Brian Hopkins, Garrett Davis and Mike Brumit flew out today at 10 a.m.They have an over-night lay-over in London. I won’t leave until midnight tonight. Tsegay offered to let me stay at the House of Hope and his wife offered to take me shopping in the market to get the best deals.
So we went [...]

On Sunday morning we got up and met some of the Directors and an Orthopedic Surgeon who took us to breakfast at a Safari-like Resort in town. It is on the Lake that is pretty large. After Breakfast we walked over to a spot where several different kinds of wild monkeys were playing and we [...]

Today we started at a Children’s Home where the founder started the home 30 years ago when a munitions plant blew up. There were many orphans out of that, so she brought some into her home. This has grown to 54 children, plus the addition of a medical clinic an elementary prep school and then [...]

We had a great day visiting some ministries of Children’s Hope International. The director of Children’s Hope here in Ethiopia loves this ministry! He has a tender heart and he is a great leader. They have adoption branches in China, Russia and Romania (that I know about) but just started the Ethiopian branch 2 years [...]

We all arrived safe, but tired. Ethiopia is green, wet from uncharactoristic rains, and a beautiful country! Our driver took me (Tim) to the hotel from the airport. The driving here, if you can imagine, is a city of 10 million people, without traffic signs (that anyone reads anyway), no signals, roundabouts. I’ve learned that [...]

Schedule:
Rabbinic tunnels/western wall
Golgotha
Garden tomb
Upper room
Caiphas’ house – The pit where Jesus, Peter & John where kept
South stairs of the Temple
Shopping (again)
We talked about 2 days of our tour, yesterday we went to the Holocaust Museum, and it kept some people up last night, so we included that in our debreif discussions as well.
Chris: [...]

This day started with a large model of Jerusalem as it was in Jesus’ day. It helped us see how the city was laid out, what happened where. It prepared us to see the city and super-impose that model onto the modern city. Last time I was here I never really got that, so its [...]

DAY #6
Schedule of the Day:
Beit Shemesh (“House of the Sun”) – Where the Tribe of Dan blended in with the Philistines and would not take the land from them. They appealed to Samson to lay off killing so many of the Philistines, because, “Don’t you know that they rule over us?” Learned the lesson from [...]

Today we landed in our hotel in Haifa (on the Med Sea on Mt Carmel). I (Tim) think I wore them out, or at least I wore myself out. We went to the most Northern city in Israel, Tel Dan, where the tribe of Dan rejected God’s inheritance and found their own. We saw a [...]

Today was a full day. We started at the Machtesh Canyon, which is similar to the Grand Canyon. It is wilderness country, and where scholars think the new nation of Israel spent most of their 40 years wandering. It gave us a better picture of what 1 million people would look like in that vast [...]