Cruise Post 1 - Sunday, Aug 18

Today, we are in port at Ashdod, Israel. We've enjoyed several days on board the Noordam, a ship of the Holland America cruise line. There must have been a drop in the number of tourists who signed up for this cruise, because our cabin was upgraded. No complaints from us about this change! We've been relaxing by exercising and reading. I just finished readIng a book Doreen Lee gave me at our Bon Voyage party. The title of the book is "Rooms." It was fabulous. I think I may offer a short book study on it for New Song women.  

According to the original itinerary, we should have been in Cairo, Egypt, yesterday. Obviously, the cruise line was forced to change the itinerary as civil unrest broke out in Egypt. Today, we'll journey into Ashdod to see if we can find the site where Jonah is said to have been spit out by the whale. We've already seen the rest of the sites in Jerusalem in our previous tour.

Back at home, today is Intern Pastor Kaitlyn's last Sunday. We know this will be a tearful day for many at New Song. We pray tremendous blessings on Kaitlyn as she heads back to seminary! More in a few days.

Marta