This year, on September 26th, I joined a group of about 30 Rock Church leaders on a prayer tour to Israel. We visited biblical sites and engaged in typical tourist activities. Then, in the early hours of October 7th at 1:30am, we left our hotel, beginning our 27-hour journey back home.
As we prepared for takeoff in Tel Aviv, people on the plane started to get text messages that Israel was under attack. Some reported seeing smoke in the air from the windows of the airplane. We were shaken up but were allowed to take off on time (30 minutes after the bombing began).
By now, you’ve probably seen the tragedies of what is happening in the Middle East unfold. You’ve probably seen that Hamas attacked Israeli citizens and took hostages, that Israel has declared war on Gaza, and that hundreds upon hundreds of people have been killed in the horror of it all.





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