Madison-Rafah Journal

St. Stephen's Lutheran Church - Fireside Room
5700 Pheasant Hill Rd.
Monona, WI
10:45 am - 12 pm on the Sundays listed below
608-222-1241

Pastor Bruce Burnside, St. Stephen's Lutheran Church, Monona begins a series of five presentations on his three-month sabbatical in Palestine, including the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and Israel. He will use slides and handouts for the presentations, which will last one hour and conclude before noon.

September 28 "Whose Promised Land?"
In this first presentation there will be slides and stories that take you to Israeli Settlements and the "Security Fence" which is being built throughout the West Bank and around Jerusalem.

October 12 "Carrying Keys"
Many of the hundreds of thousands of original Palestinian refugees continue to carry keys to the homes that they lost when nearly 500 villages and towns were destroyed or overtaken in 1948. See the faces and hear the stories of some of these refugees, visit the camps and enter into lost villages in this second session.

October 26 "Be It Ever So Humble"
Life in Palestinian villages today is quite different from life in "the West" and even from life in Middle Eastern cities. This presentation will visit several villages and introduce you to a life that is beautiful and threatened.

November 16 "Can You Open the Sea?"
The Gaza Strip is a place of unthinkable misery, the most densely populated place on earth. This week the stories and pictures come from Gaza City at the north of the Strip to Rafah Refugee Camp at its southern edge.

November 30 (date change) "Mercy, Mercy!"
This concluding session will relay human stories of humiliations and brutality met by hope and courage.