Just a quick note. It is now Sunday, Oct 31, 10:20AM in Beersheva. In lieu of finding an English speaking congregation (we had no internet until now & there's not much English in this town, far from the more tourista places like Galilee & Jerusalem) we had our own worship time in the hotel room. Cindy picked songs, then we studied the various references to Beersheba in scripture ... primarily the home of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob of course. Then sang some more. As I left the room to go to the Business Lounge where I could have internat the guy next door to us, a Londoner, came out and told us how he appreciated our singing. I told him we wished there had been a way we could have known that he, another believer, was there because we longed for fellowship beyond our own 2 selves.

Yesterday was long. At Colombo airport at 2AM, 3 hrs early, so we could get through security and sit for 2 hours. :( Left at 6A (20 min late), arrived Amman just in time to leap chairs and other obstacles to get to our short flight to Tel Aviv. Picked up the car and began the drive to Beersheba ... only about 90 kilometers, but we drove in a relaxed manner (after the life-threatening practice they call driving in Sri Lanka) and also enjoyed a stop at the first McDonalds we saw. Went to bed early (of course; 3 1/2 hrs diff between SL and Israel so some jet lag issues).

We included a wonderful time of prayer for our family, our church family, and others we have been keeping up with on our journeys. Today we hope to see Tel Beersheba, which I understand is a dig that goes back pretty near the time of Abraham. Then relax some more. That's supposed to be the main theme for these last days.

God bless!