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Travel Blogs from Bethlehem
Walking in the Footsteps of Jesus
... as he says: “Praise the Lord all you nations; extol him, all you peoples. For great is His love toward us, and the faithfulness of ...
Getting ready for Africa
... am not involved with, one person can only do so much. Another change is the fact that we have a new country director who started working when I left last time. In addition C and the second medical director are both leaving for further studies in the USA. We do have a new nurse to take up that position but she is now studying French and will get to Bujumbura in August. I received ...
A Day for Freedom
... t even have to show my American passport because the first person in our group did (I draw this in direct contrast to the gnarled old lady with child behind me detained for several minutes for security reasons). Social commentary aside we got back smoothly, I mustered the peanut butter and nutella toast and fortitude to do a workout, and then it was dinner time.
After dinner we were scheduled to meet up with the president of JUC for a tour of the ...
Palestinians, Partitions and Prayers
... quite fancy…it’s nothing like the ramshackle slums I’ve seen in India or Ethiopia. The fact of the matter is that I can sympathize with both sides in many ways, but I also feel like an indoctrination of exaggeration has occurred in many cases.
I made it back to Jerusalem in time to catch a French mass at Ecce Homo performed by Father Ed. Although I feel like I only understood about a quarter of what was said, it was certainly ...
Jerusalem to the Dead Sea
... that pick up the trash refuse to enter if they are not paid. So, the villages are just accumulating the trash—and nobody seems to care.
Well, we are here to visit Sarah and her daughter. Sarah, a Bedouin woman, seats us in her outside patio (which she decorates to look like the tent that she used to live in), and tells us about her life as a Bedouin woman. Sarah is 66 years old but looks older. She has had 11 children and ...