NAZARETH, Israel — Baptists in Israel will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Baptist work in the Holy Land with a May 12–14, 2011, event in Nazareth, the Association of Baptist Churches in Israel announced Aug. 25.
“We would like to invite you to come and celebrate with us the momentous 100th anniversary of Baptist beginnings in the Holy Land,” the announcement said. “While we will be reviewing our historical beginnings at this event, we will also seek to discern God’s calling for the future.”
The program will include both local and international speakers and worship singers, as well as “a unique opportunity to learn more about what God is doing within the Baptist and evangelical churches in Israel today,” the announcement said. The celebration is being sponsored by the Association of Baptist Churches in Israel, the Nazareth Evangelical Theological Seminary and Nazareth Baptist School. Baptist work in Israel dates to the spring of 1911, when Baptist churches in southern Illinois sent a Palestinian, Shukri Musa, “back to his people in Safed,” according to a 50-year history of the work written by Dwight L. Baker. One young man, Louis Hanna, accepted Christ and was baptized May 10, 1911, “in the stream that flows through Wadi el Lemun (Valley of the Lemon), near Safed.”
The main event will be held May 12–14, 2011, at the Golden Crown Hotel in Nazareth. A related tour package also is being offered. For more information, e-mail info@baptist.org.il or visit www.baptist.org.il.
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