Mount of Olives

... , all of the teams from our school will regroup for 2 weeks in Israel for a time of processing and debriefing. On the last day we will be commissioned into the world at the graduation ceremony on the Mount of Olives where Jesus gave the Great Commission.

... in an old house/restaurant,  we had delicious lunch of salad and pizza: thin crust, roasted pumpkin, tomato, mushroom, artichoke, olives, roasted peppers, basil and boccocini,  with shaved parmesan and rocket sprinkled on top. I took photos of ...

... work and queued up with the locals waiting for Woollies to open so I could stock the larder. H had bought tins of beans, cheese, olives, eggs, Sultana Bran, but not much else.  Back at the unit the power was off so I headed back into town and sat in ...

Apparently the area is really good for rock climbing. That another thing I should go back to after 15 years...   The Mount Zero Olives Café opens at 11, after a little drive around to kill time, we stopped for breakfast. As we entered the tasting ...

... picture taken on the Mount of Olives, we proceeded down Palm Sunday Road. This steep road on the western slope of the Mount of Olives descending toward the Kidron Valley is the path Jesus took to the Temple on Palm Sunday.  (Matt 21:8, ...

... of each important place a church was constructed. Besides these places, the mount is partly covered by a jewish graveyard. Finally, from Mount of Olives there is a fantastic view (the best view!) of Jerusalem old city. After the tour, I visited the most ...

... of just how gigantic the Temple Mount really is and saw the full scope of the fortified walls encircling old Jerusalem. The Mount of Olives is packed with Christian sites, so we set out to visit a few.  Gethsemane Garden, where Jesus prayed before ...

... Chuch. I have not yet managed to see the Holy Sepulchre inside the Old City, nor the other Churches on the Mount of Olives (Dominus Flexit, Gethsemani Garden, The Church of All the Nations and The Virgin's Tomb). I cannot yet walk the distance from ...

... cemetery had been placed here so that it would become a filthy place for the Jews who were expecting the Messiah on the Mount of Olives but this cemetery was something else.   Full of trash, broken bottles,  signs all over of recent trash ...

All week long, we've looked over at the Mount of Olives from Jerusalem. We've seen the hillside of graves from the ramparts, from the rooftops, from the Lutheran Tower. On Saturday, it was time to go over there--getting there early enough to watch the ...

... mistakenly stuck on it all the way down from the top floor this morning).  This morning we visit the Mount of Olives, then Bethlehem in the afternoon. We begin with the 4th c.. church commemorating Jesus' Ascension, deeded ...