Conference to learn about links with Israel

Friday 3rd September 2010, 2:59PM BST.

ISLANDERS are being invited to a special conference to learn more about Christianity’s links with Israel.

During the two-day conference at Bethlehem Methodist Church in St Mary guest speakers from a UK Christian organisation, Christian Friends of Israel, will give a number of seminars.

They will focus on issues such as the Jewish roots of Christianity and Jesus and his involvement in the Jewish feasts of Israel. The conference begins next Friday, 10 September, at 6.30 pm with a welcome Shabbat to provide an introduction. That will then be followed by the main talk of the evening from 8 pm, which will focus on Jewish links with Christianity.

The next day the event will begin at 9.30 am and will run until 4 pm, with various seminars throughout the day.