Greetings from the Holy Land!
All is well with your 20 Salem pilgrims and our 20 other pilgrim friends. I am so grateful that everyone is healthy and enjoying the trip. And we all feel very safe. Our tour guide Iyad is super competent as well our skilled bus driver Hidar. We are in good hands.
We have been experiencing the Holy Land as pilgrims and not as tourists. As you would imagine we each experience the holy sites in different but spiritually meaningful ways. We have been reading the Holy Scriptures at the sites we visit which enriches every visit. We pray. We listen and watch other Christian friends as they sing and worship. This is very, very different than visiting the beautiful cathedrals of Europe where the sites seem not to be places of worship but places for tourists to gawk and hurry to the next more eye-popping church edifice.
Today we sort of melded together with a big group of Nigerian Christians, and yes, that was the inspiration of the title of this blog: Dancing with Nigerians. I hope you have had an opportunity to see the delightful video of Karen Amy dancing with a Nigerian brother. I sure it has gone viral!! :0)
Please know that we are keeping all of you in our prayers especially the families that are mourning the loss of loved ones; Miriam and Rod Anderson, Laura and Michael Miller, and Leslie Tinker. Plus we continue to lift up Eileen Merriman and Val Ponsini and all who are on healing journeys.
Please keep praying for all of us.
I hope to see so many of this coming Saturday and Sunday.
God's Love to All
Pastor Dave
No comments:
Post a Comment