5. The Mall Cop
2009-09-03, Jerusalem District, Israel. By: geerty14

[b]JACOB[/b] I really enjoyed ministering to Jacob, the mall cop. It was Shabbat, the Jewish Sabbath, so every store, market, and COFFEE SHOP was closed!!! I knew it was immature, but I was still...

4. Witness
2009-09-02, Jerusalem District, Israel. By: geerty14

I have never witnessed to so many people in such a short amount of time. The airport, the terminal, the gate, the plane, you name it...ministry just HAPPENED. Hostels, coffee shops, alley bars, bus ...

3. Jerusalem
2009-09-02, Jerusalem District, Israel. By: geerty14

This is the first time I have chosen to write after reflecting. I usually write during my travels, and you (the reader) are forced to struggle with me through all of the mess of learning. The proces...

Beit Sefafa
2009-07-14, Jerusalem District, Israel. By: ashantur

Hello my pretties, Recently I have been receiving various complaints concerning my inattention to this journal. So, here I am. ALIVE! Again I apologize for my failure to keep up but it's a busy ...

Mountain to sea to the Jewish Quarter (almost)
2009-06-22, Jerusalem District, Israel. By: ashantur

So Friday’s our first day off. Woooo!!! We decide to sleep in! … Until six thirty am. Now I don’t know about you but there’s something off-putting about calling that sleeping in. Anyway it was...

Wine, women and song. (Minus the women and song.)
2009-06-18, Jerusalem District, Israel. By: ashantur

(Sorry for the lateness, and the out of orderness. I'll fill in the other days later.) A lovely lecture from Tina Wray of Salve Regina U. Prof of the old testament, her specialty is women in the bi...

And so we begin...
2009-06-14, Jerusalem District, Israel. By: ashantur

Hauled out of bed again… drat. Guess I’m bad at nokia phones, (though having a proper Israeli cell is worth it) which would make using one as an alarm a BAD choice. Thank goodness for Quincy, is all I...

First Introductions and a Camel Encounter
2009-06-13, Jerusalem District, Israel. By: ashantur

So I slept. Right through the day, in fact. After leaving Solomon to his own devices, (he did find his way back, though I still can’t figure out where back is) I, in true Annette form, managed to puts...

Ahlan Wa Sahlan, Yerushalayim
2009-06-13, Jerusalem District, Israel. By: ashantur

Here, people have the strange tendency to tenaciously repeat back to you the wrong street or hotel name, despite your best efforts to annunciate. If you do happen to get the pronunciation right and yo...