Halloween 2018

Trunk-or-treating at church 

Trick-or-treating at Ramstein with Isaiah

and ran into Allen

Isaiah is Donald Trump

Burg Lichtenburg with Mimzy and PopPop

Our little village throws a party in October and brings in a carrousel. 

Then the young people dress up and go door to door 

asking for donations towards the city.

Ryan smoked us

Jerusalem Day 4

On our last day, we walked through the Old City again and went to Bethesda 

and then took a bus to the Israel Museum.  

 We also revisited some of our favorite sites and tried to soak it all in.

This has always been my dream to come here and it exceeded expectations.  

Everything about this place makes the scriptures come alive and brings you closer to Christ.

Church for the traditional site of the birth of Mary

Traditional site of the way Christ took his cross

Chapel of the presentation

Chapel of the flagellation

Actual Bethesda site, some additions through the century

 Many came to the pools of Bethesda to be healed.  Jesus healed a lame man on the Sabbath.  

Many sites in the Old City are guessed but this is a place we know.  

John 5:2-16

The Museum of Israel

Pot that kept the Dead Sea scrolls

A portion of the Scrolls

Canaanite storage pots

God's and statues of Philistines found it a pit, put there by Jewish tribe

Oldest known reference to king David

Calf idol dated 1200 BC found in Judea area

The holy of holies part of a temple 

Herod's mausoleum items

Oldest copy of an Old Testament text

Earlier fonts in the Byzantine era could be used for immersion. 

Caiaphas's ossuary

Reference to Pontiac Pilot from Caesarea

Nail through Calcaneus for crucifixion