I am getting excited about two upcoming trips - Guatemala in December and Israel in late February. The Guatemala trip will be a first for me and for the community. I will lead a group of teenagers and a few adult chaperones on a volunteer trip to Cantel, a village in the mountains of Guatemala. Why? How else can I teach the difference between need and want other than by exposing these privileged kids to people who live with some needs met and few wants even considered? We live in an environment of good fortune and opportunity where broken iPods are tragedies and where parents who do not upgrade their kids' iPhones every time Steve Jobs sends a new one to market are just plain mean. Aside from this lofty goal, I just think the adventure will be incredible and perspective-altering.
Israel in the spring...There are few places as beautiful and as deeply moving. Every time I return to Israel, I connect past to present and make sense of a piece of my identity that cannot be fully addressed in other places. I can't wait to see Israel again through the eyes of people seeing her for the very first time.
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