Paul Calvert attended the Knesset Christian Allies Caucus dinner at the Waldorf Astoria in Jerusalem to honour Christians. He spoke with the director Josh Reinstein, and two winners of awards.

We were introduced to this holocaust home in Haifa and they are the most sweet and wonderful people and so it just touched our heart. One lady who was 95 years old was at one of the feeding centres, they feed 1200 holocaust survivors every day around the city, and not just those who staying there. We are at one of the feeding centres and she says, "I want to hug him". So I went over and I said, "Tell me about her". She is 95 years old, has a little walker with wheels and a basket, she comes down and eats and then she takes home a prepared meal in the basket, all covered and I asked, "Do they do this every day?" and they said, "Every day unless we run out of food". And I said, "what do you mean?" and they said "well if we don't have the food, we can't feed them". And I just knew God spoke to my heart and said, "You can never let that happen; you can never let these people end their lives still being hungry. It moves me just talking about it. We told them, "Listen, we are going to take on your feeding program and God will provide so we are going to go to our people and ask them to help us".

There is a teaching in ancient Jewish wisdom that says "If God gives you an opportunity to do good and somehow that door closes and you haven't done it; you will never get the blessing that God had intended. And with holocaust survivors that door closes every day. You know when we first went to that place we were here on a tour but we went one evening after the tour was home and we met just all the people in the home and one of them, her name was Yudith, she was 97 I believe. My wife and children just fell in love with her and so when I was back here in December I was at the home, my wife, Tiz, called and asked, "Did you see Yudith?" and I said, "She passed away". And so had we not taken that opportunity to meet with her, and she was so sweet, she would follow us around and bring us coffee and so the door for holocaust survivors closes every day and it is such a privilege and I mean that from the bottom of my heart to be able to help in making their end days so much better than what their, most of them the beginning of their lives were, so it's an important issue with us.

Paul: Are Christians called to stand with Israel today and are the promises of God still for today?

Larry: Absolutely. Someone was asking me, "What is your mission in life?" My mission in life is to reeducate Christians to the biblical importance of standing with Israel and the Jewish people in Israel and around the world and those prophecies of Jews and Gentiles. In the book of Ephesians it calls us one new man, after 2,000 years of the church and the Jews being divided, it's a miracle of God. It's an end time miracle of God of us becoming one, of us loving one another and serving the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. We started coming over here 20 something years ago and there was not that unity, today you can go to the Western wall, I have had orthodox rabbis recognise me by the grace of God and say, "Come and pray with me" and of everything that is the greatest thrill to see that healing of relationships between Jews and Christians.

Paul: What is your prayer finally for Jewish Christian relations?

Larry: There is a term in Hebrew called repairing a broken world and this maybe sound a little political but we need to quit from our pulpits talking about the Jews killing Jesus, we need to talk from our pulpits that Jesus was a Jew, He was born a Jew, He was raised a Jew, He taught as a Jew, He loved the Jewish people, he never came to separate us from the Jewish people. But as Paul the apostle said, "He came to graft us in" and my prayer is that we get grafted in and become that olive tree that is bearing fruit that will bring the Messiah back to Jerusalem.