ABOUT US

After several years of research and investigation a non-profit organization (Amuta) in Israel was established as part of on-going presence in Jerusalem. JMI through the Amuta has an involvement in Biblical archaeology as a means to promote God’s truth as revealed in the Bible. We do this through:
** Sharing of discoveries made in Israel through teachings designed to extol the veracity of God’s Word and to reveal new depths of His Word;
** Pursuit of further excavations in the Dead Sea area where scrolls were first found some fifty years ago.

Our Excavations since 1989 have produced amazing results, with success in major findings at Qumran, making the first such finds in fifty years since the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. In 2002 the first evidences of an alternative Sacrifice System in relationship to Jerusalem were found. Also, from 1989-1994 and again in 2002 we accomplished several differing kinds of instrumentation including Seismic and Ground Penitrating Radar. Operation Scroll, supervised by Amir Drori and Yitzik Magen of the Antiquities Authorities, using some of the instrumentation data found storage holes approximately a meter below the ground surface.

* We were incorporated in 1988 as a non-profit, 501 c3, organization in the State of Washington, USA. Jerusalem Ministries International (JMI) has since expanded it’s sphere of teaching in many other states and Nations.

* International Director, President and Founder, Dr. Gary Collett and his wife, Debra, perform necessary on-going liaison in Israel with pertinent agencies, help the needy and volunteer for other projects in Jerusalem, which promote the goals of JMI.

Also, found in the 1996 Season were Persian-Babylonian pottery dating five Centuries before the Second Temple time of Christ.

We suggest the pottery pieces are a link to the on-going story concerning the "Ark of the Covenant", which New Testiment text show was present in Jerusalem at the time of Christ.

1996:

On display at the Shrine of the Book at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel are Ostrica pieces found during our 1996 season under the supervision of Archaeologist Dr. James Strange of the University of South Florida.

Scholors have stated the Ostrica pieces are the first evidences, which make the link between the Essenes of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls of Qumran.

Pots found in 2002 (under the archaeological supervision of Dr. Randall Price and Oren Gutfeld), which are part of the first interpreted evidences of an alternative sacrifice sysem. The alternative system was due to an apostate High Priest leadership in Jerusalem at the time of Christ during the Second Temple Era.