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Day 2 & 3: Israel

by Wes Bridel on May 25, 2009

in Israel

This might be my last live mission trip update.  The Calling posts were scheduled before we left, so those will continue, but we’ve managed to blow up two adaptars (mine and the friend next to me)…I don’t really want to ask to bother another one.  Due to the limited time we get for sleep, that [...]

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This has been a rough day.  Hardly anyone slept on the plane two nights ago and some of us only got a few hours of sleep last night.  Another group arrived in the middle of the night making quite a ruckus.  But although exhausted, it was a beautiful day.  Normally on a trip like this, [...]

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Back in The Land!

by Wes Bridel on May 22, 2009

in Israel

We are in the Land!  This will be short as I’m past curfew and must get up in 6 hours, but I wanted to throw up a quick update on the scene here.  Today was an arrival day so we spent much of the day in airports.  Kara and I didn’t get more than an [...]

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Is Israel an Ongoing Picture of Jesus?

by Wes Bridel on May 21, 2009

in Israel

Depending when you read this,  our team may already be in “the Land” of Israel!  As we’ve been doing for the past several days, we wanted to share a little information about our Faith that many in the American Church are never exposed to. I (Wes), plan to update the blog daily from Israel if [...]

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Can a Country Be Born in a Day?

by Wes Bridel on May 20, 2009

in Israel

The following is an email our team received last week from our team leader when he arrived in Israel.  As we prepare for this coming mission trip back to “the Land” of Israel, we wanted to spend a couple days sharing more about the Jewish roots of our Faith.  Soon we’ll begin giving you live [...]

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As we prepare for this coming mission trip back to “the Land” of Israel, we wanted to give a little bit more insight into this trip.  We leave tomorrow, and today wanted to share some more about the Jewish roots of our Faith.
Kara and I have in the last two weeks begun to keep the [...]

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Jesus was the First-Fruit Offering

by Wes Bridel on May 18, 2009

in Israel

The following is an email our team received on April 11th from our team leader as we prepare for this coming mission trip back to “the Land” of Israel.  We leave in a couple of days for this trip, and I wanted to spend these next days sharing more about the Jewish roots of our [...]

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New Mission Trip Israel – Preparing in Mind

by Wes Bridel on May 15, 2009

in Israel

As Kara and I prepare to return to the Israel in several days, I’m prompted to think of the unrest boiling, as always, over there.
Have you ever thought about what that struggle really represents?  And who is actually battling?
“And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him [...]

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Mission Trip Israel – What I Learned

by Wes Bridel on May 14, 2009

in Israel

From this experience, I really had to learn to rest and trust in God.  I could do nothing – and everything was in His hands.  That is always the case in life, but too often I allow myself to think that I am the master of my own life, when in reality, it can all [...]

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Mission Trip Israel – The Hospital: Part 5

by Wes Bridel on May 13, 2009

in Israel

I want to say a word about the Muslims there.  About half way through they moved us from one room to a bigger one that Glenn and I shared with an older man (who had to have a body guard because he had dementia and would wander off) and with Tony, a young Muslim man.  [...]

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