The past week has been a real busy one for all of us here at Shevel, with the three powerful German girls on a vacation. We spent most of Friday sleeping and resting in our bunk bed. Saturday, we packed some cheese pitas, watermelon and grapes in our backpack and took a little bike tour to the beach. It is Shabbat, we saw many Jews walking to synagogues on the way. They cannot drive so walk always.

Mediterranean Sea in 30 minutes!

The water was clear and much warmer than that in California. We saw many cars parked in the beach parking, so those people apparently do not observe Shabbat.

The dry season continues until the end of fall (November) in Israel, and we get easily dehydrated. We needed to make a couple water stops during the 30 minutes going home. Water is life, really!

Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

John 4:13-14