Sitting on Mount Zion, looking at the story of Abraham's sacrifice of his son with a whole new perspective.

On the streets of Mount Zion.

At the traditional site of the last supper...

it was reenacted.  Cory washes the feet of the "disciples."

Brittany stands under a beautiful window.

The "disciples" James, John, Peter, and Matthew in the Upper Room.

Overlooking Hezekiah's Broad Wall.

Praus and Daniel in the Jewish Quarter.

Reading from Nehemiah at the Water Gate.

Ashley prepares for Hezekiah's Tunnel.

Down the shaft...

into the tunnel.  Lindy, Ashley, Noel, Sara, and John.

Molly is in the 1,752 foot long tunnel under the City of David.

Lindy exiting the tunnel.

Deborah "slipped" into the Pool of Siloam.

Standing on pillars that supported a Byzantine church around the Pool of Siloam.

At the Biblical Pool of Siloam excavations.

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Noel on the steps of the pool.

Ashley, Molly, Karen, Cassie, and Jenessa.

The boys illustrate how to lay in a OT tomb.

In their own words:

Just imagining the men who dug Hezekiah’s tunnel baffles me!  The hours it must have taken them to dig in such a confined area over 1,752 feet of work is truly amazing.  Also, to see the probable locations of David’s and Solomon’s tomb is sobering, but I would have expected it to be much bigger.  Finding out that the Israelites built their wall around the City of David in 52 days is crazy!  I am constantly appreciating Jerusalem more and more.

-Jared Ebner

The rich history behind each object, ranging from the massive stones at the base of the walls to the smallest motifs found in an ancient grave, simply blew my mind away.  As the layers of history were peeled away as we walked by, I couldn’t help but try to envision how this city must have looked in its glorious past.  The way God’s sovereign plan for this city worked out through history was greatly impressed upon me.

-Praus Nichols

Having spent my entire existence in a country whose history is only a little over 200 years old, it was incredible to walk through paths so saturated in history and culture.  Not only was this the land of countless wars and events that shaped the world today, but it was the land that the most important event in history took place, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

-Daniel Robison