In 1998, Julia accepted Jesus as her Messiah! She finally found the shalom she’d been searching for.

Julia joined our staff in 2004, serving in our UK branch, and has since then led many of our outreaches, our music group Blue Mosaic, and our UK branch from 2013–2019. Today, she helps Jewish people make up their own minds about who Jesus is. Her greatest passion is supporting new Jewish believers in Jesus, offering one-to-one Bible studies, and helping each new believer find their identity in Messiah and their place within the body of Messiah.

Ziggy grew up believing that Jesus was the greatest enemy of the Jewish people and the source of all antisemitism, a traitor who had been rightly crucified as a blasphemer. But after completing his post-doctoral studies in mathematics, a friend invited Ziggy to a guest event at a church, where he began attending a short course called Christianity Explored.

There he went on to study one of the eye-witness accounts of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, and in his own words said, “I discovered a Jesus I never could have imagined.” After a time of reflection on the prophecies in the Hebrew Scriptures, he became convinced that Jesus was indeed Israel’s long-promised Messiah.

Ziggy joined Jews for Jesus as a full-time missionary in London in 2009. He is married to Cristiana, and they have two small boys: Noah and Joseph. He grew up in a strong Jewish community on the outskirts of London in Essex and is named after his grandmother’s father, Zigmund, who perished in Auschwitz. As Ziggy says, “My name stands as a monument to the memory of the millions of Jewish people who died for the sole reason that they were Jewish.”

Daniel was born in the London Borough of Bromley to a Jewish family and grew up attending a Reformed Synagogue. He came to believe in Jesus as the Messiah at the age of 15 while researching the historical evidence for the resurrection following a chance meeting with missionaries.

Daniel was a child actor and went on to study Theology at the University of Oxford. He has worked in politics as a consultant, spokesperson and lobbyist and has written extensively on topics of Freedom of Religion or Belief, Theology, and Politics for numerous publications.

Daniel previously served with Jews for Jesus in Budapest, Hungary and now serves in London with a focus on building community amongst Young Jewish Professionals and introducing them to the love of Jesus. Daniel lives in London and is married to his wife, Kylie.

Orel grew up in a Messianic Jewish family in Israel and she believed in God and Jesus, but she did not yet have a true understanding of the gospel or grace. God used her sisters, caring leaders, as well as a discipleship program to reveal Himself to her as a loving Father full of grace.

Orel serves in our London branch and is a part of the team that organizes events for Israeli families and young professionals who recently relocated to London. Through her work on this team, she regularly puts together many types of events to serve the Israeli community in London, including events for the holidays, twice weekly Mommy Workouts for mothers while their children attend school, ladies’ nights, men’s night, wine tasting events, and regular Shabbat dinners.