Day 1 Lesson 1 City gates at gezer

The first day we stopped by this tree, can you name it and tell us what was special about it? What was the reason for the city gate? What happened at the city gate? Who sat there and who came there? How can we live out this lesson? How have you put this teaching in practice since you arrived home? Tell us your experience in the comments.

Rods request

Rejoice for our King is high and exalted!

Another Day to remember

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your might. Love your neighbor as yourself! Who is your neighbor?

Thy kingdom comes as his will is done!!

Day 7 Review

Good morning everyone! Its 4:45 am and I'm awake. Imagine that! Its called not quite back to normal schedule. I thought maybe a few pictures would remind us of God's wonderful grace the last few weeks.

If you didn't get my email from last evening, please advise! Also, pray for Karina Rose our oldest daughter. Last night she broke out with a fever and her neck has some deep pain. She's still sleeping, when I check her at a little after 4 she still had a low grade fever.

Home at last!!!!

We arrived safely home on Monday Morning 11:20. We bless God for his wonderful mercy to our family as we traveled. May God root deep within our hearts his wonderful love for us!

We have been so blessed to travel with you all. Thanks for your encouragement and the wonderful words you wrote in our notebook. We are humbled by your love and support.

We love you all!

Stuck in Chicago

At least we got to Chicago. I hope most of you made it home safely. My wife and I got bumped on our flight to Cleveland so we are still at Chicago till Monday morning 6 o'clock. We hope to be home by mid morning. The flight was oversold. Thanks to Joe and Ina for inviting my wife and I to participate in this trip. May God bless and sustain your life daily!

Last Supper and fellowship

Thanks to all the wonderful people who made a huge impact on my wife and I! This last supper, we had a time of sharing and fellowship. It was an encouraging evening to say the least. Its going to be wonderful work of God as we let him use us in our own communities across the United States. It was so great to see so many different churches represented in fellowship together. God had truly blessed us as a community!

Stopover in Amman Jordan

I decided to put a few pictures on here while we wait on the plane. We've been blessed beyond measure! I hope this blog with penetrate deep into your heart and give you a passion to walk a deeper road on the highway of HOLINESS!!!

I pray these pictures from the last 2 weeks have been a blessing. A great conviction was formed within the group to Study the word of God (text) and to live the text. Keep checking back on this blog in the future. I plan to keep writing about our walk of faith and the community. I hope our group along with those who followed us online will become an online community and together we will study, walk and minister to those God gives us (our neighbors). Our hearts have experienced the Fire of God (passion).

Thanks be to God for this awesome experience of knowing him!

Last day

What a last day! Bags are packed, 4 hours of sleep and we have to get up. Sorry no other data! lol

Assorted pictures

More pictures

Day 11 Mt carmel

Bless God for another day in Israel. This morning we climbed up mountain Carmel. We hiked up some rough terrain to the top. It was 3 miles and took us 3 hours. We felt so great to have climbed up here and were going to eat lunch and the bus will pick us up. Thank God for the bus! Ouch, communication error and no bus around. No problem here since we are seasoned hikers so down the mountain we hike again. My left knee was all back and blue and felt like someone put a knife to it. At first i couldn't even touch it due to the severe pain. Not sure what the problem was. Feels better tonight.

We ate our lunch on the bus and headed for Jerusalem. We visited a beautiful terrace olive garden and had some great teaching while sitting on the rocks. After the lesson, we built a wall.

We arrived at the old city just in time to experience the Jews dancing with the rabbi as they went to the western wall to pray and sing. What an awesome experience! The passion was a sight to behold. Several of us went down to the wall and put our hand on it and prayed to God in the name of our Messiah! The whole group was clearly moved by their passion!

The first picture was looking down the Jezreel Valley from Mt Carmel. In the distance to the right is the valley of Armageddon. Picture 2 is the mountain in the distance. Picture 3 is the street through the old city. This is how the street looked where Jesus carried his cross. Picture 4 was taken while they were praying at the western wall. This photo was a no no, but Levi got it somehow. They warned us absolutely no photos on the sabbath. At sun down tonight the sabbath started and go's till sun down tomorrow night.

Day 10 Farm, rocks and more experiences

Thanks Rachel for giving me a break last night!

Thanks to God for the gift of life! Bless God for sending us the Messiah so we can have eternal life. This morning we headed west from the sea of Galilee towards Nazareth and stopped by a field that had been harvested and is now ready to prepare the soil again for the upcoming season. You must ask your tour friend about the parable of the sower. We had quite the experience on studying this text. I hope you all get to see my video on this lesson. it will move you on your knees, especially with burning feet and 120 degree heat. smiles!

Another lesson for some study from you our friends. Ray layed out for us the text about the little boy from the carpenters shop. you may want to study this text. you may come to realize that perhaps he had a bit different trade. look up the text! Text means written Word of God.

I thought you may enjoy a picture of our daily lunch. Pita bread with meat and if you are lucky enough to be first in line, you get cheese and pickles to enjoy your sandwich. If you are last in line, well, lets just say you get a very dry sandwich! ouch, they are good if you can load them up!

The girls are dancing in a wine press. its a very touching experience to observe this through the Hebrew culture. Ask somebody to explain!

The last pictures of a pile of rocks was a very moving experience at the end of the day. Today was the last day by Galilee and tomorrow we head toward Jerusalem. So we added to a standing stone by each of us picking up a rock and putting it on this pile as a reminder to the person that led us to Jesus Christ. We heard the experiences of people who has rough lives and how God brought shalom through people who were faithful in bring peace to people in need. We have been so blessed to experience the gift of salvation. Why don't we share this gift with others in a world of chaos?