More Field Trips

Aby and I sporting our field trip fashions. Notice the hip fanny packs the program provided for hands free touring and easy accessibility to the tool of the tourist: the camera.

Akko/Acre a Mediterranean sea coast city from the Crusader times.

Awe. The Beautiful Mediterranean Sea.
Here we walked along the ramparts of the old Crusader city wall.

Qazrin - a house from the Talmudic period (5th Century a.d.) House of Uzi. Although this was not the exact site, our teacher utilized this house as a visual for when the man with Palsy was let down through the roof to be healed by Christ.

Rusty and I were in charge of explaining the items in the shed. I have a plow and he has the Wheat Sifter. Many of these household items were used as examples in Christ's teaching.

Mount Tabor.
One of two sites that they believe to be the Mount of Transfiguration where Moses and Elijah appeared to Christ, Peter, James and John and the voice of God was heard.

Gamla "camel"
On the point of this hill was once a city. Following the first Jewish revolt, the people here faced Roman attack. Rather than fall to the Romans, the people chose to take their lives by jumping from the cliff. The "Masada" of the Galilee.
We hiked this. In the heat of mid-day.
It was hot.
I sweat.
a lot.

NIMROD'S FORTRESS
A fortress built up on the top of the mountain which contained secret passageways (that were not-so-secret seeing how they were labeled with giant signs and arrows for the tourists).

The top of the mountain was very windy and some said sexy as the girl's hair blew with the wind.

Most eventful was the discovery of bats in one of the lower rooms. It was my first encounter with the species. I don't know if it was their squealing, the fact they dangled by one leg upside down or the society connotations that accompany these creatures but they freaked me out.
I got chills and didn't stay long.

GEORG GRAU
Templer Cemetery in Haifa. Jacob Spory (buiding for him in BYU-I) was called on a mission to the Holy Land. He had a vision that instructed him to begin his mission in Haifa. In addition to the location he was also shown a blacksmith. As he entered the city he indeed encountered a blacksmith by the name of Georg Grau who also had seen a vision instructing him to receive the missionary. He and his wife were one of the first members of the Church in the Holy Land.









JOHN A. CLARK
Templer Cemetery in Haifa. Gravesite of John A. Clark - a missionary in Palestine. He died as a missionary of small pox and was buried here. The half finished column is representative of his unfinished life and mission. When the church sought to build the Jerusalem Center the state required proof that the church had a presence in the Holy Land before 1948. John Clark's grave gave the evidence that was needed to build our center.