Following up on Bethany’s 2023 retreat topic “Jerusalem: A Holy Paradox,” here are two local opportunities to learn more about conditions in the Middle East.
A member of Sacramento Japanese United Methodist Church has returned from a Holy Land Pilgrimage with the Friends of Wadi Foquin tour group. Wadi Foquin is a village consisting of about 1,300 people, located approx. five miles southwest of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. All are invited to see her slide show presentation 11:30 a.m. Sunday, August 20 at SJUMC, 6929 Franklin Blvd. You can also view the presentation live-streamed starting 11:30 a.m. on YouTube.
Then, on Thursday, August 24, at 12:30 p.m., you can attend a different presentation at SJUMC. This presentation, which includes lunch, features 25-year-old Adam Manasra from Wadi Foquin, and is entitled Palestine Today: A Young Person’s Perspective. The event is sponsored by by the California-Nevada Methodist Conference Palestine Task Force and co-hosted by the SJUMC Mission and Social Concerns Committee. Call (916) 225-8511 for lunch reservations. Click here for more information about Adam Manasra and his father Ata, both of whom are visiting cities across the U.S. this summer. If you want to view the presentation online, tune in to YouTube at 12:30 p.m.
