I had minimal contact with the ministry before 2014: printed PT came across my desk in the late 1980s when working for a Christian publisher and I visited Moggerhanger once for a Pardes Hebraic day conference held in a marquee - I think Fred Wright was the main speaker.
Prophetic Workshop
It was much later that I became involved in the ministry – my sister was Cliff and Monica’s guest at a Prophetic Workshop for a gathering limited to about 40 invited guests in October 2014 at High Leigh. Cliff and Monica were kind enough to allow her to bring me along too.
Cliff asked the gathering who might be interested in helping with the relaunch of PT online and a few of us volunteered. I wasn’t a supporter of the ministry but came straight in as a volunteer, attending several subsequent draughty church hall meetings (the inaugural meeting was 2 December 2014).
We had quite a large group of volunteers at the beginning, but the Editorial Board was eventually whittled down to a core of Paul, Greg, Chris, Clifford, Frances, Cliff, Monica and me.
PT launch issue
We launched web-based PT on the eve of Passover in 2015. In that first issue:
· Cliff wrote on the “Outlook for 2015” relating to the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta and the shaking of the nation.
· Paul Luckraft wrote on “The Jewish Jesus”;
· John Matthews on “Davos and the Economy” (talking about the possibility of global economic collapse);
· Clifford Denton on “The Ministry of the Prophet”; and
· mine was called “Night is Falling” (themes - WWII, Passover, antisemitism, spirit of antichrist) - https://prophecytoday.uk/comment/israel-middle-east/item/47-night-is-falling.html (subsequent pieces from me were shorter!);
· I think David Noakes also wrote a piece about antisemitism around that time too, but I can’t locate it – it was much on our minds as the Charlie Hebdo shooting had taken place in January 2015 and around that time an attack on a Parisian kosher supermarket.
It is interesting that the themes have not changed that much over the years - we started as we were meant to go on perhaps.