The Long Road to Building Israel’s First Post-Statehood Church

I first visited Grace and Truth Christian Congregation in Israel in the summer of 2007. It was Saturday, the room was packed, and the sermon was preached in Hebrew. After the service, an elder named David Zadok introduced himself and invited me and my friends to his daughter’s bat mitzvah that evening. We hava nagila’d, and afterwards, he drove us to the plot of land that would house the first church built on Israeli soil since it became a state in 1948.