COAST CITY COLLECTIVE
Mount of Beatitudes
You are blessed when. Before we pulled up to this beautiful location, I was already feeling blessed and grateful. So thankful I've met the person of Jesus, so thankful the spirit of God lives in me and that I have the privilege of understanding and learning daily from...
Day 2 – Worship on Galilee
When we signed up for the journey to Israel, I had one specific thing I was hoping for and today my hope was realized. After waking early and eating a similar breakfast to yesterday we walked outside of our hotel and headed only about 50 yards to a newly found set of...
Day 1 – Caesarea – Megiddo -Mt Carmel
My eyes slid open at 2am this morning as my internal clock remains in California mode. I forced myself to go back to sleep. The images in my mind of what I expected to see in just a few hours were more detailed and alive than normal. I finally fell into a deep sleep...
Israel – LAX to Tel Aviv
As I sit in the bustling land of focused, get it done humans, my imagination is drawn to tomorrow and the location where fire came down from heaven and consumed an altar. A show of pure majestic power and might. Even as we in California and around the world morn the...
Conquering Giants.
Giant. Monster. Titan. Colossus. Super-being. Call it what you will, but even if we can’t define it, we all know what it feels like. That feeling of distrust when something good comes your way. That feeling of insecurity. That feeling of self-doubt in yourself and...
Discover Easter
Awake at Sunrise with a warm cup of coffee to greet you this bright and glorious morning. The most pristine dresses and the finest button down shirts ironed and laid out waiting to be worn. All the eggs are dyed or filled, ready to be hidden. Decorative baskets packed...
Samuda’s reality . . . . .
Thursday, January 16th, 2018 We walked down a fairly steep dirt road covered in rocks and small pieces of trash flanked by walls of canvas shouting to me that we had arrived at our final destination, the purpose for my visit, a Syrian refugee camp. The small one...
REALITY and Jesus
Sliding into the van after a good nights sleep I was quickly brought back to the reality of our situation as soon as the drive stepped on the gas and the van went screaming down the first hill honking and gesturing to each car as if they were objects in a video game. ...
Discovery – Day 1
Do you ever remember a moment in your life when you felt like you were in a scene from a movie? It's happened to me many times, with that being said, I feel like I haven't left the movie since I climbed out of bed this am. It's the absolute picture of a concrete...
The Arrival and the Journey.
I often hear, "it's about the beauty in the journey, not simply the destination". This proved true as I board the second leg in my flight to Beirut, reaching from Germany to Lebanon. I noticed as I boarded the plane, things began to look, smell and feel much...