LPTS Holy Land Pilgrimage 2009: Greetings from Trisha

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Twenty-two pastors are traveling together from June 18 to July 2 to the land of our faith's beginnings. We will visit, learn, pray, and reflect on the relationship between what we experience there and our vocations at home. This blog will share our day-to-day journey with our friends and family at home. We covet your prayers.Funded through the generosity of the CF Foundation of Atlanta, the pilgrimage is led by the Rev. Dr. Patricia Tull, A.B. Rhodes Professor of Old Testament at LPTS, and the Rev. Dr. David Hester, LPTS's Dean and Harrison Ray Anderson Professor of Ministry.The most recent blog entry is posted at the top. To read from the beginning of the blog, scroll to the end. Please feel free to leave comments by clicking on "comments" at the end of any entry.

Friday, May 1, 2009

Greetings from Trisha

Greetings to all our Holy Land Pilgrims and honored guests! I am Trisha Tull, the program director of Louisville Seminary's Holy Land Pastoral Renewal Program. I've been an ordained Presbyterian minister 24 years, a seminary professor 15 years, and a Middle East trip leader 13 years. This will be my ninth time in Israel. So many people dream of going there once. So I feel very privileged to bring other people, to watch them learn, breathe it in, grapple with our religious and cultural past and present, and make the connections between our worship at home and the places where it all began. I look forward not only to introducing you to places, but to people who call themselves the "living stones" who live their daily lives here. Please feel free to share this link with friends, family, parishioners. If anyone not traveling with us is interested in finding out more about our January 2011 Middle East Travel Seminar, please visit: http://www.lpts.edu/TravelSeminar/default.asp.