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Christ Church Guest House



During our stay in Jerusalem we stayed in the old City at the Christ Church Guest house, it is part of Christ Church which is the oldest Protestant Church in the Middle East.  The location was great, service was great(actually it was manned by a team of 10-15 volunteers), lack of A/C was just fine with me.  This Guest House is a form of ministry used to be able to house short and long term missionaries to Jerusalem and one night I got to talking to two men in their mid 50's.  I was sitting near them doing some writing in my Journal and they struck up a conversation.  One man worked for an NGO in Palestine to outfit disabled children with wheelchairs.  He was accompanied by a full time missionary who started telling me about some of the amazing experiences the Lord has used him in.  The one that sticks in my heard(I am writing this a week after) was as we were talking about boldness and how the Lord allowed him to talk to two Palestinian women and how they are both following Christ today.  These are the people that I enjoy spending my time with and I love to see how the Lord is using them to redeem his kingdom.


This cat lived at Christ Church and was a handful, every meal it
would try to eat you food when you were not looking.
Sneaky little thing.

All is Great in the Lord

Paul Shackelford

More Photos from our entire trip: https://plus.google.com/photos/102484709808402381964/albums/5664263551425737985
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