June 3, 2001

Pentecost! We both led worship at the early service at First Presbyterian Church of Wilmette (our most recent American stomping grounds), though Elizabeth had to skip out on the later service. It was good to preach a nice, full sermon again, particularly in the church community where we had grown to form our ministry to the Middle East.

A robust crowd at First Presbyterian Church of Wilmette.

We gave a program that night at the same church on our work in Zababdeh, and close to 200 people came (including one from Zababdeh), many of whom we had never laid eyes on before! That was kind of cool. We were pretty wiped out, but people didn't seem to notice (maybe they had jetlag, too).

News came this morning about the terrorist bombing in Tel Aviv, which gave our work and our talk a certain urgency.