Journey to Israel

by Clesha Staten

Shalom!  This past January I had the opportunity to travel to Israel with a small group of few seminarians.  It was actually for a class, The Holy Land Tour, led by our Old Testament professor Dr. Itapson.  The journey was awesome, inspiring, exhausting, exhilarating, and all those other adjectives you use when you try to describe an experience that is just beyond words.  I am late getting this post up because there was just so much I experienced that I didn’t know where to start.  So, I decided to tell of this journey in a different way.  I’m going to let the images speak for me. 

Over the next week I will take you day by day on my travels through Israel.  There will be a blurb here and there, but I will let the photos tell the story.  Some classmates were kind enough to their images so I will have thousands of photos to choose from to make this journey interesting.

I’ll meet you in the Holy Land!

 

Group shot

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