April 14 (Leah's)

 

This morning we were invited to Beshara’s and Lubna’s house for Easter breakfast, along with the two girls from YWAM Holland. What a meal! We joined Beshara’s three daughters and his father and Lubna for a delicious meal. There was cheeses, olives, tomatoes, cucumbers, tea, coffee, boiled eggs, an Arab type of cream cheese and these amazing circle breads with anise seed, that they made! They were so good! We had good talks with everyone, even Beshara’s father, who is a really funny man. There is a game they play at Easter with the eggs where two people each have an egg and they try to hit the other person's egg, and the person whose egg breaks first is the loser. Spencer was challenge to play by the grandfather. The grandfather won, and he displayed his win with his toothless grin. They also brought out these sweet-cake-cookies that symbolize the crown of thorns and the sponge they gave to Jesus on the Cross. At this point I was so full I couldn’t imagine going prayer walking, which we had planned for after breakfast.

Beshara, us, Liz and Pricsil (the two girls from YWAM Holland) went prayer walking through the old city of Nazareth. It was quite spiritually draining, as it is a very oppressive place. You have deceived Greek Orthodox, Catholics, Muslims, and Jews in the area. We stopped at different places and prayed out loud, but we also walked and prayed silently. We stopped in a poor area where one day Beshara wants to start a church and ministry. We also stopped at the Synagogue where Jesus is said to have preached and then they brought Him up to the mountain where they tried to push him off. We also went there, and we seen an amazing view of the city. We could even see as far as Haifa. We spent about 3 hours walking around the old city.

Beshara dropped us off around 2:30 and Spencer and I had a light lunch. I opted for a shower and resting, and Spencer worked out. Tomorrow we will celebrate Easter Sunday with the Church, and we don’t have too many plans afterwards. Hopefully we will hangout with Beshara and his family. The rest of the evening we watched a movie and looked at pictures on our computer, reminiscing of fond memories!