Hey everyone! I figured that I should make one last post from Israel. I have had a great experience and have been extremely blessed by the program and how so many people continue to encourage and support me as I prepare for ministry. Here is a picture from a while back when we were in Petra. Here is what I am up to for the next few weeks. Tomorrow morning I will take my last final exam and on Friday morning I leave on a bus for Egypt where I will spend a week seeing Mt. Sinai, Cairo and the temples in Luxor. When I return I will spend a week volunteering at a Christian ministry in Nazareth called Nazareth Village. It is a reenactment village that allows tourists to see and experience what life in the first century would have been like. I am not exactly sure what I will be doing but it will probably involve some type of maintenance on the buildings and grounds. After a week in Nazareth I will return to the States and begin work as a Chaplain at Cook Forest and Clear Creek State Parks in Pennsylvania. I will also be taking a few classes over the summer and doing a lot of studying and sermon preparation as I will be giving a message each Sunday in the two different parks. Thank you all for reading along with me. I will probably still post thoughts and pictures here from time to time so you may want to stop back in a month or so.

Grace and Peace to all of you!