This was our day to visit ministry partners in Bethlehem, West Bank in Palestine. We started the day by first shopping for just an hour on our way to our first ministry visit. The president/founder of the International Center of Bethlehem (ICB) is Dr. Mitri Raheb. He is also a SAT-7 board members. The ICB is a Lutheran based ministry serving the whole Palestinian comunity "from womb to the tomb" with an emphasis of children, youth and women. At ICB they are producing programs for SAT-7 and will be producing more programs in the coming year. SAT-7, in airing these programs give recognition and legitimacy to the Palestinian church. The ICB has many departments like schools, media, health, college, church, etc.
Our next ministry visit and lunch was Bethlehem Bible College (BBC). It was great to meet with the founding president of the college Dr. Bishara Awad. BBC has added a media department to the college and is as well producing programs for SAT-7.
From BBC we made our way, just a short distance away, to the Church of the Nativity. There were thousands of people and so the visit took some time. From there we visited the Shepards Fields and read scripture and sang together in the Shepards Manger. On the way back to the hotel we visited (drove through) the refuge camp near Bethlehem, finishing a good but long day.
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