Well, where do I start?! This weekend we all had the chance to help a local Messianic Church volunteer at an all girls Jewish orphanage. At first I really had no idea what we were getting into, the only thing I was told was that we'd be going to work in the garden at the orphanage. I never truly thought about the affect it would have on me. I've volunteered many time s before at a numerous amount of places, but as we were in the hot sun, ripping out bushes, picking up garbage and cleaning out a small lot for an actual garden...it was just so rewarding! As the work continued many girls would come op to us saying "Toda!" Hebrew for thank you. A group of girls around the age of 13, came up to me while I was picking up some garbage, and simply asked if I was getting paid for the work I was doing. When I told them no, they had the most confused expression on their faces. One girl finally got enough courage to ask why I was doing it...now you must understand that before we set out to do our work, we were told that we couldn't be the "Great American Evangelist..." The Messianic community has been working so hard to have some type of relationship with the Jewish community, that we just simply couldn't go around being extremely flamboyant about our faith and then ruin all the work the church has been doing. So when asked such a simple question, the only thing I could say was that we were just here to help them...all because I just wanted to...they were so happy, yet astounded.
As we continued our work, a man that runs the orphanage came up to my friend Mandy and I...and just started talking to us. He wanted to know why we were in Israel, what made us decide to help out..and finally how happy he was that we came. He thought my friend and I were around 25 years old, only because wee were so eager to help that he couldn't fathom the fact that young adults around the ages of 18-21 were actually wanting to help someone that they didn't even know! He asked if we would have time to come back because all the work that we were able to do in that one day, took a company the hired a month. i am hoping that if we do have time that we could go back because I really did have a great time, and just being able to help brought such a joy to my heart.
After we did that on Saturday...there really wasn't much left for the weekend, except free time!! We used that time to basically just go down to the market, and get some shopping done, and that's about it.
Today we went down to the Old City in Jerusalem...it was really just a review day. We went back to the Upper Room, on the roof, to get a good view for pictures, and then basically went over the history of Israel.
But tomorrow we're going to Bethlehem...and I cannot wait!!!!
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