Day 9 Gamla Continued

From Gamla we traveled through some military danger zones along the Syrian borders. We arrived at a placed that was wired shut. Of course Ray found a hole to walk into a Tel that was currently being excavated. Amazing how so many years ago they cut these columns and collars. The fancy hand chiseling is simply amazing. I don't remember much about these places. The scenes here are between Gamla and Cesarea Philipi. Perhaps somewhere along the road to Damascus and by the Via Maras. Many people possibly traveled through here including Jesus and the Disciples.

Rod challenging us from the word of God

I loved his analogy of church is like a locker room. It's were we meet to pull together and get encouraged to fight the real battles out in the world!

More of Grand Rapids

We had such wonderful fellowship. We were so challenged by the preached word on faith. Saturday evening after church we had snacks and fellowship at Chuck's house. We attended the 11 am service this morning and then went back to chuck's house for pizza. We had such a great time. Greg and Josiah were also there.

Grand Rapids, Mi

As most of you know, Friday was the big day for Lewis. He got married in Rosebush Michigan. Joe and Ina were invited to the wedding and had a way up. We decided to go up Saturday and bring them back. We had a most wonderful fellowship with Rod's and Chuck's! We were so richly blessed! I decided to post pictures of our time together!

Greetings from Grand Rapids

We had the wonderful privilege of surprising Rod and Libby last night in church. Rosetta, Greg and our family attended the Saturday evening service. He was surprised! He preached on Abraham and the visual was there.

After the service we went to Chuck and Brenda's house for snacks and fellowship. Joe, Ina and Josiah met us there for the evening.

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Day 9 Gamla

This morning we headed to the east side of the sea of Galilee. This place is called Gamla. Here a very sad war was fought. Who did battle here? Who was the traitor? What sect of people died here? History tells us a large stream of blood flowed down this mountain during a horrific battle that wiped out the whole sect of Jewish people. How long did the battle last? You guys remember this?

Day 8 Sea of galilee

After the Mt Arbel excursion, we took the bus over to the coasts of the sea of Galilee. After a lesson by the sea, we hiked this mini mountain called Aramas Toppos. Here is where they believe Jesus taught the beatitudes. After this we went to Chorazin and got to sit in Moses seat and listened to several teachings including the Jewish marriages. We then visited the birth place of two of Jesus disciples. Who were they?

Day 8 Mt Arbel part 2

Heading up Mt Arbel was very treacherous. You can see the pictures on the way up where a slip or a fall meant a sure disaster! If you kept your eyes on where you walked and where the path was, you didn't see the danger as much. If you paused on the journey and looked around, it was a very scary feeling. Doesn't it sound like a life of faith!

After we got to the top, it was such a beautiful scene looking down over the sea of Galilee and over toward the mount of the Beatitudes. It was a very refreshing time and I was sure the bus would be on top somewhere to pick us up. MMMMMM, wrong!

I think the path down on the other side of the mountain was much worse then the way up. We were literally hanging onto steel handles attached to the rocky mountain stones as we tip toed our way down. These pictures don't do justice, perhaps i can get some video on by next week.