Words fail me! It has been a highly emotional day as we have journeyed through Jerusalem on the Via Delarosa all the way to the traditional site of Golgotha. Right from the start, as we gazed across the Kidron valley from the mount of Olives we had a roller coaster ride of emotions. Words cannot describe what we felt. So I am just going to upload photos and put up some descriptions of them. It will take us a few days to process all of what we saw, heard, felt a...

Today we started with a detour! Our guide Ami wanted us to see the 2000 year old fishing boat that was discovered by two men walking on the shore of Galilee in a bad drought time. This boat is carbon dated to the time of Jesus and his disciples. They even found nails that were used in the boats construction. This boat was covered over and preserved by mud for two thousand years. What a great start to the day for a detour. Next we drove to a site of the baptis...

Today was on other big day of seeing the highlights of the Galilee region, culminating in a wonderful boat ride on the Sea of Galilee. We are told again that this fresh water lake is 212 meters below the level of the sea. Today is very hazy, hot and humid, somewhat like Cairns but only hotter and more humid, and that was at 8am!! We passed the village of Migdol, the home town of Mary Magdalene, on our way to the church of multiplication where Jesus took the loav...

Day one of our tour in Israel was amazing. We started out wondering what it would be like to tour not in a larger group, well, God is good, it has proved to be extraordinary! Our guide Ami, pronounced Army, arrived at 8:30 am and right from the start we felt at home and very special indeed. Ami is a wonderful guide with about 28 years of experience behind him. So we started out from the motel and headed towards Jaffa, or Joppa. This older part of town was whe...

Well, after almost 58 years, we have touched down on holy ground, Israel! We can hardly believe it! Israel, the birthplace of our Lord Jesus, and for us, the most holy place on earth. It's hard to explain but being here seems just right, we have heard people say its like coming home, but it's not quite like that for us, it just feels right; perhaps by the end of our tour we might be able to explain exactly how it feels to be here. We were met at the airport ...