June 7, 2001

Elizabeth chats with members of Covenant Presbyterian.

In addition to spending time talking to many of our supporting churches, we are also attempting to get good family time, to purchase "necessary" items (like clothing) for next year, and to fatten back up. Today was no exception as we partook of all three. We also got a chance to spend time with some folks from Lubbock's Covenant Presbyterian Church. We had visited there last summer before we left and had struck up a conversation in our first few months in Zababdeh about the possibility of pen pal relationships. Since then, the Covenant youth group has been writing letters with Marthame's 12th grade religion class.

Marthame and one of Covenant’s youth.

The youth leaders, several of the youth, and some others from the church gathered at a local coffee shop (along with the religion editor for the local newspaper, who is interviewing us tomorrow) to chat more informally about what has been happening in Zababdeh. We turned quite a few heads in the shop as we pulled out our maps of the West Bank and the newspaper's photographer stood on tables and chairs to get our picture.