Jerusalem - A Praise in the Earth!

A report on the Billinge and Southampton conferences, June 2010

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Our annual conferences in Billinge and Southampton went well and it was good to meet up with a number of you.   We were able to introduce Serguei Popov to England for the first time at an ICEJ event.   Serguei's ministry on the violin is powerful.   Wherever he played an amazing sense of the awesomeness of God the Creator descended.   Serguei is the leader of the Feast orchestra and is known to many of our supporters, who would also know Stevie and Chloe Gonzalez who are Feast dancers and choreographers.   Their dancing was inspiring and Chloe also ministered in song at both venues.

The worship team at Southampton led by Mark Starbuck was full of songs from the Feast and evocative of Jerusalem praise.   In Billinge the worship was led by Karen Davis, the worship leader from Mount Carmel Fellowship who introduced many new Hebraic songs of praise.   We did indeed celebrate Jerusalem as a praise in the earth and the whole event was a testimony to the Lord God of Israel.

The teaching covered a whole spectrum of approaches from the factual to the expository and inspirational.   David Pawson (who received the Nehemiah Award last year in Jerusalem) taught on 'Jerusalem and Israel in Galatians'.   This was the first time David had tackled Galatians from this angle.   Galatians is a difficult epistle to elicit Christian Zionism from, and David's CD is well worth listening to.   (All of the conference talks are available to order on CD at a very reasonable price - see link at top of page ). 

Also for the first time for ICEJ UK we had David Davis’ teaching.  David has an outstanding ministry seeing the rehabilitation of young Arabs and Jews trapped in a life of drugs and alcohol, but set free through the power of Yeshua HaMashiach.   Our keynote speaker was Michael Utterback, former ICEJ International Director, who brought a timely reminder of the significance of the Temple Mount which will undoubtedly become a major focus in the near future.

Throughout the Conferences we emphasised the practical ministry of ICEJ in Israel, and that ministry is dependent on your support and prayers.   Please continue with that support so that we together might fulfil our mandate to teach truth, to confront hatred and to comfort Israel.

With Blessings and Shalom
David Elms,  ICEJ UK Director

Photos courtesy of Jim Keelan