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Israel Pastor's FAM Trip
January 2-13, 2019
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Pillars of our Christian faith
We spent our last day in Israel visiting the sites that are pillars of our Christian faith. Some of us mentioned that we came on the trip to experience what we saw today. The highlight of our morning journey was visiting Bethlehem and seeing where Jesus would have been born at the Church of the Nativity. We then drove back to Jerusalem and spent the afternoon visiting all of our sites on foot.
Within a five hour period we started at the Mount of Olives, had personal devotional time in the Garden of Gethsemane, heard a message from Rich at the pool of Bethesda, walked the road where Jesus would have carried the cross, saw Golgotha, and the tomb where Jesus was buried and resurrected. Talk about a full afternoon.
Mount of Olives
Separated from the Eastern Hill (the Temple Mount and the City of David) by the Kidron Valley, the Mt. of Olives has always been an important feature in Jerusalem’s landscape. From the 3rd millennium B.C. until the present, this 2900-foot hill has served as one of the main burial grounds for the city. The two-mile long ridge has three summits each of which has a tower built on it.
The thing I can’t wrap my mind around is that they are all within walking distance from each other. I always imagined that they would be so far apart. For example Jesus was buried less than 30 yards from where he was crucified. Tomorrow morning we wake up at 3am and head to Turkey. Pray for energy for our group. After today, we are going to need it!
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