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"AS
THE MOUNTAINS ARE ROUND ABOUT JERUSALEM
SO THE LORD IS ROUND ABOUT HIS PEOPLE,
NOW AND FOREVERMORE"
PSALM 125:2
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| “Jerusalem set
scripture in stone for me -- the hands-on evidence
of words. We can envision the sacrifices and events
around Jesus’ day – especially His sacrifice. I
don’t think you can understand the value of what God
has done for us until you have walked in Jesus’
footsteps and put your mind alongside His. This
adventure has stretched my own cup of faith, surely
my cup runneth over.” |
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Dave Hustad
Wellington, Florida |
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“Jerusalem is a
place I’ve longed to see all my life. In my
mind, it has symbolized ‘coming home,’ ‘completion,’
‘heaven,’ ‘the New Jerusalem and Holy City of
Revelation.’ In my imagination it’s golden.
But that morning when I stepped down off the bus to
look at the panorama of the city, I was in a
specific, real place. I could walk on the
ground, touch the stones, see the white building and
gold domes, hear the birds – and know that all those
Bible stories and the accounts of Jesus’ last week
were “true” in a very physical, tangible way.
Those Bible events did indeed happen – and right
here. The specificity and particularity of God
and his love for us really hit me.” |
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Carolyn Nolan
San Diego, California |
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Photo: Gila
Yudkin |
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Panorama of Jerusalem from the
Mount of Olives |
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| "My emotions are
still sky high from our trip, especially now that
Easter is so near, and our TV screen is full of the
passion story of our Lord. It's showing the
sites in and around Jerusalem, some of which I've
personally been to, where I listened to Gila's
knowledgeable insights and Kevin Saunders' inspiring
teachings. My days and especially my dreams at
night make me relive the experience once again and
again and again." |
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Steve Kolnhofer
Scottsdale, Arizona |
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| "This is Easter
morning and it seems so much more real after having
been in Israel. As I have taught my students
this past week about the events of Holy Week, I have
been able to help them personalize what Jesus
experienced. The cell in Caiaphas' home, the area
the soldiers held Jesus in the hours before before
he walked down the Via Dolorosa and the Garden Tomb
are part of my memory forever!" |
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Ginger Samara
North Canton,
Ohio |
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Photo: Gila
Yudkin |
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Street sign in Hebrew, Arabic and
English |
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| "I had mostly been
anticipating seeing the places where Jesus walked,
and hadn’t really grasped, beforehand, how each of
those places has layers and layers of Old Testament
history attached to them, too. For example, at
one crossroad our guide pointed in one direction and
said, “This is the road that Abraham took Isaac on
the journey to offer him as a sacrifice. This
is also the road, going in the other direction, that
Joseph and Mary took to Bethlehem.” It made
the Old and New Testaments connect in a new way for
me." |
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Julie Young
Phoenix, Arizona |
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Photo: Gila
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Greek Orthodox priests entering
the Church of the Holy Sepulcher |
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| "What struck me the
most was Jerusalem. The Galilee and desert
reminded me of California which made it hard for me
to believe where I really was. But to look out
from Mount Scopus, or the Mount of Olives, I knew
where I was.
In the church [The Holy Sepulcher] while I was
waiting to go into the place where Jesus may have
been laid, I listened to all the sounds of chanting
and worship and thought, ‘This could be like what it
is like in heaven with all the angels singing
praises to God.'
I was also struck by the Sabbath in Jerusalem.
It seemed the entire town stopped to worship God.
This would not be found in California.
Jerusalem is clearly God's city. Wow!! How
blessed you are, Gila, to be there each day to
worship Him." |
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Joyce Nims,
Los Angeles, California |
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