We visited the Lighthouse Distribution Center of CFI (Christian Friends of Israel) where we volunteered a few months several years ago. They have a big ministry blessing Israel by helping the new immigrants to Israel, providing clothes and start up packages for families who often come here with only one suitcase. Right now many immigrants are Jews from Crimea and Ukraine.
We had lunch with some friends from our volunteer days. Pictured with Charles are Maggie from Taiwan, Roccio from Peru, and Linda from Texas.
After lunch we walked more and more blocks to visit another group, Shevet Achim whose ministry is facilitating heart surgeries for Muslim children from Iraq, Gaza, Syria, and other troubled areas. We were welcomed by the founder Jonathan and by Christina, a nurse from California who volunteers there.
On our way home we rode the light rail train to the Damascus Gate of the Old City and walked more blocks through the Arab Quarter with its hundreds and hundreds of little shops selling every imaginable item from spices to bras. A local lady on the train told us that earlier today a van deliberately ran into a crowd near a train station killing one policeman but we weren't ever aware of it. Later on CNN we saw the video of the crime. The Hamas leadership in Gaza praised the man who did the deed (who was "eliminated" by police).
You may have also heard about trouble on the Temple Mount. Just to clarify---that is the raised area up above the Western Wall where the Muslim Dome of the Rock is located and we don't go up there any more because of that very thing.
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