Holy Land Trip (Jerusalem)

Things continue to be going great for our team and our Holy Land trip.
We’ve spent the last two days in and around the city of Jerusalem.

Highlights from Monday, March 16:
We began the day in Jerusalem at the Mount of Olives and walked down to visit the Garden of Gethsemane.
After visiting Mt Zion and the house of Caiaphas (where Peter denied Christ on the night of his arrest), we left for the town of Bethlehem.
In the afternoon, we toured Bethlehem, the town where Christ was born.
The Church of the Nativity is the place where our Savior Jesus Christ was born.
The entrance into the church is a small opening that makes nearly everyone have to stoop to enter. This is the very appropriate for a church remembering the ultimate act of humility by Christ (coming to live among us on the earth).

Highlights from Tuesday, March 17:
The entire day was spent in the Old City of Jerusalem.
We began the day at the Western Wall (the last remaining part of the Temple).
We were also able to see the Dome of the Rock (now controlled by the Muslims).
For a good bit of the day, we traveled along the Via Dolorosa (the path Jesus is believed to have traveled on the day of His crucifixion).
The Via Dolorosa ended with two possible locations of Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection. One is the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.
We ended our day at the site many protestants believe is the site of the death, burial and resurrection of Christ.
It is called the Garden Tomb. This site was not discovered until the late 1800s.
Our group took the Lord’s Supper together in the Garden Tomb. It was a great end to a great day!
Tomorrow, we will leave Jerusalem and travel north to Mt Tabor and Tiberias.

In Him,
Greg Herriford