Hello friends and family! I have been given the privilege to update you today! Our main site of the day was Aphrodisias! We went into the checkpoint and one of my Joshua brothers named Wyatt gave a devotional on James and perseverance. I met a stray cat here that we named tater-tot, and we learned about the old photographer Ara Guler! He took cool pictures and tried to publish them, but the editors declined due
As I watched the world fade away beneath me as I drifted through the air in a basket barely higher then my waste, the ancient ruins of Hierapolis far beneath me, and the snow white calcified travertine terraces spread out over the hillside like a cream white virus, infecting the rich green with its fingers of paper white stone, the only thought to cross my minds was “how did I get here.” This has been
April 24th, 2026Today is now the 4th day of our turkey trip! We left a week from today and it really is flying by. Today we got to go to antioch of Pisidia (Pisidian antioch), which is where Paul shared the gospel for the very first time. We walked around what used to be the town of Pisidian Antioch and explored the ruins of the temple and the synagogue where the gospel was shared. We
Wow. Today was only our second full day of our class trip to Turkey and I am already so blown away by what we have been learning. We started our day by eating breakfast at our hotel in Antalya. Then we headed over to Perga at 8:00am to explore ruins of the city. Some of the ruins were Helanistic and the rest of the ruins were Roman built. Our first stop was a huge arena
Today’s Adventure Today was our first full day in Turkey and we were able to go to the Antalya Harbor and a section of the Via Sebaste (Roman road). I am so incredibly blessed to have been apart of this program and to visit such a beautiful country where the history is so rich. As soon as we touched down into the area, we are treated with going to a place where Paul would have
Hey y’all, welcome back!!It’s been such a great week. We had our final Philippians test, which means we’ve officiallymemorized the entire book! That still feels wild to say out loud.We also had some “lasts” in our classes, which was both sad and really special. Looking back towhere we started and seeing how much we’ve grown is kind of unbelievable. I never would haveguessed I’d become this close with these people in just eight months, but