Stan is a South African gentile who for three decades has called Israel home. He is married to a Czech national, Frantiska, and the couple have seven Jerusalem-born children, three of whom were granted Israeli citizenship after completing their service in the IDF. The rest of the family are permanent residents.
A news journalist by profession, Stan has worked as an accredited tour guide for the last 11 years, using Scripture and the geography and history of the Land and People of Israel to teach Christians about the ever-relevant centrality of this nation to the Bible and to our faith.
Before moving to Israel, Stan was a political reporter for the South African newspaper, the Daily Dispatch, during the final years of the apartheid era. In 1991 he joined the staff of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ), serving as editor of the monthly Middle East Intelligence Digest and helping launch the online ICEJ News Service in the earliest days of the Internet age. In this capacity, he was in Madrid, Spain to cover the first international Middle East Peace Conference, and since then has extensively reported on the “land-for-peace process” as it has passed through its stages, from Oslo to Annapolis and beyond.
“Whether writing or guiding,” says Stan, “my prayerful purpose is to communicate primarily to Christians a Bible-based understanding of how the LORD works in and through the realm of politics to restore Israel and prepare the way for the Messiah’s reign.”
The full bench of Israel’s highest court has been marshalled to consider ruling against a law to regulate its power.
Taking shape: a normalisation agreement between the Jewish state and the birthplace of Islam.
The Jews are being settled in their own land, by God. I, a “stranger,” have taken hold of this nation. For I have heard, and seen, and know, that God is with them.
Exclusive chat with a Jewish “settler” who urges Christians to visit the Biblical heartland: “This is where the Bible happened, that’s why the enemy attacks us here.”
This 8th installment takes us to the Galilee town that became the hub of Jesus’ ministry. Unlike self-promoting Christian leaders, the Man was an enigma.
What is raging inside Israel is coming from one side only. It is a battle for the soul of the nation. Did we really think the Enemy would take the election outcome lying down?
In this 7th installment of “Guiding God’s Land,” we visit a small hill in the Jezreel Valley to discover, among other things, how one Hebrew prophet prepared the way for Another.
Christian reaction to an Orthodox-Jewish MK’s proposed anti-missionary bill was unwarranted, hardly beneficial to Israel, and certainly unbecoming of Jesus’s followers.
If we can know how God views it, we’d know the answer. And, of course, we can know.
This 6th installment of “Guiding God’s Land” finds us on the Israel-Lebanon border, where we hike along a rushing, effervescent stream. And up ahead is an ancient city tied to a terrible tale of “the Ten Lost Tribes.”
