The weather is cooling down a lot here in these last couple weeks.  Usually when we go to the vineyard, we wake up really early and work the whole day. The past couple of times we have done this, we actually started out wearing light jackets, but by lunchtime it gets pretty hot.  When we are in the vineyard, we  wear lots of sunscreen. 

Thank you all for your continued prayers while I am here and I love to get emails so anytime you don't have anything pressing, feel free to drop me a note and I will write back. I love all you guys and can't wait to share with you when I come home.  

          Dad and I went to Israel for two weeks to join Meghan, the Waller family and others in helping a local farmer, Nir, with his grape harvest on Har Brochah, the Mountain of Blessing, also known as Mount Girizim.

              We actually only picked two of the days we were there.  The first day we picked a ton and the second time, with some help from a group from a local German community, we picked over five tons.

            The rest of the time we visited many Biblical sites such as Shiloh, Shechem, the Dead Sea, En Ghedi, and the Mount of Olives where we were able to look out over the city of Jerusalem and see the Golden Gate to which scripture says Jesus will return.  We also went to the Wailing Wall and were able to pray alongside some of the Jewish people, rode on a boat on the Sea of Galilee and had a time of singing and worship. We visited a Holocaust museum and talked with survivors and had a worship service in an olive grove with an Arab believer.