Daoud Nassar’s Spring Tour
“From the Other Side of the Wall”
Below you will find the places where Daoud will be sharing his message In the days of June. Please send this information to those you know.
New York City - June 2-6, 2013
- Sunday, June 2, 2013 - 10:45 a.m. - Riverside Church
490 Riverside Drive @ 120th Street
- Sunday, June 2, 2013 – 3 p.m. - Holy Apostles Church
296 9th Avenue @ 28th Street
- Tuesday, June 4, 2013 - 6:30 p.m. - All Souls Church
1157 Lexington Avenue @ 79th Street
- Wednesday, June 5, 2013 -7 p.m. - Church of the Holy Trinity
316 E. 88th Street between 1st and 2nd
- Thursday, June 6, 2013 - 7 p.m. - Trinity Grace Church
21 W. 38th Street - Second Floor
Metro Washington, D.C. – June 9, 2013
- Sunday, June 9, 2013 – 10 a.m. Worship - Noon Lunch - 1:00 p.m. - Cedar Lane UUC
9601 Cedar Lane, Bethesda, Maryland 20814 - (301) 320-6932 or (301) 588-1488
Ohio and Michigan - June 13-16, 2013
- Thursday, June 13, 2013 – 7 p.m. - Corpus Christi/Pax Christi
2955 Dorr Street - Toledo, Ohio 43607 – (419) 885-4181
- Friday, June 14, 2013 – 7 p.m. - Hope Lutheran Church
151 W. Center, Fostoria, Ohio 44830 – (419) 306-0658
- Saturday, June 15, 2013 – 10 a.m. - Zion Lutheran Church
1501 W. Liberty - Ann Arbor, MI 48103
- Saturday, June 15, 2013 - 7:30 p.m. - Zoar Lutheran Church
314 E. Indiana - Perrysburg, Ohio 43551 – (419) 874-4346
- Sunday, June 16, 2013 - 1 p.m. - Luncheon - West Shore UUC
20401 Hilliard Road - Rocky River, Ohio 44116 – (440) 333-2255
Metro Washington, D.C. and Richmond, Virginia - June 23-25, 2013
- Sunday, June 23, 2013 – 9 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. -Trinity Presbyterian Church
5533 N. 16th Street, Arlington, Virginia 22205 - (703) 536-5600
- Tuesday, June 25, 2013 - 7:00 p.m. - Christ the King Lutheran Church
9800 West Huguenot Road, Richmond, Virginia 23235 - (804) 965-6214
February 2013
Daoud Nassar's Book Now Available!
With many thanks to Bishop Richard Llewellin, Daoud Nassar's book, Daher's Vineyard - Tent of Nations: My Father's Dream, is now available for purchase. For the price of $15.00, you can be transported into the reality of life for the Nassar family as they struggle to maintain their family farm (located about 6 miles outside Bethlehem) in spite of roadblocks and obstacles put in their way on a daily basis. You will read about the family history, the current situation, and hopes and dreams for the future. We invite you to enter into this world of deep faith and daily struggles as they 'Refuse to be Enemies' and come to see the 'other' in terms of their own fears and hopes.
You can order one or more copies by simply sending $15.00 per copy requested to:
Kay Plitt
c/o FOTONNA
5621 N. 9th Road
Arlington, VA 22205
Checks should be made out to: FOTONNA - note that it is for the purchase of a book(s).
With gratitude - FOTONNA Steering Committee
Front and Back Cover (click for larger image)
Please read the following written by an Israeli Jew living near Tel Aviv. His perspective on the latest round of issues between Hamas and Israeli leaders related to Gaza is a very important voice to be heard. You may want to sign the letter to President Obama, also.
"My family in Israel has bomb shelters. They are, actually, safe. In Gaza, there is no such thing as "safe." *Please, join me in asking your friends to ask President Obama to make aid to Israel contingent on not using it to target civilians
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Photo of me and my family |
I wear many hats. I'm a dad, a videographer, a Jewish Israeli, a veteran. But I'm telling you my story, and asking you to sign this letter to President Obama about US military aid to Israel, as a human being, as a citizen of the world, and as someone who deeply cares about the people in Israel and Gaza. My wife, kids and I live just on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, Israel, where life during the past weeks for the most part carried on as normal. There were four sirens in the eight days of the Israeli operation, which means we had to move into a room in the house that has reinforced concrete walls. In our case, we went down to our apartment building's bomb shelter for 10 minutes-as far as I know every apartment building in Israel has one. Fortunately, the kids took it well and were not scared.
Please ask President Obama to make aid to Israel contingent on not using it to target civilians.
In the south close to the border with Gaza where I've been working, life is much, much different. People who could do so temporarily moved northward and stayed with family and friends out of rocket and mortar range. Being outdoors when the siren goes off in the south is quite scary. Most rockets are relatively small, up to 12 pounds of explosives, and cannot bring down a building. But in the open space they splatter lots of metal fragments. The bigger long distance rockets that were fired at lower intervals were the "Fajar" Rockets that carry 90 lbs of explosives. They cannot bring down a building but can destroy an apartment and killed 3 people in an apartment building. People in bomb shelters are considered to be safe. And of course, the Iron Dome defense system reportedly destroyed 85% of rockets headed towards Israeli populated areas. Still, in the south, the sirens went off many times a day and there was no school and no work because parents naturally wanted to be near their kids. In contrast, in Gaza, the bombs dropped by the Israeli military ranged from 500 to 1,000 pounds, and in the past, also 2,000 pounds. Ten or 20 times more powerful than those which they have sent our way. When I'd go to our bomb shelter with my family, I would think of families like mine in Gaza. They had no sirens, no Iron Dome defense, no shelters, and because they are essentially trapped, nowhere to go. But mostly, I thought about how terrified I'd be during the bombings.
There is no safe place to go in Gaza.
It wouldn't matter if buildings had shelters since the Israeli bombs often flatten the building they hit. There's literally nothing left. I want you to ask your friends and family yo sign this letter to President Obama asking him to make aid to Israel contingent on not using it to target civilians because there is no military solution. Not for Palestinians. Not for us Israelis. Please ask President Obama to make aid to Israel contingent on not using it to target civilians.
To reach a true peace for all of us, Israeli and Palestinian, our governments must choose diplomacy over more bombing. The Israeli government must end its terrible siege of the Palestinians. And the US must stop sending my government weapons they know will be used to violate the law and harm civilians. I am happy we've reached a cease-fire and I hope this will lead to negotiations with the Hamas government. I remind myself that the British in pre-state Israel also considered the Israeli political groups terrorist entities.
With hopes for a fair and lasting peace for both of our peoples, Amir Terkel P.S. This open letter to Obama first had a 25,000 signature goal, and you exceeded it. Then it had a 36,000 goal and you exceeded it. Let's see if we can reach 50,000. P.P.S. I've attached a picture I took in the south over the last few days. Happily and luckily no one was hurt --but you can see how scary it must have been. There is also a photo from Gaza (that I did not take obviously) for a sense of scale and proportion.
Israel: https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/301/images/i1.jpg
Gaza: https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/301/images/p1.jpg
The Austin Stone Community Church, in Austin, Texas, sent a film crew to the Tent of Nations/Nassar family farm during the June 2011 Summer Youth Camp. In this 23-minute film, Daoud Nassar talks about his faith as a Christian and follower of Jesus, and how the family's vision lead to the creation of the Tent of Nations Project. Daoud also talks about the family's responses to the evils of the occupation, and how their faith, like all faiths, teach the concept of "Refusing to be enemies."
