Camp Yeshua-Part One

So, on July 10th I took off all by my self to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma for a week long Messianic camp for youths. {Youths. I hate that word. That's all the camp councelors called us. Youths. Yea, it got annoying.} I stayed with Monte Judah, and his wife. Monte Judah is the founder of Lion and Lamb ministries. Yea, I felt pretty special. Me and some one from Oregan stayed there over night and went to the camp site at around two. After getting situated { found what room I'm in, met my room mates, ect. ect.} Ephraim Judah {Son of Monte, director of camp} told the rules of the camp {After which one of his councelers would break it, like when he said "No cell phones, one of the leaders called him on his phone to complain about him being a cowboys fan.

The worship was led by a Messianic band, called Mason Clover.

All the youths {There's that word again. Man, I got to stop using that word!} were divided into the twelve tribes of Israel. I was in Judah.

Each day the 'tribes' would compete against each other in different out side games. Now keep in mind this is in Oklahoma. It didn't get under 100 degrees, and thats not counting humitity. Now I'm a Montana boy, used to 50- wheather, not Oklahoma weather. Oy gevalt, was it hot.

Excuses, excuses

O.K, so I have not blogged in forever. I would use the excuse "Ive been busy", which, don't get me wrong, I have been busy, but I just haven't wanted to. But, hopefully, I'll blog a lot more. {Can't you tell its almost September 1st? I can almost taste the pizza.}

Shooting M-1's

On Thursday our family friend and neighbour, Mr. Lewis took me to the Logan shooting range to participate in a shoot they were doing. We all used the M-1 garand, a very common rifle used by American GI's in World War Two, probably better know as the main weapon used in the television series Band Of Brothers, produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg.

There were a bunch of firing positions, but since it was my first time, I didn't have to do them all though I did do the last one.

In total I shot around 50 rounds-and the scars on my shoulder prove it!

Blog Competition!

As you, the reader, may have noticed, I have not blogged in quite awhile. Well, that's about to change, mostly because my Mom promised to buy the person who blogged the most {either me or Molly} a pizza. The competition ends the end of August, so, I'll be blogging quite a bit! {wouldn't you?}

Andrew

International Learn to Fly Day!

Shabbat was International Learn to Fly Day! At our local airport, everyone eighteen or younger got a free flight on a Cessna! My mom found out about this off of a friend post on 'FaceBook', and after milking, we piled into the van and drove over to the airport. After maybe a five minute wait, we all were in planes and ready to go. The flight was GREAT! My only regret was that you can only do it once.

Yom Yerushalayim!

Wednesday celebrated the unification of Jerusalem during the 1967 war. In English its translated as 'Jerusalem Day'. Besides the unification of Jerusalem, Israel also got the Golan heights, Gaza, the West Bank and the Sinai peninsula. But back to Jerusalem...

Jerusalem is arguably the most fought over piece of land. King David fought the Canaanites for it, the Babylonians fought for it, the Assyrians fought for it, the Persians fought for it, the Romans fought for it, the Ottoman Turks fought for it, the British army's fought for it, the newly formed Israeli army's fought for it in 1948, and again in 1967, and now the Palestinians are fighting for it.


Jerusalem is home to three major religions: Judaism, Christianity and islam.


The modern Israeli armies have always strived to unite Jerusalem. Under David Ben-Gurion, IDF units tried to take east Jerusalem, but failed. During the June '67 war, Israeli paratroopers broke through the Jordanian lines into E. Jerusalem. They fought their way to the Western Wall, the only remnant of the temple. The force had lost close to 90% of their men, but still they pushed on.

The only way to get to the Wall was through a locked gate. Before blasting through it, an old Arab man walked up and unlocked the door. The paratroopers all lined up at the Wall, and began to pray.


And now, with Israel winning and losing Jerusalem many times, the City of David is in danger again. This time from the P.A., or Palestinian Authority. Many people, including American president Barak Obama, are trying to separate Jerusalem again. Please pray these efforts will fail, and Jerusalem will remain the united capital of Israel.

Test your knowledge about the history of Jerusalem here.

Dinosaur Day!

Recently, we went to 'Family Dinosaur Day' at our local museum.

While there, we met the curator of the museum and very famous paleontologist Jack Horner. Molly and the kids got his autograph [I didn't have the patience to wait in line]. We also met some creepy guy in a dinosaur suit called 'Monty', we saw people actually working on live bones, and, finally, got painted like dinosaurs. [Correction: Mom and the kids got painted like dinosaurs, I didn't.]