Daryl Fenton, the leader of the Church’s Ministry among Jewish people (CMJ) for Israel, turned to me as the warning sirens went off for the third of six times and asked: ‘Could you preach at the morning Communion tomorrow at Christ Church Jerusalem?’
I informed him that I would be flying home on EasyJet and so unable. He handed me the lectionary readings and said pick a passage to preach on.
As we headed to bed on Saturday the shocking news of what Hamas terrorists had done was filtering out. The EasyJet flight was still scheduled to fly and I informed Daryl again that I would not be able to preach. ‘Let’s see what the morning brings’, he said with a smile.
