The Rev. David Lewis, pastor at Woodbine Baptist Church in Pace, and his wife Susie were with a tour group in eastern Israel when Hamas militants began firing rockets into the central and southern parts of the country.
“Our first inkling that something was going wrong was when we were about to stop for lunch in Jericho, which is under Muslim control,” Lewis told the Press Gazette last week. “Our guide leaned forward to the driver and told him to keep going straight.”