Details of Meetings for 2010

Friday 12th February

Torah Rediscovered

Friday 12th March

Mike Riddle - Apologetics 1.01 - Answering the Challenges

Mike Riddle is one of Answers In Genesis most dynamic and passionate creation speakers in the USA.

Mike holds a degree in mathematics and a graduate degree in education. He has been involved in creation ministry for more than twenty years, and has gained such a good reputation, that he is often a keynote speaker at many meetings, including various home-school conferences in the United States.

Before becoming involved in creation ministry, Mike was a US Marine (rising to the rank of captain) and during his career as a Marine, appeared on a widely distributed recruiting poster for the Marines. Mike says that his goal with AiG is to have the Marines' famous Latin motto semper fi ("always faithful") be applied to his ministry of travelling around America (and overseas) to proclaim the creation/gospel message (and thus fittingly fulfilling the Apostle Peter's command to be faithful in being "ready always to give an answer" - 1 Peter 3:15).
Before becoming a Marine, Mike became a US national champion in the track-and-field version of the pentathlon (in 1976). His best events were the 400 metres, javelin, long jump and 1,500 metres. In his professional life, Mike worked for many years in the computer field with Microsoft.

Friday 9th April

Jacob Prasch- The Second Epistle of John
Jacob Prasch is Director of Moriel Ministries. He is a Hebrew speaking evangelist to the Jews and a Bible teacher elaborating on the original Judeo-Christian background and hermeneutics of The New Testament.

Jacob and Moriel Ministries are committed to the conviction that we are in the Last Days approaching the return of Christ and that contemporary events in The Middle East; the moral deterioration of society; the destruction of the environment; the globalisation of the world economy; the rise of a pseudo-democratic federal Europe and above all, the apostasy in the contemporary church, are all events of prophetic significance eschatologically.

Friday 14th May

Dr David Moore - The New Jerusalem

Dr David Moore is Pastor of Milton Baptist Church in Stoke on Trent. He previously pastored Lifegate Bible Baptist Church in Dublin from 1985-1992, and Braehill Baptist Church, Belfast from 1992-2004. He is Director of Ministries with IFM (In Focus Ministries), a fundamental Christian mission agency, and edits their magazine ‘The Focus’. He is also Vice President of Emmanuel Baptist Bible School in Ballyclare, Northern Ireland, where he lectures regularly.

Friday 11th June

Dr Paul Wilkinson - You Shall Be My Witnesses

Dr Paul Wilkinson was born and raised in Oldham, Lancashire, where he still lives. He was converted to Christ in 1990 while studying Mathematics and Statistics at York University. After graduating with a BSc in 1992, he spent four years in the insurance industry, before enrolling at the Nazarene Theological College in Didsbury, South Manchester. He graduated with a Diploma in Theology and Youth Ministry, a BA (Hons) in Theology, and an MA in Theology. He then lectured part-time at the college for one year, teaching introductory modules in Biblical Studies and Biblical Backgrounds. In 2003 he began his doctorate at Manchester University, having been called by the Lord to consider the Church’s response in the nineteenth century to the return of the Jewish people to their homeland. The title of his thesis was John Nelson Darby and the Origins of Christian Zionism. After graduating in 2006, an edited version of his thesis was published by Paternoster Press entitled, For Zion’s Sake: Christian Zionism and the Role of John Nelson Darby(2007).

In 2005, Paul was invited to study at the International School of Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, and in 2008 was invited back to present a workshop on anti-Semitism at the 6th International Conference on Holocaust Education. He has served as a research consultant for the award-winning Christian documentary film, The Destiny of Britain (Hatikvah Film Trust, 2007), appeared on a BBC Radio 4 panel discussion programme about Christian Zionism, and is a regular conference speaker and contributor to Christian publications and academic journals.

Paul is also a member of the Council of Prophetic Witness Movement International (PWMI) and a member of the Pre-Trib Research Center, which is based at Liberty University in Virginia, and presents papers at the Pre-Trib Study Group Conference in Dallas.
Paul is Associate Minister at Hazel Grove Full Gospel Church in Stockport, Cheshire. The church is a well-established, independent, Pentecostal church (formerly AOG) that is committed to Jewish outreach, overseas mission, the support of the scattered remnant within the wider Church, and the proclamation of the truth concerning Israel’s national restoration, the pre-tribulation Rapture of the Church, and the pre-millennial return of the Lord Jesus Christ to Jerusalem. Hazel Grove Full Gospel Church is also the home base of the Fellowship of Christian Assemblies (FCA), which encourages fellowship between like-minded assemblies, and which supports believers around the country who are in need of sound teaching and pastoral care.

Friday 9th July Dr Jonathan Vickery - "You shall purge the sin from among you: Crime, Punishment and Redemption in the Torah"

Dr Jonathan Vickery is an associate professor at the University of Warwick, teaching and researching in the area of contemporary art and cultural politics. For nine years he taught the scriptures at Calvary Chapel Oxford and occasionally at other Calvary churches, running a series of studies on Israel, the Covenants, the Messiah, and for the last four years, the Epistle to the Hebrews. He is committed to the uniqueness of the scriptures in both its content and in the way we read, use, and interpret it. He is married to Hannah, a designer and writer, and great cook of Israeli food.

Garth is a Biblical Archaeologist with over twenty years experience in excavations, research and publication. He received his MA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1991 and his Doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1995. He has excavated at a variety of sites in Israel, Cyprus and Turkey, including at the Philistine capital cities of Ekron and Ashkelon. Speaking widely on the Archaeology of Ancient Israel, he seeks to relate the evidence from the ground to the biblical text so as to illustrate the people, places and events that form the context in which the biblical account is set. He also teaches from the Scriptures, seeking to make the Church aware of her Jewish roots and her ongoing commitment to Israel.
Garth is a Senior Fellow at the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem, a Research Associate at the University of Oxford, and Administrator of the European Association of Jewish Studies, based at Yarnton, near Oxford. He and his wife Vibeke are members of St Aldate’s Church, Oxford.

Dr Don Hender is a national and international Bible teacher. A retired teacher, he is Director of 'Living Word Open Study Bible School', UK Representative for 'Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry USA' and an accredited speaker for 'Prophetic Witness Ministries'.

Don is involved in ministry to Eastern Europe, teaching and preaching the Gospel whilst delivering humanitarian aid. He is also the author of 'The Nation of Israel, it's Foundation, it's Function, it's Failure and Future'. Don is an elder at the Crossway Christian Fellowship in Bournemouth.

Dr. Robert Congdon, an international Bible teacher and speaker, has conducted numerous pastoral seminars; is a frequent guest on the radio, both nationally and internationally; has taught at several Bible institutes; has pastored two churches; has authored theological articles and two books; is a member of a Christian theological “think-tank”; and has produced several Christian video productions; in addition to his six-year resident ministry in the United Kingdom. Residing in the United Kingdom, as British Field Representative of the Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry, Rob has offered insight into the rapid growth of the European Union [EU] and its potential consequences upon modern day Christianity and Christian missions. Having been involved internationally in industry as well as ministering in the United Kingdom, Canada, the Bahamas, the United States, and Europe, Rob has witnessed first hand the spiritual collapse of Christianity in Europe and the United Kingdom. That collapse is a direct consequence of the churches failure to employ the correct Biblical solutions to the theological and cultural assaults aimed at them by both the EU and church growth movements, such as the Purpose-Driven/Emergent Church. These assaults have now come to US and Canadian churches. It is the purpose of Congdon Ministries International to inform, warn, teach, and assist churches in the US, Britain, Europe, and Canada to contend for the faith and thus avoid the pitfalls that spiritually destroyed the churches in Europe. Rob teaches and stresses the need to better understand the Scriptures and the Author of the Scriptures, in order to prepare to serve the Lord in both the Millennium and in the age to come, the New Heaven and Earth.

While his emphasis is upon prophetic teaching, his messages cover the entire range of the Scriptures. Rob holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois; a Master’s of Divinity degree from Grace Theological Seminary; and a Doctor of Theology degree from Trinity Theological Seminary (Newburgh, IN). He is the founder and director of the Internet Bible Institute whose students come from Canada, the United States, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and Europe. His ministry is under the auspices of New Life Baptist

Church in Naperville, Illinois.