Thank You!!!

Wow! We started our tour two days ago and man have we traveled and been busy! From Jaffa to Caesarea where Cornelius and his household heard the Good News of the Gospel and the Lord opened the door for the Gentiles to be converted. Then to Megiddo, which is the site of Armageddon where "the game ends", that was amazing to see and as you look over the valley, you could see Nazareth, the Mt. of Transfiguration and also where Gideon fought the Mideonites. This land is power punched in every place you look there is a Biblical stories played out before our eyes! There have been so many places, we can't mention them all, but today we took a boat ride on the Sea of Galilee (see picture) and to our amazement, they played beautiful worship music that we sing in church as we crossed the sea. About 1/2 of the people on the tour seem to be Christians and it was a very moving experience. We saw sites like Tabgha, the site where Peter caught the fish with the coin in his mouth, and the other picture you can see Dave got one of those too! We visited the place where the Sermon on the Mount was and Caesarea Phillipi where Jesus told Peter, "I will build my church". We also traveled to Capernaum where 5 or 6 disciples were called and saw the house where Peter lived and Jesus did the miracle healing of the parapaligic. Days full of great Biblical sites, watching the Bible come alive is a trip of a lifetime!

On top of all of the Bibical sites, we traveled through the Golan Heights, from there you could see Lebanon and Syria, the place where the Yon Kipper war was fought. In fact, when we were traveling through you could see the Israeli army doing military exercises and you could see shooting from their tanks and watching them explode. Our tour guide, who is a reserve soldier explained the Israeli lifestyle as living with a gun in one hand and a shovel or agricultural tool in the other. Meaning, you could see military sites and neighborhoods right across the road. The average Israeli lives with that reality on a daily basis. It sounds like the days of Nehemiah

We want to take a moment to thank those from BCF and all of the others that have made this trip possible for us! This trip, in the first couple of days, has been more than we could have ever imagined, and we are reminded that it is because of all of your generosity to us that we are even able to see and take in all of these things. For that, we are forever grateful!

Thank you so much! Pastor Dave & Kimi