Our second day in Israel ended with a story that needs to be told rather than read. It’s the last thing our friend Adi (see previous post) shared with us before we parted ways. I’ve retold it on the video below. I hope it’s worth 2 minutes of your time.

What does 15 seconds look like? [...]

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“You have 15 seconds to find shelter or face potential death”
As we entered Sderot, Israel, we were given this stern warning. We were also to keep the car window’s down partway to listen for the sirens and the haunting call of “Tseva Adom”, Hebrew for “Code Red”. If the peace in the city was broken, [...]

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My friend Gunnar is a tribe leader in the area of Stewardship. He is the Executive Stewardship Pastor for Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas. We’ve been friends for several years now.
Gateway is looking at taking the message of stewardship to their partners globally. They wanted to start in Israel and was curious to see if [...]

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To describe everything that happened in my recent trip to Israel…at least not in one post.
So, to do them justice I will spread out the tale in a few posts.
As a quick glimpse we ministered to victims of terrorist attacks; were within sniper distance of the Gaza Strip; traveled with the leaders of a volunteer [...]

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For the last few days I’ve been off the grid.
Almost literally. I’ve been on one of the Westernmost parts of the US, on the Oregon coast a little bit West of Portland. My great aunt has a house right on the beach. It’s one of those sentinel houses that stands guard over redundant path the [...]

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