Blogs

 Last week Tina Whitehead of Oakmont UMC and Jan Ogden of Indiana Grace UMC, both now volunteering in Israel/Palestine, connected for two days with 150 WPA travelers on the Lands of the Bible cruise led by Bishop Thomas J. Bickerton.

 Tina Whitehead experienced wonderful hospitality inPalestine from a former University of Pittsburgh law student now practicing in Nablus. He spoke to her Sunday School class at Oakmont UMC last spring.

Read what it’s like to be living in Jerusalem during the three weeks of the Jewish High Holy Days.

Tina is back in Jerusalem when the world is listening to speeches encouraging or discouraging Palestine’s efforts to be recognized by the UN as a State.

 Tina Whitehead is back in Jerusalem and her work at Sabeel. She notes that the people's protests in Egypt will have a significant impact for all of the Middle East. 

 Western Pennsylvania Conference Missionary Tina Whitehead describes daily life in Palestine and her treatment at a Muslim Hospital. 

 Tina Whitehead has returned to Palestine to work for peace. She send a brief report of her activities.

 Tina Whitehead of Oakmont UMC has returned to Israel/Palestine. This time she's focused on telling the personal stories of those she encounters.

Israeli authorities demolished the East Jerusalem home of a Palestinian family of five  the day a team of 13 mission volunteers from Western Pennsylvania arrived to help with the olive harvest. The team met with the family, now homeless, on the last day of their two-week stay.