What an intense week this has been! I will mention two reasons why. 1 – The US presidential elections It was pitch dark at 5:30 on Wednesday morning as I scrambled out of my bunk and logged on to CNN (Turkey is 7 hours ahead of EST). For the next three hours I followed, in …
Last week Janet and I celebrated our 40th. Like almost all of the 39 previous celebrations, we celebrated far from the place we were married. The journey away from Oregon and our closest friends/family began on our honeymoon and has never really stopped. Every year since we’ve been married we have celebrated our anniversary in …
This blog is different. For the past several days we’ve been back on SailingActs here in Finike, Turkey. That’s right, Janet flew back with me from my quick working visit to Virginia just last weekend for a bit of R and R following a flurry of activities at EMU over homecoming. In that time we …
Blog 7 Just this week I received the exciting news from Dr. Mark Wilson that another ancient Jewish synagogue, only the fourth one in all of Turkey, has been identified by the archeologists working in Limyra. While Paul in the Acts story, almost always goes first to the Jewish synagogue in the cities he visits, …
This week I took my long anticipated trip to south-eastern Turkey. Because Syria is not an option for the EMU Middle East cross-cultural study program this spring, we decided to bring the EMU students to the area of Turkey just north of the Syrian border. I was there to check out the current situation on …
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