After a very tiring week the gang has a day off.  Some have gone to Bethlehem, some to the Old City, some just staying in the hotel to rest, getting ready for three more days of touring.  We have been educated in so many ways.  Malcolm, our tour guide, has given us so much information about the sites we are visiting.  We began the day yesterday walking from the Mt. of Olives down to the Garden of Gethsemane.  What an experience!  We ended the day with a communion service in a special room in the Hotel.  We did so many things in between.

We visited Bethlehem yesterday(after going through the security check-point.). The Holocaust museum was amazing.  We toured the museum where some of the Dead Sea scrolls are housed.

Eddie and Jan Taylor from Michigan will be heading home this evening.  They were only able to be here for part of our trip.  We have formed a very close bond.

Rick and Karen Pauls kids have been a delight for us all.  Their education will take them far beyond what books would do.

Our spiritual lives have been enriched through our time spent here.