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Continuing my journal of Jerusalem with visits to several Palestinian leaders. On Sunday morning, Shafique Keshavjee and I went to Ramallah to take part in a religious service of the Baptist Church. Its pastor Munir Kakish welcomed us with a cup of Arabian coffee, filling the house in the middle of the old town, with its aroma.

Jerusalem, September 22, 2017. One of the values of the "Jesus Celebration 2033" is the unity of the Church. We have met three men who are excited about a unity that everyone is looking for here, much more deeply than Jerusalem is divided. Three men with different traditions who discovered the secret: humility in Christ.

Jerusalem, September 21. This morning, as we left our inn, near the Damascus Gate, there were almost no cars. This is a double holiday: Roch Hachana (Jewish New Year) coincides this year with Raas Assana (the Muslim New Year). Even triple, as the UN set this day as the International Day for Peace.

Jerusalem, September 20. "My first reaction is that 2033 is far away. Here we have many daily commitments, short-term projects work, we do not know what will happen tomorrow. But your project is magnificent. Such a perspective will stimulate us to witness together the resurrection of Christ and work towards peace. Let’s stay in touch."

It all began in Jerusalem, almost 2000 years ago, when one morning a woman came back from a tomb and announced to eleven dumbfounded men, "He is risen!" So we had to go to Jerusalem to share the vision of "Jesus Celebration 2033".

At the assembly of the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) in Leipzig in July, Martin Hoegger participated as an accredited journalist. A great opportunity to share the vision of "Jesus Celebration 2033" with delegates from reformed churches spanning 100 countries. Here is a brief Reformed world tour!

Ukraine is undoubtedly a laboratory for the Jesus Celebration 2033 movement. So much diversity, so much dynamism and potential within so many pressures in this beautiful Ukraine, so complex and so wounded by tears of all kinds that we visited in early June 2017.

For a whole week, a Swiss delegation traveled to Moscow to present to various Christian Churches in Russia's capital city the Jesus Celebration 2033 project, which is the 2000-year celebration of the resurrection of Christ.

I traveled to Belgium from May 1-3, 2017 with Olivier Fleury, director of the “Jesus Celebration 2033” Association (JC 2033), which calls on churches to walk together towards 2033, the 2000th anniversary of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The former director of Belgium's “Parcours Alpha”, Joseph Hoquet, greets us at the airport and takes us to the Chevetogne monastery, southwest of Brussels.