Finally United!

Sorry for the delay in posting, but we'll catch you up on yesterday (Thursday) and Jason and Laura will be back to talk about today. Hint: It was amazing :)

Imagine if you can waking up and walking outside to a garden, laying in a hammock overlooking the Sea of Galilee and just being with Jesus...that was our devotion time Thursday morning-quite awesome. We had breakfast made by Yael-one of the wonderful owners of the place we were staying and then headed back to Jerusalem to get ready for the team!

Here's just a few things we saw on our drive back (which was filled with sing-a-longs of Christmas and Disney songs all beautifully harmonized by ourselves!):
-camels to ride (trust me if we had time we would have!)
-caves in the desert
-Jordan (Jennie almost drove us across the border but we realized that probably wasn't the best idea-but we wanted to!)
-fields of sunflowers and palm trees-completely serious, they were huge!
-donkeys, goats, and a fox-Laura likes the animals of Israel :)
-lots of So Goods-the gas station of choice here

With some help from Jesus and Coleman's excellent sense of direction we made it into the city of Jerusalem and found Living Bread within 5 minutes (compared to the 25 it took us to get out). We quickly dropped of bags, filled up on gas, and returned the rental car with 0 seconds to spare :) We decided since we were in the Old City we'd grabbed some lunch and then headed back to get all the rooms ready for the team.

Jason, Laura and I headed up to the airport and waited for the team. Its not an easy or quick task to get 23 people off a plane, through customs, and get all their bags but they were champs! We saw some tired and sleepy faces, but all had smiles :) We grabbed 3 sharuts/shuttle vans and headed back to LB where the wonderful ladies helping us this week had an incredible dinner waiting. Then it was time for a rooftop meeting and prayer/worship and then off bed. Everyone is loving the 5 minute shower schedules :)

When asked how everything was going so far Bob says: "We got everyone here safe and sound and we're in Israel. It's going to be good." More posting from Bob in a few days-he had just gotten off a 12 hour flight so we're going to cut him some slack :)

God is good, all the time! Shalom Y'all! - Holly and Bob