SERVE Nazareth

Beautiful people and a beautiful place, I felt at home doing my medical elective in the ED at EMMS during my 4th year in medicine. Everyone is welcoming and kind and they let me get involved with all sorts of things: from POCUS to resuscitation to minor surgery to attending and delivering department teaching. I developed an interest for echocardiography and they taught me how to do bedside echo.

If you're thinking of going, the language barrier is something to consider - you probably don't learn as much medical knowledge as you'd do in a hospital speaking your own language, however everyone did their best to translate for me. I would still 100% recommend.

Nazareth itself is also a very interesting place and you're not far from Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Galilee, mount Carmel, the list goes on, so there are plenty of things to do on your holidays.
The food is 10/10 and during my time there I made friends I will never forget, both in the Doctors house where we stayed and in the department.

In the summer of 2023, I was blessed with the opportunity to travel to Nazareth Israel to volunteer at a local hospital. In that experience, I was able to learn and grow as a student nurse while being immersed into a totally different country than I was used to. I can surely say that from all the people that I’ve met in the food that I ate, that Israel has been and will always be my favorite place to go. Serve Nazareth made it possible for me to explore the Holy Land well also learning how to be the hands and feet of Jesus. I would recommend this program to anybody who has a heart for the Lord and people.

My husband and I volunteered for 3 months and made lifelong friendships. We loved working with people who had the same values and goals. Sharing and helping to open people minds to what it would have been like in Jesus’ time.

We got to meet people from all over the world.
Some were famous; most were people who has a common bond of a Christian community.

My husband also spent a couple days a week also as Chaplin at the hospital.

We even used our picture in costume as our Christmas Card.
This has been one of the highlights of our life.

For me being a volunteer at the Nazareth village was an amazing experience. It was a 6-7 week time of constant blessing having the opportunity to SERVE others at a high standard showing through first century lifestyle during the time of Jesus (as for me, I was the potter named Jacob at the potter's house in the village). As you serve and participate with all your heart you will see the peace you get back in return and having such a satisfaction that everything is done with a true purpose and a meaningful goal. The Gospel message is truly communicated and has such an impact! The only thing I wish I knew was the Hebrew and Arabic languages to get more alongside what I was doing. Other then that everything is done with love and respect, and a team that is so supportive in every way. GOD Bless the Nazareth village! :)

One of the best experiences that I had! Hope to go back one day!! I had so much fun in doing different things. I visited some of the cities there, and their culture is very wonderful because they are lovely and very welcoming. The food is amazing also, and if you are planning to go as volunteer in hospital or Nazareth Village don't hesitate just go try it and believe me you will love it, and never forget it. Nazareth is the kind of place that will take a peace of you heart! This words are from my hear.