Israel Study Tour with Joshua Wilderness Institute
April 5-18, 2019
Led by Bob Plouffe
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Trip Blog Posts
We are to love God and to love people
posted on Wednesday April 17 2019 at 10:45 pm UTC
Mount of Olives: Rachel spoke to us overlooking Jerusalem in the morning. We read from Matthew 21 when crowds start to see Jesus for the first time. Death doesn’t win but God always does. As a group we said the first half of Philippians 2 and it was a good reminder of what we’ve memorized...
A God that cannot be contained
posted on Tuesday April 16 2019 at 10:00 pm UTC
Today we had the privilege to visit the temple mount first thing today. We had to wear extremely conservative clothing because of the holy sites that are there. I was the yearly, one token Joshua student that gets stopped because of their skirt. My skirt had a little slit in the side and it showed...
Everything points back to Jesus
posted on Tuesday April 16 2019 at 12:00 am UTC
Western wall We toured the tunnels underneath the Muslim quarter. It was really cool. We went to the part right in front of where the temple used to be. We got to pray there, it was very special. Then we got to go to the wailing wall. There was so much culture and traditions. A lot of what they did...
On the road to Jerusalem
posted on Monday April 15 2019 at 12:00 am UTC
Hello families and friends of us Joshua children! I hope you’re having a lovely Sunday worshiping GOD. We are too, in case you were wondering. Today, we left Galilee and headed out to Jerusalem. Our first stop was at Megiddo. This is a tel that has 26 layers to it, meaning 26 different civilizations...
The lengths Jesus goes to for us
posted on Sunday April 14 2019 at 12:00 am UTC
Springs of Harod Today after spending time at the ruins of the Schytopolis under the warm Israeli sun we had the opportunity to visit the springs of Harod which is a group of three freshwater springs where Gideon has victory over the Midianites in Judges 7. Being in the place of this well known bible...
Shalom Shalom
posted on Saturday April 13 2019 at 12:00 am UTC
We woke up on the shore of Sea of Galilee and now we are in Katzrin. We time traveled back into the First Century. We put on robe like things and head wear. The biggest highlight of this was making our own bread! We even got to put our own stamps on it! Then right after we went to Tel Dan. There...
At the top of the mountain
posted on Friday April 12 2019 at 12:00 am UTC
Last night was our first night in the Qibbutz at Galilee and it rocks. Each roommate pairing gets their own little condo type thing that has a few beds and a bathroom with a small kitchen. They’re very cool and unlike anything I’ve ever stayed in. It’s right on the water too, which...
On a rock
posted on Thursday April 11 2019 at 12:00 am UTC
Hey! Shalom here. When we visited Ein Gedi, the first impression of it was fairly bland. From the outside of the ravine, it looks like your average Judean desert mountains, nothing special. But descending into the Wadi, toward the Ein Gedi spring, you see the orangish tan landscape start to become...
God uses the mundane and normal
posted on Tuesday April 09 2019 at 10:40 pm UTC
Today was another day with a long hike. It wasn’t as intense as Masada, but we still climbed up a few hundred feet in elevation. We did this in the Wilderness of Zin, also known as Ein Avdat in Hebrew. This is where the Israelites spent some of their forty year walk to the promise land after...
To actually go see
posted on Tuesday April 09 2019 at 12:00 am UTC
It’s not hump day but we rode some camels today! It felt like it could have been a scene in a movie. We pulled up in the bus and saw all of the camels sitting there, ready for us. Before we went on our ride, we watched an informational video to ensure our safety and the safety of the camels....
The accessibility of God's lessons
posted on Monday April 08 2019 at 3:50 am UTC
This morning we woke up to a crazy cultural cacophony of continental commissary. We had breakfast. Then we loaded up onto the bus and started off to our first biblical location, which was fittingly a garden. It's called Kiriath-Jearim and means forest town in Hebrew. Ronan, our tour guide gave us...
Preparing for Israel
posted on Monday March 18 2019 at 11:29 pm UTC
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