Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.
Ruth 1:16
When pastor Phil McCallum first visited Israel in 2015 he left with a void, because a typical church tour of the Holy Land included many places, but not many people.
As his heart yearned to meet fellow believers in Jesus in Israel, on the flight back to the U.S. Phil started praying very specifically for God to bring him back to the Land to meet Israelis, for the Lord to give him an Israeli pastor friend, and for Him to open doors in Israel to stay with local believers so he could get to know and experience this nation from the inside.
Phil’s passionate prayer was answered in a way that led him on a remarkable journey that bound him to the nation of Israel with bonds of love. One person’s love for God’s nation can lead him down a beautiful path to become a lighthouse to both Israel and the nations.
Pastor Phil represents millions of people who stand with Israel.
Some of those millions are silent, but he, like many of those, chose not to remain silent and to be open and vocal about his support for Israel.
When God gives you supernatural courage to stand with His people even in the most difficult times, He also provides the strength, grace and favor along the journey to not only withstand any pressure but to witness the kind of blessings and open doors He will open that no one can close.
Watch and listen to pastor Phil’s remarkable testimony of his journey of love for Israel and what it has brought to his life.
