Shepherd Hotel Bethlehem

... .) So we fly all the way from NY to see the place where Jesus was born and I leave the camera in the safe at the hotel! Bethlehem is in Palestine so our Jewish tour guide had to leave us with another guide to go into Bethlehem.There was a border crossing. ...

... our bus and lead our Bethlehem tour.  During our last trip, our Jewish guide (also a Christian) did accompany us into Bethlehem, but he was very apprehensive when we went through the check-point. We were taken to Shepherds Field, where sometimes you ...

... we left Jericho and headed for Bethlehem.  We drove through the outskirts of the city of Jerusalem then through the Bethlehem gate, first stopping at Shepherd's Field and then to the Church of the Nativity.  It's hard to describe The Church of ...

Up and at 'em again. Another great morning run around Bethlehem, this time a different part of the city. It was later in the morning, so I was busy dodging workers and school children. About 20 boys run with me down the hill beside my hotel (perfect for ...

... are not allowed to enter the Palastinian terratories and so we had a new Palastinian Christian guide who enjoyed telling jokes. In Bethlehem we visited the Church of the Nativity and the Shepherds' Fields. The Church of the Nativity is the only one ...

... nbsp;Things in this area are so complicated.  So - Jacob handed us off to some very nice Palestinians who toured us around Bethlehem. BONUS - seeing goats on the downtown streets on our way to sites. As we got past the heavily-guarded gate, the first ...

... with no problem. On the other side, we met Zyed, our driver to Manger Square. Loved what Zyed said first, "Welcome to Bethlehem...this is no longer the "little town of Bethlehem" you sing about." It has 220K people and it's very crowded. We ...

... , where he was laid. People were pushing each other. Didn't really leave a good taste, you know. We had a little wander through Bethlehem after this, still in Jackets! This little girl who couldn't have been any more than four came up to me with her hand ...

... ?" and "will you be traveling in the West Bank?" Uh....Bethlehem is in the West Bank. So, I said--"Can we go to Bethlehem?" She said, "Yes--of course, this is fine...but anywhere else?" I answered an emphatic "No, thank you". She smiled at us, ...

... day to find the clay pots with the animal parchment inside them. Fortunately the ended up sometime later at an antiquites dealer in Bethlehem who was able to autheticate them but would not touch them fearing that they had been stolen from a Synagogue! The ...

... months during a sabbatical. We also had to pass through an Israeli checkpoint going into and leaving the town of Bethlehem, which is controlled by the Palestinians. Going into Bethlehem was no problem, but re-entering Israel, the soldiers ...

... I watch Jeopardy they asks questions pertaining to what little I learned. The last day I ventured out on my own to visit Bethlehem. I figured since I saw where Jesus died I should go to where he was born. It was also recommended by the tour guide the ...

... palace with a deep valley between you. Kind of a picture of us in our sin. We then headed to look over the fields of Bethlehem. It wasn’t a long drive, maybe 5 or 10 minutes. We passed by an intersection and there was a shepherd and some sheep on ...

... we decided to go back to Bloemfontein via more ‘local’ roads which meant passing through Carolina, Ermelo, Standerton, Vrede, Bethlehem and Senekal. When I say ‘we had decided’ I have to say that Peter wasn’t too keen!  ...

... It is difficult to get into Bethlehem since it is now under the control of the Palestinians, so we opted to see Bethlehem and the Shepherd's fields, where the angels may have appeared to the shepherds to announce Jesus' birth, from the kibbutz restaurant ...

... were there.  God seemed to provide small pictures of His Word each day in simple things.  For example, we saw a shepherd outside of Bethlehem tending his flock of sheep in the hills.  While we were watching, one of the sheep wandered off, ...

... etc we find our target.  Gazing out from Mt Nebo - over the Jordan Valley, to the Dead Sea and in the distance Bethlehem and Jerusaleum, gave us our first sense of where we were, an incredibly arid land with steep gorges. Mt Nebo is where Moses ...