by Laura | Jul 27, 2011 | conflict, friendship, international, Israel, Israeli, Jerusalem, Jesus followers, Jewish, Musalaha, Palestine, Palestinian, reconciliation
Here is a picture update from last week’s summer camp. Tomorrow I’ll post my reflections on the camp. It was really wonderful, as you can see from the pictures below.
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| During leader orientation we did the activities we asked the kids to do later in the week. I think the guys did a pretty good job (even though we women won)! |
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| Hillary, one of the other leaders, with one of the girls in her cabin during the Bible study time. |
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| Doing something like a Bible drill. |
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| The kids did even better than the leaders with the newspaper clothes. I had a soft spot in my heart for this kid… just look at that face! |
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| I saw this girl walking through the camp on the last morning and chased her down for a picture. I think her shirt is great — and perfect for the camp. |
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| So much fun! |
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| This little guy was so sweet. He wanted his face painted as a football (soccer ball). He is originally from South Sudan. |
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| We had moon bounces galore and lots of water one afternoon. Everyone had a wonderful, fun time! |
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| No caption necessary:-) |
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| More fun. |
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| Enjoying the water. |
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| Picture in Ronit’s hand: what she said she was going to do to my face. My face: what she actually did to it. I’ll post the video she made in the next few days. |
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| Diligently working on the crafts. |
by Laura | Jul 16, 2011 | American, Israel, Israeli, Jewish, Musalaha, Palestine, Palestinian, travel
Today I’m going with about 40 other leaders for a two-day training prior to our Israeli-Palestinian summer camp. Through this camp, we intend to encourage relationships between young believers and expect the relationships to change the trajectory of their perspectives on the “other” in this conflict.
On Monday, we’ll be joined by 73 8-12 year-olds for the five day camp. Since I won’t likely be able to blog during the camp I’ll be keeping pictures and stories to share with you after the camp.
This camp marks the beginning of my last two weeks here. I’ll have a final week in the office and then be off toward home. Check in next week to see some posts about what I’m looking forward to about being home. I’ll only be home for a month, so will need to pack a lot in. Maybe having a record of what I want to do ahead of time will help me remember when I actually have the opportunity at home! I hope they’ll be fun to read, too:-).
by Laura | Mar 9, 2011 | culture, faith, Israel, Israeli, Jerusalem, Jesus followers, Jewish, thankful
I have had the wonderful opportunity to celebrate Shabat the last two Friday evenings with Israeli friends, which has been really fun. I mentioned in an earlier post that it is really neat to understand a little bit better what Jesus was doing at the Last Supper… just from observing a related tradition with bread and wine.
I really like this weekly tradition to have a special meal with family and friends and remember the provision of God, and to speak blessing to God and each other. Blessed art Thou, Lord our God, King of the universe, who brings forth bread from the earth… My understanding is very dependent on what is explained due to my absolute lack of Hebrew. What I do understand has been really cool.
So thank you, Ronit, for the invitations, and for some good times with new friends.
