Through video, Scripture, and discussion, we explore the situation (past and present) in the Holy Land – with a specific focus on the Episcopal Church’s ministry in the Diocese of Jerusalem. Having spent several years living in Palestine, Jessica Frederick will lead this session.
Prior to this discussion, we will gather in the church with a special stations of the cross service – an ancient practice which developed by pilgrims to the Holy Land to bring back some of the mystery and spirituality of Jesus’s march to Golgotha. The stations installed at St. Luke’s symbolically depict Jesus as a monarch butterfly on migration to transformation. These images dovetail with work of the New Neighbors Coalition and brings the stations in to contemporary focus as we invite Jesus into our current global instability and global crisis of human safety around the world.