Visit the Holy Land, Israel

One of the most heart warming greetings I heard when Ken and I visited Israel in Nov 2003 was "Welcome home!"

Another very beautiful gesture we received was we each received a certificate of welcome from the Tourism Minister of Israel with our names written on it ...

you know, we being Chinese, some of our first name and last name are just the other way round from the westerners ... and to us it may seem rather awkward for some to have their names written the other way round ... as the first name became the family name ... I truly appreciated ever so deeply they bothered to have the whole 3 coach-loads of us ... our names arranged in the proper order and have the certificate of welcome reprinted and given to us before our departure back to our own land...

more importantly what touched my heart and I am sure the hearts of fellow travellers was, the people there were so happy we came ... we met some of them at the shopping mall and they came over with tears of joy in their eyes telling some of us that we were one of the first batch of tourists that arrived after the Sep 11 event ... which indeed hurt their Israel's industry ever so badly ...

to be very honest, I was looking forward to going there ...to see the land where Jesus walked and to literally experience the Bible places coming to life before my eyes ...

there were also some concerns among the people ... however, as one of our church leaders who went after us, shared on Israeli TV when he was interviewed on why our church arranged the trip when everyone avoided travelling there, and I fully agreed with him, and it was : In Psalm 91 Abba protects all of us ... in the shadow of His Wings... the safest place on earth is not even at home but indeed under His wings of protection.

we had a total of about 16 batches of 3 coach loads that went there 2003 which stretched to Feb 2004 ... and Ken and I joined the first batch there ...

I take great delight to share with you my slides and I do hope too that
once in a lifetime, you may visit this beautiful land ... where the greatest Man ever lived and walked, died and rose again!

I would like to share this slideshow with you ... from my own simple, humble, personal photo album ...

Ken's album is more professional as he took with negatives
and slides and SLR camera with interchangeable lens ...
and he picked some of the best pictures and
got them published in his book "The Eden Experience" ...
you may order from SKSbooks.com a
Singapore distributor for the book which handles international
delivery.

Alternatively, you may email him directly at fineflourproduction@yahoo.com.sg