This morning after getting ready and all packed up we departed around 8:00 am. Our first stop this morning was a place created by the Baptised joust after the Sea of Galley when the Jordan river piks up again. Here we had a Bible stody and time dedicated to prayer and song with reading of the word. We had a group photo here. After we could get some watter from the river.

From here we went to Nazereth. We found the Lords church here and meat with the church of Christ group here. Thay were an arimaic speaking group. Here Bruce deliverd a mesage off the top of his head and a mimber translated for the group. We also had singing that was started from the diferent people from our group. I then helped serve the Lord’s supper with Bennet. Folowing the service we has time for photoes with our brethern there and I went around and interduced my selfe to them. Befor we had concluded the service we sang the Lord Bless you and keep you. Then we sang I have the Joy, Joy Joy down in my hart in Greek.

After this we went and saw several churches where events were sead to have taken place here. One of thes was the place where Joseph was to have had his workshop. There was a cystern under here and the church building had ben built on top of another church that had a caveron under it. This caveron is where it was sead to have bean. There also was a place in the old church to be baptized being sumersed compleatly. Whall we were in this basment under the church Teeto and Deno gave us information reagrding the place and the terditions around this place.

One other stop was a moderan church that had ben built on top of the original one here in Nazereth. It had a mosac of Mary from every countery. Each of the counterys donated funds and had the Mary from there couture represented on the walls sround this building. It was intersting to see thes and what the differnt coultures think and see some of there coultur from the sculptures. Under neath this church you could goin and see the arches and structure at the leavel where the church was origonaly. When were were here ther was a worship service going on at the time and we stood and lisond and wached them as thay sang chants and did there worship in the roiginal ston seets from the erlear church. This was realy neet.

Then we went up on top of a mounton that overlooked the hole city. Bother old and new. From this view you could also see Tm. Tumbar and the valy from the medaterain sea at Halfu. This is the Yizae’el velley. From here we could see off in the distance where the Philisteen battal took place. Also off in the distance was a tell of Megeto. This place on top of the overlook was a very speshal spot for me and realy helped a lot in context to so many things that hapend in the Bible.

From here we drove down in to the valley and had lunch at a restrant in side a small groshery store. Here many people started going crosey when thay found some Docter Peper.

Folowing lunch we drove to Megeto and took aout an hower touring the tell. This was realy neet to visit after having taken Biblical world and Arcdeology with Dr. Mannor. There we looked at a modle of the site and then toured the site. We started at the city gates and then whent throu reading scriptures at diferent places along the way. One of the stopes along the way at an acent cyclo that was baried in ground. It had stones steps that went down into the store room and the other set of stairs came back out on the other side.

Next we went and walcked down the ancent tunal down into the ssystrn through a wunder gound tunal to the out side of the city wall where the spring was located. Thay had also built a wall to keep the enomey in ancent times from being able to see that thay were gitting watter. This would also act as protection from people entering the city from the watter tunal.

From here we travled to Harids old port city of Sessareea. Hre we got out and went through th eMideveal draw gbrige gate to Harids old city. We read some scripture related to this place and then took a walck along the bord walck whre the sea was splashing over. Next we saw the stone that like and prvs that he had lived. Folowing that we went pasted the hipodrome to the coloseam and then on to the bus. One of the intersting things that was so inpressing was the man made port that had ben constructed out in the sea here. It had ben constructed with wooden barges that had a type of concreet put in it and as it got ever it would sink down into the sea. It potrueded out into the sea and was of a monstrosidy in size. Today there is still little that exist the rest has sence sunk and is only visible form the air or if you go diving here.

From here we travled on to Jeruslem. When we arived at the Hotell we got our rooms and then went to supper. The rest of the night I spen time wrighting till I ran out of ink. Then I sent to bed for the night.

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