Field Trip Report: Mt. Carmel

Mount. Carmel by Hebs

Mount. Carmel is a mountain range near the town Haifa. The mountain range stretches from the mediteranean sea downward.

• Plenty of smaller towns were built around the mountain
• Range including the city haifa. The range was used as an area were people mined, gathering rocks and minerals, but most important is the story of elijah, it goes a bit like this, elijah challenged  450 prophets who worshipped a fake God, the challenge was “if your god is more powerful your God will consume the bull” the god that did not consume the bull will be killed. The false God did not consume the sacrifice but elijah's  sacrifice, elijah asked for water so they could get the bull wet so when the true God consumed it the bull would still set on fire.
• Lightning shot down upon the bull and it set  on fire even though the bull was wet,
• Then the false prophets died… the end.

Mount Carmel at sunset, from the entrance of Kibbutz Ma'agan Michael
Photo credit: Chadner

Field Trip Reports: the Via Dolorosa

(We have asked our children to prepare field trip reports for our trip--they are doing these all on their own, so keep that in mind as you read!)

The Via Dolorosa (Hebs, age 10)

Location, history, and backstory

The Via Dolorosa is near a place where Jesus walked on his way to being crucified. The Via Dolorosa is where some people (mostly bad and wrongly accused) were crucified. Crucifixion is when a bad person (other than Jesus and good people) are hung on crosses there feet and hands are nailed to a cross and then there is a little pad where people can rest a little but if they want to drink, they have to reach for a drink of vinegar in a sponge (I know, this is very gruesome, it's true though)



This is part of the Via Dolorosa (not a place where Jesus was crucified) there are other places like the Via Dolorosa but this one looks cool. This is not really the Via Dolorosa, it probably feel apart a long time ago, this is a replica the locations of the Via Dolorosa is in Jerusalem by: Temple Mount, Jewish Quarter, Armenian Quarter, Christian Quarter and the Muslim Quarter.



Temple Mount, a place around the Via Dolorosa. This is a place around the Via Dolorosa, it is a place where all sorts of people hold meetings, consoles and other things. Jesus went to the temple multiple times. 



This is the Christian Quarter (look at the pigeons!) this place is where lots of people lived and maybe Jesus walked through...