OPERATION EXODUS USA
PO BOX 568, LANCASTER, NY 14086 www.operationexodususa.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: OEUSA'S ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION DESCRIBE ITS CHARITABLE MISSION TO INCLUDE PROVIDING HUMANITARIAN AID TO JEWISH COMMUNITIES AND CHRISTIAN CHURCHES. THIS MISSION INCLUDES FACILITATING EMIGRATION OF JEWISH PEOPLE TO ISRAEL FROM THE FORMER SOVIET UNION AND ELSEWHERE AND EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE JEWISH RELIGION, JEWISH HISTORY, CULTURE AND HERITAGE. THIS EDUCATION INCLUDES INFORMATION ABOUT PERSECUTION OF JEWISH PEOPLE IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION AND ELSEWHERE AND THE URGENCY OF ASSISTING THEM.

THE MOST SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES OPERATION EXODUS USA (OEUSA) PURSUES IN ORDER TO FULFILL ITS CHARITABLE HUMANITARIAN MISSION INCLUDE FACILITATING EMIGRATION OF NEEDY AND PERSECUTED JEWISH PERSONS FROM THE FORMER SOVIET UNION AND ELSEWHERE TO ISRAEL. TO ACCOMPLISH THIS MISSION OEUSA CONDUCTS PROGRAMS TO INFORM BOTH THE JEWISH COMMUNITY AND CHRISTIANS IN THE US ABOUT THE JEWISH RELIGION, JEWISH HISTORY, CULTURE, AND HERITAGE. INCLUDES INFORMATION ABOUT PERSECUTION OF JEWISH PEOPLE IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION AND ELSEWHERE AND THE URGENCY OF ASSISTING THEM.

IN 2019 OEUSA PRESENTED FREE EDUCATIONAL EVENTS FOR THE PUBLIC THROUGHOUT THE US ABOUT THE URGENCY OF ASSISTING JEWISH PEOPLE TO EMIGRATE TO ISRAEL. TO ACCOMPLISH THIS, OEUSA'S 11 STAFF AND 54 VOLUNTEERS WORKED TO EDUCATE THE US PUBLIC ABOUT JEWISH PERSONS SUFFERING PERSECUTION IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION (FSU) AND ELSEWHERE, INCLUDING IN THE US. OEUSA ALSO WORKED TO EDUCATE, BOTH CHRISTIANS AND THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN THE US ABOUT THE JEWISH RELIGION, JEWISH HISTORY, CULTURE, AND HERITAGE. IN 2019 OEUSA'S 844 PRAYER INTERCESSORS (PRAYER PARTNERS) PROVIDED VITAL SPIRITUAL SUPPORT FOR OEUSA. FURTHER, OEUSA PROVIDED UPDATES ON ITS EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES TO 133 CHURCHES AND 3,140 INDIVIDUAL SUPPORTERS. IN ADDITION, A MEMBER OF OEUSA'S BOARD MET WITH THE BOARD OF EBENEZER EMERGENCY FUND INTERNATIONAL, IN INDIA AND ISRAEL. THESE MEETINGS ENABLED OEUSA AND EBENEZER EMERGENCY FUND INTERNATIONAL TO DISCUSS SIMILAR ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED BY EACH ORGANIZATION TO ASSIST DISTRESSED JEWISH PERSONS IN THE FSU. IN ORDER TO SUPPORT ITS ACTIVITIES, OEUSA MAINTAINED OFFICES IN THE US LOCATED IN NEW YORK CITY AND OEUSA'S HEADQUARTERS IN LANCASTER, NEW YORK. OEUSA IS A MEMBER OF THE EVANGELICAL COUNCIL FOR FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY (EFCA).

DURING 2019 OEUSA ASSISTED 706 DISTRESSED AND PERSECUTED JEWISH PEOPLE FORM THE US TO EMIGRATE TO ISRAEL (MAKE ALIYAH). IN PROVIDING RELIEF TO DISTRESSED JEWISH PEOPLE WHO ARE SEEKING TO MAKE ALIYAH TO ISRAEL, OEUSA IS SUPPORTING THE LONG HELD BELIEFS OF JEWISH PEOPLE WHO ARE CLAIMING THEIR RIGHT TO FEELY EXERCISE THEIR RELIGION. OEUSA ALSO PROVIDED SUPPORT FOR OTHER SECTION 501(C)(3) ORGANIZATIONS, SUCH AS THE JEWISH AGENCY AND THE NITZANIM FOUNDATION, TO ASSIST DISRESSED JEWISH PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD MAKE ALIYAH AND EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT FOR JEWISH YOUTH. OEUSA ALSO PROVIDED FUNDING FOR HEBREW CLASSES NECESSARY FOR ASSIMILATION TO LIFE IN ISREAL.

DURING 2019 OEUSA PROVIDED FUNDING FOR HUMANITARIAN RELIEF TO JEWISH PEOPLE, INCLUDING POVERTY-STRICKEN AND PERSECUTED JEWS LIVING IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION (FSU). THIS FUNDING FOR JEWISH PEOPLE WAS PROVIDED THROUGH EBENEZER EMERGENCY FUND INTERNATIONAL (EEFI) UNDER A WRITTEN GRANT AGREEMENT ALLOWING OEUSA TO EXERCISE CONTROL AND DISCRETION OF THE FUNDING. THIS FUNDING ALLOWED 7,665 JEWISH PEOPLE LIVING IN THE FSU TO EMIGRATE TO THEIR HISTORIC HOMELAND OF ISRAEL. FUNDS PROVIDED BY OEUSA TO EEFI ALSO ALLOWED EEFI TO MAINTAIN 65 STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS AT 12 BASES IN THE FSU WHICH, IN TURN, ENABLED EEFI TO CONDUCT THE FOLLOWING CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES. SPECIFICALLY, OEUSA'S FUNDING TO EEFI ALLOWED EEFI TO PROVIDE HUMANITARIAN RELIEF TO 6,743 POVERTY-STRICKEN AND PERSECUTED JEWISH FAMILIES IN THE FSU. IN ADDITION, OEUSA'S FUNDING TO EEFI MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR EEFI TO PROVIDE 14,149 JEWISH FAMILIES WITH EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS ABOUT EEFI'S PROGRAM TO AID PERSECUTED AND POVERTY-STRICKEN JEWISH PEOPLE IN RETURNING TO THEIR HISTORIC HOMELAND OF ISRAEL. OEUSA'S GRANT FUNDING ALSO MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR EEFI'S STAFF TO PROVIDE 2,592 CARE PACKAGES OF FOOD AND OTHER ESSENTIALS TO POOR AND ISOLATED JEWISH AND NON-JEWISH FAMILIES IN THE FSU. ALSO, OEUSA'S GRANT FUNDING ALLOWED EEFI TO MAKE 1,660 EDUCATIONAL VISITS TO CHURCHES IN THE FSU TO DESCRIBE EEFI'S PROGRAM TO ASSIST PERSECUTED AND NEEDY JEWISH PEOPLE TO EMIGRATE TO ISRAEL.

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