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Another building at Petra

The Treasury @ Petra

Petra

If you're poor, you only get the goat's head. You boil it and eat it for breakfast

Very recently slaughtered goats hanging in the market...dinner anyone?

180,000 shards of broken glass =number of Kurds killed by Sadam. 5,000 lights = number of villages destroyed by Sadam.

More at the museum
Part of the Kurdish Museum dipicting Sadam's atrocities.

Where Al was asked to be the pastor.

The beach @ Aqaba.

Jordanian women at a class at the Alliance Life Center.

Giddy-up.

Aqaba Jordan

Where King David had Bathsheba's husband killed.

Amman Jordan

Al just returned from 2 weeks in the Middle East. He and 3 other guys from our church went to Jordan and Iraq to encourage the missionaries and visit some community centers. In Jordan, the team spent time in Amman and then the coastal resort of Aqaba. The community centers are doing a great job of reaching out and meeting the needs of their neighborhoods, something we want to do with our center here in Salem. After a week in Jordan, Al and the guys flew to Kurdistan Iraq. While there, Al had the privilege of preaching at the International Church. He preached from Ephesians and got wonderful feedback from the congregation. They even asked him to be their pastor. A great compliment...but no thank you. The noise and the dirt and the lonliness of being away from family was a clear indication to Al that he is NOT called to the mission field. God bless those that are. They serve Christ with incredible strength & determination. On their return to Jordon, the guys got to travel to Petra to see the amazing city that is carved into the canyons there. Al said that the structures were more impressive than the pyramids, and that's saying something. All in all his trip was wonderful. But he and I are glad he's home.