Our mornings begin with a gathering in the hotel lobby after breakfast for our assignments for the day. On this day, I was sent to the ministry's safe house, where we helped cook a large meal, to be delivered and served later in Tel Aviv to hundreds of refugees from Ethiopia, Sudan, and Eritrea.
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| The Safe House kitchen |
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| Lunch at the Safe House |
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| The Safe House is in East Jerusalem, and overlooks a new settlement; which the government has suspended building due to pressure from the United States and the international community |
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| The West Bank wall in the distance |
The refugees were all men, and they lived in a park in Tel Aviv. The ministry serves them four dinners per week, and another group serves them breakfast. It was heartbreaking... men without a country. Tony, our leader, helped bandage the leg of a man who was wounded while escaping across Egypt.
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| Preparing to treat a wounded man in Tel Aviv |
We were gone all day, and got back to our hotel pretty late and pretty tired. Gordon was also tired from installing outdoor carpet all day.
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| Installing outdoor carpet on the rooftop terrace at Jerusalem Assembly |
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| Sunset while enroute back to Jerusalem |
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| Snack stop with Tony |
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