6 — THE BULLETIN — Thursday. November 27, 1980
"Love" is message they brought Israel
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Michael D. Yarofsky, executive vice-president, JNF of Canada addresses dedication ceremonies at Kibbutz Ravid. President Navon, Moshe Riv-lin, world JNF chairman and local JNF emissary Yehuda Levy, listen to emotional rendition by professional spiritual singer, Lily Knauls, who was a prominent part of the Glad Tidings Choir. Also at Beir Hanassi, Pastor Maureen Gag-lardi reads from a goodwill scroll, expressing unabashed support of Israel and signed by all 1200 Glad Tidings Vancouver congregants. Standing beside her are: Father Jacob Hurst, a co-leader of the tour and presently in charge of the church's **Israel office** in Vancouver; and President Yitzhak Navon. (Y. Barzilay Photos).
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Pastor Maureen Gaglardi of Glad Tidings Temple in Vancouver led a 52-member choir from her church on a tour of Israel this fall. Singing Hebrew songs and Negro spirituals, according to the Pastor, they came with "a message of love" for Israel and money for the Jewish National Fund Galil-Canada project.
The Pentecostal group has pledged itself to collect $1 million in sponsorship of Kibbutz Ravid. a new JNF settlement in the northern part of Israel.
Pastor Gaglardi told The Bulletin during a recent interview that she has been trying to get "next to the Jewish community" for most of the three-decade period that she has been spiritual - leader of the Temple. However, she noted that the various rabbis and leaders had met her efforts over the years with suspicion as to her real motivations.
She said that it was not until 32 years later, when localJNF emissary Col. Yehuda Levy visited her church some eight mbmhs ago. that a way was found in which Glad Tidings members could concretely express their love of Israel.
The Pastor insisted unequivocally that her church has never, will never, and does not want to "convert a Jew."
She explained that Jews have a special relationship with G-d. According to Gaglardi. only after Armageddon will G-d deliver Israel, two-thirds of its population decimated, and will the Jews as a people be incontrovertibly confronted with Christ as messiah.
The Glad Tidings Pastor emphasized: "This is the reason we don't try to convert Jews. There is no point. The rest of the world are not G-d's people and we try to convert them; but the Jews are G-d*s people and therefore we don't try to convert them.That's G-d's problem."
Every effort was made for the tour. Pastor Gaglardi pointed out. to remove any lyric or allusion in the choir's repertoire of songs that might have been misconstrued or considered offensive by the Israeli public. ' Indeed all reports received by The Bulletin indicate that the choir was enthusiastically received from Metulla to Eilat. on paratroopers' bases and at the dedication ceremony of Kibbutz Ravid. JNF officials and future residents of the Kibbutz were especially appreciative, according to these glowing reports.
Vancouver JNF Shaliach Col. Levy was responsible for the entire organization of the tour. The two-week itinerary included concerts in all major population centres, hosted by mayors of those centres, as well as visits to Biblical sites.
A highlight of the tour occurred when the group handed over a cheque for $259,505.86 to Prime Minister Begin and President Yitzhak Navon. All aspects of the tour were covered extensively by the Israeli media.
The very first thing the choir did upon arrival in Israel was to hold a service of repentance at Yad Vashem, the Jc rusalem memorial for victims ofthe Holocaust, the Pastor related.
She admits to feeling remorse for the lack of opposition to anti-Jewish acts on the part of other Christian groups, especially during the Holocaust years, but insists that Pentecostals have never had anything to do with anti-Semitism.
"We believe that as Christians we owe a debt to Israel; our faith emerged from the ancient Jewish nation." Pastor Gaglardi indicated.
One of the ways she and her church members devised to *repay the debt' is by singing siongs to the