Day of Rest

Today was a Sabbath of sorts for us. I slept in, for the first time since arriving in Turkey, which felt good. A relaxing breakfast, team time and then lunch at St. Paul's Cultural Center. The afternoon was "free", which I used to do some reading. Ron and Peggy returned to St. Paul's later in the afternoon and struck up a conversation with Turkish man who had been a radical Muslim, but had since embarked on a theological search for the truth - studying the Koran, the Bible and the Torah. He was looking for either Ramazan, Erkan or Hans, but none of them were around, so Ron and Peggy stepped in to fill the void, sharing, among other things, that one of the unique features of Christianity is that we are called to love our enemies...a definite contrast to the theology of an Islamic Radical.

Tomorrow Ron and I will attend the weekly Prayer Breakfast at the Cultural Center, and I was asked to give the teaching/devotional, which I readily agreed to do. We have lunch scheduled with the founders and directors of the center, Jim and Renata Bultima, and we're looking forward to that. Later in the week we plan to take a trip out to Pisidian Antioch and see the ruins there. Pisidian Antioch is one of towns Paul visited on his first missionary journey.

Below are a few random pictures to round out this post.

Charlie

Street on which St. Paul's Cultural Center is located.

The circular, green sign for St. Paul's can be seen above Ron's head.

The ladies of the St. Paul's kitchen - Belgin, Ayşeh, Ayah

View of our Pansiyon from the street.

Ron and Peggy's room is the top corner room and Charlie's is right below it.

View from the end of the street just around the corner from our hotel.

Atalya harbor is just out of view to the right.

Snow is still on the mountains in the distance.