Rober BYU Jerusalem Center

Field Trips Here is a summary of a 15-week semester for the students.  They take classes on the Old Testament, New Testament, Arabic, Hebrew and Near East studies. Every week they normally have a bus trip (or a walk) to a nearby location that was discussed in their classes.  They also spend 10 days living in the Galilee area to see historic sites and once a semester they travel to Jordan and either Greece, Turkey or Egypt. A few weeks ago, I was able to go on their bus trip to Bethany, Bethpage and the Mount of Olives.  Here are some pictures of that trip: Mount of Olives devotional. Lazarus Tomb in Bethany Monument in Bethpage to location Jesus mounted his colt to begin Triumphant Entry for Palm Sunday Church in Bethpage The Upper Room Every Semester, there is a very special evening where the students reenact the events of the Last Super.  It includes beautiful choir music, narrators, actors and a special set. Haifa Visit On one of our days off, we were able to...

We are starting to feel at home in our new apartment here in the Jerusalem Center.  The Center has 8 floors. You can see from the picture above that each floor extends out form the floor above as the building follows the contour of the hill it is built on.  It is a beautiful building.  One thing about the design, there cannot be an elevator between all the floors.  There is one elevator between 5-6 and another elevator between 6-8.  The organ and tours begin on floor 8.  That means lots of stairs.  There is a series of stairways that go right down the middle of the building.  Rooms are located on two corridors on each side of the central stairs on all of the floors.  Faculty and students live on floors 1-5.  Our room is on floor 4.  There is a foot gate to the street on floor 1 and a car entrance to an underground lot that enters the building on floor 7.  Security is good at the Center.  There is a guard at the entrance ga...