Phillips Craig and Dean in Israel

March 23, 2009, 8:29 pm
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PCD and over 120 people from Minnesota converged on the Holy Land for a 7-day journey. We will never be the same.

We wanted not to pass through these sacred places, we wanted the sacred places to pass through us. And they did.

None of us had ever been to the place where Jesus was born; The place where the names of the cities and the people that learned about in Sunday School. Yet there we were.

We led worship from a boat in the middle of the Sea of Galilee. We led worship from the southern steps going to the entrance of the Temple where Jesus walked. We led worship in Golgotha- looking right at the tomb where Jesus was buried and rose again!

We have sung our songs in many places all over the world, but never has anything been more impacting than worshipping in Israel. Songs like “Crucified with Christ” – looking at Golgotha; “Mercy Came Running”- from the steps leading up to the Temple where sacrifices were performed to cleanse sins. Then singing hymns like “Spirit of the Living God, fall fresh on us” standing in the Upper Room. It was just so emotional and life changing.

For a day-to-day blogging of our daily PCD/Israel journey go to www.promiselandwest.com. Here are pictures from our trip: