'He’s a covenant-keeping God' – London church 'aligns with God' to support Israel

Well-known British Bible teacher and author, the late Colin Urquhart, founded the organization, Kingdom Faith. Urquhart's son, Clive, was one of the first ministers in the United Kingdom to bring the subject of modern Israel to a mainstream pulpit.

Jonathan Croft, who pastors its church plant, Kingdom Faith London, spoke with Christian journalist Paul Calvert while on a recent visit to Israel.

“I believe that God is a covenant-keeping God,” Croft said, describing the core belief of his church. “I believe He promised something to Abraham and that covenant God has kept with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. I believe as Christians that we need to understand that God keeps his promises.”

Croft said he is “dumbfounded” that many people read Genesis through Revelation, yet “choose to ignore the God of Israel.”

He said his first visit back to the land of the Bible after the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks was this past February.

“I felt it was very, very important to be here,” he said. “We managed to go around the Old City – and I’ve been here when it’s been really busy - and to see the shops empty and just seeing the people there, to support them was important for me and the people that I brought over from the UK.”

Croft said it was “shocking,” even 16 months after the massacre, “to see how quiet it was and actually how many shops and cafes were closed.”

As part of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem’s (ICEJ) ‘Envision’ 2025 conference, Croft joined an excursion to Gaza border communities that were decimated by the sudden invasion of thousands of terrorists.

The group visited the Nova Festival memorial site and the car “cemetery,” a huge pile of burnt-out vehicles left behind from that ominous day.

Croft told Calvert he had viewed the shocking 43-minute video that was shown to the press, which contained footage retrieved mostly from the terrorists’ bodycams, but it really hit home to be “driving down the road where I know there was a lot of the massacre.”

He described the Nova memorial as a “very fitting tribute” and said he was deeply struck by the tragedy of so many young lives lost there.

“Because it was a music festival as well,” he said, “the amount of 19, 20, 21 year-olds that lost their lives, and again, they put [for each of the 364 victims] their age, their photograph, what they did, and why they were at the event. Some actually were there just to meet friends.”

Croft said the car cemetery was also “very moving,” describing “blood still on the window screens, you see the bullet marks in window screens and side doors, you see glass shattered…”

“And because I saw that 43-minute video, I know what they did and they just shot indiscriminately into the cars,” he added. “They didn’t know whether they were old, young, babies. They just shot and fired at these cars.”

Croft shared that witnessing the shells of the wrecked vehicles in person reminded him of the desperate attempts of those who were “fleeing for their lives.”

The ICEJ delegation also met residents of one of the hardest hit communities, Kibbutz Be’eri, where over 100 people were murdered.

One woman intended to be at the kibbutz the night before the Hamas attack, but felt she needed to leave and spent the night in Tel Aviv.

“So her life was saved, but unfortunately her ex-husband was killed,” said Croft, adding that the woman has not yet been able to return home because the buildings were so badly damaged.

“They believe that there will probably be only 60% that will return,” Croft explained. “The [other 40%] are afraid that it might happen again if [terrorists] get the chance to do it.”

Croft and Kingdom Faith is proud to take a stand for Israel as part of the UK Church: “We are aligning with God concerning this nation.”

Read about Kingdom Faith's “Israel Next” initiative here.

Click below to listen to the full interview.