Last Tuesday, at an impossibly early hour of the morning, Tommy Waller was fresh and full of energy. Pruning shears in hand, he skipped among the vines of the vineyard adjacent to the Jewish settlement of Dolev and piled up clusters of grapes in buckets. For most of the year Waller, 50, raises tomatoes and sheep at his family farm in the Appalachian foothills of Franklin, Tennessee. For about two months now he, his wife Sherry and their 11 children have been busy harvesting the vineyards and olive groves of Judea and Samaria, in service of the People of the Book.
Waller is the leader of Hayovel (The Jubilee ), a group of "believers," as they call themselves, from North America who promote realization of the vision of the ancient seers. The members of this small group do not define themselves as evangelical Christians, and avoid identification with any specific church. Some of them are Messianic...
Dr. Alan Cairns | 5/18/2009
