In April 1931, The Hebrew Christian, the quarterly magazine of the International Hebrew Christian Alliance (IHCA), vol. 4, p. 12, reported: “A meeting of the Trustees of Abraham’s Vineyard was held in the house of Rev. A. H. Finn (son of James & Elizabeth Finn) at Wimbledon, when it was decided after careful consideration to sell our property at Jerusalem at a suitable time, and with the money thus realized to purchase arable land and found a Hebrew Christian colony.”
Exactly a year later, in April 1932, the IHCA did sell its valuable property of Abraham’s Vineyard (AV) in Jerusalem, situated on private land, for 15,000 Pound Sterling. In those days, indeed, this was a considerable amount of money. However, because of the exponential rise of real-estate prices in Mandate Palestine, it was very difficult to find a suitable replacement for AV. Soon after the sale, the IHCA made several intensive attempts to purchase another piece of land in Eretz Israel in order to establish its own Hebrew Christian colony. The press in Palestine
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