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I had the most brilliant experience one morning on the Sea of Galilee. Let me tell you about it. As you come to know this background story, it will help you see why this is the most appropriate and wonderful gift for your missionary to have.

It was a perfect, golden-light morning on the Sea of Galilee that day. Our dear friend (who knows practically everyone in Israel) had arranged for a local fisherman to arrive at the shore by our hotel before sunrise. These things never seem to go quite as planned—but—it was 5:45 AM and around the corner came our fisherman. I wanted to take a lot of shots of him just fishing, but I wanted to capture him and his boat and nets looking into the rising sun over the Galilee. I needed to be out with him, but I could not be in the boat. There was the rub: I had not arranged for another boat to follow the fisherman from a distance.

A man who was staying in our hotel gestured (no English) that he would be glad to row me around out there. Where was his boat? The eastern sky was pregnant with that pre-delivery glow of light. He pointed to a small, no, a very small item that was more like a large apple crate or a small bathtub, than a boat. I didn’t have any choice. We both climbed in and with our combined weight the sides of “the boat” were nearly to the water’s level. Notwithstanding, my oarsman rowed me out towards the fisherman, but on the wrong side. He thought I wanted the light to be shining on him with my back to the rising sun. I signaled in fast and swirling hand motions to turn around and I made the international symbol for shooting into the sun to create a silhouette—whatever that is. He got it.

Within 30 minutes I had taken more than 600 shots. The scene was stunning. The images were magical.

From these same waters, Jesus not only called James and John, Peter and Andrew, but here He would also walk.

I call this the Fishers of Men series and I am offering these first five different photographs. This will be a constant reminder to your missionary of the work he or she is doing and the great work that the Master did during His mortal ministry.

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