This past Friday, the staff at Living Stones organized a trip to Jenin and Nablus for some university students in Birzeit. We traveled through the countryside, finally reaching the village outside of Jenin where Christ healed 10 lepers. After driving through the refugee camp in Jenin we stopped for lunch at a beautiful park on one of the hills overlooking Jenin.
Upon reaching Nablus, we entered the church that sits atop Jacob's Well - the well where Christ talked to the Samaritan woman. Then we stopped to tour a Turkish bathhouse that was hundreds of years old inside the old city of Nablus.
For the students, this was a fantastic way to get outside of Birzeit, to talk about the villages where they are from, and also get exposed to Christianity. Due to the difficulties of travel in the West Bank because of the many checkpoints, several of the students had never been to Jenin. Some of the Christians students on the trip had never been to Jacob's Well. For me, it was an amazing experience to see more of this beautiful country in this budding spring season.
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