A church tour group from Langley and the Fraser Valley had to hunker down in their hotel after the Hamas attacks from Gaza broke out last weekend.
All 26 members of the tour of the Holy Land are okay, said Langley’s SouthRidge Fellowship Church’s Executive Pastor Paul Olson.
The trip, the first of its kind since the COVID-19 pandemic, was visiting several countries, starting in Egypt and continuing to Israel and Jordan, visiting Biblical sites.
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