Finally, Our Entire Group has Arrived!

Westward view from my window overlooking a park, the beach and the beautiful Mediterranean Sea. After a day of travel and folding into a pretzel on an airplane, it is always good to stretch out in a bed for a good night of sleep! Four of us arrived yesterday and experienced that blessing! Today began …

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Blessing New Jewish Immigrants

With an unexpected free day (Monday) until our 4:30pm food distribution time, we headed out to see the beautiful city of Ashdod. Our first stop was Givat Yohah (Hill of Jonah), which is the highest point in Ashdod, providing a 360-degree view of the city. Some believe Jonah may have been spit up on the …

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Two Mighty Storms, One Mighty God!

Hi friends, let's circle back to yesterday's video regarding the Sea of Galilee. If you watched the entire thing, perhaps you were intrigued, as I was, by Dr Postell's commentary (beginning at the 15:45 mark) on the correlation between two Biblical storms mentioned in Jonah 1 and Mark 4. Often, Scripture gives us pictures (or …

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Modern Day Tale of Jonah and the Great Fish

Most of us cannot imagine swimming with whales, much less encountering one up close and personal. However, that was Jonah's experience, and the recent experience of a man named Rainer Schimpf . The Lord told Jonah the prophet to go to Nineveh, yet he rebelled and ran the opposite direction. He boarded a boat in …

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