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Jericho is a city in the Palestinian Territories and is located near the Jordan River in the West Bank. It is the administrative seat of the Jericho Governorate, and is governed by the Fatah faction of the Palestinian National Authority. In 2007, it had a population of 18,346. The city was occupied by Jordan from 1949 to 1967, and has been held under Israeli occupation since 1967; administrative control was handed over to the Palestinian Authority in 1994. It is believed to be one of the oldest inhabited cities in the world and the city with the oldest known protective wall in the world. It was thought to have the oldest stone tower in the world as well, but excavations at Tell Qaramel in Syria have discovered stone towers that are even older.Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of more than 20 successive settlements in Jericho, the first of which dates back 11,000 years , almost to the very beginning of the Holocene epoch of the Earth's history.Copious springs in and around the city have attracted human habitation for thousands of years. Jericho is described in the Hebrew Bible as the City of Palm Trees.
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Interview with Bruce Crowther MBE, Garstang, UK - Fairtrade Pioneer UK Series

VISIT TO THE FIG TREE, BEAN TO BAR CHOCOLATE MASTER CLASS AND INTERVIEW WITH BRUCE CROWTHER MBE - NOVEMBER 2016

I had the good fortune to visit Bruce Crowther, MBE during November 2016 and spent a morning learning how to produce fair trade chocolate bean to bar.

It was a tiring morning but well worth it!

I purchased lots of Fig Tree chocolate and shared it with like minded individuals in Dubai.

I hope to go back to Garstang in the near future and hope to make more fair trade chocolate with Bruce if he'll have me.

ABOUT BRUCE CROWTHER MBE

INTRODUCTION

Bruce Crowther MBE – Founder, International Fair Trade Towns Movement, Fair Trade Activist and Pioneer

Bruce Crowther a vet by profession was awarded the MBE for services to Fairtrade and Oxfam.

He was included in the former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown's book 'Everyday Heroes.'

He now serves as Executive Director for the FIG Tree and was the International Fair Trade Towns Ambassador for the International Fair Trade Towns Steering Committee for many years.

A vet by profession, Bruce Crowther is an experienced activist who began campaigning for Oxfam in 1984. A fervent and vocal Fairtrade campaigner that he managed to persuade his fellow residents in the small market town of Garstang in Lancashire where he lived with his family and practised as a vet, to declare itself the world’s first Fairtrade Town in 2000.

Bruce went from shop to shop and visited all the local businesses, asking them to make a commitment to Fairtrade. Enthusiasm gathered and the local council signed a pledge to use or sell Fairtrade products where possible, and most of the town’s traders started selling or using Fairtrade products.

Following his efforts, Garstang, with its population of just 5,000, inspired the Fairtrade Foundation to develop the Fairtrade Towns campaign and 560 towns and cities to date all over the world have since received Fairtrade status.

Crowther says, “Shortly after Garstang became the world’s first Fairtrade Town, I realised that we had to make the link between farmers in developing countries and local farmers, who also struggle to get a fair price for their produce. When Bowland hill farmers are forced to sell their lamb for less than the cost of production, it could just as easily be a coffee farmer in Peru or a cocoa farmer in Ghana.”

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Praise to God, Immortal Praise (Dix)

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Praise to God, Immortal Praise (Dix)

Text by: Anna Laetitia Barbauld 1772
Tune: Dix by: Conrad Kocher 1838
Source: Episcopal 1940 Hymnal #140
Lutheran 1941 Hymnal #572
Pilgrim 1935 Hymnal #455

Here is my complete recording of the Episcopal 1940 Hymnbook:

1 Praise to God, immortal praise,
For the love that crowns our days;
Bounteous source of every joy,
Let Thy praise our tongues employ.

2 Flocks that whiten all the plain;
Yellow sheaves of ripened grain;
Clouds that drop their fattening dews,
Suns that temperate warmth diffuse.

3 All that spring with bounteous hand
Scatters o’er the smiling land;
All that liberal autumn pours
From her rich o’erflowing stores.

4 These to Thee, my God, we owe,
Source whence all our blessings flow;
And for these my soul shall raise
Grateful vows and solemn praise.

5 Yet, should rising whirlwinds tear
From its stem the ripening ear;
Should the fig tree’s blasted shoot
Drop her green untimely fruit,

6 Should the vine put forth no more,
Nor the olive yield her store;
Though the sickening flocks should fall,
And the herds desert the stall,

7 Yet to Thee my soul shall raise
Grateful vows and solemn praise;
And, when every blessing’s flown
Love Thee for Thyself alone.
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Archaeological Evidence that Proves the Bible is True

Archaeological Evidence that Proves the Bible is True
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This video is a recording of a presentation given by Dr. Don Patton, originally entitled Stones of Israel. In this presentation Dr. Patton provides historical and archaeological evidence that proves the passages of the Bible. This video erodes any ideas that the Bible is a book of fairy-tales.

Introduction: 0:44

Altar of Joshua (Deuteronomy 27:4): 4:25

Gilgal Campsite of the Israelites (Joshua 4;19): 13:20

City of Jericho (Joshua 6:4, 5; Joshua 2;15): 16:18

Story Prophet Balaam at Tel Deir'Alla, Jordan (Numbers 22:2, 5): 22:00

Ark of the Covenant and Tabernacle site at Shiloh (Joshua 18:1): 25:22

Fortified Gates of Solomon (1 Kings 9;15): 29:20

Oldest Hebrew Texts going back 400 years older than the dead sea scrolls (Jeremiah 17:1): 30:27

Jeroboam's Altar at Tel Dan and An Inscription proving the House of David existed (1 Kings 12;25-33): 34:42

The City of David (2 Samuel 5:6-11): 38:53

Seal verifying existence of Azariah (1 Chronicles 9;11) Seals verifying existence of Gemariah and Baruch (Jeremiah 36;10). Seal of Jerahmeel (Jeremiah 36;26). Fifty-one of these seals were found and verifies the existence of 26 people mentioned in the Bible!: 49:00

Water Shaft of the City of Zion (2 Samuel 5:8), Solomon's Coronation at Gihon (1 Kings 1;33): 52:07

Tower of Siloam (Luke 13:4): 59:28

Wall of Hezekiah (2 Chronicles 32:2, 5; Nehemiah 2;17): 1:00:34

Tombs of the House of David (1 Kings 2;10): 1:02:11

Walls Surrounding Herod's Temple and Robinson's Arch: 1:03:04

Stairs Down to the Pool (Nehemiah 3;15) and the Gate Beautiful (Acts 3:2): 1:05:20

Pool of Siloam (John 9:7; Isaiah 22:9; Nehemiah 3;15): 1:07:00

King David's Palace (2 Samuel 5;11): 1:12:43

Summary of all the Archaeological discoveries discussed here: 1:16:49

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