Hey from Palestine to eveybody following us on our adventure!
Today we woke up at our Palesinian families homes, then met up for our devotional. Great devotional from Hannah and then we were off to a Palestinian refugee camp. The living conditions were much better then I expected; running water, plumbing, electricity, phone, etc. We saw some of the first shelters built in the 50's which were pretty brutal, but not the current housing.
Next we visited "Solomons Pools" which were built by King Herod and allowed water to "naturally flow uphill"(figure that one out.) They were pretty huge but kinda boring.
We soon found ourselves on the bus to the "Tent of Nations" which is a farm run by a Palestinian individual who is living on a piece of land which is hotly saught after by Israli settlers. He has been all the way to the Supreme Court to fight for his piece of land. Luckly he has all the documents for it from way way back (unfortunately this is a luxory not many Palestinians have.) This farm is used during the summer break as a summer camp for many palestinian children, his focus during these camps is education with a twist. He mentioned the education system here makes people really good at memorizing but not critical thinking, so he spends his time allowing the children to be creative and learn in a different way. This was a great experience to get a point of view on the situation which was completely different from what we have been hearing on the trip. His views focused on a sort of re-education for both Palestinians and Isralis, I really liked his views on education.
It kinda hit me here that even though Israli's and Palestinians live in close proximity they really have very very little to do with eachother and ultimately don't know much about each other. It seems to be a bit of a situation where both sides have a fear of the unknown.
After this insightful visit we went to the "Church of the Nativity" and were in the cave Jesus was born (99% sure on the location.) There were tons of tourists here. We got a bunch of history lessons on the church and it was all good.
Hope everybody back home is doing good and thanks for your prayers.
Yella 2010 Group
The views expressed in this post are by Sean Froese and may not reflect the views of the Yella 2010 group. Reader discretion is advised.
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