August 2012

Come and See!

August 9, 2012

“Come and see!”  It was a phrase we heard from many people on our delegation to the Holy Land.  Come and see the sites that are sacred to Muslims, Christians, and Jews. Just yesterday, I returned to the Chapel from my trip to Palestine sponsored by Bright Stars of Bethlehem. I joined 14 other Lutheran [...]

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Pastor Jeff in Bethlehem

August 1, 2012

It’s Wednesday morning in Bethlehem — Beit Lahm بيت لحم, (Arabic for “house of meat”) or Beit Lechem בית לחם (Hebrew for “house of bread”). We leave this morning to cross back through one of hundreds of guarded checkpoints in the four hundred mile Separation Wall cutting the occupied Palestinian Territories off from Israel.  The [...]

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