On the way to the Negev

Spent the morning exploring Jaffa. This, for you bibliophiles, is the ancient city of Joppa. This is where Johah went to catch a ship to Tarshish when he was supposed to go to Nineveh. This was also the place where Peter has his vision of the animals in the sheet.

Started the morning early. Called at 5:30. Now you will ask why so early? Well actually it was at 6:30 but Israel is on daylight saving so they are an hour later than we are. So ZA time it was 5:30.

First stop was Beit Immanuel. It is a CMJ ministry site in Jaffa. We listened to a talk on the history of the place which is very German. I recorded this talk but mobile blogging has its limitations and a 100MB audio file would be expensive to upload. There is a beautiful church there.


CMJ has a great ministry to the Jews here and we were told that the attitude of Jews to their Messianic brethern is changing. This is very good news!

From there we went to the traditional site where Simon the Tanner lived. Yes, it was his house where Peter had the vision.



We are now on our way to the Negev. Passed a few Phillistine cities, notably Ashdod. Check your concordance or appropriate software.

The next Phillistine city is Ashkelon


Not much to see but that's what happens when you ride past quickly in a bus!

More to blog later. After we actually stop!

-- Post From My iPhone

Location:Rishon LeZion,Israel