DAY SEVEN

Day Seven was the day that we started out at ICEJ - International Christian Embassy Jerusalem. We went for two lectures in the morning. The first one we had was by David Parsons. He spoke on the Great Covenants of the Bible. It was cool because we looked at the covenants God made with Israel from a different point of view - that of the Jewish people. I had never really considered what the covenants mean to the Jewish people, both the blessings and promises. The second lecture that we had was by Michael Hines. He spoke on Current Events and Intercession. His talk was looking at more than just Israel but world events and how it relates to Israel in endtimes. I found it interesting...perhaps the first time ever that I've been interested in endtimes stuff.

After the lectures and lunch we had lunch and then met with Rivka Regev. Rivka's parents are permanent residents at the Hansen Hospital, not as patients, her father was a doctor but has retired and they still live there. She is working to preserve the gardens on the site restoring them to their former glory. Hansen Hospital was build by German Moravians in the 1860s and was a leper hospital. It was originally called Jesus Hilfe. It is now called Hansen Hospital and is an outpatient clinic for those with leperousy. The gardens have been left for so long that there is a lot of work that needs to be done to restore them. It is a huge garden with many terraces. We spent the afternoon helping the gardeners who volunteer their time to the project. We were split into groups and worked on many different projects. The first one that I worked on was building walls in the compost area. That was fun because I got to use tools and didn't have to dig in the compost. After we were done that I helped with the gathering and dumping of leaves from one end of the property all the way down to the other where the compost was. The property is on a hill so it was a lot of stairs to climb. I'm glad I wasn't doing it all day! Others helped to build a pond, cleaned up rubbish and unwanted items from some of the areas of the garden, raking and weeding, and painting. It was hard work but a lot of fun.