ISRAEL - Part 7 "Part Two" from headquarters.

Got this from headquarters on Monday. Love it!

Building Bridges, Not Walls Above is a picture of Hunter Lambeth, area developer for Young Life in the Middle East, spending time with these boys at the Separation Wall in Bethlehem. (The wall, constructed to separate Israel from the West Bank, can reach 26 feet high in certain parts and, when completed, will be at least 400 miles long.) Hunter writes, "I just felt compelled to go up and talk to these guys. We talked briefly about the sadness of the wall — that it divides people — and the hope that one day it might come down and there would be true peace between the PEOPLE of Israel and Palestine. These guys are not involved in Young Life, however, we do have Young Life Capernaum ministry in the city of Bethlehem (as well as Young Life in Nazareth and the Northern West Bank.) "We love to use and quote the verse Ephesians 2:14 when thinking about this modern wall," Hunter said. "The Message translation is particularly poignant: 'The Messiah has made things up between us so that we're now together on this, both non-Jewish outsiders and Jewish insiders. He tore down the wall we used to keep each other at a distance. He repealed the law code that had become so clogged with fine print and footnotes that it hindered more than it helped. Then he started over. Instead of continuing with two groups of people separated by centuries of animosity and suspicion, he created a new kind of human being, a fresh start for everybody.'" Thank you to Hunter and his wife, Lauri, for sharing this great photo and message!