Other Adventures in the Holy Land

Everyday we are going to some sight or doing some sort of field trip. Here are just a few of the highlights for now:

One of our many field trips: the Tel-Beersheva an excavation from the time of Abraham.

Tel Beerseba

We are lost children looking out over the Wilderness of Zin where the children of Israel wandered for forty years. What I learned from this field trip:

It would not be a fun experience - look at it!

Practicing with my trusty sling in preparation to slay Goliath in the valley of Elah.

Crawling through caves which we have decided to name the Micah caves. While inside, we turned off our lights and had a lesson about faith as we sat in the dark. We also sang my favorite hymn: "Lead Kindly Light"

The Church of the Holy Seplechre. This church is used by 6 different religions who all claim that this was the site of Christ's crucifixion and his burial place. It is one of two sites that claim these events occurred there (the other can be shown below. See "shabbat")

This is an alley way that is part of the Via Doloroso, or the painful way. The Via Dolorosa is the path that Christ would have walked while bearing the cross towards his own crucifixion.