Page 31 - Holyland Magazine - 2019 Edition

A gathering of women

grounds. This will be the first building that we Spirit’s activity in exciting ways. One exciting
own and will enable new levels of engagement movement in recent years has been the
with our guests. To learn more about this and development of our special Christmas and
ways that you can help, please see our website Easter program, which sees thousands of local
www.nazarethvillage.com/discovery. people from Nazareth and the surrounding
area streaming into the village, many unfamiliar
A Broad Tent with stories of Jesus’ life. We are delighted to
teach scripture in this context.
passionate, service-minded work of followers
of Jesus from many traditions. Local Arab Ultimately, it is this growth – knowledge of
Christians from various churches, Messianic scripture, and through it, our risen Lord, that
Jews, long-term residents from the US and is most important. We exist to help people
Europe, and numerous short-term volunteers encounter God, and seek him where he is
run the village together every day. Our found – in Jesus of Nazareth. Every single
collaboration is a testimony to God’s love at day, we are thrilled to see our visitors grow
work in the world, and visitors notice what in wisdom, knowledge and understanding of
God is doing, through us, together. Because scripture. This is why we are here. We hope
we can draw on and minister to such a variety you will join us!
of Christians, we are able to witness the

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Our many enthusiastic repeat visitors and The weaver and her apprentice
the warm testimonials that we hear after the 31
tour and see online suggest that our word-of-
mouth growth will continue, and we cannot
wait to see what coming years bring.

A Bright Future

To meet the challenges of growth, we are
expanding both our village and our welcome
facilities. The village is growing, with research
and construction of a potter’s workshop
coming along well. However, our most exciting
change is yet to come - this year we hope
to break ground on a new Discovery Center.
The center will allow us to accommodate and
educate even more visitors with entirely new
museums, lecture space, and media capacity,
as well as expanded access to our tour