Gish's community and church in Ohio, and the College Mennonite Church in Goshen, IN, are matched with the Sultan family in CPT's Campaign for Secure Dwellings. For worship, Pierre Shantz lit 45 candles to commemorate the 2nd anniversary of the massacre of 45 nonviolent indigenous Christians, Las Abejas, or the Bees, in Chiapas, Mexico. The team discussed the effect that people dying in a nonviolent way can have on the world. Gish, along with Joanne Kaufman and Reinhard Kober, went on a settlement tour with Abdel Hadi Hantash, Palestinian Land Defense Committee surveyor. They observed that two settlements, Pene Hever southeast of Hebron and Karme Tzur, north of Hebron, have expanded.
New homes are under construction, although there are uninhabited houses in the settlements.
Caravans, or new trailers, have been set up on confiscated Palestinian land. Hantash showed the CPTers a gravel road that settlers from Karme Tzur had tried to build to expand the settlement. After Palestinian farmers and landowners from nearby Beit Ummar protested the road cutting through their vineyards below the hilltop settlement, the military government closed it off with large rocks. After several weeks of harassment from Israeli settlers, the Sultan family invited CPT to begin a presence with them. About 25 Israeli settlers were demonstrating between the house and the bypass road 75 meters below it.