Founder's vision is to 'Prepare the Highway' between Egypt,
Israel and Assyria
Native-born Egyptian David Joseph is founder of The Last Harvest, Inc., in El Cajon, Calif., a Christian nonprofit organization that ministers biblical truth to Arabs and Muslims worldwide. A practicing dentist, Joseph is also a pastor who holds a doctorate in theology.
Known affectionately by his Egyptian name, Dr. Nagy, to his friends, Joseph came to the United States in 1991, following God's lead in order to establish a base of operations for a ministry to the Arab and Muslim world that now operates throughout the Middle East. The Last Harvest equips indigenous churches, supports church planting efforts in the Middle East, and proclaims the gospel through radio and television broadcasts and the distribution of Christian materials. Joseph became a U.S. citizen in 2000.
Joseph's vision is to prepare the highway of the Lord between Egypt, Israel and Assyria (Isaiah 19), by informing Christians of the need to expose the spirit of Islam, and teaching and encouraging them to pray strategically for Muslims in order to reach and win them to Christ.
In Egypt, Joseph founded The Egyptian Christian Youth Union, co-founded The Egyptian Medical Fellowship, served as a youth minister, a teacher at Christ Bible School in Cairo, and was chief editor of The Good Shepherd Magazine.
Joseph embraced the Lord Jesus Christ as his personal savior Oct. 17, 1972 in an Arabic church in Cairo.
In 1990, Joseph received his postgraduate diploma in Journalism and Mass Media from the faculty of Mass Media, Cairo University. From 1988 to 1991, Joseph taught at Christ Bible School in Cairo. In December of 1991, he was installed as pastor of The Last Harvest Christian Arabic Church in southern California.
In 1997, Joseph co-founded the Arabic Christian Medical Association in California and served as the organization's vice president. In 1998, he planted the Last Harvest Middle East Church in El Cajon, Calif. In 1999, he assumed a teaching position as a professor of Islam and Middle East culture at Southern California Bible School and Seminary, in El Cajon, Calif. In 2000, The Evangelical Fellowship in Egypt, an organization that serves all the many diverse evangelical churches and para-church organizations in Egypt, appointed Joseph to serve as secretary of the ministry's Exterior Affairs.
Joseph is the author of several Arabic books including: Do They Crucify Him or His Likeness? The Gospel in the Mind of Jesus the Son of Mary, He Has Been Risen, The Divine Nature of Christ, and Let My People Go. His autobiography -- Let My People Go So They Can Worship Me, is in English and tells the story of the founding of The Last Harvest ministry.
Joseph is married to Dr. Carol Joseph who co-labors with her husband in their ministry to Arabs and Muslims. The couple has two sons: Andrew, 17, and Timmy, 11 and currently live in El Cajon, Calif.
For more information about The Last Harvest, Inc., visit our main website.
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