Many people, when they think of the work of the gospel in Israel, firstly think about the significance of the return of the Jews from the Diaspora and the growth of the Messianic movement among them.
But this has often obscured the fact that there has been a continuing Christian church in the Holy Land since the time of the apostles, and that indigenous Arab evangelical Protestant churches have been present and growing for over 100 years. Most of these are Baptist, with some Brethren, and, more recently Pentecostal fellowships.
Out of a population of 150,000 Arab-Israeli Christians, there are about 10,000 evangelicals (about the same number as the Messianic Jews).
