Jonny Billitt in Israel pt3

Today: March 11, 2010

Jonny Billitt in Israel pt3

Tag: Life In Israel

Posted: Wed 3rd March 2010 11.06 AM | Author: Jonny Billitt

The second semester is now upon us, we started it all of with a revisit to Biblical Tamar to help the site volunteers, Derek and Kate. We were preparing for 50 guests from the states who were coming to stay in exchange for some excellent cooking! We hade a blessed time of fellowship with them and we were lucky enough to meet a Holocaust survivor who was also staying with them during our stay, which as you can imagine made some very interesting conversation.

Additionally we have also Just returned from volunteering at the mid-year messianic student conference where we helped in the kitchen, cooking for around 120 young Israelis who met together for fellowship. It was a wonderful event to be a part of, situated just outside of Tel Aviv. The event was blessed with some wonderful weather and we were able to connect with many believers and encourage one another especially those away from family.

The first week of college has begun and the heavens have also opened over Jerusalem. Which is such a blessing despite the cold and wet! There were reports that at the Jerusalem market, it erupted in cheers as the rain began to fall! Jerusalem surprisingly receives the same level as annual rain fall as London, it just tends to come all at once as it seems to be doing at them moment! But the rest of the country isn’t as fortunate as the dead sea resides around one meter every year and the Galilee also, despite recently rising a meter, is many more meters below a good level. So the rain truly is a blessing here despite the cold that follows it!

Classes this Semester are covering some fantastic subjects; Biblical Hebrew is getting to the more in depth areas, we are also looking at Gods covenants with man despite the fallen world in which we live, also a modern history of Israel, looking at the miracle of Israel's re-birth and survival over the last 60 years and we are covering the backgrounds in which the New Testament was written. All of which are fantastic subjects so I’ll look forward to updating you all as to how they go, as well as what Jerusalem is like during some fantastic Jewish Festivals this Term. 

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