{"id":17290,"date":"2024-11-19T17:39:38","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T17:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/en\/resources\/evangelical-faith-and-the-land-of-israel\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T02:46:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T02:46:18","slug":"evangelical-faith-and-land-israel","status":"publish","type":"mwcresource","link":"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/en\/resources\/evangelical-faith-and-land-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Evangelical faith and the Land of Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7fc3d43a wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/resources\/assembly-17-indonesia-2022-workshops\">Indonesia 2022: Workshop<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alex Awad brings life experience and biblical foundations to his work for peace for Israelis and Palestinians and many others touched by the conflict in his homeland. This is an opportunity to learn from a Palestinian Evangelical holding Christian Zionism to the light of scripture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presenter: Rev Alex Awad was pastor of East Jerusalem Baptist Church, Professor at Bethlehem Bible College and served in missions under the United Methodist Church. Now retired, he has been interpreting his Palestinian Evangelical peacemaker experience to brothers and sisters in around the world, including Mennonite groups, throughout his adult life. 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