One last transition

See if you can spot the guy who was
jumping off the wall into the sea!

This is a side view of Abbu Christo

Well, we're in Magdala now. We haven't had much time to update the blog but this afternoon we have a couple of free hours to do that. On Saturday, Jason and his family picked us up and took us to Akko, which is a historic crusader city with a wall and a moat. It was definitely a great end to our time in Haifa. Jordan and I can't believe we were received so well by a complete stranger. He brought us for lunch at a place called Abu Christo, where we had an amazing feast with pita, shewarma and a ton of other foods. The restaurant was actually ON the ancient city wall, which is built INTO the sea. So awesome.

Here are some pics from our last day in Haifa and Akko. Definitely going to miss these wonderful people!

Jason drove us to Tiberias after that meal and we met up with Rosaura from the University of Anahuac (in Mexico City.) They are in charge of the dig at Magdala, so we'll be staying with them for the rest of our time here in Israel. The place where we are staying is a refurbished Catholic Church that now serves as dorm rooms for the volunteers that come to dig. There are 5 bunks (10 beds) in our small room of about 25'x25' (yikes.) The next day, we visited Jericho, and Jerusalem one last time.

 Because the Catholic Church is sponsoring the dig, they hosted us for lunch in some sort of hotel/restaurant that belongs to the Vatican. We split from the group and took to the old city by foot one last time, and in the afternoon went to the self-proclaimed "oldest protestant church in Jerusalem." They were having a Bible study in an upper room by the Jaffa Gate. It was such a surreal experience to read from the scriptures with a group of about 20 in a small upper room much like the first Christians did!

For God so loved the world that HE gave His one and only Son, so that whosoever believes in Him, shall not perish but have everlasting life!


Keep Jordan and I in your prayers! We will definitely be needing that these next few days as we wrap up our time here.