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Sukkot 2013 - Day 1

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What a magnificent start to the Sukkot festival this year.  

I will adding a few photos and updates throughout the week, although this first batch is a bit lean on photos because I've had some issues with cables.


About 20 of us gathered in the Hebron lounge on the 1st Day to celebrate the anticipated coming of Messiah Yeshua and give praise and honour to Him who is worthy.


The children, aided by John on the tractor, were eager contributors to the decoration of our sukkot.  We have been blessed with a few days perfect weather so we've been able to spend time outside enjoying the beauty of Hebron.

I asked Yakira to write a summary of what the kids had been up to this week:
Playing Wii and playing outside and inside (all); decorating sukkot (all), riding bikes up and down hill.  Playing and practising duet on piano (mostly Rebekkah and Yakira); playing cars (Joshua and Yohannan).


During the week we had the opportunity to purchase two Dexter cows for a bargain price of $200 for both.  We've picked up Millie, the cow, and she is settling into the paddock at the front of the house, although Fergie, a steer, decided not to play ball and was more difficult to load, therefore he still waiting to be collected later in the week.  These two will help make use of the pasture that is currently going to waste, as well as help Hebron a more attractive place with their stylish hair-do's.  

During this week we meet together daily for prayer and scripture.  It's always great to hear what each other has to say and be encouraged by whatever is on their hearts.  In the busyness that is 21st century lives, this week of Sukkot is an oasis where our souls are refreshed, our vision is restored and our relationships are strengthened.

Nehemiah 8
14 They found written in the Torah that Adonai had ordered through Moshe that the people of Isra’el were to live in sukkot during the feast of the seventh month; 15 and that they were to announce and pass the word in all their cities and in Yerushalayim, “Go out to the mountains, and collect branches of olives, wild olives, myrtles, palms, and other leafy trees to make sukkot, as prescribed.” 16 So the people went out, brought them and made sukkot for themselves, each one on the roof of his house, also in their courtyards, in the courtyards of the house of God, in the open space by the Water Gate and in the open space by the Efrayim Gate. 17 The entire community of those who had returned from the exile made sukkot and lived in the sukkot, for the people of Isra’el had not done this since the days of Yeshua the son of Nun. So there was very great joy. 18 Also they read every day, from the first day until the last day, in the scroll of the Torah of God. They kept the feast for seven days; then on the eighth day there was a solemn assembly, according to the rule.

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