On the dates below, St. Stephen's Lutheran Church,
Monona, will have a series of five presentations by Pastor Bruce Burnside on his 3
month sabbatical in Palestine / Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Pastor Burnside will use slides and handouts for the presentations, which will last one hour and conclude before noon.
All presentations are on Sunday morning beginning at 10:45 am in the Fireside Room at:
St. Stephen's Lutheran Church, ELCA
5700 Pheasant Hill Road
Monona, WI 53716
Phone: 608.222.1241
September 28 - “Whose Promised Land?”
In this first presentation there will be slides and
stories that take you to Israeli Settlements and the
“Security Fence” which is being built throughout the
West Bank and around Jerusalem.
October 12 - “Carrying Keys”
Many of the hundreds of thousands of original
Palestinian refugees continue to carry keys to the
homes that they lost when nearly 500 villages and
towns were destroyed or overtaken in 1948. See the
faces and hear the stories of some of these refugees,
visit the camps and enter into lost villages in this
second session.
October 26 - “Be It Ever So Humble”
Life in Palestinian villages today is quite different
from life in “the West” and even from life in Middle
Eastern cities. This presentation will visit several
villages and introduce you to a life that is beautiful
and threatened.
November 16 - “Can You Open the Sea?”
The Gaza Strip is a place of unthinkable misery, the
most densely populated place on earth. This week the
stories and pictures come from Gaza City at the north
of the Strip to Rafah Refugee Camp at its southern
edge.
November 23 - “Mercy, Mercy!”
This concluding session will relay human stories of
humiliations and brutality met by hope and courage.