Sorry I know I keep writing about my trip to Israel...I can't help it!

So yesterday I had a conference call with CIC, ICEJ and the other 5 scholarship winners. It was good because we got to find out a little about each other and what our trip is going to be like. There are four guys and just two girls. I was really glad when the other girl joined the call because I was thinking that I was the only girl for a while.

The 6 of us are going to be a part of a larger group of 50 people from 6 different countries. We are the only from Canada. There are a bunch from the States, Finland, UK, South Africa and New Zealand. It's awesome that we get to meet people from other places as well.

So we get to visit quite a few of the Holy sites, we'll be taking lectures, visiting the government, visiting a children's home, gardening at a hospital, visiting with some Arab families, and running a children's program in the Old City. We'll also be working with the municipal doing some cleanup, visiting an Ethiopian family, going to a home for altzhemeir patients and we'll also be visiting people who were injured in terrorist attacks. For the more relaxed things we'll be doing is swimming in the dead sea, riding camels into the desert to a bedouin oasis and staying there the night, we'll also be having time for ministry to us, times of worship, devotions and bible studies. It sounds like we're going to be crazy busy. I'm going to be exhausted when I return.

I'm really excited. Everyone that I have spoken to says that going to Israel will change your life forever. Even on the conference call they said that. I thank God for this opportunity. I still can't believe that I'm going in 24 days!!!