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 June 2009 Pilgrims' Post

Featured articles:

• MEEI Students share exchange days with Jerusalem Jewish students. 
• Featured MEEI staff bios:  Asmahan & Ammar, whose hospitality makes OUR visits wonderful.
• Thanks from "the Living Stones" in Zababdeh.
• Focus on young Palestinian Christian leadership development through Rev. Mitri Raheb's Diyar Consortium in Bethlehem.
• NEEDED:  an Ibillin Fitness Center!!!  Find out why, and who will be served.
• Celebrate MEEI graduations!  Photos of 2009 graduates of Mariam Bawardi Kindergarten and Mar Elias High School. (Stay tuned for 8th grade photos to be added soon.)
  
• Welcome new Pilgrims' Board members; thanks and farewell to retiring directors
• Invitations!! To pray, to visit, to give...
  

 Also check out our Pilgrims of Ibillin photos on Flickr at http://www.flickr.com/groups/pilgrimsofibillin/pool/.

PLEASE JOIN US FOR A HOLY LAND PILGRIMAGE! 

     2009 Pilgrimage Brochure

Goals of the trip: Participants will

• have an introduction to Palestinian life in Bethlehem and in the village of Ibillin;
• participate in campus life at the Mar Elias Educational Institutions in Ibillin, meet students, faculty, and staff, and meet with Archbishop Elias Chacour if his travel schedule permits;
• contribute to the MEEI campus by doing volunteer work;
• see many of the other peacebuilding projects of Pilgrims of Ibillin;
• visit important biblical sites in Bethlehem, Jerusalem, and the Galilee (including Nazareth);
• share in daily worship and devotional time growing out of the experiences of the day; and
• be equipped to do presentations on their experience on return to the U.S., and to lead future trips if they so desire. 
  

 Click here for expanded itinerary.