My heart is both sad AND full...our first-ever PPM Israel team is leaving for home in Texas now.  This team soooo loved well upon each person they met--and I personally got to be the recipient of that love from all 15 of them!  We loved on kids and families in schools and homes; tour guides; drivers and lodging hosts, too. They squeezed out every drop of what they could receive in every site we visited.  We laughed; we cried; and we even changed our names.  We learned how to worship with every fiber of our being-even in congregations we didn't understand the language; we EXPERIENCED "Shabbat Shalom"; and we walked through challenges AND communion together.  Just ask any of us for 5 minutes and we will be glad to share with you the way God shifted our hearts and minds just ONE DEGREE that will transform the trajectory of our life's course!!! We have stories to tell you!!!