I got stoned in Jerusalem. It was my fault.
I was editor of Illustrated Bible Life, a Bible-background magazine used by Sunday school teachers. I came up with the idea of taking some teachers to the Holy Land, to prep them for a unit of lessons about Jesus.
When the tour was over, I stayed in Israel with a photographer, a guide, and an editorial assistant. That’s when I got stoned.
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Thinking back on it, I’m wondering if our Sunday school teacher, Bob, had a little dyslexia going on.
He was a layman teaching a class of young adults – about a fourth of whom were seminary students. Me among them.
Bob wanted to use the Hebrew word for God, which is Yahweh, pronounced YAH-way.
Bob is the reason I started putting phonetic pronunciations in most of my Bible study books. He was a wonderful public speaker, enthusiastic and inspiring. He intended to pay God a high compliment. Voice raised, arms in the air, he described the Lord our God as the “Great Yahoo.”
There was an embarrassing pause.
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Jo Woods
I have been working at Harvest House for 13 years in August. As the Accountant at HH, I produce reporting as well as the monthly financial statements for the company. My favorite thing about working at HH is the sense of family here. There are times of joy, times of sorrow, as well as, times of chaos, which are all things we as individuals deal with in our own immediate families. The people I work with here are one of the other things I enjoy about HH. This company is full of compassionate, caring, and understanding individuals which today is sometimes hard to come by in the working world. Harvest House is an enjoyable place to be each day. People might be surprised to know that I have known my husband since grade school. We attended the same grade school, he then moved around with his family while his father worked, and came back to attend part of middle school and all of high school here in Eugene. We began our relationship in 2001 and we have now been married 10 years this August and have 3 wonderful children.