Resuming Blog!

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It’s been almost a year since my last post! But since several people have asked me if I’ll be blogging this summer when I return to the Excavation at Shimron, I decided to spruce up the site a bit, and resume posting! Last year only blogger profiles could comment, but it should work for anyone to comment now, so please let me know your thoughts or ask me any questions, I love to hear from you all!

As a summary of what I’m doing this year, I’ll be flying to Tel Aviv on June 12, and working for 7 weeks as an “assistant square supervisor” at the Tel Shimron Excavation. Basically, that means I’ll be part of a team within one of the excavation grids, helping to instruct volunteers and record our finds.

I am thankful to be placed on staff this year, and am reminded of God’s goodness to me.
- Being on staff means all expenses are paid, which makes it possible for me to participate
- This will be my 3rd visit to the “Holy Land” and I consider myself very blessed for that.
- It is humbling and encouraging to see the progress I’ve made over the 3 years between my excavation season at Ashkelon and this summer.
- After being at Shimron for the geophysical survey season last summer, I am thrilled to participate also in the very first season of excavation as well!

Finally, as a quick update on the past 11 months, much has happened! In many ways it has been a hard year. Part of that was some reverse culture shock (which sounds dramatic), but really it was just hard adjusting back to school and social life at Wheaton after the fantastic semester I had at JUC, and I missed the friends I had made there. But while Senior year was my hardest, God used it to teach me a few things about Himself, and now I’m graduated!
Amongst a lot of changes and uncertainties in my family’s life, I know I need to keep trusting that God is sovereign.


I’ll post more about the excavation soon!




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