In 1929, Joseph Hoffman Cohn, then president of the ministry, opened a Chicago branch in partnership with Solomon Birnbaum, the first director of the Moody Bible Institute’s Jewish studies department. Our ministry encouraged new believers from our work in New York City, Philadelphia, and Atlantic City to attend Moody Bible Institute. Recognizing a needy Jewish population on the north side of Chicago as well, the ministry established a second branch around those neighborhoods in 1936. Chosen People Ministries purchased a building in 1967. In the 1970s, ministry efforts included campus evangelism, tract distribution, door-to-door visitation, regular events, ministering in nursing homes, and developing volunteer programs. The Chicago work was responsible for planting a number of Messianic congregations beginning in 1980; many of which still thrive today!