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Our Final Day Together

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 Our journey has come to an end.  But it is the beginning of something more.  Andrea Adams made an extremely insightful comment today that was an encouragement to us all.  Jesus’ ministry was carried out in a very small area of the Galilee and also here in Jerusalem.  Her comment was that even though it feels like it is a small and insignificant area we are working in, it can make an eternal difference.  That is what Jesus did. We started at the Garden Tomb, purchased and established in the 1890’s by an independent British charity, it is a large garden with a rich tomb right beside a rock face that used to look like a skull.  Some say it would be the place of Jesus’ crucifixion and burial.  While the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is historically the proper place, this is the proper feel.  We had communion together and shared highlights from the trip. We also met a Mennonite group from PA that included folks from Chambersburg.  Small world...
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A No Bus Day

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 We left the bus in front of the Dung Gate this morning and did not see Shlomo again until the end of our day.  That means we walked the whole day to all the places we visited.  And in a crowded Old City the team did well.  We began our day going through the line to go up on the Temple Mount.  After the destruction of the Temple by the Romans in 70 AD, the Temple Mount at one point was farmed until the 7th century when the Muslims built the mosque of Omar and the Al Aqsa mosque up there.  Now the Muslim control what happens on the Mount while Israel holds ultimate say over security.  It is a strange combination.  We envisioned where the Temple once stood, how Jesus was defensive for the Gentiles to have a place to pray there, and how one day Jesus will return there through the Eastern Gate.  We reminded everyone of the three major events that happened on this same spot:  the offering of Isaac as a sacrifice; the building of the Temple; a...
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