Experience Israel with Tirosh Expeditions 2013 Tour Brochure
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Experience Israel With Tirosh Expeditions 2013 Tour Brochure Presented by Tirosh Expeditions LLC View of Aijalon Valley – Story of Joshua Letter from the president Dear Pilgrims, Every Christian dreams of making their journey to Israel, “one day I am going to visit the land of the Bible, land where our faith began, the land where our Savior once walked.” Tirosh Expedition’s vision is to help believers to truly experience the land of the Bible. Our Our Vision is to help motto is “Experience, Explore and Be Empowered.” Our staff and I are dedicated to providing a life-changing and memorable experience to Christian pilgrims around the believers EXPERIENCE the world. All of our tours are intended to give participants a broader understanding of the land of the Bible. As you Bible. Our tour focuses on the Bible, history, culture and geography, all vital elements to EXPLORE Israel, our desire is understand the Bible. When I visited Israel for the first time, I could not believe how much I did not know about the Bible, even with years of theological training. My vision is to offer to EMPOWER you through this opportunity, to go to Israel, to as many Christians as possible, so you can experience this life-changing the land of the Bible as I did. I pray that you will prayerfully consider joining one of Tirosh experience. Expeditions tours in the near future. Shalom and Baruch Hashem (Peace and Blessed be God). Ji Yun President Tirosh Expeditions 2 12 OUR GUIDES What makes our tour a “life-changing experience” is our guide. Many times when Christians tour in Israel, they are not promised a specific guide prior to their tour. You are not promised a guide with a Christian background, and many times they can be non-believers. Tirosh Expeditions boast in our guides since they are all believers and known for their gifts in teaching the Bible with Christ in mind. Arie Bar-David Born in Israel, to the first Messianic Jewish family, Arie Bar-David’s father was known as one of the pioneers of Messianic Jewish faith in Israel before the birth of Israel in 1948. Arie is a gifted musician, played double bass for Tirosh Tour Guides Jerusalem symphony and traveled around the world for his musical gift. Israel’s government issues special licenses for all During the Six Day War and Yom Kippur War, Arie served as a commander of tour guides. It is a requirement that guides have a paratrooper unit. After his music career, He decided to dedicate his life to extensive knowledge of the culture, geography, building the first Christian Kibbutz and served over 20 years as the head history, travel, and religion to be a licensed carpenter at Kibbutz Yad Hashmona. He now serves as a tour architect and guide in Israel. Tirosh tour guides are approved oversees other tour guides. Recently, he was mentioned as one of the most by Arie Bar-David and all the guides are influential believers in Israel by Charisma Magazine. Most importantly, he is a Messianic Jews (Jews who believe in Christ) and gifted Bible teacher and serves in various churches and organizations as a most importantly, under the supervision of Arie, teacher and counselor to Messianic Pastors and leaders in Israel and abroad. each guide has studied and been equipped to have extensive knowledge of the Bible. These guides are not only tour guides but also “Arie is by far the best Bible our friends. We have confidence in them and teacher I ever met. His simple but know that they will take great care of you while profound approach to study the you are visiting Israel. scripture throughout the tour made the stories of the Bible come alive.” 3 Testimonials Endorsements “Go to Israel! Whatever you need to do, Scott Fiddler – Trial Attorney from Houston, TX, make it happen. It is worth every sacrifice USA. you have to make.” Our trip to Israel was a game-changer. To Emily J. from Vancouver, Canada actually see the places mentioned in the Bible adds a completely different dimension to reading the Bible. Reading the Bible now is like the difference between seeing a movie “The Bible comes alive! Seeing the and seeing a movie in 3-D. My wife and I location where so many biblical events have traveled a lot around the world and our took place make reading these stories so trip with Tirosh Expeditions was the most much more vivid.” seamless experience. Everything was taken care of for us so we could concentrate on Jonathan S. from Raleigh, NC, USA learning and fully enjoying the sights. David Houston – Church Consultant & Pastor “I understand biblical things in a whole new from Nashville, TN, USA. way. I feel like my eyes have been opened.” I have been to Israel twice with Arie Bar-David and both were extremely insightful and Anonymous beneficial to me as a pastor and Bible teacher. In my opinion there is nothing to compare with being on-site in Israel and “You need to breath! And this is how you hearing the Bible explained and illustrated get a breath of biblical teaching.” with geography and the Hebrew mindset. Tirosh Expeditions and the staff were Erik M. from Long Beach, CA, USA invaluable in helping arrange the many activities, guiding the group and help make moment by moment decisions that were beneficial to the tour. They have been to “I believe that I will never look at the Word Israel themselves and are knowledgeable of of God, the land of Israel or the people of the land, where to go and how long it might Israel the same again.” take. They are helpful, friendly and very personable. Anonymous 4 12 Tour Itinerary the temple of God once stood. After the temple mount, we Day 1 – To Israel will go to the Pool of Bethesda where Jesus healed a man who was sick for 38 years. Next, the group will go to Ecce Day 2 – Arrive at Ben Gurion Airport, Tel Aviv, Israel. Drive to Homo (Behold, a Man), where the Antonia fortress once stood Yad Hashmona Guest House near Jerusalem. Dinner as a and Pontius Pilate made his judgment on Jesus. We will then group followed by welcome orientation. visit the Western Wall also known as Wailing Wall, to take a Day 3 – Today we will venture to Jerusalem, a city filled with moment to pray where thousands of pilgrims prayed thousands of years of history, culture and religions. We will throughout history. We will head over to the Temple start our day from Mount of Olive, overlooking the Old City of excavation, where Israel Antiquities made archeological Jerusalem. Dominus Flevit, where Jesus wept over the city, discoveries of the temple. We will also visit their museum to Garden of Gethsemane, the high priest Caiapha’s house, the see the artifacts from Solomon’s period of 2nd temple period. Upper Room and finishing our day in the Jewish Quarter of the We will finish our day at the Church of Holy Sepulchre where Old City. Queen Helena from the Byzantine period built a church as a Day 4 – We start our day early to visit the temple mount where memorial to Jesus’s death, burial and resurrection. 5 12 to the port city of Joppa, where Peter visited Simon the Tanner in Tour Itinerary (Continue) Book of Acts. Day 5 – Today we are taking a day off from the hustle & bustle of Day 8 – Today we begin our journey to Galilee, which also Jerusalem to see another terrain in Israel and visit the lowest place includes Israel’s coast, lower & upper Galilee, and Golan on earth, the Dead Sea. We will first travel to Masada, a desert Heights. We will make our first stop at Caesaria Maritima; a port fortress built by Herod the Great, followed by En Gedi, and hike to city built by Herod the Great. Then we will visit Mount Carmel, the spring where David & his men took shelter from King Saul. We Tel Meggido, Nazareth and Mt. Precipice. We will finish our day will then go to the Dead Sea resort to dip in the sea or float. We at our Hotel next to the Sea of Galilee. prefer float. We will end our day at Kumran, where the Dead Sea Day 9 – We begin our day with a boat ride led by friends on the Scrolls from the first century were found. Sea of Galilee. In this unique experience we will also join in Day 6 – We begin our day with museums: Israel Museum and Yad worship on the Sea of Galilee. This day will focus on the ministry Vashem (Holocaust Museum). We will also be visiting around the of Jesus, visiting sites such as Mount Beatitude, Capernaum, Judean Mountain where so many stories in the Bible took place. Chorazin, Kursi and Primacy of Peter. First we will go to Aijalon Valley where the sun & moon stood still in Day 10 – The group will travel to the North to visit sites such as Tel the book of Joshua. Then we will walk on part of the Road to Dan, Caesaria Philippi, and Golan Heights. While visiting in the Emmaus where Jesus appeared to His disciples after the north, we will a have chance to see Mount Hermon or the High resurrection. We will then travel to Solek Valley, where we will Mountain where the transfiguration of Jesus took place. We will have a character study of the story of Samson. We will continue finish our day with a Bible lesson where we will reflect on our tour our study at Tel Beit Shemesh and study the Ark of the Covenant.