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All Inclusive Tours & Cruises From Genesis to Revelation... We can take you there! Maranatha Tours: Bringing the Bible to life since 1974 From Genesis to Revelation, we can take you there! Travel Agents & Home Base Travel Agents Table of Contents JOIN A RAPIDLY tour host benefits and mark up for your commissions. EXPANDING MARKET REPEAT BUSINESS IN GROUP TRAVEL Many of our groups and passengers repeat every 18 months. You Ways To Book A Tour...... 5 Within every community there will will find your individuals and tour leaders coming back as they be churches, synagogues, Christian get into the ministry of seeing travel change people’s lives. Make Universities, and ministries that a few phone calls and emails per day to potential tour hosts and cater to a group of Christians. prospective travelers and you will have income rolling in within a few Faith Based Agent Agreement ...... 6 Group and individual Christian months. travel is a great way to add to your income. We will help you every WE’LL SHOW YOU HOW TO: Why Travel With Maranatha Tours...... 7 step of the way.There are over 458,000 churches in America and uRecruit Tour Hosts u Recruit Passengers uAdvertise Tours to reach this market is very easy. Also, pastors know pastors and it uLead People from your Congregation uCreate Pilgrimages will not be long until your sales have gone from your community to u across America. Anywhere in the World Help Tour Hosts maximize their tour The Holy Land Tours...... 8-23 BECOME A FAITH BASED TOUR AGENT EARN COMMISSIONS; IT’S THAT EASY! Since 1974 we have sent over 100,000 passengers to multiple We will supply you with packets, brochures and assist you in selling destinations like The Seven Churches of Revelation in Turkey to The the tour. Holy Land. We will be with you from the beginning of the sale to the ...... 24-27 return of your passengers. We are a Christian Tour operator. You Turkey, Egypt & Jordan can sell in confidence as we have been sending people on Christian From Genesis to Revelation Tours for over 37 years. We can take you there! ...... 28-29 EARN COMMISSIONS Italy Earn 15% of the retail cost for just mentioning us (excluding tips Call 800-545-5533 or email [email protected] and we will and taxes which are non-commissionable and NET/NET groups)!! send you an informational packet to get you started in this truly Your passengers will be able to choose from our Fixed Departure or rewarding opportunity. Greece...... 30-31 Co-Hosted tours that depart monthly to countries like Israel, Greece, Italy, Turkey, Egypt and many more. We will also give you one free trip for every 10 full paying passengers that you recruit on the same Click here to hear what people are saying about us! tour. Have a Tour Host that is looking to put a group together? Even http://www.maranathatours.com/ Italy & Greece...... 32-33 Better! We will give you a NET/NET price that will enable you to offer TestimoniesfromMTIPassengers

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Contact Us...... 46 2 www.maranathatours.com For more information call 800-545-5533 or email [email protected] 3 Christian Travel is a Ministry Consider 3 Ways Christian leaders can enrich the lives of fellow Christians. By granting them the opportunity to travel together, they enjoy fellowship and see the world through Christian eyes. As pilgrims have a life-changing to book a tour tour, they will thank you for the rest of their lives. To miss these opportunities so readily available to you is a great loss. One step toward Maranatha Tours can actually put you on your way! We have created 3 easy ways for Travel Agents to book a tour: Customized, Co-Hosted or Consolidated Tour. TIPS FOR BECOMING A SUCCESSFUL Following is a description of each type of tour.

FAITH BASED TOUR AGENT 1. Make a list of all Individuals, Ministers, Ministers’ Wives, and Christian leaders CO-HOSTED TOURS you know or can discover. Send a letter , email or call to let them know about your Maranatha Tours co-hosts several tours per year. WHEN CUSTOMIZING A TOUR Holy Land and other Biblical Tour Packages. At least two will go to the Holy Land. These tours THINGS TO CONSID are led by a staff member of Maranatha Tours who ER: There are many items which affect the cost of a tour: assumes all responsibilities for the details and logis- 2. List all Bible Schools, Christian Colleges, and Seminaries you know or can dis- When talking with a Future Tour Host be sure to tics of the tour. The Maranatha Tours escort traveling cover. Send a letter or call to let them know about your Holy Land Tour and other mention these for a better decision on how to build with the group is experienced and knowledgeable in Biblical Tour Packages. their tour. travel, tourism in the Holy Land and leading a good tour comprised of a variety of people. For a tour host 3. In these two lists investigate to see if these institutions have sponsored alumni 1.Times of year will dictate the cost of the tour. who would like to begin leading groups, joining one tours, study tours, conferences, seminars, or congregation tours. (Low season) 16 SEP-12DEC/29DEC-31MAR, of Maranatha Tours’ co-hosted programs provides Least Costly for Group Travel. (Shoulder season) an excellent opportunity to learn as you travel on 01 APR – 19 MAY / 21 AUG – 15 SEPT/13DEC- 4. List all organizations you may belong to who sponsor, offer, or encourage group Sea of Galilee, Israel your first tour. Dates and itineraries are arranged by 28DEC. (High season) 20 MAY – 05JUN/05JUL- travel and the person with decision-making authority or influence. Maranatha Tours on all co-hosted programs. 20AUG.(Peak seaon) 06JUN-04JUL Costliest time You should now have a list of at least 50 persons you can consider primary and FIXED DEPARTURE TOURS (Con- for Tour Host to travel * These are based on Turkish secondary prospects in addition to your client database. You can start at your own solidated) Airlines - seasons on other air carriers may differ) sphere of influence and you will be amazed how many people you know. Maranatha Tours has monthly departures of our 2. The Air Carrier: Different airlines we use can affect Fixed Departure Tours. The advantage of this tour is the tour cost. MTI has negotiated rates with airlines that the cost is not affected by the number of people SETTING PRIORITIES and therefore have the best rates available. When a travel agent would sign up or a host would bring pricing out a tour, MTI is giving the NET airfare. We Comb your lists to make your working list number one by listing the prospects with on the tour because several groups join. The Fixed always use the least expensive carrier for a tour which you have a personal connection. You should begin here. Departure tour is hosted / directed by the Maranatha unless the Tour Host requests a different one, and Tours international staff, who assume all responsibil- then we will give him/her both options. Departure out Make a second working list of all prospects that while you do not have a personal ity for the management of the tour. of NYC, ORD and LAX are the main cities MTI uses connection you know someone who can open the door to a personal interview in their office or in a neutral place CUSTOMIZED TOURS for overseas flights to keep the costs down, but we can look at any departure city. Domestic flights and/ Most tours booked by Maranatha are customized or Group Departure out of LAX or other cities will itineraries arranged as the Tour Host likes them, affect the cost. HOW TO MAKE CONTACTS with his choice of dates, countries and daily itiner- aries. The Tour Host and the Travel Agent plan the 3. The number of Countries included in an itinerary There is no way this can be presented to you since your personality and method- tour and we will give you a NET/NET cost and you will affect the tour cost, not only because of the ology are unique to you. Pick up the phone and call to Introduce yourself and the build in your commission plus the benefit plan for additional land costs but because of air fares. Most your Tour Host. product to prospects you already know. of the lower fares which we primarily use allow one A brief letter to them introducing yourself, communicating the benefit of tour host- stop round trip either East or West Bound. Any time ing as a ministry and tour host benefits. Include a word about your offer for free Available in Spanish a second carrier is used on a half of an itinerary it means an additional cost to your client. material and further information on hosting a tour. Maranatha Tours now has a Bilingual division that can provide you with help and material in Spanish 4. The number of passengers will affect the cost of Offer an “Informational breakfast/lunch seminar”to local church ministers. Show MTI provides your individual passengers with to reach the Hispanic travelers. All our materials a tour. MTI will usually base the Fixed Departure slides, provide material and share about the benefits of Hosting a Tour to the Holy resources such as: are available in Spanish and we can handle your and Co-Hosted Tour cost on 35 passengers. This Land. entire group in Spanish. From sales to guides in the will not affect the price if your Tour Host or Individual countries you are going to will be fluent in Spanish. • “Know Before You Go” passenger is traveling on one of our Co-Host or Disponible en Español Maranatha Tours le ofrece • “A Word About The Holy Land” Consolidated Tours. WE WILL ADVERTISE YOUR TOUR material y ayuda en español para hacer su viaje • Luggage Tags and Passport Holder más placentero. Para más información llámenos al ON THE WEB FOR FREE 5. The category of hotels will affect your tour cost. 1-800-545- 5533 o visite nuestra página de Internet We have opened up our web site to advertise CUSTOM TOURS booked with us. MTI uses first class hotels and these are nice and www. maranathatours.com. We are now advertising to get Christians from across America to come and visit We are excited about your coming on board to become a acceptable to almost all of our groups. Your client our site www.maranathatours.com. On our web we have a listing called ‘Hosted part of the Maranatha Tours Travel Team.... can request Deluxe Hotels or above, but this will Tours’. Potential customers can see all tours advertised and click on the tour as to increase the cost of the tour. During low seasons we what they are interested in. The advantage of advertising on our web site is that might be able to upgrade from a first class to deluxe it is free to you. Potential Passengers will be led directly to your customized tour in Israel for a minimal fee. In Amman and Cairo we and will be able to print your brochure, have your contact information, and sign only use the up for the tour. deluxe category of hotel.

6. The meal plan can also affect the price of the GETTING READY Tour. The majority of our Holy Land Tours include 2 Maranantha Tours has many advertising pieces and ideas for you to use. When meals a day (Breakfast and Dinner). Your Tour Host you are ready just call us At 602-788-8864 or email [email protected] can include lunch, but this will increase the price of and we will send you a Christian Tour Agent packet to get you started. the tour. The guide will stop daily for lunch on the touring route to give the passengers the opportunity to get lunch or a snack on their own. From Genesis to Revelation, we can take you there! Faith Based Travel Agent Agreement WHY TRAVEL WITH MARANATHA TOURS, INC ? Join our Faith Based Travel Agent program and we will pay 15% of the retail price for all your passengers that travel on our Fixed Departure or Everyone knows that planning a trip can be stressful and time consuming. It also takes Co-Hosted tours (excluding tips and taxes and NET/NET groups) plus you will earn one free trip for every ten full paying passengers you sign the fun out of anticipating your trip. Why put yourself through all that when you can call up on the same tour. Maranatha Tours, experienced and reliable, to plan the most awe-inspiring trip of your life? Here’s just a few of the reasons why we’re the #1 choice for Christian tours and trip For groups that you customize and put together we will give you a NET/NET price that will enable you to mark up for your commissions and tour planning! host benefits. The more that travel, the more commissions you will make. Maranatha Tours has been trusted to handle I agree to the foregoing compensation plan and agree to follow all terms and conditions Maranatha Tours Applies. I understand no commission Cristian tours since 1974 will be paid until the Tour Host, Group, or Passenger Travels with Maranatha Tours. All commissions and benefits will be paid upon departure of Since our company was founded, we have striven to provide the absolute best the Tour. Maranatha Tours has the right to cancel this agreement at any time with the Christian Tour Agent. Any further Benefits or Commission tours for our clients, and we have been successful at this for 40 years. We have will be agreed to in writing. stood the test of time and we’ve won!

______We are a family-owned and operated business Maranatha Tours was founded by Richard S. Reilly and Michael S. Reilly to Signed: Printed Name: promote Christian group travel. Though Dick Reilly has passed on, Maranatha ______Tours has lived on and remains family owned and operated. Michael Reilly Date: Agency Name: stands as President, with his son, Greg, handling sales and daughter, Jennifer, ______handling operations. With the help of a few more staff members, Maranatha Address: City: State: Zip: Tours provides the resources of a big business with the customer care of a small, family operated agency. ______Phone: Fax: Maranatha Tours is knowledgeable and ______experienced in all things travel related Email: Website: We have a strong, respectable background and 40 years of experience with the ______Holy Land and its surrounding areas! Our tour guides are seasoned experts and Make Checks Payable to: you can expect to see some of our staff during the co-hosted tours that take place in March, June, October, and November! Want to visit Istanbul before you head to Israel? Do you absolutely have to see ______Greece while overseas? We offer pre- and post extensions that you can add on Maranatha Tours Inc. to your tour to ensure that you see exactly what you want to see!

______Our tour guides are hand-picked by us Date No surprises here! All of our guides are hand-picked by Maranatha and work only for us. They have full knowledge of the Old and New Testament and have The most important decision you will make of the Holy Land’s largest Christian tour operators. is trained only in Christian travel as every minute years and years of guide experience! regarding a Spiritual tour is choosing the company NET has its own hotels, motor coaches and of our day is spent dealing with this market and that will arrange the tour for you. You are responsible management contracts, allowing them full control of through the years we have developed an expertise to and for your people and must be sure they all their services in the Holy Land, Jordan, Greece that no other company has. We bring the Bible from black and white to receive the best tour for their dollars spent. We and Italy. present to you Maranatha Tours, Inc., and suggest Our success is shown by our repeat clients. Many color you compare other companies to Maranatha before When a tour host plans a tour, Maranatha Tours have been traveling with us since 1978. Our tour Our impressive tours, hotels, and sights to see means you’re getting the very making a commitment. gives excellent guidance in determining the very hosts from across the country have traveled with us best tour by becoming familiar with the tour host’s year after year. One of our tour hosts has traveled best experience in the Holy Land! In fact, anywhere we go in the Bible is an Maranatha Tours specializes in Christian tours background and interests. Be assured of a tour with us over twenty times. experience that you will never forget! that visit places of the Bible or history that has that will be right for you by utilizing the knowledge developed our knowledge of the Bible and believes and understanding of the staff of Maranatha Tours. We are always available and each tour host will it is a ministry as well as a business. We have be able to reach us 24 hours a day. When an We can organize custom tours to established a record of service and growth unique We have set up one of the finest staffs in the travel emergency arises we will be available to help solve in this very competitive market. industry. Our selected agents have years and years the emergency. Sometimes in travel there are accommodate your needs of experience. Our longevity in the Christian travel weather conditions, etc., that may cause delays. Don’t want to join a pre-designed tour? Would you rather explore Israel, Jordan, Maranatha Tours was founded by Richard S. industry shows our strength and integrity. Every one I promise we will be there to assist you through or Europe of your own accord? Let us know- we can put together the perfect tour Reilly and Michael S. Reilly to promote Christian of our agents has been with the Maranatha team for each and every obstacle. We are committed to group travel. Dick Reilly’s unique background as a many years. We have a consistency of service in making sure that each of our passengers has a life to suit your needs! missionary in India, director of a mission society for each country where we have a group. If you are changing spiritual encounter as they stop reading 16 years, pastor, evangelist and a Youth for Christ going to multiple countries, our staff has to make the Bible in black and white only, and start reading leader, brought unusual insight into the ways and sure our groups are treated the same. Because of it in full color. That is what travel does. Inclusive Tours - All Maranatha Tours include means of successful group travel. Though Dick our picking caring people in each country, we have Reilly has passed on, his Christian philosophy accomplished that task. Join us on a life-changing journey. • Round trip airfare from New York used in establishing Maranatha Tours lives on. • Fuel Surcharges Dick’s son, Michael, as President of Fellowship We personally hand pick all our guides and tour • Government Taxes Tours for 16 years, managed one of the largest tour escorts. We believe that the most important operations for Christian group travel in the United ingredient in a tour is your guide. We promise • First Class Hotels States and has been President of Maranatha since you that you will have one of the best guides • Deluxe Motor Coaches its opening. We are family owned and have his each country offers. More than being one of the • Guides son, Greg in sales, daughter Jennifer handling all best, our guides will have a full knowledge of both • Entrance Fees our operations. You will be very pleased with our the Old and New Testaments. Our guides only staff’s professionalism and our concern for each work with us. Therefore, they are experienced • Daily Buffet Breakfasts and Dinner detail. in Christian travel. They know our wants and • All Visa Fees (US Passport holders only) yearning to learn more of the Bible, and they • All Gratuities Maranatha Tours was opened in partnership with deliver. Near East Tourist Agency (NET) in Jerusalem, one We only deal with Christian group travel. Our staff Tours do not include optional travel insurance or daily lunches. Richard & Ruth Reilly For more information call 800-545-5533 or email [email protected] 7 Maranatha Tours: Bringing the Bible to life since 1974 From Genesis to Revelation, we can take you there!

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DAY 5 – Saturday: JERUSALEM / MASADA (John 5) and St. Anne’s Church. The church is / JERICHO perfectly preserved from the Crusader period Today we drive to Masada and ascend by cable – with remarkable acoustics. Continuing on car to the magnificent ruins of the fortress where, we see Pilate’s Judgment Hall, the Chapel of from 70 to 73 A.D., Jewish defenders made their last stand in the Judean revolt against Flagellation, Lithostrotos, and the Arch of Ecce Rome. We see the remains of storehouses, Homo (Behold the Man). We then follow the Way cisterns, and a sixth-century Byzantine church. of the Cross (Via Dolorosa) through the bazaars Continuing alongside the Dead Sea, 1300 feet as far as the Holy Sepulcher. From there we below sea level (the lowest spot on earth), we walk from the Christian Quarter along the Arab 8 Days in The Holy Land: proceed to Ein Gedi where, time permitting, Souks through the Cardo Maximo and past the we will walk the path to see the waterfall in the Armenian Quarter. Continuing on to Mount Zion desert. This afternoon we continue to Qumran we visit the Upper Room and the Tomb of King and the caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls The Footsteps of Jesus Day 1 – Tuesday: NEW YORK / TEL AVIV were found. We will have a stop for lunch and David, and then to the grounds of a church called Tour members are welcomed for our departing those that want to swim in the Dead Sea may. We Peter in Gallicantu, which affords the best view connection flight to Israel via wide-body aircraft travel to Jericho, the world’s oldest city. From the of early Jerusalem from the west. (Here, the arriving the next day. Meals served on board. excavated tel atop the ruins of ancient Jericho we Assumptions Fathers suggest, was the house view the lush green Jordan Valley, Elisha’s Spring, where the High Priest Caiaphas interrogated and Qarantal, the Mount of Temptation. We will Jesus). We board our bus to the Garden Tomb DAY 2 – Wednesday: TEL AVIV / TIBERIAS head up to Jerusalem and return to the hotel for where we will end our day with a special visit and $2699 $2799 $2899 $3099 $3499 Today we arrive in Israel where we are met by our dinner. guide who will be with us for the time we are in the possibility of having a private communion on the Holy Land. Continue past Tel Aviv, the largest the grounds outside the city walls. Return to the DAY 6: Sunday: MT. OF OLIVES / PASSION APR 21 - 28 city in Israel. We proceed to the famous Sea of WALK / SOUTHERN WALL / HERODIUM / hotel for dinner and overnight. MAY 12 - 19 JUNE 23 - 30 Galilee where we check into our hotel for dinner SOLOMON’S POOLS / BETHLEHEM MAR 3 - 10 and overnight. SEPT 8 - 15 JULY 7 - 14 If you, even you, had only known on this day *JAN 7 - 14 Feb 4 - 11 DEC 1 - 8 what would bring you peace” (Luke 19:42) Our 2020 OCT 20 - 27 DAY 3 – Thursday: TIBERIAS / SEA OF drive this morning takes us past the Chapel of NOV 3 - 10 GALILEE / BET SHEAN / TIBERIAS Ascension and Paternoster to the Mt. of Olives This morning we enjoy a relaxing boat ride on for an orientation view of Jerusalem and the the Sea of Galilee, landing at Nof Ginosar where opportunity of a group photograph overlooking we will see the New Testament boat found below Jerusalem. We then walk the traditional Pas- the sea. Continue our morning tour with a visit to sion walk. We descend to the church known Capernaum, Tabgha, and the Mount of Beatitudes. as Dominus Flevit (“Our Lord weeps”). After APR 6 - 13 In the afternoon we stop at Magdala. Magdala is MAY 11 - 18 viewing the Golden Gate, we walk downhill to MAR 2 - 9 JULY 6 - 13 home of one of the world’s oldest synagogues Gethsemane, where we take time to meditate *JAN 5 - 12 OCT 12 - 19 2021 AUG 3 - 10 dating back to the first century AD., home of Mary on the Gospel text and view the Church of All NOV 2 - 9 Magdalena, and was the fishing center where Nations. Enter the Old City and make our way Garden Tomb Peter would have brought his catch to be sold to the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest site, be- or processed. We follow the Rift Valley running fore we proceed to the Jerusalem Archeological parallel to the Jordan, along the route Jesus most Park where we see the Steps that entered the DAY 8 Tuesday: JERUSALEM / TEL AVIV / USA frequently traveled to Jerusalem, to Bet Shean at We transfer to the airport for our flight home temple and the Southern Wall. It was here that with unforgettable memories to cherish always. the foot of Mt. Gilboa, where King Saul was slain. Jesus would have taught the disciples. See a APR 5 - 12 Here we see the evidences of Egyptian, Roman, Knowing we have walked in the footsteps of Jesus video that shows the temple as it was at Herod’s and the early Christians on such a memorable MAY 10 - 17 and Byzantine occupations, and view the ancient (or Jesus’) time MAR 8 - 15 JULY 5 - 12 tour will bring new meaning to our Bible reading. *JAN 11 - 18 OCT 18 - 25 tel, Roman Theater, and church mosaics. Our last 2022 AUG 9 - 16 stop today will be at the River Jordan where we I bring you good news of great joy that will be NOV 8 - 15 will have the opportunity to be baptized (provided for all the people. Today in the town of David a pastor is traveling on the tour), then transfer to a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the the hotel in Tiberias for dinner and overnight. Lord. (Luke 2:10-11). We drive to a hilltop for a Choose the 9, 10, or 11 day option and expand your 8 Day Holy Land Tour! view of Bethlehem, noting its relation to the rest of the central mountain range, including Jeru- DAY 4. Friday: TIBERIAS / NAZARETH / salem, as well as to the desert and the area of (1) SPECIAL EVENT included: Attend the Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony in Bethlehem. CAESAREA / JERUSALEM ancient Moab. This is Herodium, the palace set Join others as we sing carols and pray at this ceremony “We are going up to Jerusalem.” (Matt. 20:18). in a conical mountain built by Herod to mark his We drive west to Nazareth. Traveling through tomb. Note the juxtaposition of the two Kings of Cana of Galilee where Jesus performed his first the Jews. The King Herod buried in great opu- Choose the 9, 10, or 11 day option and expand your 8 Day Holy Land Tour! Miracle, turning water into wine (John 2). We lence and the King of the Jews born in a humble proceed to Nazareth and ascend the Mount of the manger in Bethlehem sitting in the background Precipice at the brow of Nazareth for a panoramic of the Herodium. We then drive to one of the view of the Valley of Jezreel, synonymous with possible sites for Shepherds’ Fields. We con- Armageddon. We then drive through the valley to tinue into Bethlehem itself, walking through the the mound of Megiddo, Har Megiddo in Hebrew, restored old town to the Church of the Nativity which gave its name to Armageddon. We then and visiting the manger and see the cave of St. ascend Mt. Carmel, site of Elijah’s confrontation Jerome. We drive back to Jerusalem for dinner with the prophets of Baal. From there we drive and overnight. towards the Mediterranean coast traveling south along the coastal highway to Caesarea by the CO-HOSTED Tours are in RED Sea. We enter Caesarea Maritima to explore this DAY 7 – Monday: OLD CITY / TEMPLE MOUNT/ Roman bridgehead to the east, which became the VIA DOLOROSA / GARDEN TOMB Christian springboard to the west. After our visit Maranatha Tours Co-Hosts several tours per year to the Holy Land. Co-Host tours are led by a staff member of Maranatha Tours who, along with “He has risen!” (Mark 16:6) After breakfast we the guide, will take care of the details and logistics of the tour for you and will be the point contact should any problems or emergencies. The Ma- to this ancient harbor, we board our bus and we transfer to the Dung Gate, where we ascend to head up the historic Beth Horon road (Joshua ranatha Tours escort traveling with the group is experienced and knowledgeable in travel, tourism in the Holy Land and in leading tour comprised 10:10) to the Benjamin Plateau, passing ancient the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa Mosque, of a variety of people. For individual travelers and those or those who want to just sit back and enjoy the tour worry-free, one of Maranatha Tours’ Gibeon and continuing on to Jerusalem. Finally, the third holiest site of Islam, located on the co-hosted programs provides an excellent opportunity. All Maranatha tours have a local guide who greets you upon arrival in Israel and who guide traditional site of the ancient Temple Mount. atop Mt. Scopus, we behold majestic Jerusalem. you through the spiritual aspect of the tour and share their knowledge of His land. Check in to our hotel for dinner and overnight stay. Here the first and second Temples once stood. Just to the north we find the Pools of Bethesda 8 www.maranathatours.com For more information call 800-545-5533 or email [email protected] 9 Maranatha Tours: Bringing the Bible to life since 1974 From Genesis to Revelation, we can take you there!

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DAY 5 – Saturday – BETHLEHEM / from the west. Here, the Assumptions Fathers Make this a 10 day tour by adding the Pre Extension to Upper Galillee HERODIUM/ SHEPHERD’S FIELDS suggest, was the house where the High Priest I bring you good news of great joy that Caiaphas interrogated Jesus. Enter the Old City Turkey will be for all the people. Today in the and make our way to the Western Wall Tunnel DAY 1 – Monday - NEW YORK / ISTANBUL Turkey Egypt town of David a Savior has been born where we see a model that will demonstrate Tour members are welcomed to New Yorkfor our departing flight to Istanbul via wide-body aircraft arriving the next day. Meals served on board.Egypt to you; he is Christ the Lord. (Luke where we are in location to the Temple in the Jordan 2:10-11). We begin our day with a visit time of Christ. Continue along the tunnel as we Jordan of Bethlehem itself, walking through proceed to the Gateway of the Priests entry to the the restored old town to the Church Holy of Holies. Next we proceed to the Jerusalem DAY 2 – Tuesday- ISTANBUL / TEL AVIV / TIBERIAS of the Nativity and visiting the manger Archaeological Park where we see the Steps that This morning we will arrive in Istanbul and transfer to our flight to Israel. Upon arrival in elT Aviv we are met by our guide who will be with us and see the cave of St. Jerome. We entered the temple and the Southern Wall. It was for the time we are in the Holy Land. Continue past Tel Aviv, the largest city in Israel, to the famous Sea of Galilee where we check into our then drive to one of the possible sites here that Jesus would have taught the disciples. hotel for dinner and overnight. for Shepherds’ Fields. Continue on for a hilltop See a video that shows the temple as it was at DAY 1 – Tuesday - NEW YORK / ISTANBUL for a view of Bethlehem, noting its relation to Herod’s (or Jesus’) time. Return to the hotel for the rest of the central mountain range, including dinner and overnight. Tour members are welcomed to New Yorkfor our DAY 3 – Wednesday- HAZOR/ DAN / CAESAREA PHILIPPI departing flight to Istanbul via wide-body aircraft Jerusalem, as well as to the desert and the area arriving the next day. Meals served on board. of ancient Moab. This is Herodium, the palace set "The Head of all those Kingdoms" (Joshua 11:10) The Sources of the Jordan. This morning our drive takes us to the northern limits of Jesus' in a conical mountain built by Herod to mark his DAY 8 – Tuesday - OLD CITY / VIA DOLOROSA / Italy travel as we cross the River Hatzbani to Dan. Here we combine a nature walk beside the Upper Jordan with views of the ancient ruins, toppedItaly tomb. Note the juxtaposition of the two Kings of GARDEN TOMB by the Israelite high place that supported a golden calf (I Kings 12). Then a short drive to Banias (Caesarea Philippi), dedicated to Pan the the Jews. The King Herod buried in great opulence “He has risen!” (Mark 16:6) After breakfast we DAY 2 – Wednesday - ISTANBUL / TEL AVIV / Greek god of pastures, flocks and shepherds; here Peter made his great profession of faith, recognition of Christ Jesus (Matthew 16). Driving TIBERIAS and the King of the Jews born in a humble manger transfer to the Dung Gate, where we ascend to This morning we will arrive in Istanbul and in Bethlehem sitting in the background of the the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa Mosque, along the foot of Mount Hermon, we ascend onto the Golan Plateau for a magnificent view of upper Israel. On our return we will stop at Choraz- transfer to our flight to Israel. Upon arrival in Tel Herodium. Return to Bethlehem where we have considered the third holiest site of Islam, located in and then on our hotel for dinner and overnight. Tonight we join those arriving from the USA who are on the basic tour only. Aviv we are met by our guide who will be with us time for shopping. This evening return to Manger on the site of the ancient Temple Mount. Here the for the time we are in the Holy Land. Continue Square to enjoy the Bethlehem Christmas tree first and second Temples once stood. Just to the past Tel Aviv, the largest city in Israel, to the and festivities. Dinner and overnight at the hotel. north we find the Pools of Bethesda (John 5) famous Sea of Galilee where we check into our and St. Anne’s Church. The church is perfectly hotel for dinner and overnight. preserved from the Crusader period – with remarkable acoustics. Continuing on we see DAY 6 – Sunday - BETHLEHEM / MASADA / EIN Pilate’s Judgment Hall, the Chapel of Flagellation, DAY 3 – Thursday - SEA OF GALILEE / GEDI / JERUSALEM Lithostrotos, and the Arch of Ecce Homo (Behold GreeceCAPERNAUM /MAGDALA This morning we drive to Masada and ascend by the Man). We then follow the Way of the Cross (Via Greece This morning we enjoy a relaxing boat ride on cable car to the magnificent ruins of the fortress Dolorosa) through the bazaars as far as the Holy 9 Days The Best of Israel the Sea of Galilee, landing at Nof Ginosar where where, from 70 to 73 AD, Jewish defenders made Sepulcher. We board our bus to the Garden Tomb we will see the New Testament Boat found below their last stand in the Judean revolt against Rome. where we will end our day with a special visit and the sea. Continue our morning tour with a visit to We see the remains of storehouses, cisterns and the possibility of having a private communion on Capernaum, Tabgha and the Mount of Beatitudes. a sixth-century Byzantine church. Continuing the grounds outside the city walls. Return to the alongside the Dead Sea, 1300 ft. below sea level hotel for dinner and overnight. $2949 $3199 $3299 $3599 Extension In the afternoon we stop at Magdala, one of the -- the lowest spot on earth -- we stop at Ein Gedi. oldest synagogues dating back to the first century Here we will have time to walk to the water falls that David would have used while he was fleeing DAY 9 – Wednesday - JERUSALEM / TEL AVIV / AD. Home of Mary Magdalena and was the fishing Optional center where Peter would have brought his catch from Saul. Next we proceed to Qumran and the USA to be sold or processed. Our last stop today will caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found. We transfer to the Ben Gurion airport for our flight 2020 DEC 29 - JAN 6 Pre Extension We will have time for those wishing to swim in the home with unforgettable memories to cherish be at the Jordan River where we may have the AUG 4 - 12 Upper Galilee Biblicalopportunity to be baptized (provided a pastor is Dead Sea before we head up to Jerusalem. We always. Knowing we have walked in the footsteps Biblical Cruisestraveling on the tour), then return to the hotel in stop on Mt. Scopus for a panoramic view of the of Jesus and the early Christians on such a $299 Cruises Tiberias for dinner and overnight. Golden City before we continue to our hotel for memorable tour will bring new meaning to our dinner and overnight. Bible reading. NOV 30 - Dec 8 DAY 4 – Friday - TIBERIAS / NAZARETH / 2021 FEB 2 - 10 SEPT 28-OCT 6 JUNE 22 - 30 CAESAREA / BETHLEHEM DAY 7 – Monday - MT. “We are going up to Jerusalem.” (Matt. 20:18).This OF OLIVES / GARDEN morning we drive west , traveling through Cana of OF GETHSEMANE / Galilee where Jesus performed his first Miracle, WESTERN WALL TUNNEL turning water into wine (John 2). We proceed to “If you, even you, had only Nazareth and ascend the Mount of the Precipice known on this day what at the brow of Nazareth overlooking the Valley of would bring you peace” SEPT 6 - 14 Jezreel, synonymous with Armageddon.We then (Luke 19:42) Our drive this 2022 FEB 1 - 9 NOV 29 - DEC 7 JUNE 21 - 29 Europedrive through the valley to the mound of Megiddo, morning takes us past the Europe Har Megiddo in Hebrew, which gave its name to Chapel of Ascension and Armageddon. We then ascend Mt. Carmel, site of Paternoster to the Mt. of Elijah’s confrontation with the prophets of Baal. Olives for an orientation view of Jerusalem and the From there we drive towards the Mediterranean opportunity of a group photograph overlooking coast traveling south along the coastal highway Jerusalem. We then walk the traditional Passion to Caesarea by the Sea. We enter Caesarea walk. We descend to the church known as Choose the 9, 10, or 11 day option and expand yourCO-HOSTED 8 Day Holy Tours Land are in Tour! RED Maritima to explore this Roman bridgehead to the Dominus Flevit (“Our Lord weeps”). After viewing the Golden Gate, we walk downhill to east, which became the Christian springboard (1) SPECIAL EVENT included: Attend the Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony in Bethlehem. to the west. After the visit to this ancient harbor, Gethsemane, where we take time to meditate Maranatha Tours Co-Hosts several tours per year to the Holy Land. 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Turkey This morning we drive to West DAY 6 - Saturday, THE SOURCES OF JORDAN the best views of early Jerusalem. Next we Ein Gedi, rich in flora and fauna, and walk to a in the Holy Land and Jordan. We then driveTurkey up Egypt Jerusalem we shall visit the tomb When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea visit the Shrine of the Book, which houses lovely waterfall. Dinner and overnight at our hotel. to the Mt. of Olives to the compound of Augusta of the prophet Samuel and view his Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people Egypt Jordan hometown Ramah, and Gibeon where say the Son of Man is?” They replied, “Some say the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Israel Muse- Victoria to witness to active work of the LutherJordan- the Lord appeared to King Solomon John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, um, including the outdoor model of Jerusa- DAY 10 - Wednesday, DAY IN THE OLD CITY an World Federation in health and education. before he built the Temple. Walk to a Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” “But what about lem as the city may have looked in 66 AD. We “He has Risen” (Mark 16:6) Just inside the Dung The rest of the Day is free. We get together for scenic view of the Ajalon Valley where you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?” Simon close the day at Yad Vashem – the Holocaust Gate, we will examine the ruins by the Temple our farewell dinner before we transfer to Ben Gu- Joshua prayed for the sun and moon to Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of Memorial. Dinner and overnight at our hotel. complex, where Jesus taught and He and his rion Airport for our late departure flight back home remain still before driving north through the living God.” (Matthew 16:13-16). We proceed DAY 1 - Monday, NEW YORK - TEL AVIV disciples walked. Walk to the Western Wall, Ju- Tour members are welcomed for our departing the Biblical heartland to Nablus (Schechem) towards the Golan Heights and start with a brief and visit the mound where Joshua renewed the stop at Hazor, for a view of Mount Hermon and its DAY 9 - Tuesday, THE RIFT VALLEY daism’s holiest site. View the Dome of the Rock DAY 12 - Friday, HOME flight to Tel Aviv via wide body aircraft arriving the “Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, re- and the al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site of We transfer to the airport for our flight home with next day. Meals served on board. I rejoiced with covenant. Stop at Jacob’s Well, site of Jesus’ surroundings. At Dan, we combine a nature walk those who said to me, “Let us go to the house of conversation with a Samaritan woman and drive beside the Upper Jordan with views of ancient turned from the Jordan and was led by Islam, located on the traditional site of the an- unforgettable memories to cherish always. Know- the LORD.” (Psalm 122:1). up to Mt. Gerizim to visit with the local ruins. At the spring of Caesarea Philippi (Banias), the Spirit in the desert, where for forty days cient Temple Mount. Close by are the Pools of ing we have walked in the footsteps of Jesus Samaritans still practicing their faith. Continue north where Peter confessed his recognition of Jesus Italy to Sebastia, where Philip the Deacon preached to as Christ we will visit the stunning remains of a he was tempted by the devil. He ate noth- Bethesda (John 5) and St. Anne’s Church, which and the early Christians on such a memorableItaly DAY 2 - Tuesday, TEL AVIV - EIN KAREM - such success that soon Peter and John joined him. first-century AD palace belonging to Agrippas ing during those days, and at the end of them has been perfectly preserved from the Crusader tour will bring new meaning to our Bible reading. BETHLEHEM he was hungry. The devil said to him, “If you period. Follow the Way of the Cross (Via Doloro- . This morning we will arrive in Istanbul and transfer Christians have venerated the tombs of St John II. We drive around Mt. Hermon for a glimpse of to our flight to Tel Aviv. “When Elizabeth heard the Baptist and the prophets Abdias and Elisens, Damascus, and then head back over the Golan are the Son of God, tell this stone to become sa) back as far as the Holy Sepulcher. From there Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, located in this city, since the 4th century. In the Heights to our home on the Sea of Galilee. We end bread.” Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man we walk through the Arab Souks, past the Arme- village of Burqin, we find St. George’s Church, our day with an hour on the lake in a wooden boat and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. Ina does not live on bread alone.’ (Luke 4:1-4). nian Quarter and exit the Old City through the loud voice she exclaimed, blessed are you among the fifth oldest sacred Christian place in the world, modeled after the ones used in Jesus’ time. and the third oldest church. According to tradition, Mt Zion Gate to visit the Upper Room and King women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! And Drive east to Bethany (the home of Martha and David’s Tomb on the grounds of Mt. Zion. Return why am I so honored, that the mother of my Lord on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus passed through should come to me?” (Luke 1: 41-43) Burqin and cured 10 lepers. DAY 7 - Sunday, WE ARE GOING UP TO Lazarus) and into through the Judean desert down once again to the Garden Tomb where we end JERUSALEM into the Jordan Valley and to Jericho (visit the tell our journey tour with a special visit and the pos- After passing through Jenin (the Canaanite village “He will be called the Nazarene” (Matthew 2:23) On After arrival procedures, we will drive up the of this oldest city and view the traditional mountain sibility of having a private service on its grounds. Judean Hills passing Jerusalem en route to of Ein-Ganeem) we come to Harod’s Valley for a our drive to Nazareth, we shall stop where Jesus wonderful view filled with biblical history. Next we performed his first miracle, of Jesus’ temptation). Continue to Qumran on the GreeceBethlehem, stopping briefly at picturesque Ein shores of the Dead Sea to view the cave where DAY 11 - Thursday, LUTHERAN PRESENCE Greece Kareem village, the birthplace of John the Baptist. visit Beth Shean to climb the tel and survey the the transformation of water into wine. We proceed We plan to visit the Church of Visitation (the Church magnificent Roman and Byzantine ruins: theatre, to the top of Mt. the scrolls were found. At Masada take the ca- IN JERUSALEM / USA of the Magnificent - Mary’s song in Luke 1:46-55), bathhouses, ancient rest rooms, market areas, Precipice for a panoramic view of the Jezreel with ble car to the top, visiting Herod’s mountain bun- After a leisurely breakfast we walk to the near- colonnaded streets. Drive north through the Jordan Mt. Tabor in the distance and the Carmel Range in and St. John’s Church before continuing south past ker and the last stronghold of the Jewish revolt by Redeemer church for our own private ser- Rachel’s Tomb to our hotel located in Bethlehem. Valley brings us to the Sea of Galilee where we the west. We shall spend the rest of the morning check into our hotel along the shores of the Sea of getting acquainted with Jesus’ home town, visiting against Rome (66-73 AD). After floating on the vice at the Crusader Chapel. We will have the Galilee for the next 3 nights. its Dead Sea (at minus 1390 feet, as low as you’re opportunity to meet with Bishop Azar to hear DAY 3 - Wednesday, BETHELEHEM REGION “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has spring, where Mary would have done her family’s ever likely to get), we enter the nature reserve of further about the work of the Lutheran Church happened, which the laundry, and walking through the present-day Lord has told us about.” (Luke 2:15). bazaar, over the site of the ancient village, to the After enjoying the wonderful hilltop view of DAY 5 - Friday, A DAY AROUND THE SEA OF Church of the Annunciation. Bethlehem we visit Solomon’s Pools, Jerusalem’s GALILEE Biblicalmain source of water for almost 2,000 years. “They got into a boat, and started across the sea We then drive to the mound of Megiddo, har Biblical to Capernaum…” (John 6). After landing, “When Megiddo in Hebrew, which gave its name to CruisesPassing the monastery of Hortus Conclusus (“the 12 Day Lutheran Holy Land Cruises sealed garden”) in Artas, we continue to one of he saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside, Armageddon, and ascend Mt. Carmel, site of the traditional sites of the “Shepherds’ Fields.” and sat down” (Matt. 5:1). Today is dedicated to Elijah’s confrontation with the prophets of Baal. Experience the contrast between shepherds and touring the various important Drive south along the Mediterranean kings when we visit King Herod’s Summer Palace sites around the Sea of coast to Caesarea-by-the Sea. $3699 $4099 $4199 (Herodium). Back in Bethlehem we will walk Galilee. First we shall drive We enter the ancient harbor of through the old town to the Church of the Nativity to the Mount of Beatitudes Caesarea Marittima (once the Roman and visit the manger and St Jerome’s Grotto. for a visit, a few prayers bridgehead to the East which became and chance for pictures. the Christian springboard to the West). Then drive down to Tabgha Drive up the historic Beth Horon road Then walk through the traditional Souq to the 2020 Nov 1 - 12 Sept 7 - 18 Oct 19 - 30 Lutheran Christmas Church and meet with Pastor where the first feeding of to the Benjamin Plateau, passing Dr. Mitri Raheb, the acting pastor, acclaimed the multitude took place. ancient Gibeon before reaching writer and director of Dar El Kalima consortium to Continue to Capernaum Jerusalem. Finally, atop Mt. Scopus, where Franciscan we behold majestic Jerusalem. Dinner Europediscuss the Living Stones. Tour the college and Europe the cultural center that he established in an effort archaeologists believe they and overnight at our hotel. to help meet the cultural and educational needs of have uncovered the house of March 1 - 12 Peter. We drive to the northern the Palestinian community. Dinner and overnight at 2021 Jan 4 - 15 Apr 5 - 16 Oct 11 -22 our hotel. end of the Sea of Galilee and DAY 8 - Monday, O JERUSALEM stop at Beth Saida, which “...He saw the city and wept over it...” Nov 1 - 12 is the fishing village of the Gospels, and home to (Luke 19:41). Today we will start on the Mt. of Olives DAY 4 - Thursday, BIBLICAL HEARLAND “He answered, “We are on our way from Bethlehem Peter, Andrew, and Philip (John 1:44). It was here with the Old City spread out before us. Descend in Judah to a remote area in the hill country of that Jesus performed most of his miracles. After the traditional Palm Sunday road to Dominus Ephraim where I live. I have been to Bethlehem lunch we follow the eastern banks of the sea to Flevit, remembering Jesus’ entry. At the Garden in Judah and now I am going to the house of the Kursi where the miracle of the swine took place. of Gethsemane we will have some quiet time to EducationalLord. No one has taken me in for the night. We Passing through Ein Gev we arrive back at the reflect. Continue through the Valley of Jehosafat to Apr 4 - 15 Oct 17 - 28 Educational Jordan River and the modern Baptismal site of the Dung Gate where we may descend the slope of the 2022 Jan 10 - 21 Tourshave both straw and fodder for our donkeys and Nov 7 - 18 Tours bread and wine for ourselves your servants—me, Yardenit. Here we will have an opportunity to renew first Jerusalem (“City of David”) to the Gihon spring, the woman and the young man with us. We don’t our Baptismal vows before we return to the hotel. and view the knee-high water through Hezekiah’s tunnel. . 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Suddenly, the angel was joined by a vast host of others—the and arrange your own air to Israel armies of heaven—praising God and saying, “Glory to God in highest heaven, and peace on earth to those with whom God is pleased.” Luke 2:8-14 Breakfast with Jesus on the Sea of Galilee That night there where Jesus said to them, “Come and eat breakfast.” On the shore of the Sea of Galilee we remember Jesus’ invitation to His disciples we offer NET land only rates. to join Him for breakfast. Jesus gives a similar invitation to you today, (YOUR TOUR DATE) “So when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon These rate are Non-Commissionable with No Free Peter, ‘Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me more than these?’ He said to Him, ‘Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.’ He said to him, ‘Feed My lambs.’ Rates include: (John 21:15). You have visited the land of our Lord; now, go feed His lambs. First Class Hotels trips included. 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2022 Dec 21 - Jan 5 As a tour leader, you will let your students and young adults: 1. Bring the Bible to life by visiting the lands where it all happened. 10 Days in the Holy Land 11 Days in the Holy Land 2. Find new meaning and a new depth of scriptural understanding, which will reinforce their faith. Adding Rabbi Tunnel, Yad Vashem and Shrine of the Book Adding Upper Galilee 3. Make a new commitment to Jesus as they “walk where he walked”; renew their baptismal vows in the Jordan; have communion with your students at the Garden Tomb. Rabbi Tunnel, Yad Vashem, Shrine of the Book Rabbi Tunnel, Yad Vashem, Shrine of the Book 4. Experience new sights and sounds that are a part of the daily lives of the people living in the Middle East. $1899 $1999 $2099 $2099 $1999 $2099 $2199 $2299 Educational travel planning is easy with the help from Maranatha Tours. Ask us how we can CUSTOMIZE YOUR TOUR to your exact specifications. Tour where and how you like. Add special activities to make your tour a great experience for the students: have tea or cofee in Europe Mar 1 - 28 Mar 1 - 28 a Bedioun tent, climb to the waterfalls at Ein Gedi, ride a camel, hike the Dan Nature Reserve or schedule time after dinner to share thoughts June 1 - July 31 Apr 10 - May 31 Mar 29 - Apr 9 June 1 - July 31 Apr 10 - May 31 Mar 29 - Apr 9 Jan 6 - 29 Jan 6 - 29 from the day, to name just a few options available to you. Nov 16 - Dec 20 Aug 1 -Sept 08 Sept 09- 21 Nov 16 - Dec 20 Aug 1 -Sept 08 Sept 09- 21

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Footsteps of Jesus Combine the Holy Land with Holy Land & Beyond Jordan, Turkey, Egypt, Greece or Italy 10Days Travel to the Holy Land Holy Land & Jordan Beyond the Jordan is a great addition to the Holy Land. See the sites of Jesus and and easily extend your the Red Rock City of Petra, one of the Seven Wonders of the World. trip to Petra, Cairo, Starting at $3,699 Ephesus, Athens or Rome Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 NEW YORK / AMMAN AMMAN AMMAN / TIBERIAS TIBERIAS / JERUSALEM AMMAN TIBERIAS JERUSALEM Board flight to Arrive Amman Petra Madaba Sea of Galilee Nazareth Masada Jordan Mt Nebo Boat Ride Megiddo Dead Sea Bethany Beyond Tabgha Mt Carmel Qumran the Jordan Mount of Beati- Caesarea by Jericho Cross Israel tudes the Sea Border Bet Shean Jerusalem Tiberias Jordan River

Day 8 Day 9 Day 10 JERUSALEM JERUSALEM TEL AVIV / USA Mt of Olives Old City Board flight to Passion Walk Temple Mount USA Southern Wall Via Dolorosa Bethlehem Garden Tomb Beit Shean

Dear Mike, Jenni and Greg: Co-Hosted Tours in RED - Israel Portion of the tour only I am sure everyone who were on this tour will agree this was the tour of I would like to thank you all at all tours. I just wanted to take this 10Days Holy Land & Jordan Maranatha Tours for making opportunity to thank Maranatha Tours, this a most wonderful and Pastor Gilley and his 3 ABN team for $3699 $3899 $3999 $4299 memorable time. Everyone has making this trip most memorable. been most helpful and kind. And, of course, our Heavenly Father April 19 - 28 My body is here in Oz, but my for making it all possible. Yehuda Feb 2 - 11 Nov 1 - 10 May 10 - 19 July 5-14 Nov 29 - Dec 8 Sept 6 - 15 heart, soul and mind is still in is an outstanding guide and is dear 2020 to our hearts. I went not knowing beautiful Israel. I would love to April 4 - 13 Feb 28 - Mar 9 anyone and left with the feeling I had May 9 - 18 go again on the next available Jan 3 - 12 Oct 31- Nov 9 July 4 - 13 gained a family. What an awesome Oct 10 - 19

trip ... The Bible certainly 2021 God we serve. comes alive when you actually see these places. And I’m Blessings to everyone until we meet Mar 6 - 15 April 3 - 12 sure we all have memories to again. Jan 9 - 18 Nov 6 - 15 May 8 - 17 July 3 - 12 Oct 16 - 25 cherish until Jesus comes back 2022 soon in the clouds of Heaven. Maureen

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Days 11 Days Holy Land & Italy 12 Peter is quoted as saying “ I must see Rome” From the Sea of Galilee Holy Land, Egypt & Jordan to Rome, this trip will take you there. We visit the Vatican Museum, the Pilgrims have journeyed this route more than any other tour. You see the land of Sistine Chapel, and Mamertine Prison to mention only a few of the Jesus, the Red Rock city of Petra and the land of the Pharaoh’s. A great one! sights we will see today. Starting at $3,999 Starting at $4,699 ,, Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Day 1 Day 2 Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 USA / CAIRO CAIRO NEW YORK / TEL AVIV / TIBERIAS TIBERIAS / JERUSALEM TEL AVIV TIBERIAS JERUSALEM Board flight to Arrive Cairo Cairo Board flight to Arrive Tel Aviv Sea of Galilee Nazareth Masada Israel Tiberias Boat Ride Megiddo Dead Sea Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Day 9 Tabgha Mt Carmel Qumran Mount of Caesarea by the Jericho CAIRO CAIRO / AMMAN AMMAN AMMAN / TIBERIAS TIBERIAS / JERUSALEM Beatitudes Sea TIBERIAS JERUSALEM Bet Shean Jerusalem Memphis Egyptian Museum Petra Madaba Sea of Galilee Nazareth Masada Jordan River Sakkara Felucca Ride on Mt Nebo Boat Ride Megiddo Dead Sea Pyramids the Nile Bethany Beyond Tabgha Mt Carmel Qumran Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Day 9 Day 10 Day 11 Sphinx Old Cairo the Jordan Mount of Caesarea by the Jericho JERUSALEM JERUSALEM JERUSALEM / ROME ROME ROME / Board flight to Cross Israel Beatitudes Sea ROME USA Jordan Border Bet Shean Jerusalem Tiberias Jordan River Mt of Olives Old City Board flight to Church of Santa Vatican Museum Board flight home Passion Walk Temple Mount Italy Prisca and Gallery Day 10 Day 11 Day 12 Southern Wall Via Dolorosa Catacombs of Sistine Chapel Bethlehem Garden Tomb San Sebastian St. Peter’s JERUSALEM JERUSALEM TEL AVIV / USA Abbey of the Basilica Mt of Olives Old City Board Flight to Three Fountains Colosseum Passion Walk Temple Mount USA St Paul Outside Pantheon Southern Wall Via Dolorosa Arrival USA Co-Hosted Tours in RED - Israel Portion of the tour only the Walls Bethlehem Garden Tomb Co-Hosted Tours in RED - Israel Portion of the tour only 12Days12Days Holy HolyLand Land, , Egypt Egypt & Jordan & Jordan 11Days Holy Land & Italy $3899 $4399 $4499 $4699 $4699 $4799 $4899 $5299 June 5 – 16 $3999 $4199 $4699 Oct 9 – 20 Dec 25 – Jan 5, 2016 March 13 - 24 April 17 - 28 July 10 - 21 Jan 31 - Feb 11 Oct 30 - Nov 10 Oct 30 – Nov 10 May 8 - 19 Aug 7 – 18 2015 Nov 27 - Dec 8 July 3 - 14 Jan 7 - 17 Sept 8 - 18 Sept 4 - 15 June 23 - July 3 2020 Nov 3 - 13 Jan 8 - 19 (Special Apr 1 - 12

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13Days 12Days Holy Land & Turkey Holy Land, Turkey & Greece Two places of communion not to be miss; Garden Tomb & Ephesus. This trip will Visit the Parthenon & Mars Hill with a tour of the Blue Mosque, St.So- follow the traveles of Paul and visit the 7 Churches of Revelation. phia & Bosphorus Cruise. Your Bible study of Paul’s journeys will come Starting at $3,999 to life on this trip. Starting at $4,099

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 NEW YORK / TEL AVIV / TIBERIAS TIBERIAS / JERUSALEM USA / TEL AVIV TEL AVIV / TIBERIAS TIBERIAS / JERUSALEM TEL AVIV TIBERIAS JERUSALEM TIBERIAS JERUSALEM Board flight to Arrive Tel Aviv Sea of Galilee Nazareth Masada Board flight to Arrive Tel Aviv Sea of Galilee Nazareth Masada Israel Tiberias Boat Ride Megiddo Dead Sea Israel Tiberias Boat Ride Megiddo Dead Sea Tabgha Mt Carmel Qumran Tabgha Mt Carmel Qumran Mount of Caesarea by the Jericho Mount of Caesarea by the Jericho Beatitudes Sea Beatitudes Sea Bet Shean Jerusalem Bet Shean Jerusalem Jordan River Jordan River

Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Day 9 Day 10 Day 11 Day 12 Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Day 9 Day 10 Day 11 Day 12 JERUSALEM JERUSALEM TEL AVIV / ISTANBUL / BURSA / PAMUKKALE / KUSADASI / JERUSALEM JERUSALEM TEL AVIV / ISTANBUL ISTANBUL / ATHENS ATHENS / ISTANBUL BURSA PAMUKKALE KUSADASI IZMIR ISTANBUL ATHENS USA Mt of Olives Old City Board flight to Topkapi Palace Thyatira Hierapolis Ephesus Mt of Olives Old City Board flight to Spice Bazaar Free time in Acropolis Board flight to Passion Walk Temple Mount Istanbul Nicaea Sardis Laodicea Smyrna Passion Walk Temple Mount Istanbul Bosphorus Cruise Istanbul Corinth USA Southern Wall Via Dolorosa Blue Mosque Bursa Philadelphia Kusadasi Pergamum Southern Wall Via Dolorosa Topkapi Palace Board flight to Bethlehem Garden Tomb Basilica of St Pamukkale Izmir Bethlehem Garden Tomb Blue Mosque Athens Sophia Basilica of St Sophia Co-Hosted Tours in RED - Israel Portion of the tour only Day 13 IZMIR / Co-Hosted Tours in RED - Israel Portion of the tour only 12Days Holy Land, Turkey & Greece ISTANBUL / USA Board connection 13Days Holy Land & Turkey flight to USA $4099 $4299 $4399 $4899 $4199 $4299 $4699 Feb 4-15 Oct 20-31 Apr 21 - May 2 Dec 1 - 12 June 23 - July 4

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we will visit Pasabag Valley, also known as Monk’s 9 Days in Turkey: Add Bosphorus Add More of Turkey Valley, to explore its tower-shaped hermitages. We DAY 1 - Monday, NEW YORK / ISTANBUL will end our day at the potter’s studio in Avanos, a Tour members are welcomed for our de- The 7 Churches of Revelation Cruise town established by the Hittites on the banks of the part¬ing flight to Istanbul via wide-body air- & Cappadocia Halys River. This town has carried on the Hittities’ DAY 1 -,Sunday, NEW YORK / ISTANBUL tradition of pottery that uses the river’s famous red craft ar¬riving the next day. Meals served on DAY 9 - Tuesday, ISTANBUL / ANTAKYA / AD- board. Extensions Tour member are welcomed for our departing clay to make ceramics. Dinner and overnight in $2699 $2799 $3099 ANA Cappadocia. Turkey flight to Istanbul via wide-body aircraft arriving After enjoying our breakfast, we will head to the Turkey the next day. Meals served on board. Istanbul Ataturk Airport to board our flight to Ha- Egypt DAY 2 - Tuesday, ISTANBUL DAY 12 - Friday, CAPPADOCIA / KONYA Egypt Upon arrival to the Istanbul Ataturk Airport, *APR 6 - 14 *JUNE 8 - 16 tay Airport. Upon arrival, we will drive close by to This morning we leave Cappadocia bound for Kon- Jordan we will meet our guide in the arrivals hall NOV 30 - DEC 8 Pre Extension to DAY 2 -Monday, ISTANBUL the city of Antakya (Antioch), an important seat of Jordan *OCT 19 - 27 *AUG 10 - 18 Upon arrival to the Istanbul Ataturk Airport, ya. First, we reach ancient Iconium, where Paul the and head to our hotel located near Tak- 2020 Bosphorus Cruise early Christianity. Here, we will visit the Mosaic Apostle and Barnabas invested a lot of their mis- sim Square, the bustling heart of modern we will meet our guide in the arrivals hall and Museum to see the second largest collection of $299 (*add $50) head to our hotel located near Taksim Square, sionary efforts preaching the Gospel despite per- Istan¬bul. Dinner and overnight in Istanbul. classical and Roman mosaics in the world. After- secution. According to Acts, they spoke boldly for the bustling heart of modern Istanbul. Dinner wards, we will head to one of the oldest churches the Lord, who confirmed the message of his grace and overnight in Istanbul. in Christianity, the Church of St. Peter. This church DAY 3 - Wednesday, ISTANBUL / TOPKA- *APR 5- 13 *JUNE 7 - 15 by enabling them to do miraculous signs and won- NOV 29 - DEC 7 is actually a cave carved into the side of Mount ders (Acts 14:1-3). Then, we will head to Konya’s PI PALACE / GRAND BAZAAR *OCT 18 - 26 *AUG 9 - 17 Starius where the first Christians of Asia Minor 2021 DAY3 - Tuesday, ISTANBUL / BOSPHORUS city center and visit the Mevlana Museum, which After enjoying our Turkish breakfast, we will worshipped. Before returning to our hotel, we will depart from our hotel and begin our tour of CRUISE / ASIA houses the tomb of the great 13th-century Persian Post Extension to We will begin our day with a morning of shopping see Selucia Pieria, the ancient port of Antioch from poet and founder of the Order of the Whirling Der- the historical highlights of Istanbul. First, we at Eminönü’s Spice Bazaar. Al Bazaar, this large which the Apostle Paul and Barnabas embarked visit the beautiful Rustem Pasha Mosque, More of turkey & vishes, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi. Popularly Cappadocia covered market has remained the city’s center on their first missionary journeys as chronicled by known as Rumi in Western countries, meaning which was designed by the extraordinarily Acts (Acts:13:4). Dinner and overnight in Adana. NOV 28 - DEC 6 *APR 4 - 12 *JUNE 6 - 14 $849 (*add $150) for spice trade century. Next, we will embark on a “Roman” in Arabic, his followers and Muslims alike prolific Ottoman imperial architect, Mimar *OCT 17 - 25 *AUG 8 - 16 cruise of the Bosphorus, the winding straight that call him “Mevlana”, meaning “our master”. We will Sinan. Then walk to the nearby Eminönü’s 2022 separates Europe and Asia and connects the DAY 10 - Wednesday, ADANA / TARSUS / CAP- then end our day at the Karatay Museum. This for- Spice Bazaar, the large covered market Black Sea with the inland Sea of Marmara. This PADOCIA mer medrese, or place of learning, was founded that has remained the city’s center for spice is our time to relish the views of the old wooden Today, we depart from our Adana hotel to drive in 1251 by the Seljuk emir Celaleddin Karatay as trade since its creation in the 17th century. mansions, Ottoman palaces, and ancient for- to the dusty provincial town of Tarsus. Once the an institution for Islamic studies. Today the build- Afterwards enjoy a stroll through Hippo- tresses that dot the river’s coast before the ship capital of the province of Cilicia, Tarsus was the ing is a museum showcasing the most beautiful drome Square, the former sporting and here (Colossians 4:13). Here we stroll drops us off in Asia! Here, we will visit Beylerbeyi site where Mark Antony and Cleopatra first met, examples of Seljuk tile work. Dinner and overnight social center of Constantinople. Next, we among a number of important ruins includ- DAY 7 - Sunday, KUSADASI / SMYRNA / Palace, which was constructed between 1861 and is the birthplace of Paul the Apostle. According in Konya. ing well-pre¬served Roman structures like PERGAMUM / CANAKKALE and 1865 during the reign of Sultan Abdülaziz to Acts, Paul was born “Saul of Tarsus”, but was are off to the domed masterpiece of Hagia brought up in Jerusalem and became “Paul the Sophiaand then on to Topkapi Palace, the the town the¬atre and Temple of Apollo be- This morning, we drive to the thriving as a summer residence for the Ottoman sul- DAY 13 - Saturday, KONYA / ANTIOCH PISIDIA fore continuing on to Laodicea. This city was mod¬ern city of Izmir and visit the ruins of tans. Next, we will enjoy impressive views from Apostle” after his encounter with Christ (Acts 9:11; former abode of Ottoman Sultans that still 21:39; 22:3). Here we will visit the Well of St. Paul / ANTALYA houses their legion of treasures, including one of the Sev¬en Churches that the Apos- ancient Smyrna, one of the Seven Churches. Camlica Hill. At 268 meters above sea level, it is Today, we depart Konya and head to the modern the highest point in Istanbul, offering panoram- and the Gate of Cleopatra. Afterwards, we head town of Yalvac to see the ruins of Antioch in Pi- an extensive collection of royal jewels. We tle John chastised the inhabitants for being It was here that the apostle John relays the north to Cappadocia, where we will stop at Pigeon lukewarm (Rev. 3:14-22). Here we will see prom¬ise from God: “Be faithful until death, ic views of the surrounding area. From the top, sidia. Sitting on the southern foothills of the Sul- will end our day with an evening of shopping we can see the Bosphorus Bridge, the Eminonu Valley to enjoy a panoramic view of this region’s at the Grand Bazaar, the massive covered the site’s well-pre¬served stadium, gymna- and I will give you the crown of life” (Rev tan Mountains, this city was once a major Roman Peninsula, the Sea of Marmara, and the Princes’ unique rock formations, popularly known as fairy colony that Paul the Apostle visited on his First market that houses a labyrinth of streets sium, and theatres, giving us insight into this 2:10). Continue on to Pergamum, one of the chimneys. Formed over many centuries by wind city’s former promi¬nence. Next, we drive to most powerful cities in the ancient world. Island. And if the skies are clear this day, we Missionary Journey with Barnabas. Here we will lined with shops selling jewelry, leather prod- may also see as far as Mount Uludag near Bur- and water erosion on soft volcanic rock, these rock tour the archeological site and visit the Yalvaç Ar- ucts and many other handcrafted souvenirs. Kusadasi, a beauti¬ful resort town that sits Although the city benefited from immense sa! Then, we will drive across the bridge back to formations rise high from the valley floor like chim- on the Aegean coast. Dinner and overnight wealth, in the book of Revelation, the risen chaeological Museum to see a display of many of Dinner and overnight in Istanbul. Europe and return to our hotel. Dinner and over- neys. Early inhabitants of this region carved these the site’s discovered artifacts. Afterwards, we will in Kusadasi. Christ instructs John to convey the mes- night in Istanbul. chimney tops with birdhouses to collect pigeon continue onto Antalya, Turkey’s largest internation- DAY 4 - Thursday, ISTANBUL / THYATIRA sage that the people of Pergamum, the site droppings long used by local farmers as fertilizer. al sea resort which sits on the beautiful Mediterra- / SARDIS / PHILADELPHIA DAY 6 - Saturday, KUSADASI / EPHESUS of “Satan’s throne”, needed to repent (Rev Dinner and overnight in Cappadocia. nean coast. Dinner and overnight in Antalya. Today, after an early breakfast we head to / KUSADASI 2:13-16). To¬day, we will tour the Acropolis, the pier to embark our ferry departing to the Today, we are off to explore Ephesus. Lo- the Temple of Trajan, Temple of Athena, and DAY 11 - Thursday, CAPPADOCIA DAY 14 - Sunday, ANTALYA / PERGE / ASPEN- cated in the modern town of Selcuk, ancient the Altar of Zeus. Unfortunately,Revelation little2:8-11 is left of This morning, we will visit the Kaymakli Under- Port of Bandirma. Upon our arrival, we head ground City, the most impressive of the subter- DOS to the town of Akhisar to visit ancient Thy- Ephesus is one of the most well-preserved the altar, which was once among the grand- After breakfast, we are off to the archeological site ranean settlements due to its ventilation system. of Perge, a chief city of Pamphylia that was visit- at¬ira, one of the Seven Churches praised archaeological sites in Turkey. Originally est mon¬uments of the ancient world. In Afterwards, we are off to explore the Monastic for its increasing faith but admonished for its an ancient Greek Ionic city built in the 10th fact, every stone of the structure, including ed twice by Paul the Apostle and his companion Center of Goreme. This open-air museum is dot- St. Barnabas (Acts 13:13–14 and 14:25). Here we tolerance of Jezebel (Rev. 2:18-28). Next, century B.C., Ephesus grew to become the its 400-foot long frieze depicting the battle ted with quaint carved-from-rock churches and we continue to Sardis, where we will explore largest metropolis and capital of the Roman of the gods and giants, was shipped off to will explore Perge’s extensive ruins, including a chapels embellished with colorful frescoes. Then, well-preserved theatre, the Agora, a colonnaded the white marble royal way, the massive province of Asia Minor. Ephesus played a vi- Berlin by Ger¬man archaeologists leaving we will visit Ortahisar to see its gorgeous valleys tal role in the spread of Christianity. Starting only the altar’s foundation. Thankfully, much boulevard, Roman baths, a gymnasium, the ne- Temple of Artemis, the large gymnasium, and stop at the Three Beauties, the most famous cropolis, a memorial fountain, and the Greek and and the famous synagogue. Annual archae- in the first century A.D., notable Christians more remains of the Great Theatre. Among of the region’s many cone shaped such as Paul and John visited and rebuked the steepest of its kind and an acoustic phe- Roman gates. Next, we are off to the ancient Gre- ological expeditions sponsored by Harvard rock formations. Today, we will also co-Roman city of Aspendos to see the best-pre- and Cor¬nell Universities have unearthed the cults of Artemis, winning many Christian nomenon, this theatre could entertain up to hike through the valley of Zelve served theatre of antiquity. Here we will also see over eighty Greek and seven Hebrew in- converts in the process. Mary, the mother 10,000 specta¬tors. Nearby are the remains and see its hundreds of carved- the ruins of a basilica, agora, nymphaeum, Roman scriptions, as well as numerous mosaic of Jesus, is thought to have spent her last of the famous Library of Pergamum. Contin- from-rock houses and chapels and aqueduct, and the Roman floors revealing this synagogue as one of the years in Ephesus with John, who was en- ue our drive to Canakkle dinner and over- Eurymedon Bridge before most significant synagogues of antiquity. Af- trusted with her care. Today, we will walk on night. returning to our Antalya ho- terwards, we will head to the modern town of the Marble Road passing numerous histori- tel. Dinner and overnight in Alasehir and visit the site of ancient Philadel- cally rich sites including the Temple of Arte- DAY 8 - Monday, February 29, 2016 Antalya. phia, the church that received God’s highest mis (Diana), the fountain of Trajan, and the CANAKKALE / TROY / ISTANBUL commendation (Rev. 3:7-13). Here we will Temple of Hadrian. We will also see the Li- After breakfast, we will drive to the village of DAY 15 - Monday, ANTALYA see the remains of a brick-built Byzantine brary of Celsus, which adorns the site’s most Tevfikiye by the entrance of the Dardanelles / USA basilica adorned with 11th century frescoes. impressive square, and sit in the theater (the to see the remains of the legendary city of Today, head to the Antalya Airport to board our flight Dinner and over-night in Denizli. largest surviving from the Roman period). Troy. Settled as early as 3,000 B.C., Troy This massive theatre (capable of entertain- was made famous by Homer’s Iliad, the epic back home via Istanbul. DAY 5 - Friday, DENIZILI / PAMUKKALE / ing up to 25,000 spectators) was the scene ac¬count of the Trojan War. Afterwards, we LAODICEA / KUSADASI of an uprising provoked by a merchant will cross the Dardanelles by ferry and head This morning we are off to visit Pamuk¬kale, named Demetrius against St. Paul and his to Istanbul for dinner and overnight. “Cotton Castle”, and dip our feet in the “Cot- teachings (Acts 19:23). Before returning to ton Castle”, and dip our feet in the thermal our Kusadasi hotel, we will stop at the ruins waters that flow down the hilltop’s unique of St. John’s Basilica. Constructed by Jus- DAY 9 - Tuesday, March 1, 2016 Basilica of St. Sophia white travertine terraces. At the sum¬mit tinian in the 6th century, this basilica stands ISTANBUL / USA we explore the archeological remains of over the believed burial site of John the Today we say good-bye to Turkey and return Hierapolis, a significant site of early Chris- Apostle. Dinner and overnight in Kusadasi. to the Ataturk International Airport to board tianity thanks to Paul’s missionary efforts our flight back home. 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most significant event associated with the says Lazarus was raised from the dead) After Jesus’ baptism at Bethany, he spent River Jordan is undoubtedly the baptism of “ The Bible clearly records that Jesus was forty days in the wilderness west of the River our Lord Jesus Christ by John the Baptist. baptized by John the Baptist (Matthew 3: 13- Jordan, where he fasted and resisted the 8 Days in Egypt & Jordan: It is strongly suggested that this took place 17), and that John the Baptist lived, preached temptations of Satan (Mark 1: 13, Matthew “Exodus” Extensions very close to Beit Abara, where Joshua, and baptized in the village of Bethany, on “the 4: 1-11).” Continue to Amman where we are $3399 $3499 $3699 $4199 Elijah and Elisha crossed the river. In the other side of the Jordan” (John 1: 28). The taken to our hotel for dinner and overnight. New Testament times, it became known as baptism site, known in Arabic as al-Maghtas, MAR 19 - 26 APRIL 30 - MAY 7 Bethany, the village of John the Baptist. (This is located at the head of a lush valley just FEB 6- 13 JUNE 11 - 18 Bethany is not to be confused with the village east of the Jordan River. It is now protected DAY 8 – Thursday: AMMAN / NEW YORK

2020 NOV 5 - 12 SEPT 17 - 24 of Bethany near Jerusalem, where the Bible and since 1999 it is accessible to visitors. This morning we go to the airport for our Exodus Pre Extension to Nile Cruise -$1,599 or MAR 18 - 25 APRIL 29 - May 6 Luxor: FEB 4 - 11 JUNE 10- 16 Nov ‘19 - Oct ‘20 -$899

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DAY 2 - Friday: CAIRO DAY 6 - Thursday : KOM OMBO / ASWAN DAY 3 - Thursday : LUXOR / EAST BANK Upon arrival we are met by our escort and we begin our ascent up Mount Sinai, walk- Add Nile Cruise / NILE CRUISE This morning will be free to sleep in or to This morning we sail to Aswan where we see explore the area on your own. Breakfast is board our bus for a transfer to our hotel for ing in the footsteps of Moses and the devout DAY 1 - Saturday: USA / LUXOR dinner and overnight. pilgrims who have trodden this same route the Aswan High Dam. We then head for the available at the hotel. We begin our late Depart USA arriving in Luxor the next day. quarries of ancient Thebes and a chance morning tour at the Luxor Temple on the throughout earlier centuries until today. We Meals served on board. should reach the summit just before dawn to walk on the Unfinished Obelisk. After a bank of the Nile as well as the complex of DAY 3 – Saturday: PYRAMIDS / EGYPTIAN in time to witness its incredible sunrise and relaxing lunch on board, we take a sailboat temples at Karnak -- including Amun Temple, cruise to Elephantine Island and the Aga the largest columnar structure ever raised. MUSEUM splendid views. At the summit is the tradi- “Siq” passage, the main entrance to Petra, DAY 2 - Sunday : LUXOR After breakfast, we begin our tour by visiting tional peak relating to the story of Moses’ Khan’s mausoleum. Here the tombs reveal Continue our exploration amid massive which first brings us to the Treasury, which This afternoon we arrive in Istanbul where the colossal space concepts of the early columns and inscrutable statues at Luxor’s the Pyramids of Giza. Cheops Pyramid, the encounter with God receiving the two tablets was featured in the Indiana Jones’ movie. we board our late night flight to Egypt. Upon largest of the three which was built in the 3rd with the Ten Commandments knows as the Memphis architects. Dinner on board the fertility shrine of the sun god. Then horse- A walk further down through the outer ‘Siq’, arrival in Luxor we will be met and taken to ship. drawn caleches continue to the Avenue of the dynasty about 2690 B.C. and is one of the basis of the Mosaic Laws. Descending the which is encompassed by tombs and burial our hotel for overnight. seven wonders of the ancient world. In front of mountain we return to the hotel to rejoin the Sphinxes and Karnak’s colossal wonders. chambers, brings you to one of the largest Return to the hotel for dinner and overnight. the Pyramids of Chephren, we find the Sphinx rest of the group for breakfast. We spend the theaters in Jordan. This theater is carved carved from a single piece of stone, it incorpo- later part of the morning touring St. Cather- DAY 7 - Friday : ASWAN / CAIRO into the sandstone mountains of Petra at DAY 3 - Monday : LUXOR / KARNAK / This morning we will be at leisure before we rates a lion with a Pharaoh’s head, thought to ine Monastery, taking in its fascinating and the bottom of the High Place of Sacrifice NILE CRUISE be a portrait of the Pharaoh Chephren son of unique sights and exceptional history tradi- leave our cruise ship and be taken to the DAY 4 - Friday: LUXOR / WEST BANK / Mountain. Apparently, some sacrificial rituals This morning we will have free time before airport for our flight to Cairo. This afternoon CAIRO Cheops. After a camel ride we visit the Papy- tional Burning Bush and the Chamber of the used to take place here. Now, it is time to transfering to our cruise ship where we will rus Institute. Skulls. we will board our flight to Cairo. Continue to After breakfast, a ferry boat takes us across walk up hill to the Royal Tombs; The Urn, check in. This afternoon we will visit the our hotel for dinner and overnight. the river to the West Bank of the Nile, to Corinthian, Silk, and Palace Tombs. You will Luxor Temple on the bank of the Nile. We In the afternoon, visit the Egyptian Museum fa- After lunch we board our bus and head to- visit the fabled Colossi of Memnon. We have a great view of the lower part of Petra will also visit the complex of temples at then continue to the mortuary Temple of mous for its antiquities from Egypt’s Pharaonic wards the eastern shores of the Sinai Penin- with all its Roman remains. We retrace our Karnak, including Amun Temple, the largest period, which dates back some 50 centuries sula on the Red Sea to Tabah where we cross Hatshepsut, Egypt’s only female pharaoh, steps to the entrance and return to our hotel columnar structure ever raised. Continue and the Valley of the Kings, where we step and includes the fabulous treasures of king into Israel at the southern tip of the country in Petra for dinner and overnight. our exploration amid massive columns and Tut –Ankh-Amon (Tutankhamen). Return to and make our way to the Jordan border. After from a dramatic landscape of sun, sand and inscrutable statues at Luxor’s fertility shrine rugged mountain peaks into the dark silence our hotel for dinner. crossing into Jordan we will meet our Jorda- of the sun god. Then we take horse-drawn nian guide and drive north for approximately Add Luxor of some of the sixty-four tombs discovered caleches and continue to the Avenue of the here to date. Return to the airport where we 2 hours to the Nabtean city of Petra. Check DAY 7 – Wednesday: MADABA / MT NEBO Sphinxes and Karnak’s colossal wonders. DAY 1 - Tuesday: NEW YORK / LUXOR into our hotel for dinner and overnight. board our flight to Cairo. Upon arrival we will / BETHANY / AMMAN Dine aboard as the felucca sails zigzag Depart USA arriving in Egypt the next day. transfer to our hotel for dinner and overnight. This morning we board our bus and drive across the sunset. Meals served on board. along the Exodus route north along the famed Day 6 – Tuesday: PETRA historical King’s Highway. Arriving at Madab Today we will spend time in one of the Seven we will see St George’s Church with its 6th DAY 4 - Tuesday : LUXOR / ESNA / EDFU DAY 2 - Wednesday: LUXOR Wonders of the World. Start the tour of Petra; century mosaic floor showing a map of the - NILE CRUISE This afternoon we arrive in Istanbul where you are in the heart of the rose red Seir Holy Land as Christian pilgrims knew it in that After breakfast, a ferry boat takes us across we board our late night flight to Egypt. Upon mountains as mentioned in the Biblical Book Sphinx period. Continue to Mt. Nebo, from where the river to the West Bank of the Nile to arrival in Luxor we will be met and taken to of Genesis. This mountain range houses the God showed Moses the Promised Land. visit the fabled Colossi of Memnon. We our hotel for overnight. Aaron Peak, which is the highest locality in then continue to the mortuary Temple of Petra and the burial place of Aaron, brother This afternoon we take a short drive to the Hatshepsut (Egypt’s only female pharaoh) of Moses. We take a walk through the narrow recently discovered baptismal site of “Bethany and the Valley of the Kings, where we step beyond the Jordan” For us Christians, the from a dramatic landscape of sun, sand DAY 4 – Sunday: CAIRO / SUEZ CANAL / and rugged mountain peaks, into the dark ST. CATHERINES silence of some of the sixty-four tombs Starting early from Cairo, we board our bus discovered here to date. Return to our cruise and drive towards Sinai crossing over the ship for lunch. Threading through the Esna Suez Canal we drive through Sinai Peninsula Locks, we arrive at Esna an hour later. We enjoying the desert landscape, retelling the go ashore to visit the ornately hewn Temple story of the Exodus and the delivery of the Is- of Khnum with its gracious, colonnaded raelites from the Pharaoh of Egypt. From here vestibule. Return to the ship where we enjoy we head straight to the towering red granite dinner as we sail to Edfu. mountains of the high range where both St. Catherine’s monastery and Mt. Sinai are found. Check into our hotel for our evening DAY 5 - Wednesday : EDFU / KOM OMBO/ meal and overnight. NILE CRUISE This morning we explore the birth house at the Temple of Horus and other engaging DAY 5 - Monday: ST. CATHERINE’S / sights. This afternoon we cruise the Nile, TABAH / PETRA enjoying the splendid poolside facilities of For those who are physically capable and our luxurious barge en route to Kom Ombo. would like to climb, in the early morning hours In Kom Ombo, we see it’s unique and spectacular temple, dedicated to two gods: Horus the sun god, and Sobek the crocodile Petra god. Tonight, we enjoy dinner aboard, followed by a lively Galabeya Party with a Temple of Horus display of oriental dancing.

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8 Days in Italy: : “I MUST SEE ROME” Post Extension Option $3199 $3299 $3399 $3799 Extensions 8 Days in Italy: Footsteps of Peter & Paul Footsteps of Peter & Paul Post Extension to Northern Italy for FEB 24- MAR 2 OCT 5- 12 MAY 25 - JUN 1 JAN 20 - 27 countryside to the highway where we MAR 23 - MAR 30 NOV 2 - 9 JULY 27 - AUG 3 JAN /FEB /MARCH: 2020 Add Northern Italy travel towards the north and reach $2,199 Venice. Upon arrival, we transfer to OCT or NOV: $2,299 central Venice by private motor-boat DAY 1 - Monday, NEW YORK / ROME to tour the magnificent Piazza and FEB 22 - MAR 1 OCT 4 - 11 MAY 24 - 31 DAY 8 - Monday: ROME / ASSISI / Tour members are welcomed this evening JAN 18 - 26 MAY or JULY: $2, 399 Basilica of St. Mark’s, its marvelous at JFK International Airport for our depart- MAR 22 - 29 NOV 1 - 8 JULY 26 - AUG 2 FLORENCE Byzantine-style architecture studded ing flight to Rome via Jumbo Jet arriving 2021 This morning we will go through the with colored marbles and glittering the next day. Meals served on board. Umbrian green hills covered in olive gold mosaics and housing the tomb groves and vineyards to reach Assisi. of the Evangelist Mark. Visit also the Upon arrival, meet your local guide elaborate Doge’s Palace, the lavish FEB 21 - 28 OCT 3 - 10 MAY 23 - 30 and start an unforgettable walk through home of the former Venetian rulers DAY 2 - Tuesday, ARRIVAL / POZZUOLI JAN 17 - 25 Upon arrival at Fiumicino airport near MAR 21 - 28 NOV 7 - 14 JULY 25 - AUG 1 the narrow streets of the ancient town with its famous Bridge of Sighs, where Rome, we will be met by our escort and 2022 which sweeps the flanks of Monte prisoners crossed before being led make our way to Pozzuoli (Putuoli) on Bay Subasio. You will visit the Church to the dungeons. Enjoy some time at of Naples, where Paul first entered the of Santa Chiara, the site where St. leisure for an optional gondola ride or mainland of the peninsula. We will pass Francis was born and then on to see for shopping. Transfer to our hotel for by the ancient amphitheater and have an the house where he spent the first dinner and overnight. overview of the seaport of Pozzuoli and DAY 5 - Friday, FORO APPIO / ROMAN- Pieta by Michelangelo. Our morning tour years of his life. Then, near the ancient FORA / PALATINE / COLOSSEO / SAN ends at St Peter’s Square. This afternoon city walls, you will visit the Basilica of DAY 11 - Thursday : VENICE / the ancient marketplace to recall a small St Francis, which houses the tomb of Italy touch of what Paul may have experienced CLEMENTE / ST. PRISCA enjoy some leisure time. You are free VERONA / MILAN /STRESA Italy when he arrived. We will check into our After a breakfast, we will depart Foro Appio to have lunch at Trevi Fountain, walk on the Saint. This afternoon we continue This morning we begin a long, but hotel for dinner and overnight. and make our way to the Eternal City. We Condotti Street in the fashion district of north to Florence. Check into your wonderful day as we head to Verona. will begin our walking tour along the Via dei Spanish Steps, or visit Piazza Navona hotel for dinner and overnight. The first glimpse of the city is love at first Fori Imperiali and observe the ruins of the or the Panteon. Return to hotel to relax sight. “There is no world without Verona DAY 3 - Wednesday, AMALFI COAST / Imperial center of Rome. Other important before dinner. walls” pens William Shakespeare, who NAPLES / POZZUOLI edifices, like the Forum of Trajan, the DAY 9 - Tuesday : FLORENCE/ has lent Verona fame and immortality After breakfast, we will begin our journey biggest and most splendid of markets of DAY 7 - Sunday, PAOLA ALLA REGOLA ACCADEMIA GALLERY / FREE / with his tale of two star-crossed lovers, with a panoramic tour to Amalfi. The Amal- its time, became the forerunners of our / CATACOMBS / SAINT PAUL’S OUTSIDE FLORENCE Romeo Montecchi (Montagu) and fi Coast, connecting Sorrento with Amalfi, modern malls offering Roman citizen the THE WALLS This morning discover the cradle of the Juliet Capuleti (Capulet). Reboard is widely considered Italy’s most scenic full array of goods of the Roman world. This morning we will visit the most Renaissance, where one breathes art in our bus and continue to Milan, Italy’s stretch of coastline, a landscape of tower- We will view the Capitoline Hill, the former interesting sites which are linked with the the medieval streets, in the craftsmen’s fashion and business capital. You’ll ing bluffs, pastel-hued villages. Deemed political and religious center of the town, life of the Apostle Paul in Rome beginning workshops, and in the Renaissance enjoy a panoramic tour, highlighted by by UNESCO “an outstanding example of a which today is the seat of the Municipality with Insula di San Paolo alla Regola. Palaces. Visit the Baptistery of St. the enormous gothic cathedral known Mediterranean landscape, with exception- of Rome. The stairway opens to the Piazza Tradition has it that this is the area for John, the religious essence of the city, as “Il Duomo” and perhaps the world’s al cultural and natural scenic values,” the del Campidoglio, a magnificent result of a Paul’s first visit and house arrest in about the Duomo with the Medici Chapel, the premier opera house, the Teatro alla coast was awarded a coveted spot on the project by Michelangelo, built around a 62CE. Continue on to the Abbey of Church of St. Lorenzo, Piazza della La Scala. Board your bus to reach World Heritage list in 1997. We will have copy of the most famous equestrian statue the Three Fountains, the place of Paul’s Signoria and the Basilica of Santa your hotel located on the Maggiore time for lunch and exploring in Amalfi. In in the world, that of the stoic Emperor martyrdom, where tradition has it that Croce, a masterpiece of Gothic art and Lake. Dinner and overnight. the afternoon on our return we will have Marcus Aurelius. Behind Piazza del three different springs gushed out at each the pantheon of famous Italians such a panoramic view of the Bay of Naples Campidoglio a natural terrace will offer spot touched when Paul’s head fell down. as Michelangelo. Visit the Accademia DAY 12 - Friday : STRESA / LAKE where we will be able to observe its sea- us the best panoramic view of the valley Next we visit St. Paul Outside the Walls Coliseum and Titus Arch, Rome Gallery, which hosts Michelangelo’s MAGGIORE port and have breathtaking views of Mt. of the Roman Forum and the Palatine Hill. and the adjoining Basilica where the famous David.The rest of the day is at Today we enjoy a relaxing day around Vesuvius. Return to the hotel for dinner We will view the Mammertime Prison and bones of Paul have recently been found. leisure to explore additional treasures Lake Maggiore which stretches all the and overnight. our visit to the Arch of Constantine, will We continue to the northern end of the of Florence and shop on your own. way up into Switzerland. Like all of remind us of the victory of the emperor ancient Via Appia, to visit the Catacombs The outdoor Market of San Lorenzo these prealpine lakes, it’s renowned over Maxentius in the 4th century CE of Santa Domitilla. We will board our boasts leather products, and the Ponte for being gorgeous, and has attracted that gave rise to the legalization and later bus and, time allowing, continue to the Vecchio, covered since medieval times celebrity visitors from Napoleon to DAY 4 - Thursday, POMPEI / MINTURNO with goldsmiths’ shops, is a must for / FORO APPIO adoption of Christianity. Next we visit Basilica of San John di Lateran, which Ernest Hemingway, to Prince Charles After breakfast, we depart for Pompeii, the Colosseum, stage for the historical became among one of the most important Florence’s other specialty, gold jewelry. and Lady Diana. We will board our where we will be joined by our local guide fights of the gladiators where thousands Christian Churches of Rome, reminding Dinner and overnight in Florence. private vessel as we tour around Lake to have an archeological journey through of people and animals perished. After a us of the many early converts to the faith, Maggiore and the Borromean Islands. the ancient city. Buried under a layer of break for lunch, we will visit the Basilica of and the process of moving it from a rogue DAY 10 - Wednesday : FLORENCE Glide by lush lakeside gardens and ashes and pyroclastic flow by a sudden San Clemente. We will be reminded of influence to a sponsored and ordered faith. / VENICE towns, stopping to view Borromean eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE, the city the early companions of Paul, traveling to Return to hotel for dinner and overnight. Depart Florence after breakfast and Palace on Isola Bella. Return to the shows us Roman life frozen in time to that the Aventine Hill to the traditional home of Palatine drive through the scenic Tuscan hotel where the afternoon will be of the early apostles. We will visit hous- Priscillla and Aquila, (based on a C5th CE free to relax, explore the area es, shops, temples, squares, streets and document) now located below the Church DAY 8 - Monday, ROME / USA on your own, and to get ready even some of the darker quarters of the of Santa Prisca. After our visit, we will We will be taken to the airport for our flight Vatican City for our early morning departure city, such as the “Lupanare” (house of make our way to our hotel for dinner and home. We will cherish the memories of tomorrow. Dinner at the hotel. prostitutes) and the “Suburbane Thermae“ overnight. Paul the Apstles life that changed the (with its graphic frescos). As we make our course of man. DAY 13 - Saturday :STRESA/ way north, we will rejoin the ancient Appian MILAN / USA roadway traveled by Paul, stopping at the DAY 6 - Saturday, VATICAN MUSEUMS / Early morning transfer to the airport partially restored ruins of the Roman village ST. PETER’S BASILICA / ROME SIGHTS for our flight back home. We have of Minturno. We continue on for our over- This morning we will be overwhelmed walked where Paul and Peter night in Foro Appio in the nearby “Mansio by the art and beauty found in our visit ministered to the early church and Hotel”. A mansio was an official stopping the Vatican Museums. Here we will see to us as well. place along a Roman road maintained by the Apartments of Julius II, splendidly the central government for the use of those decorated by Raphael and his assistants, traveling on official business. In such a and the Sistine Chapel, where you will place, Paul could have hosted the early be- admire one of the highest masterpieces of lievers and drawn some encouragement. art: the Genesis and the Last Judgment by Our evening will include a unique experi- Michelangelo. Leaving the Sistine Chapel ence with a dinner based on some ancient and going down the Royal Stairway, we traditional Roman recipes. make our way to the Basilica of St. Peter with it’s famous works of art such as the Piazza del Campidoglio

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8 Days in Greece: The Footsteps of Paul Post Extension Options Includes Shore Excursions, Port taxes, Unlimited Drink Package (non-alcoholic) 8 Days in Greece: Footsteps of Paul $2999 $3099 $3399 $3699 Extensions Post Extenstions This afternoon our ship takes us to Patmos, a an Archaeological museum with invaluable Add Aegean Cruise beautiful verdant island, where Saint John the treasures. Our included tour of the city takes APR 20 - 27 Aegean Cruise Evangelist wrote the book of Revelations in a us on a short drive to the Minoan Palace of April $2299 FEB 18-25* SEPT 21 - 28 AUG 17 - 24 DAY 8 – Monday: ATHENS / LAVRION / mountainside Grotto, after hearing the voice Knossos, home to Europe’s oldest civilization. JUNE 19-27 June $2399 of God. Atop its highest hill, within the halls If you are not into sightseeing, walk the city 2020 MYKONOS NOV 3-10* August.$2099 of Hora stands the monastery founded in his center where you can dine or shop. September$2599 This morning we are taken to Piraeus to start our Aegean Cruise. Late this afternoon we honor in 1088. This island apart from its great arrive at our first stop, Mykonos, a hilly, rock- significance to Christians all over the world, is This afternoon we continue our cruise to ribbed island of 29 square miles, dotted with now turning into a cosmopolitan destination. Santorini is one of the most renowned places of Paul In Italy Included is a shore excursion to St. John’s the world. People travel thousands of miles in $2299 more than 350 tiny chapels built by 19th- APR 19 - 26 century pirates for the protection of their Monastery and Grotto of the Apocalypse. order to admire its unique geography, result of FEB 16 - 23* SEPT 20 - 27 AUG 16 - 23 JUNE 14 - 21 (February - Novem- an earthquake that took place many centuries ber) patron saints. Time to visit this fishing harbor 2021 NOV 2 -10 with shops and boutiques selling handmade DAY 10 – Wednesday: RHODES ago. Our included shore excursion takes us to sweaters, dresses, fabrics, jewelry and other This morning we arrive at the island of the picturesque village of Oia located on the items at bargain prices. This evening we return Rhodes. Separated by a mere 10-mile strait caldera rim, 300 meters above the sea. to the ship for overnight and resume sailing. from the Asia Minor coast, Rhodes is blessed by nature with exceptional gifts. Homer called DAY 12 – Friday: LAVRION / ATHENS / NEW APR 18 - 25 it “the Bride of the Sun,” later poets “the Island YORK FEB 15 - 22 SEPT 19 - 26 AUG 15 - 22 JUNE 13 - 20 DAY 9 – Tuesday: EPHESUS / PATMOS Kusadasi is a beach resort in Turkey famous of Roses.” In the Middle Ages, the Knights of This morning we will arrive at Lavrion, the port 2022 NOV 1- 9 for its marina and its colorful bazaar where St. John of Jerusalem established themselves of Athens. We will board our motor coach and visitors can find a wide selection of hand-made at Rhodes and built a fortified city, now the be taken to the airport for our flight home. carpets, leather bags and local products. But best-preserved of its kind in the Mediterranean mostly, Kusadasi is known due to its proximity area. Shore excursion included to Philerimos * February & November tours depart the USA on Tuesday. to the ancient ruins of Ephesus, and its Terrace Church and Palace of the Knights. Delphi Houses one of the world’s largest open-air museums, the House of Virgin Mary and the DAY 11 –Thursday: CRETE (HERAKLION) on to Veria, or Beroea, where Paul found Thebes, Levadia and the village of Arachova. Sirince Village. Included shore excursion to / SANTORINI DAY 1 – *Monday: NEW YORK / ATHENS people who eagerly received his message, Continue to the hotel in Athens where we the House of Virgin Mary and Ancient Ephesus. This morning we arrive in Heraklion, the Tour members are welcomed at JFK “examining the Scriptures daily to see if these check in for dinner. capital of Crete, is a former Venetian harbor International Airport for our departing flight things were true” (Acts 17:11). Continue our with representative architecture and art and to Athens via aircraft arriving the next day. drive to Kozani and on to Kalambaka for DAY 7 - Sunday: ATHENS / ACROPOLIS / Meals served on board. dinner and overnight. CORINTH This morning we visit the important modern DAY 2 - Tuesday: ATHENS /THESSALON- DAY 5 - Friday: KALAMBAKA / DELPHI and archaeological sites in the city of Athens, Crete IKI This morning we visit Meteora, a cluster of the Acropolis, and neighboring monuments. Post Extension Options This morning we will arrive in Athens and pillars of rock, and the “Hanging Monasteries” While driving through the main streets of 8 Days in Greece: Footsteps of Paul Greece transfer to our flight to Thessaloniki. Upon perched on top of rock cliffs. There are Athens, we have an opportunity to see other Greece arrival we are met and taken to our hotel our 13 monasteries here, only 4 of which are places of interest such as the University, the hotel for dinner and overnight. inhabited by monks. We continue our drive Academy, the National Library, the Temple experienced by Paul when he walked through Paul was held. Check into our hotel for dinner through the beautiful scenery of Greece. of Zeus, the Pan Athenian Stadium, Omonia Add Paul In Italy similar streets from his time. Then we will visit and overnight. Imagine Paul walking with his followers and Square, Constitution Square and the Royal the houses, shops, temples, squares, streets DAY 3 - Wednesday: PHILIPPI / KAVALA / teaching them God’s word as they continued Palace. This afternoon we drive along the DAY 9 - Monday: ATHENS / MYCENAE / and also the “Lupanare” (which was a brothel DAY 13 - Friday: ROME / VATICAN CITY / THESSALONIKI down the road. Our bus will take us through coastal road to Corinth. Continue along the PATRAS with its frescos showing erotic scenes) and CATACOMBS / ST. PAULS’S Today a full-day excursion to Philippi and Larissa, Lamia and Trikala and on to Delphi wonderful beach of Kinetta, make a brief We depart Athens and journey on to Mycenae. the “Suburbane Therm” (with erotic frescoes, This morning we visit the Vatican Museum and Kavala. Paul landed at Kavala (Neapolis) for dinner and overnight. stop at the Corinth Canal, then on to ancient The Mycenaean’s were fierce warriors among which the only saffico-picture of the Gallery (and if time permits Raphael’s Rooms coming from Troas with Timothy and Silas. Corinth to visit the Museum, the Bema of and great engineers who designed and Roman world). Now you understand the anger with their wonderful frescoes) the Sistine This ancient city was renamed Christoupo- DAY 6 - Saturday: DELPHI / ATHENS St. Paul, the Doric Temple of Apollo, the built remarkable bridges, fortification walls, of Paul shouting aloud against corruption and Chapel – where Michelangelo’s recently lis because it was the first European city to This morning in Delphi we visit the museum Askeleion, Agora, Lechaion Road, and the and beehive-shaped tombs, all employing perdition of the Romans. Romans 1, 26…. restored masterpieces adorn the ceilings and accept Christianity. At the ruins of ancient with the famous Bronze Charioteer and other Peirene Fountain. Return to the hotel in Cyclopean masonry and elaborate drainage For this cause God gave them up unto vile walls – and Pincio Garden. We continue into Philippi you will see the baptism site, a crypt items that date back to the time of Paul. We Athens for dinner. and irrigation systems. Their palatial centers, affections: for even their women did change St. Peter’s Basilica and view Vatican City. where Paul may have been imprisoned, the visit the Temple of Apollo; where Paul must “Mycenae rich in gold” and “sandy Pylos,” are the natural use into that which is against This afternoon we visit St Paul’s Basilica Acropolis, the Market Place, Basilica and have spoken to the people about the Living DAY 8 - Monday: – ATHENS / ISTANBUL / immortalized in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. nature. From Pompeii we go to Minturno, Outside the Walls and the Church of St. Peter the ancient theatre. At the Gangitis River the God, continue to the Theater, the Athenian NEW YORK This afternoon drive to Patras port to board then to Foro Appio for a typical dinner and in Chains with the famed statue of Moses by apostle preached to a group of women. Lyd- Treasury and the Castalian Spring. We then We transfer to the airport for our flight home our ferry to Bari, Italy Dinner and overnight on overnight. Michelangelo. We visit the Old Appian Way ia, a merchant trading purple cloth, believed follow Paul’s ministry south as we travel with unforgettable memories to cherish the ferry and the Catacombs of St. Calixtus, then return the Gospel and was baptized with members on the national highway through famous always. . DAY 12 - Thursday: FORO APPIO / TRES to our hotel for dinner. of her household. We return to Thessaloniki, DAY 10 - Tuesday,:BARI / POZZUOLI TABERNAE/ ROME birthplace of Aristotle, where time permitting This morning we will disembark our ferry After breakfast we will have time to meditate DAY 14 - Saturday : ROME / USA we will have a short tour of the city before re- and head to Pozzuoli. This is the same port on Paul. This was a swamp when Paul arrived We transfer to the airport for our flight home turning to our hotel for dinner and overnight. where Paul landed, “…and after one day here. Stand by the river, full of historical and with unforgettable memories to cherish the south wind blew, and we came the next spiritual meanings. Foro Appio, at “Mansio always. Knowing we have walked in the DAY 4 - Thursday: THESSALONIKI / day to Puteoli.” (Acts 28:13). Here we will Hotel” is located in the same place where an footsteps of the early Christians on such KALAMBAKA visit the area of the sea-port and the Roman ancient Roman “posta” (place where travelers This morning we continue on to Pella, Amphitheater in order to get a sense of what could rest and change their tired horses birthplace of Alexander, where we see Paul experienced once he arrived on the before continuing their journey). This might be excavations, mosaic floors and artifacts from mainland of the “Roman Empire”. Check into the place where the Sacred Writings remind the 4th century BC. Visit nearby Vergina with our hotel for dinner and overnight. us of the meeting of Paul with the Christian the tomb of Alexander the Great and then Communities Acts 28:14 (...”And so we came to Rome. The brothers there had heard that DAY 11 - Wednesday: POMPEII / MINTURNO we were coming and they traveled as far as / FORO APPIO the Forum of Appius and the Three Taverns This morning we go to Pompeii, and have to meet us.”) Depart Foro Appio late in the an archeological journey through the ancient morning and travel towards Rome, stopping city. Pompeii, which was buried under a layer a few minutes at the Church of St. Paul of ash and pumice by a sudden eruption of (built in the place where he met the Christian Mount Vesuvius in the year 79 A.D., is a town Community) of TRES TABERNE – Three whose daily life of the Imperial Age has been Taverns …and so we went toward Rome. petrified. It is as if it were under a spell in its (Acts 28:14.) Then we will continue to Rome. Ephesus gestures, secrets and in the panic felt by its We arrive in Rome in the late morning. In Aegean Sea inhabitants during its last moments. Visiting the afternoon we will visit the Roman Forum, the “frozen city” creates a feeling similar to that Colosseum and Mamertine Prison, where 30 www.maranathatours.com For more information call 800-545-5533 or email [email protected] 31 Maranatha Tours: Bringing the Bible to life since 1974 From Genesis to Revelation, we can take you there! 9 Days in Greece & Italy: The Pre Extension Option The 9 Days in Greece & Italy: Footsteps of Paul & Peter Holy The Footsteps of Paul & Peter Holy Land Footsteps of Paul Land $3599 $3899 $4499 Extensions Pre Extenstion Add Northern Greece Northern Greece & Peter DAY 1 – Monday: NEW YORK / ATHENS DAY 4 – Thursday: THESSALONIKI / KA- DAY 6 – Saturday: DELPHI / ATHENS (all departures) This morning in Delphi we visit the museum Apr 24 - May 2 $1,349 Tour members are welcomed at JFK Interna- LAMBAKA Feb 21 - 29 Jun 19 - 27 tional Airport for our departing flight to Athens This morning we continue on to Pella, birth- with the famous Bronze Charioteer and other Sept 25 - Oct 3

2020 via wide body aircraft arriving the next day. place of Alexander, where we see excavations, items that date back to the time of Paul. We Meals served on board. mosaic floors and artifacts from the 4th centu- visit the Temple of Apollo, where Paul must ry BC. Visit nearby Vergina with the tomb of have spoken to the people about the Living Post Extension DAY 2 – Tuesday: ATHENS / KAVALA Alexander the Great and then on to Veria, or God, continue to the Theater, the Athenian Turkey Northern Italy This morning we arrive in Athens and transfer Beroea, where Paul found people who eagerly Treasury and the Castalian Spring. We then Turkey February - $2,199 received his message, “examining the Scrip- follow Paul’s ministry south as we travel on Egypt April - $2,249 to our flight to Thessaloniki. We then board Egypt Apr 23 - May 1 our bus for a transfer to Kavala, known as Ne- tures daily to see if these things were true” the national highway through famous Thebes, Feb 19 - 27 Jun 18 - 27 June- $2,249 (Acts 17:11). Continue our drive to Kozani and Levadia and the village of Arachova. Continue Jordan Sept 24 - Oct 2 Sept - $2,249 apolis in Acts 16. Dinner and overnight at our Jordan 2021 hotel. on to Kalambaka for dinner and overnight. to the hotel in Athens where we check in for Oct - $2,249 dinner. DAY 3 – Wednesday: KAVALA / PHILIPPI / THESSALONIKI DAY 5 – Friday: KALAMBAKA / DELPHI Delphi This morning we visit Philippi, named after This morning we visit Meteora, a cluster of Apr 22 - 30 Feb 18 - 26 Jun 17 - 26 Philip of Macedonia, father of Alexander the pillars of rock, and the “Hanging Monaster- Roman Amphitheater, Athens Sept 23 - Oct 1 Great. In Philippi, the Apostle first proclaimed ies” perched on top of rock cliffs. There are 13 2022 the Gospel in Europe and was thrown in Prison monasteries here, only 4 of which are inhabit- (Acts 16). We’ll visit the prison, theater, Forum ed by monks. We continue our drive through and Lydia’s Baptistery. The Epistle to the Phi- the beautiful scenery of Greece. Imagine Paul lippians was written to the people of this city. walking with his followers and teaching them Italy DAY 1 – Friday: NEW YORK / ISTANBUL who designed and built remarkable bridges, DAY 7 – Thursday: FORO APPIO / TRES We proceed to Thessaloniki, birthplace of Ar- God’s word as they continued down the road. Italy Tour members are welcomed for our fortification walls, and beehive-shaped TABERNAE/ ROME istotle, where we see the Rotonda, Triumphal Our bus will take us through Larissa, Lamia departing flight to Istanbul via wide-body tombs, all employing Cyclopean masonry After breakfast we will have time to meditate Arch of Galerius, the sea front and the White and Trikala and on to Delphi for dinner and aircraft arriving the next day. Meals served and elaborate drainage and irrigation on Paul. This was a swamp when Paul arrived Tower. We continue to our hotel for dinner and overnight. on board. systems. Their palatial centers, “Mycenae here. Stand by the river, full of historical and overnight. rich in gold” and “sandy Pylos,” are spiritual meanings. Foro Appio, at “Mansio immortalized in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. Hotel” is located in the same place where DAY 2 – Saturday: ATHENS an ancient Roman “posta” (place where This morning we arrive in Istanbul and This afternoon drive to Patras port to board travelers could rest and change their tired transfer to our flight to Athens. our ferry to Bari, Italy. Dinner and overnight horses before continuing their journey). Post Extension Option on the ferry. This might be the place where the Sacred 9 Days in Greece & Italy: Footsteps of Paul & Peter This afternoon we arrive in Athens and be Writings remind us of the meeting of Paul met and transferred to our hotel for check in. DAY 5 – Tuesday: BARI / POZZUOLI with the Christian Communities Acts 28:14 Dinner and overnight at our hotel. This morning we will disembark our ferry (...”And so we came to Rome. The brothers Add Northern Italy Greece and head to Pozzuoli. This is the same port there had heard that we were coming and Greece DAY 3 – Sunday: ATHENS / CORINTH where Paul landed, “…and after one day they traveled as far as the Forum of Appius glimpse of the city is love at first sight. “There This morning we start our tour of Athens the south wind blew, and we came the next and the Three Taverns to meet us.”) Depart DAY 9 – Saturday: ROME / ASSISI / DAY 11 – Monday: FLORENCE / VENICE is no world without Verona walls” pens William by visiting the important modern and day to Puteoli.” (Acts 28:13). Here we will Foro Appio late in the morning and travel FLORENCE Depart Florence after breakfast and drive Shakespeare has lent Verona fame and archaeological sites in the city of Athens, visit the area of the sea-port and the Roman towards Rome, stopping a few minutes at This morning we will go through the Umbrian through the scenic Tuscan countryside to the immortality with his tale of two star-crossed the Acropolis and neighboring monuments. Amphitheater in order to get a sense of the Church of St. Paul (built in the place green hills covered in olive groves and highway where we travel towards the north lovers, Romeo Montecchi (Montagu) and While driving through the main streets of what Paul experienced once he arrived on where he met the Christian Community) vineyards to reach Assisi. Upon arrival, meet and reach Venice. Upon arrival, we transfer to Juliet Capuleti (Capulet). Reboard our bus and Athens, we have an opportunity to see other the mainland of the “Roman Empire”. Check of TRES TABERNE – Three Taverns … your local guide and start an unforgettable walk central Venice by private motor-boat to continue to Milan, Italy’s fashion and business places of interest such as the University, the into our hotel for dinner and overnight. and so we went toward Rome. (Acts 28:14.) through the narrow streets of the ancient town tour the magnificent Piazza and Basilica capital. You’ll enjoy a panoramic tour, Academy, the National Library, the Temple Then we will continue to Rome. We arrive in which sweeps the flanks of Monte Subasio. of St.Mark’s, its marvelous Byzantine-style highlighted by the enormous gothic cathedral of Zeus, the Panathenian Stadium, Omonia DAY 6 – Wednesday: POMPEII / Rome in the late morning. You will visit the Church of Santa Chiara, the architecture studded with colored marbles known as “Il Duomo” and perhaps the world’s Square, Constitution Square and the Royal MINTURNO / FORO APPIO site where St. Francis was born and then on to and glittering gold mosaics and housing the premier opera house, the Teatro alla La Scala. see the house where he spent the first years tomb of the Evangelist Mark. Visit also the Visit Santa Maria delle Grazie, which houses Biblical Palace. This rning we go to Pompeii, and have an In the afternoon we will visit the Roman archeological journey through the ancient Forum, Colosseum and Mamertine Prison, of his life. Then, near the ancient city walls, elaborate Doge’s Palace, the lavish home one of the world’s most celebrated works: Biblical Cruises This afternoon we drive along the coastal city. Pompeii, which was buried under where Paul was held. Check into our hotel you will visit the Basilica of St Francis, which of the former Venetian rulers with its famous Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper”. Board your Cruises road to Corinth. Continue along the a layer of ash and pumice by a sudden for dinner and overnight. houses the tomb of the Saint. This afternoon Bridge of Sighs, where prisoners crossed bus to reach your hotel located on the wonderful beach of Kinetta, make a brief eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the year we continue north to Florence. Check in your before being led to the dungeons. Enjoy some Maggiore Lake. Dinner and overnight. stop at the Corinth Canal, then on to ancient 79 A.D., is a town whose daily life of the DAY 8 – Friday: ROME / VATICAN CITY / hotel for dinner and overnight. time at leisure for an optional gondola ride or Corinth to visit the Museum, the Bema of Imperial Age has been petrified. It is as if CATACOMBS / ST. PAULS’S for shopping. Transfer to our hotel for dinner DAY 14 – Thursday: MILAN / USA St. Paul, the Doric Temple of Apollo, the it were under a spell in its gestures, secrets This morning we visit the Vatican Museum DAY 10 – Sunday: FLORENCE/ ACCADEMIA and overnight. Early morning transfer to the airport for our Askeleion, Agora, Lechaion Road, and the and in the panic felt by its inhabitants during and Gallery (and if time permits Raphael’s GALLERY / FREE / FLORENCE flight back home. We have walked where Paul Peirene Fountain. Return to our hotel for its last moments. Visiting the “frozen city” Rooms with their wonderful frescoes) the This morning discover the cradle of the DAY 12 – Tuesday: VENICE / VERONA / and Peter ministered to the early church and dinner overnight. creates a feeling similar to that experienced Sistine Chapel – where Michelangelo’s Renaissance, where one breathes art in MILAN to us as well. by Paul when he walked through similar recently restored masterpieces adorn the the medieval streets, in the craftsmen’s This morning we begin a long, but wonderful DAY 4 – Monday: ATHENS / MYCENAE / streets from his time. Then we will visit the ceilings and walls – and Pincio Garden. workshops, and in the Renaissance Palaces. day as we head to Verona. The first glimpse PATRAS houses, shops, temples, squares, streets We continue into St.Peter’s Basilica and Visit the Baptistery of St. John, the religious of the city is love at first sight. “There is no This morning we board our bus and begin and also the “Lupanare” (which was a view Vatican City. This afternoon we visit St. essence of the city, the Duomo with the Medici world without Verona walls” pens William Europe our journey to Mycenae. The Mycenaean’s brothel with its frescos showing erotic Paul’s Basilica Outside the Walls and the Chapel,the Church of St. Lorenzo, Piazza Shakespeare, who has lent Verona fame and Europe were fierce warriors and great engineers scenes) and the “Suburbane Therm” (with Church of St. Peter in Chains with the famed della Signoria and the Basilica of Santa Croce, immortality with his tale of two star-crossed erotic frescoes, among which the statue of Moses by Michelangelo. We visit a masterpiece of Gothic art and the pantheon lovers, Romeo Montecchi (Montagu) and only saffico-picture of the Roman the Old Appian Way and the Catacombs of famous Italians such as Michelangelo. Juliet Capuleti (Capulet). Reboard our bus world). Now you understand the of St. Calixtus, then return to our hotel for Visit the Accademia Gallery, which hosts and continue to Milan, Italy’s fashion and anger of Paul shouting aloud dinner. Michelangelo’s famous David. business capital. You’ll enjoy a panoramic tour, against corruption and perdition highlighted by the enormous gothic cathedral of the Romans. Romans 1, 26…. DAY 9 – Saturday: ROME /USA The rest of the day is at leisure to explore known as “Il Duomo” and perhaps the world’s For this cause God gave them up We will be taken to the airport for our flight additional treasures of Florence and shop on premier opera house, the Teatro alla La Scala. unto vile affections: for even their home. with memories to cherish always. your own. The outdoor Market of San Lorenzo Board your bus to reach your hotel located on boasts leather products, and the Ponte the Maggiore Lake. Dinner and overnight. Educational women did change the natural use Educational into that which is against nature. Vecchio, covered since medieval times with Tours From Pompeii we go to Minturno, goldsmiths’ shops, is a must for Florence’s DAY 13 – Wednesday: VENICE / VERONA Tours then to Foro Appio for a typical other specialty, gold jewelry. Dinner and / MILAN dinner and overnight. overnight in Florence. This moroning we go to Verona. The first Special Special Events Colosseum Events 32 www.maranathatours.com For more information call 800-545-5533 or email [email protected] 33 Maranatha Tours: Bringing the Bible to life since 1974 From Genesis to Revelation, we can take you there! 9 Days 11 Days The Holy Egypt Nile Cruise Footsteps of Paul Cruise Land

DAY 1 - Thursday, NEW YORK / ISTANBUL Old City lie the Byzantine church Hagia Sophia, the University of Istanbul DAY 1 – Saturday – NEW YORK / ISTANBUL NILE CRUISE Tour members are welcomed for our departing flight to Istanbul via and Fener, the historical Greek quarter, which is home to the Orthodox Patriarchate. One of the many highlights of Sultanahmet Square, the Old wide-body aircraft arriving the next day. Meals served on board. Tour members are welcomed for our This morning we sail to Aswan Hippodrome of Istanbul was an ancient circus built before the founding Turkey departing connection flight to Egypt via where we see the Aswan High of Constantinople. We visit the Blue Mosque, Istanbul’s largest and most Egypt wide-body aircraft arriving the next day. Dam. We then head for the DAY 2 - Friday, ATHENS beautiful, also called the Sultan’s Mosque, since it was built, between 1609 Meals served on board. quarries of ancient Thebes This morning we arrive in Istanbul and transfer to our flight to Athens. and 1616, by order of Sultan Ahmed I, who was 20 years-old at the time and Jordan is now buried within its walls. After the Blue Mosque we see the legendary This afternoon we arrive in Athens and be met and transferred to our and a chance to walk on the Hagia Sophia, also known as the “Church of the Wisdom of God” and “the Unfinished Obelisk. After hotel for check in. Dinner and overnight at our hotel. Great Church.” The Church has long been a symbol of Constantinople DAY 9 - Friday, PATMOS DAY 2 – Sunday - ISTANBUL / LUXOR a relaxing lunch on board, and Istanbul. From the date construction began, in 537, during the reign On todays excursion you are sure to experience the sacred grandeur This afternoon we arrive in Istanbul where we take a sailboat cruise to DAY 3 - Saturday, ATHENS / PIRAEUS of Justinian, until 1453, Hagia Sophia served as an Eastern Orthodox of this intensely spiritual Dodecanese island. From the port of Skala cathedral and the seat of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. It is now a This morning we start our tour of Athens by visiting the important we travel up the mountain by air-conditioned coach to immaculate we board our late night flight to Egypt. Upon Elephantine Island and the Aga museum, where beautiful mosaics completed over the course of more than arrival in Luxor we will be met and taken to our Khan’s mausoleum. Here the modern and archaeological sites in the city of Athens, the Acropolis Chora. An architecturally homogenous village, the cobblestone 12 centuries are on display. It is considered one of the preeminent extant streets and alleys of Chora are lined with mansions built by wealthy hotel for overnight. tombs reveal the colossal space concepts of and neighboring monuments. While driving through the main examples of Byzantine ecclesiastical architecture. Next we stop at the ship owners during the 17th and 18th centuries. Now surrounded by the early Memphis architects. Dinner on board streets of Athens, we have an opportunity to see other places of Topkapi Palace Museum was the acropolis of ancient Byzantium. Initially the village, the fortified Monastery of St. John, whose walls are more constructed between 1460 and 1478 by Sultan Mehmed II. After time the ship. interest such as the University, the Academy, the National Library, than 15 meters high, was built with local gray stone. In 1088 St. Optional Extension to for lunch we leave for some incredible shopping at the awesome Grand DAY 3 – Monday - LUXOR / KARNAK / NILE the Temple of Zeus, the Panathenian Stadium, Omonia Square, Christodoulos requested the entire island of Patmos from Byzantine Bazaar, also called Kapali Carci (“Covered Bazaar”), one of the oldest and Emperor Alexis I Comnenus so he could found a monasteryItaly CRUISE Constitution Square and the Royal Palace. This afternoon we drive largest covered markets on earth. The bazaar, which first opened in 1461, dedicated to St. John. Even after “The Blessed” was driven from This morning will be free to sleep and relax at Alexandria & Memphis to the port of Piraeus and embark our cruise ship, enjoying the comprises about 61 streets and welcomes up to 400,000 visitors per day Patmos by pirates, monks continued building the monastery which, to its maze of banks, cafes, fountains, shops, shrines and workshops. You fellowship of other Christians. within a few centuries, became an important cultural, religious and the hotel. We will have a late morning transfer DAY 7 – Friday - ASWAN / CAIRO might actually be able to “shop ‘til you drop!” Return to the ship for dinner. to our cruise ship where we will check in. This This morning we leave our cruise ship and will DAY 9 - Sunday CAIRO / ALEXANDRIA / spiritual center. Within its warren of chapels and courtyards, the Monastery of St. John houses medieval icons of the Cretan school afternoon we will visit the Luxor Temple on be taken to the airport for our afternoon flight CAIRO DAY 4 - Sunday,THESSALONIKI / VERIA DAY 7 - Wednesday, DIKILI / PERGAMON / SARDIS and the Chapel of the Theotokos (the Virgin Mary), whose beautiful the bank of the Nile as well as the complex of to Cairo. Upon arrival we will transferred to our Today we visit the second largest city in Egypt, Join us for a visit to a biblical city! We travel by air conditioned coach Today begins when you board your coach in the port of Dikili for frescoes date to the 12th century; the monastery’s main chapel the drive to Ancient Pergamon. Dating to the beginning of the from the port of Thessaloniki to the Citadel and Vlatadon Monastery, dates to the end of the 11th century. There is also a museum within temples at Karnak -- including Amun Temple, hotel for dinner and overnight. Alexandria, founded by Alexander the Great 4th century BC, “Pergamon” means “fortress” or “acropolis.” One the largest columnar structure ever raised. in 332 B.C., and was the capital of Graeco- where St. Paul reached during his Second Missionary Journey. We the monastery, with icons, religious objects of silver and gold, sacred of the seven churches addressed in Revelation, the city was the relics and embroidered vestments of inestimable value on display. Continue our exploration amid massive Roman Egypt. Here we see the catacombs of then leave Thessaloniki for a one-hour drive through the countryside center of a large kingdom and retained its status as a political Halfway down the mountain to Plaka we stop at the Holy Grotto of columns and inscrutable statues at Luxor’s DAY 8 – Saturday - PYRAMIDS / SPHINX / Kom ash-Shoqafa, , the tomb and Caracalla to reach the city of Veria (called Berroia” in the Bible), St. Paul’s and cultural metropolis during the Byzantine period. After visiting the Apocalypse. According to Christian tradition, three fissures (a the Acropolis, we continue to the Red Basilica, built in the 2nd next stop after Vlatadon – it was here that he preached to the city’s symbol of the Holy Trinity) opened in a wall in the grotto, and St. fertility shrine of the sun god. Then horse- EGYPTIAN MUSEUM Hal, the site of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, century by the Romans as a massive temple to the Egyptian gods drawn caleches continue to the Avenue of the After breakfast, we begin our tour by visiting the famous Alexandria Library where acopy of “noble Jews” – we pay a visit to the traditional Tribune, where three John heard the voice of God, who granted him a series of visions of Serapis, Isis and Harpocrates. After time for lunch we drive to the the future (revelations), vivid pictures of how the Church wouldGreece grow, Sphinxes and Karnak’s colossal wonders.This the Pyramids of Giza. Cheops Pyramid, the every book published in the world is kept in the in situ steps coexist with a recently finished mosaic of the Saint that remains of the Asklepion, one of the world’s first hospitals. After our battle the wicked powers of earth and hell and ultimately emerge evening enjoy dinner and a Belly Dancing largest of the three which was built in the library, making it one of the great literary sites commemorates this sermon. Today Veria is the capital of the regional tour of the Asklepion, we’ll return the port of Dikili and to the ship. victorious. The voice commanded the saint to transcribe these unit of Imathia and the largest exporter of agricultural products in the visions: St. John dictated the revelations to one of his disciples, Show on board the ship. 3rd dynasty about 2690 B.C. and is one of in the world. Return to our hotel in Cairo for DAY 8 - Thursday, KUSADASI / EPHESUS / MILETUS the seven wonders of the ancient world. In dinner and overnight. region. It may have been inhabited as early as 1000 BC. We will Prochoros, and this text became the Book of Revelations. During his Join us for a spectacular day. Our first stop after leaving lovely time in this sacred cave, St. John also composed the Fourth Gospel. front of the Pyramids of Chephren, we find visit one of these immaculate churches, the Church of Christ, which Kusadasi is Ancient Ephesus, one of the 12 cities of Ionia. This The entrance to the grotto is marked with a mosaic of the visions of DAY 4 – Tuesday -LUXOR / ESNA / NILE the Sphinx carved from a single piece of DAY 10 - Monday MEMPHIS / SAQQARA was built in the early 14th century and is home to masterworks by is a stunning marvel in the hills above the Aegean coast, one of the saint. Inside the grotto, the nightly resting place of the saint’s the world’s largest open-air archeological museums. Founded the most famous painter of the era, Kalliergi. There will be time to head is fenced off and delineated in beaten silver. We return to CRUISE stone, it incorporates a lion with a Pharaoh’s This morning we drive to Memphis to see The by the ancient Greeks circa 2000 BC, it was the wealthiest of the After breakfast, a ferry boat takes us across head, thought to be a portrait of the Pharaoh Colossus of Ramses and alabaster Sphinx. wander and explore and shop in this marvelous ancient city before Plaka, where you’ll have free time for shopping and a coffee beside Ionian cities and one of the most important cultural centers in the the harbor. Close your eyes and let the grandeur of this miraculous the river to the West Bank of the Nile, to visit the Chephren son of Cheops. After a camel ride Next visit he step pyramid at Saqqara and we return to the harbor at Thessaloniki. Mediterranean. The city was dedicated to the goddess Artemis, and island suffuse your soul. fabled Colossi of Memnon. We then continue we visit the Papyrus Institute. then on to the Imhotep Museum. Return to the its Artemision, a temple in her honor, took 120 years to complete and was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Ephesus later DAY 5 - Monday, KAVALA / PHILIPPI DAY 10 - Saturday, DISEMBARKATION /CORINTH / ATHENS to the mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, Egypt’s hotel where the remainder of the afternoon will became the second-largest city in the Roman Empire, at one time only female pharaoh, and the Valley of the In the afternoon, visit the Egyptian Museum be free to relax at the hotel or to explore the Once known as Neapolis, when it was a Thasian colony, Kavala This morning we disembark the cruise ship and drive alongBiblical the home to a quarter-million people. It was the first and most significant coastal road to Corinth. Continue along the wonderful beach of Kings, where we step famous for its antiquities from Egypt’s area on your own. Dinner at the hotel. has a long and storied history. Founded in the 6th century BC by city in the Roman province of Asia and one of its key ports. Millennia Kinetta, make a brief stop at the Corinth Canal, then on toCruises ancient from a dramatic landscape of sun, sand and Pharaonic period, which dates back some 50 settlers from Thasos and Eretria, it was the first place in Europe ago the Aegean receded west, stranding the city on its sun-seared Corinth to visit the Museum, the Bema of St. Paul, the Doric Temple hillsides. It is believed Paul wrote his Letter to the Ephesians here. where St. Paul set foot, in 49 AD, on his journey to Philippi, 15 of Apollo, the Askeleion, Agora, Lechaion Road, and the Peirene rugged mountain peaks into the dark silence centuries and includes the fabulous treasures DAY 11 - Tuesday CAIRO / USA It was the most important Christian city between Rome and Antioch. of some of the sixty-four tombs discovered of king Tut –Ankh-Amon (Tutankhamen). Return to the airport where we board our flight kilometers from Kavala, where he founded the first Christian church Fountain. Return to Athens where we check into the hotel and have Ephesus is rivaled only by the Forum and the Acropolis as one of the remainder of the afternoon free to explore on your own. Dinner here to date. We return to our cruise for lunch. Return to our hotel for dinner in Europe. Kavala balances its modern urban spaces with beautiful the most complete classical cities in Europe, even though only 13% and overnight at the hotel. Threading through the Esna Locks, we arrive beaches and lush green hinterlands. The city is home to a number of of the city has been uncovered! You can wander through the Odeon and the Prytaneion, then stroll between the marble colonnades of monuments from the first and second millennia after Christ, many of DAY 11 - Sunday, ATHENS / USA at Esna an hour later. We go ashore to visit Curetes Street to visit Trajan’s Fountain, Hadrian’s Temple, the the ornately hewn Temple of Khnum with its DAY 9 – Sunday - CAIRO / HOME which are today pilgrimage sites. Highlights of our shore excursion This morning we transfer to the airport for our flight back home. Scholastica Baths and the astonishing Terrace Houses. Nearby, We arrive back in the U.S.A. and transfer to our flights home with gracious, colonnaded vestibule. Return to the This morning we will transfer to the airport 9 DAY Egyptian Nile Cruise include St. Lydia Purpuraria: Lydia was the first Christian convert where Curetes Street becomes Marble Street, is the spectacular unforgettable memories to cherish always. Knowing we have walked ship where we enjoy dinner. for our flight home with unforgettable in Europe. A Church-Baptistery and an open-air Baptistery by the Library of Celsus, which has been almost entirely reconstructed, and in the footsteps of the early Christians on such a memorable tour will the Agora. Every step here takes you deeper into the Hellenistic, $3599 $4199 riverside are located where her holy baptism took place, similar to bring new meaning to our Bible reading. memories to cherish always. Knowing we Roman and early-Christian eras; you’ll notice inscriptions on many have walked in the footsteps of Jesus and Extensions the ones preserved in the early Christian basilicas in Philippi. We of the city’s columns. The Great Theater of Ephesus, where St. DAY 5 – Wednesday -EDFU / KOM OMBO / the early Christians on such a memorable Feb 1 - 9 visit the archaeological site in Philippi with a guided tour through the Paul once preached, was carved into the side of Mt. Pion in the 4th Europe NILE CRUISE tour will bring new meaning to our Bible Mar 14 - 22 June 6 - 14 excavations, marveling at the upper and lower parts as well as the century BC. It held up to 24,000 spectators and is still renowned for 2020 Apr 25 - May 3 its outstanding acoustics – even today it hosts concerts and other This morning we sail to Edfu where we reading. Post Extension to Forum, the Walls, the two Basilicas and the Theatre. Your guide will Footsteps NILE Sept 12 - 20 performances. From Ancient Ephesus we drive to the Rug Village explore the birth house at the Temple of Horus Oct 31 - Nov 8 Alexandria & also point out the traditional prison, which once held St. Paul and for lunch and a demonstration of traditional Turkish carpet weaving. of Paul Cruise and other engaging sights. This afternoon we Memphis St. Sylas. We will see St. Paul’s Monument, commemorating the From the Rug Village we journey to the ancient city of Miletus, CRUISEcruise the Nile, enjoying the splendid poolside location where St. Paul set foot on the European Continent during near the coast, which was one of the greatest and wealthiest cities Feb 6 - 14 $599 in the ancient Greek world. St. Paul stopped here on his Third his second missionary journey, establishing a thriving Christian facilities of our luxurious barge en route to Mar 13 - 21 Missionary Journey, on his way back to Jerusalem. Miletus was $5499 Kom Ombo. In Kom Ombo, see its unique and 2021 Apr 24 - May 2 June 5 - 13 church in the nearby city of Philippi. You will have time to explore located at the mouth of the River Meander, and its four harbors spectacular temple, dedicated to two gods: Sept 11 - 19 the port on your own before returning to the ship. and strategic location made it an important port and commercial Horus, the sun god, and Sobek, the crocodile Oct 30 - Nov 7 center. Miletus became the most important of the 12 cities of Ionia Educational DAY 6 - Tuesday, ISTANBUL and was one of the first cities in the ancient world to mint coins – 2021 Oct 14 - 24 god. Tonight, we enjoy dinner aboard, ollowed Homer mentions Miletus in The Iliad. The city’s fortunes declined, Tours by a lively Galabeya Party with a display of Feb 5 - 13 This all-day Istanbul tour is an in-depth tour of some of Istanbul’s holiest Mar 12 - 20 sites. We begin at the Hippodrome in the Old City. The Old City, known however, as the Meander silted up its harbor. There are many well- oriental ancing. 2022 Apr 23 - May 1 June 4 - 12 as Stambul, was where the ancient city of Byzantium once stood and today preserved ruins here, including a Temple of Apollo, a Byzantine Sept 10 - 18 includes the wall of the neighborhoods of Eminonu and Fatih. Within the church and the theater. After our tour of Miletus we return to the ship. Special DAY 6 – Thursday -KOM OMBO / ASWAN / Oct 29 - Nov 6 Events 34 www.maranathatours.com For more information call 800-545-5533 or email [email protected] 35 Maranatha Tours: Bringing the Bible to life since 1974 From Genesis to Revelation, we can take you there!

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distinctive onion-topped towers then visit the Add More of Munich Olympic Park. This afternoon we will drive to Dachau and visit the site of Germany’s first “The Reformation” DAY 1 - Monday : NEW YORK / CHICAGO Concentration Camp, a memorial site and or LOS ANGELES / MUNICH museum. We will have a guided tour through Tour members are welcomed this evening the museum with its reconstructed barracks at JFK International Airport, departing on and crematorium. Return back to Munich for Lufthansa Airlines via wide body aircraft ar- dinner and overnight. 8 Days in Germany & Switzerland riving in Munich the next day. Meals served on board. Day 4 - Thursday : MUNICH / LAKE CHIEMSEE $3699 $3799 $3999 $4199 Extension Day 2 - Tuesday : MUNICH This morning we will drive to Lake Chiemsee, Arrival in Munich, the capital of Bavaria and also known as the “Bavarian Sea” situated Pre-Extension to welcome by the local tour guide who will ac- May 27 - June 3 in the beautiful Bavarian Alps and surround- Feb 19 - 26 Nov 4 - 11 July 8 - 15 More of Munich company you throughout your stay. We will go ed by unspoiled nature. This afternoon take Sept 16 - 23 St. Pierre Cathedral, Geneva 2020 Feb - $989 and check into our hotel. This afternoon visit a short boat ride to the “Herreninsel” to visit May - Nov -$1059 the Nymphenburg Palace, the baroque resi- the splendid Herrenchiemsee Palace. Never dence of the Bavarian kings. Go to our hotel completed, this impressive castle, built by May 26 - June 2 ______for dinner and overnight. Feb 17 - 24 Nov 3 - 10 July 7 - 14 Bavaria’s King Ludwig II, was intended to be- Day 1 - Wednesday : NEW YORK / MUNICH explore. We will Sept 15 - 22 Post Extension come the “new Versailles.” Return to Munich Tour members are welcomed this evening have dinner and 2021 Lake Geneva / Day 3 - Wednesday : MUNICH / DACHAU for dinner and over night at our hotel. An op- at JFK International Airport, departing on overnight at our Lausanne This morning we board our bus and go tional extra: For those that would like to have Lufthansa Airlines via wide body aircraft hotel. An optional May 25 - June 1 to historic Munich. We will walk through a traditional Bavarian dinner and music will be arriving in Munich the next day. Meals served extra: For those Feb 16 - 23 Nov 2 - 9 July 6 - 21 Feb - $1019 Sept 14 - 21 the old city with its famous buildings and available for $40. It will be approximately 3 2022 May - Nov - $1089 on board. that would like squares including the Marienplatz with the hours in duration. to have a typical town hall and its “Glockenspiel” and the Day 2 - Thursday : MUNICH Swiss Fondue “Frauenkirche” (Church of our Lady) with its Arrival in Munich, the capital of Bavaria and dinner will be welcome by the local tour guide who will available for $40. It will be approximately 3 the Swiss Reformation, associated most accompany you throughout your stay. We will hours in duration. closely with John Calvin and Huldrych go and check into our hotel. This afternoon Zwingli. This afternoon we will visit St. will be at leisure. We will have dinner and Day 6 - Monday : ZURICH / BERN / GENEVA Pierre Cathedral, Temple de l’Auditoire, overnight at our hotel. An optional extra: For After breakfast we drive to Bern, the capital of Collège Calvin, Reformation Monument, those that would like to have a traditional Switzerland. We will have a city tour through University, International Museum of the Bavarian dinner and music will be available the medieval historic center (World Heritage Reformation, town hall, and several medieval for $40. It will be approximately 3 hours in Site) with one of the longest shopping arcades “Bürgerhäuser.” We will end our day at duration. in Europe visit the Zytglogge – an elaborate Calvin’s grave and remember the saints that medieval clock tower with moving puppets, taught Grace to us. Return to the hotel for dinner and overnight. Post Extension Options Day 3 - Friday : MUNICH / LINDERHOF / visit the Gothic, Munster Cathedral, the 8 Days in Germany & Switzerland - “The Reformation” NEUSCHWANSTEIN / MEERSBURG 15th century town hall and the Bärengraben After breakfast, we say goodbye to our hosts or Bear Pit. This afternoon we will drive to Day 8 - Wednesday : GENEVA / NEW YORK and drive through the beautiful and scenic Geneva. Check into our hotel for dinner and This morning after breakfast, we will board Bavarian countryside. We will visit two of overnight. our motorcoach and go the airport for flight Add Lake Geneva / the most famous, delightful fairytale castles home. We will remember the people that built by King Ludwig II – Linderhof and Day 7 - Tuesday : GENEVA stood for their faith and beliefs that gave us a Lausanne Neuschwanstein. This afternoon continue After breakfast we will have a full day of personal relationship with our Lord. to Meersburg located on the shores of Lake sightseeing emphasizing the stronghold of Day 8 - Wednesday : NYON / LAKE Constance, the largest lake in Germany and GENEVA the third largest in Europe. Check into our After breakfast we board our motor coach hotel for dinner and overnight. and go to Lake Geneva to Nyon. We will walk through the well- maintained old city, situated Day 4 - Saturday : MEERSBURG / on the banks of Lake Geneva. Visit the castle RHEINFALL / ZURICH and the reformed parish church. In the after- After breakfast we ferry to Konstanz. noon we will have a boat ride on spectacular Continue to Reichenau Island (World Lake Geneva. This will be one of your beauti- Heritage Site) and visit the Benedictine ful and relaxing days. Return to your hotel for Abbey of Reichenau. Today the island is also dinner and over night. famous for its vegetable farms and wineries. Drive along the Rhine River and the foothills Day 9 - Thursday : GENEVA / LAUSANNE of the Alps through breathtaking scenery to This morning we will visit Lausanne. The city Nyon, Geneva Schaffhausen, Switzerland. This afternoon is the host to the International Olympic Com- Europe visit the Rhine Falls (Rheinfall), Europe’s mittee and we will stop to visit the Olympic Europe largest waterfalls. Drive to Zurich, the largest Museum. Our last stop will be the Lausanne’s city in Switzerland located on Lake Zurich. Cathedral before stopping for lunch. This af- Continue to our hotel for dinner and overnight. ternoon will be free to explore Geneva on our own, shop or spend our time at leisure. Din- Day 5 - Sunday : ZURICH ner will be served at our hotel. After breakfast we will have a guided city tour with Grossmunster Cathedral. It was here that Day 10 - Friday : GENEVA / NEW YORK Huldrych Zwingli began the Swiss Reformation After breakfast we will head to the airport for and visit Fraumuenster Abbey with its our flight back to the U S. stunning stained glass windows by Marc Chagall and St. Peter’s Church boasting the largest clock face in Europe. In the afternoon we will have some time for leisure, to shop or Rhine River

36 www.maranathatours.com For more information call 800-545-5533 or email [email protected] 37 Maranatha Tours: Bringing the Bible to life since 1974 From Genesis to Revelation, we can take you there! 9 Days in Germany: “Martin Luther Pilgrimage” Pre Extension Option $3399 $3499 $3699 Extensions 9 Days in Germany - “Marin Luther Pilgrimage” “Martin Luther Pilgrimage” Pre Extension Amsterdam May 18 - 26 Add Amsterdam Feb - $1,249 Feb 17 - 25 Sept 21 - 29 Jun 29 - July 7 May -$1,299 2020 DAY 1 - Saturday - PHOENIX / LONDON Rembrandt’s House. Then we see his paint- through the Ruhr Valley to Cologne, the June - $1,249 / AMSTERDAM ings including the Night Watch and those of Rhineland capital. This afternoon we visit DAY 1 - Monday: NEW YORK / Luther was summoned in 1521 Sept - $1,649 Tour members are welcomed for our de- other Dutch Master’s at the Rijksmuseum, the magnificent Gothic Cathedral with its FRANKFURT to appear before an Imperial parting connection flight to Amsterdam via May 17 - 25 Holland’s National Art Gallery. This after- 515 ft. twin towers, five naves, stained Today we will meet at JFK for our flight to Diety to justify his conduct. Post Extension- wide-body aircraft arriving the next day. noon we enjoy a cruise on Amsterdam’s glass windows, shrine of the Three Holy Frankfurt via wide body air craft. Dinner and We visit the world’s largest Feb 15 - 23 Sept 20- 28 Jun 28 - July 6 Augsburg Meals served on board. Canals and while gliding through the old Kings, and fabulous treasures of the Dom- breakfast will be on board the flight. Memorial to the Reformation 2021 center of the city and out into the bustling schatzkammer. The church is one of the and the Church of the Holy Feb - $1,959 May - $1,859 DAY 2 – Sunday – AMSTERDAM harbor, we can review Amsterdam’s history largest and most beautiful in the world. DAY 2 - Tuesday: ARRIVAL IN FRANKFURT Trinity, Europe’s oldest Jewish May 16 - 24 We arrive in Amsterdam today and upon in comfort. The waterways are lined with Continue to Frankfurt to our hotel for dinner We will arrive in Frankfurt and upon arrival cemetery, the Holy Sands, and Feb 14 - 22 Sept 19 - 27 June 27 - July 5 June - $1,959 arrival we are met and enjoy a panoramic Merchants mansions and carillon crowned and overnight.

we are met and transferred to the hotel for St. Peter’s Cathedral, one of 2022 Sept - $1,959 city tour of Amsterdam before being trans- churches, gabled buildings and wooden dinner and overnight. the most exquisite examples ferred to the hotel for dinner and overnight. shuttered warehouses dating back to the of Romanesque architecture. 16, 17, and 18th centuries. Return to our We board the coach for Speyer We tour the city with Fish Market, Town DAY 3 – Monday -AMSTERDAM/ RIJKS hotel for dinner and overnight. Only for the and visit the Cathedral, the biggest historic MUSEUM / CANAL CRUISE May groups: In the afternoon excursion to Hall, and Merchant’s Bridge, Merchant’s Today, we enjoy a panoramic city sight- architectural monument of its time and Church, and the Luther Memorial. Then on Keukenhof to visit the world’s largest bulb burial place of the Salian emperors. It seeing tour of Amsterdam. On this tour we flower park. to Eisleben, where Luther was born in 1483 pass the Royal Palace on the dam, the 560 is supposed to be the masterpiece of and died in 1546. We visit the St. Andrew’s Romanesque architecture in Germany. year old “New Church,” a “Skinny” Bridge DAY 4 – Tuesday - AMSTERDAM / CO- Church (Luther held his last sermons here) spanning the Amstel River, the Mint Tow- We continue to the ruins of the Speyer and Luther’s “Death House”, walk across LOGNE / FRANKFURT synagogue which are the oldest visible er, a source of coins in the late 1600’s, the Today we drive south through the windmill the Market Square through the old town venerable Portuguese Syn agogue and dotted Dutch lowlands. Cross into Germay remains of a synagogue in Central Europe to his “Birth House”, and to the Church and the Mikwe, established in 1104. Then of St. Peter and St. Paul, where Luther on to Heidelberg, a gorgeous town on the was baptized. We continue to Leipzig for Neckar River, where romanticism is both overnight and dinner: past and present. Our walking tour includes the Old Town, the famous Stone Bridge, the Landscape on the Rhine Heidelberg Castle (where the Heidelberg DAY 7 - Sunday: LEIPZIG / WITTENBERG Post Extension Option In the morning we tour the city on 9 Days in Germany - “Marin Luther Pilgrimage” Confession was written in 1653), the Castle foot, highlighting the Opera House, Rhine River DAY 3 - Wednesday: RHINE RIVER Church, German Apothecary Museum, and Gewandhaus Concert Hall, Moritzbastei, CRUISE/ MAINZ / WORMS the Church of the Holy Ghost. We return to and St. Nicolaus Church. We will also be Our journey begins with a relaxing our hotel. seeing Naschmarkt, Goethe Memorial, Add Augsburg sightseeing cruise along the Rhine River, and St. Thomas Church, where J.S. DAY 9 - Tuesday: BERLIN / DRESDEN during his confrontation with Cardinal DAY 12 - Friday: MUNICH We tour the one of the most picturesque stretches DAY 5 - Friday: WORMS / EISENACH / Bach worked and now rests, and the of this majestic waterway. We sail past ERFURT Following breakfast we visit the world- Cajetan. Visit the oldest social settlement city highlighting the historic old city with Völkerschlachtdenkmal (Monument of famous Pergamon Museum with its many in existence in the world “The Fuggerei”, its famous buildings and squares including magnificent castles and the famous Loreley Following breakfast we drive into Lutherland the battle of the Nations). This afternoon rock. We continue to Mainz where we visit to Eisenach and Wartburg Castle. We treasures including the Ishtar Gate and the founded by Jacob Fugger in 1521 as the Marienplatz with the town hall and its we proceed for Wittenberg, the main Market Gate of Miletus. We then continue a residential settlement for Augsburg “Glockenspiel” and the “Frauenkirche” the birthplace of printing, the Gutenberg tour the Palas (Great Hall), Art exhibition, workplace of Martin Luther from 1508. We to Dresden (a World Heritage Site) for Museum where Gutenberg’s first Bible is the Elizabeth Hallway and the Luther citizens in need. The annual (net) rent for (Church of our Lady) with its distinctive visit Luther Hall, formerly an Augustinian a walking tour of its impressive historic an apartment in the Fuggerei still today is onion-topped towers. In the afternoon time on display, also the world‘s tiniest Bible. Room where “Junker Jörg” (the Knight monastery and from 1525 domicile of center with its Castle and Castle Church, Then tour St. Martin’s Cathedral, built in the George) translated the New Testament into the nominal value of the Rhenish Guilder, at leisure. Overnight and Bavarian folkloric Luther’s family and nowadays the largest Theatre Square and the famous Semper at present 0.88 Euro together with prayers farewell dinner 8th century and towering in all its might and German. Then on to St. George’s Church Reformation history museum in the world. Opera, the Semper Gallery, Zwinger grandeur the city. Seven king’s coronations where Saint Elisabeth was married and three times a day for the founder and his We also visit the “Schlosskirche”(all Saints Palace and Bruehl’s Terrace Check. We family. About 150 people live at present in DAY 13 - Saturday: DEPARTURE took place in the course of the centuries in J.S. Bach baptized, and the Luther House Church) where Luther posted his 95 theses visit the magnificent Frauenkirche “Church the 140 apartments in 67 houses. Probably We transfer to the airport for our departure. the Mainz cathedral. Then on to Worms for where Luther lived as a student with the on the Castle Church doors sparking the of Our Lady”. This baroque cathedral was the most famous resident of the Fuggerei overnight and dinner. Cotta family from 1498-1501. We board the beginning of the Reformation and sepulcher destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden was the Master Mason Franz Mozart, coach for our drive to Erfurt for overnight of Luther and his fellow reformer Philipp during World War II. It was reconstructed the great-grandfather of the composer DAY 4 - Thursday: WORMS / SPEYER / and dinner. Melanchthon, tour St. Mary’s Church where and completed in 2004 as a landmark W. A. Mozart. After lunch on our own we HEIDELBERG Luther did the majority of his preaching, symbol of reconciliation between former continue to Munich, the capital of Bavaria Worms: thought to be one of the oldest DAY 6 - Saturday: ERFURT / EISLEBEN and visit the Melanchthon House, offering warring enemies. We check in to our hotel and visit Nymphenburg Castle (view from / LEIPZIG a rare look into the life and works of this for overnight. (In the evening, possibility outside). Overnight and dinner. This morning we explore Erfurt and visit important humanist and reformer. Continue to attend a performance or concert at the the Augustinian Monastery with its famous to our hotel for dinner. Semper Opera (subject to availability). dome and stained-glass window choir: Luther, student of law, entered as a novice in 1505 and took his vows as a monk in 1507. DAY 8 - Monday: POTSDAM / BERLIN DAY 10 - Wednesday: NUREMBERG / On the way to Berlin we stop in Potsdam AUGSBURG and tour Sansouci Palace and Park, We drive through lovely landscapes built by Frederick of Prussia in 1745. southward to Nuremberg and walk along Upon arrival in Berlin we explore the city Europe the “Historischen Meile”, which highlights Europe on a sightseeing tour by bus featuring the major architectural and artistic Charlottenburg Palace (from outside), the landmarks of an historic city which enjoyed Oberammergau Reichstag (Parliament), the Brandenburger its Golden Age in the late Middle Ages. Tor, the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, In 1525 Nuremberg became “protestant” and the boulevard Kurfürstendamm and was one of the first cities to make (Kudammm), the refurbished city center, this change without an iconoclasm. In the Gendarmenmarkt, Alexanderplatz, Pariser late afternoon we arrive in Augsburg for Platz, the famous boulevard “Unter den overnight and dinner. Linden,”the Berlin Cathedral, visit the Berlin Wall Museum, and the infamous Checkpoint Charlie. We check in to our DAY 11 - Thursday: AUGSBURG / hotel for overnight and dinner. MUNICH Augsburg: its magnificent Renaissance DAY 9 - Tuesday: DEPARTURE buildings - dated from the 15th and Brandenburg Gate, Berlin We transfer to the airport for our departure 16th centuries - give the city its unique Castle Neuschwanstein home. character. Martin Luther stayed at the towns in Germany. It was here monastery of St. Anna church in 1518, 38 www.maranathatours.com For more information call 800-545-5533 or email [email protected] 39 Maranatha Tours: Bringing the Bible to life since 1974 From Genesis to Revelation, we can take you there!

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Ireland 2022 $2,799 DUBLIN BELFAST tiful moorlands. The grand finale liam Butler Yates as the “land of Today we will meet at Newark In- This morning we will enjoy a however is the Giant’s Cause- heart’s desire”. Here surrounded Take both extensions and receive ternational airport for our flight to walking tour of Belfast to view way. Sometimes dubbed “The 8th by the Ox Mountains, the great a $150 air credit! Dublin, Ireland via wide-body air- C. S. Lewis’ birthplace and other Wonder of the World”, the Cause- poet spent many years of his craft arriving the next day. Meals childhood sites. Belfast has been way is an amazing sight with its life. Continue south to Knock, DAY 1 - Thursday - NEWARK / SHANNON from the ocean to the monastic ruins on the served on board. the scene of much conflict be- 40,000 basalt columns rising from where it is said that villagers saw Today we depart the USA on our transatlantic summit. Visit the Skellig Experience before tween the Roman Catholics and the sea. Legend has it that the the vision of the Virgin Mary in flight to Shannon. we continue our Ring of Kerry tour. Return to called Evening Prayer. Continue on to view DAY 2 - Monday- DUBLIN / BEL- Protestants, culminating in the Causeway was the path built by 1879 and then on to Galway for our hotel for dinner and overnight. Church Pub, once a church Wesley preached FAST “Troubles”. While visiting Belfast, Irish giant Finn McCool to enable a brief stroll through the twisting at in Ireland. We will view the National This morning we arrive in Dub- we will see the remains of the fa- him to fight the giant across the streets of the old city. Continue on DAY 2 - Friday - SHANNON / BUNRATTY / DAY 5 - Monday - KILLARNEY / BLARNEY Gallery of Ireland, O’Connell Street, then a visit lin where we will be met by our mous ship yards where ships like Irish Sea in Scotland. We end to Limerick where we check into our LIMERICK / CORK to Trinity College, housing the 9th century Book escort. Upon arrive will head the Titanic were built. Visit the our day in Londonderry where hotel for dinner and overnight. This morning we arrive in Shannon and are Today we begin our day with a to visit to Blarney of Kells. The remainder of the afternoon will be north to Malahide Castle, set on East Belfast Mission where Wes- our tour will help us discover the met by our escort. Our first stop in Ireland is Castle, one of Ireland’s oldest and most free to explore on your own before transferring 250 acres of park land. This was ley’s emphasis on reaching the history of this ancient city which DAY 6 - Friday - LIMERICK Bunratty Castle a Viking Trading Camp in 970. historic castles. Here we can visit the Gardens back to the hotel. This evening we will enjoy a The present structure is the last of four castles and the famous Blarney Stone, believed to fortress where the Talbot family poor and working class people retains its medieval fortification This morning we will join those special evening with dinner followed by a show lived from 1185 to 1973, when the is put into action. The remainder walls dating from 1613. Check arriving from the USA and begin to be built on the site. We will see the Bunratty have the power to bestow the gift of with Irish music and entertainment. Return to last Lord Talbot died. Continue to of the afternoon will be at leisure. into our hotel for dinner and over- our tour of Bunratty Castle. Folk Park a living reconstruction of the homes eloquence on all those who kiss it. Treat the hotel for overnight. and environment of Ireland of over a century yourself to quality Irish-made goods at the Downpatrick where we will vis- Dinner and overnight at our hotel. night. ago. Continue on to our hotel where we check Blarney Woolen Mills. Continue on to the port DAY 8 - Thursday - DUBLIN / USA it what is known as St. Patrick’s in for dinner and overnight. city of Kinsale where we will visit St Multose We transfer to the airport for our flight home final resting place. Here we visit DAY 4 - Wednesday- BELFAST / DAY 5 - Thursday- LON- Church, built in 1190 and which remains with unforgettable memories to cherish always. the Heritage Center, giving you a LONDONDERRY DONDERRY / LIMERICK DAY 3 - Saturday - LIMERICK / KILLARNEY in use to this day. The courthouse was used glimpse into the life of St. Patrick. Today we travel along the Antrim This morning we travel through This morning we depart for the Cliffs of Moher, for the inquiry over the sinking of the Lusitania Check into your Belfast area hotel Coast where we will experience the charming town of Donegal, where we look out over the Atlantic Ocean. in 1915. Continue on to Cobh where we will for dinner and overnight. breathtaking views of the Irish with its windswept hills, on our Standing over 700 feet above the sea, the visit the Cobh Heritage Center, situated within Cliffs boast one of the most amazing views in a beautifully restored Victorian railway station. Ireland. Continue on to Adare, one of Ireland’s Here we will learn about Irish Emigration and Add Scotland Post Extension - 6 days for $2,799 most picturesque villages with thatched roof hear about the ill-fated Titanic and Lusitania. cottages throughout the town. It was here that Continue on to Cork for dinner and overnight. DAY 8 - Thursday- DUBLIN / DAY 9 - Friday-GLASGOW / and overnight. and Holyrood House Palace, the LARNE / GLASGOW LOCH NESS / INVERNESS official residence of Her Majesty John Wesley preached to the people of Adare This morning head north through This morning our tour of Glasgow DAY 10 - Saturday,- INVER- the Queen of Scotland. Next we in 1765 from the shade of an ash tree. Today a DAY 6 - Tuesday - CORK / KILKENNY / scenic countryside to North- begins at the Glasgow Cathe- NESS / PITLOCHRY / EDIN- visit John Knox House, reputed stone makes the spot where the tree stood. Our DUBLIN ern Ireland, making our way to dral, also called the High Kirk of BURGH to have been owned by John next stop will be Ballingrane where we visit the We begin our day with a brief walking Larne where we will board a ferry Glasgow, and then on to Kelvin- This morning we make our way Knox in the 16th century, Princes Embuty Heck Memorial Church, built in 1766, tour of Cork and the English Market. Continue across the Irish Sea to Cairnryan, grove Art Galley and Museum. to Pitlochry, visiting Blair Castle, Street, and St. Giles Cathedral where John Wesley visited thirteen times over on to Kilkenny. The medieval heritage Scotland. Upon arrival we will be We continue on through Scottish where you will see Scottish his- with its distinctive crown stee- the years. Continue to Killarney, ‘Heaven’s is evident in the city’s treasure trove met and transferred to our hotel Highlands to Loch Ness, fabled tory through the collection of the ples. Return to the hotel for over- Reflex’, one of Ireland’s most lovely districts. of historical buildings and landmarks, for dinner and overnight. home of the elusive water mon- Atholl Family, and it’s Gardens night. This evening we will enjoy ster, Nessie! Here we will enjoy a with impressive walled gardens, the Spirit of Scotland Show with Poets, painters, writers and musicians have exemplified by the magnificent Kilkenny Castle. 1 hour cruise on Loch Ness. Con- wooded groves and sculpture dinner, featuring Scottish danc- never fully succeeded in conveying the varied Kilkenny is arguably the pre-eminent medieval tinue on to Inverness for dinner trail. Continue through scenic ing and music. beauty of form and color of this wonderland of city in Ireland. Our tour of the city will include countryside for a visit to Dun- mountains and lakes. Check into the Castle and Cathedral, and the keld Cathedral, begun in 1260 DAY 12 - Monday- EDINBURGH our hotel for dinner and overnight. Church of St. Canice. Continue on to and completed in 1501 and Today will be free to explore the Dublin where our panoramic tour of on to Perth where we visit St. city on your own, shop, or to relax DAY 4 - Sunday- KILLARNEY / the city will include Christ Church John’s Kirk, one of Scotland’s at the hotel. Dinner and overnight RING OF KERRY / KILLARNEY Cathedral, built in 1172, and Phoenix most important burgh churches, at the hotel. and Perth’s most ancient build- Today after breakfast enjoy a Park with its many monuments. Check ing. It was here that John Knox DAY 13 - Tuesday- EDIN- jaunting car ride through part of into our hotel for dinner and overnight. Europe preached before the Lords of the BURGH / USA Killarney National Park, ending at Congregation in 1559. Continue This morning we transfer to the Europe Ross Castle. Next we will enjoy DAY 7 - Wednesday - DUBLIN on to Edinburgh where we check airport where we board our flight a sheepdog demonstration at Today our tour of “Dublins Fair City” into our hotel for dinner and over- home, filled with fond memories Kissane Sheep Farm. Continue includes St. Patrick’s Cathedral, built night. of the places we have seen and our day with one of the most next to the well where Patrick baptized the friends we have made. beautiful rides you will ever have converts on this visit to Dublin. In 1789, DAY 11 - Sunday - EDINBURGH Today our tour of the city will in- as we drive the Ring of Kerry, a Wesley led a large number of Dublin clude a visit to Edinburgh Castle scenic contrasts from golden Methodist to the Cathedral for Holy coastline to majestic mountains. En route you Communion. Next we stop at Whitefriar will see in the distance, The Great Skellig, an Street Carmelite Church, the first enormous mass of precipitous rock rising sheer Methodist chapel in Ireland, and visit St. out of the ocean to a height of 700 feet, where Mary’s Church, where John Wesley’s stone steps, hewn by the ancient monks lead first sermon was preached in what was Questions? Give us a call! 800-545-5533 40 www.maranathatours.com For more information call 800-545-5533 or email [email protected] 41 Maranatha Tours: Bringing the Bible to life since 1974 From Genesis to Revelation, we can take you there!

The Holy ‘Faith of our Fathers’ Pilgrimage to Lourdes Land Heritage Tour & Fatima

Turkey Dryburgh Abbey Egypt Day 1 – Monday: NEW YORK / LONDON orphanages established by George DAY 1 - Tuesday- USA / PARIS DAY 6 - Sunday- BURGOS / Jordan This evening we board flight at John F Mueller (now a technical college). In Margaret’s Chapel, was built ca 1100AD. It Today we board our flight, via wide-body SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA Kennedy International Airport in New York. the afternoon we arrive at Oxford, where we’ll was in Edinburgh Castle that Mary Queen of aircraft, from our home city to Paris This morning we depart from Burgos, Dinner will be served on our overnight flight have a guided tour of the city and university, Scots gave birth to King James VI of Scotland, to London. including Christ Church from which John who became King James I of England, uniting arriving the next day. Mealsserved on which was a major stop for pilgrims as Wesley graduated. We’ll visit the spot outside the crowns of England and Scotland. In 1611 board. they made their way to Santiago de Day 2 – Tuesday: LONDON Balliol College where three heroes of the James I authorized the English version of the Compostela. Continue our scenic drive to Arriving early in London we are met and English Reformation -- Latimer, Ridley and Bible, now known as the “Authorized Version” DAY 2 - Wednesday- PARIS / LOURDES Santiago where we will visit the beautiful begin our tour the city of London, including Cranmer -- were burned at the stake. We’ll or the “King James Version.” After our tour of This morning we arrive in Paris and cathedral. Dinner and overnight at our the magnificent Westminster Abbey, where also view “The Kilns,” the home of CS Lewis. the Castle we continue along the Royal Mile board our flight to Lourdes. Upon arrival hotel. most of the monarchs of Britain have been to Holyroodhouse, palace of Mary Queen of in Lourdes, we will be met by our local Scots. crowned, married, and buried since 1066 Day 6 – Saturday: OXFORD/ SCROOBY/ escort who will be with us throughout DAY 7 - Monday- SANTIAGO DE A.D. Westminster Abbey is also the burial AUSTERFIELD/ EPWORTH/ YORK Italy place of David Livingstone. We visit St Paul’s Today we travel north into Nottinghamshire, Day 9 – Tuesday: EDINBURGH/ ST the trip. Free time is provided for private COMPOSTELA / FATIMA Cathedral, with its dome inspired by St Peter’s stopping first at Scrooby, the “Birthplace of ANDREWS devotions and the candlelight procession. After breakfast, we will take part in in Rome. We visit the Tower of London, built in the Pilgrims.” Here, in 1606, dissatisfied with This morning we drive across the Firth of Forth, Enjoy dinner this evening as we celebrate the morning Pilgrim Mass when the 1066 as a fortress for William the Conqueror, the corruption and lax nature of the Church past the picturesque fishing ports of Fifeshire, the start of this spiritual journey. Overnight swinging “botafumeiro” is celebrated. which has served for nearly 1000 years and of England, some religious separatists broke and on to St Andrews on the northeast coast in Lourdes. The “botafumeiro” is a three-foot high view Buckingham Palace and other places of away from the church and its head, King of Scotland. St Andrew is the “patron saint” iron censer that is suspended by a two interest as we travel through the city. James I, to commit themselves to a simpler of Scotland, and the “Cross of St Andrew” is DAY 3 - Thursday- LOURDES hundred-foot rope and swung over the way of life based on the teachings of the the flag of Scotland. It was in St Andrews that Today walk in the footsteps of St. heads of the congregation. An impressive Day 3 – Wednesday: LONDON Bible. We also visit nearby Austerfield, home George Wishart, under whose ministry John This morning we visit Hampton Court of William Bradford, America’s greatest Knox was converted, was burned at the stake Bernadette. See Boly Mill where St. feature of the cathedral is the Portico de Palace, beautifully situated in over 60 acres Pilgrim Father. Eventually Bradford and for preaching the gospel. We will visit the Bernadette was born and the Cachot, an la Gloria,which is located just inside the of gardens, a living tapestry of history from Brewster, along with a company of fellow remains of the cathedral, which was begun abandoned prison where Bernadette’s main entrance. Through the centuries, Henry VIII through George II. Returning to Pilgrims, set sail for America. Next we travel in 1160 and took over 150 years to complete. impoverished family lived. Join your millions of pilgrims have London, we will visit the British Museum, to Epworth and the birthplace of the founders During the Scottish Reformation John Knox prayers with those of pilgrims from touched the central pillar. After a thousand Greece where many antiquities and artifacts from of Methodism. Samuel and Susanna Wesley preached a fiery sermon in St Andrews parish around the world as you pray for the sick, years of embracing and touching, the Israel, Egypt, Greece, and Rome are lived in Epworth for 39 years, and raised here church, whereupon the congregation went drink water from the miraculous spring stone has been left smooth and worn. The preserved and showcased, including the their 17 children, including John and Charles. immediately to the cathedral and destroyed or submerge yourself in the healing relics of St. James, the Apostle, repose Cyrus Cylinder, the Rosetta Stone, marble We’ll visit their home, the Old Rectory, and many valuable objects and furniture, which friezes from the Parthenon in Athens, and the parish church where Samuel ministered. they saw as relics of “popery.” We also view baths. Experience Christ’s love as you in the high altar. Pilgrims can follow the Egyptian artifacts and mummies. Remainder Next we arrive at York where we will tour the ancient St Andrews Castle, perched on a walk the life-sized Stations of the Cross centuries-old tradition of climbing the of the day is free for your private explorations the majestic York Minster, which dates from cliff overlooking the North Sea. We will also overlooking the holy Grotto. Kneel in the stairs behind the altar to kiss the shells of London. 1220, and see other fascinating sights of this visit the most famous golf course in the world, chapel built on the very rock of the Grotto, that rest on the golden statue of the saint. ancient city. “The Royal and Ancient.” in obedience of the Below the statue is the crypt that contains Day 4 – Thursday: LONDON/ request of the Immaculate Conception. the bones of St. James in a silver reliquary. STONEHENGE/ SALISBURY/ BATH Day 7 – Sunday: YORK/ DURHAM/ Day 10 –Wednesday: - EDINBURGH/ Attend the blessing of the sick and Continue our drive through scenic Today we leave London and head west for LINDISFARNE/ JEDBURGH/ EDINBURGH LONDON/ NEW YORK participate in the nightly candlelight countryside, crossing into Portugal. Biblical the mysterious stone circle, Stonehenge, Driving north from York we come to Durham This morning we fly from Edinburgh to dating back to 3200 B.C. Next we come to and view the ancient cathedral. Next we London, where we board our flight home. procession requested by Our Lady. Dinner Continue on to Fatima where we check Cruises Salisbury and its awe-inspiring cathedral, have a photo stop at picturesque Lindisfarne, and overnight at our hotel. into our hotel for dinner and overnight. with the tallest surviving pre-1400 spire in the “Holy Island,” where a monastery was the world. Here we recall the artisans and established in 635AD, soon after Christianity DAY 4 - Friday- LOURDES DAY 8 - Tuesday- FATIMA craftsmen who labored to construct amazing came to Britain. Crossing the border into This morning we have a guided tour of Celebrate Mass at the Chapel of buildings for the worship and glory of God. Scotland, we come to the lovely village Lourdes. Visit the Sanctuary, the Basilica Apparitions. Next, see the hamlet of In the Cathedral Chapter House we view of Jedburgh, and view the remains of its of St. Pius X and the baths Aljustrel, where the children lived 9 DAY depictions of scenes from Genesis and beautiful church, founded in 1108 by King where hundreds of miraculous cures have and Valinhos, the site of Our Lady’s Exodus, and see one of only four surviving David I of Scotland, and the home of Mary taken place. See a video presentation appearance after the children’s return Lourdes & Fatima Pilgrimage copies of the Magna Carta. In the afternoon Queen of Scots. Next we visit the remains 10 Days we visit Bath, where we view Bath Abbey, of Dryburgh Abbey, beautifully nestled in a telling the story of Lourdes. Free time from prison. Follow the Stations of the another beautiful and historic cathedral, secluded loop of the River Tweed. Christianity England & Scotland is provided for private devotions and Cross along the Via Sacra (The Sacred and the Roman baths, constructed like the was established here by missionaries in 600 the candlelight procession this evening. Way) built by Hungarian refugees that $3599 Europe Roman bath houses we see in the Holy Land. A.D., and the abbey was built in 1150. Here ‘Faith of our Father’s Dinner and overnight at our hotel. culminates in the Chapel of Calvary, Europe We also visit the famous “Pump Room,” built we can view remarkably well-preserved Heritage Tour’ which overlooks all of Fatima. Visit the in 1790, where 18th century socialites came glimpses of medieval monastic life. Dryburgh $4299 $4699 DAY 5 - Saturday- LOURDES / LOYOLA church where the children were baptized. 2020 April 21 - 29 to “take the waters” for their health. Here in is the burial place of the well-known author, / BURGOS The rest of day will be free for private Bath, Jane Austen wrote many of her famous Sir Walter Scott. Then onto Edinburgh, the Mar 2 - 11 Sept 7 - 16 novels about the manners and extravagances capital city of Scotland. This morning begin our journey to Burgos. devotions. In the evening, of Georgian society. En route we will stop in Loyola in Spain to join pilgrims from around the world in an

2020 2021 April 20- 28 Day 8- Monday: EDINBURGH visit the Monastery. Upon arrival in Burgos evening candlelight procession. Dinner Day 5 – Friday: BATH/ BRISTOL/ OXFORD Today we tour the historic city of Edinburgh, Mar 1- 10 Sept 6 - 15 we celebrate Mass at the Cathedral, the is on your own this evening. Overnight in After a short drive from Bath, we come to the home of the Scottish Reformation. We visit third largest church in Spain. Then, tour Fatima, Portugal. busy city of Bristol, home of William Penn, a 900-year-old St Giles Church, “the birthplace the 13th century Cathedral, with it’s portal, 2022 April 19 - 27

2021 Educational Quaker and the founder of Pennsylvania. We of Presbyterianism,” where John Knox was the “Puerta del Sarmental,” considered DAY 9 - Wednesday- FATIMA / USA Tours will see the New Room, the first Methodist minister for many years. We also visit John Mar 7 - 16 Sept 5 - 14 the best example of Gothic sculpture of its This morning we depart Fatima and drive chapel, the home of Charles Wesley, Knox’s home. At the top of the Royal Mile we and Hanham Mount, where John Wesley come to Edinburgh Castle, a military fortress century. Dinner and overnight at our hotel. to the Lisbon airport where we board our preached some of his open air sermons since 900AD, situated atop a volcanic crag. 2022 flight back to the USA. Special in 1738. We will also view the famous The oldest structure in the castle, tiny St Events 42 www.maranathatours.com For more information call 800-545-5533 or email [email protected] 43 TOUR PROTECTION PLAN Maranatha Tours: Bringing the Bible to life since 1974 Maranatha Tours recommends you purchase a Tour Protection Plan that helps provide coverage for Trip Cancellation/Trip Interruption, Emergency Medical and Emergency Evacuation/Repatriation, Trip Delay, Baggage Delay and more. For your convenience we offer a plan from Travelex Insurance Services that provides valuable coverage for those unexpected events that can occur before Maranatha Tours, Inc. and during your vacation. 18428 N. 42nd Place Phoenix, AZ 85032 (602) 788-8864 To view/download the Policy, go to: policy.travelexinsurance.com/342A-0219 www.maranathatours.com For PA Residents go to: policy.travelexinsurance.com/323A-1217 This is brief description of benefit. The full coverage terms and details, including limitations and exclusions, are contained in the insurance Policy above. Any specific questions regarding the protection plan, needs to be directed to Travelex Insurance Services. Please contact Travelex at 1 - 844- 877-1879 and refer to the Plan Code 3424A-0219 or 323A-1217 for PA Residents. Travel Insurance Is underwritten by Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance Company; NAIC #22276. F5N Registration Form Please choose and sign: Tour Member Name: Mr. p Miss. p Mrs. p Dr. p Yes, I accept the Travel Protection Plan. Name as shown on Passport (First, Middle, Last) X______Home Phone: Cell Phone: Signature of Passenger #1

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President Group Operations Manager [email protected] [email protected] e then had a calling from a “Higher Power” and joined the Hfamily business in the tourism industry that specializes in group Pilgrimages. He is the General Director of Maranatha Greg Reilly Shay Chalfant Tours Inc., where he plays a key role in all aspects of the General Director - Sales & Marketing Christian Tour Consultant Program & business. [email protected] Group Tour Coordinator Supervisor [email protected] ince traveling the world and especially through the Bible, SChef Reilly is now putting his “Culinary Prowess” together Terri Hollister Jennie Rettinger with his travel experience and has created ‘Cooking Thru the Group Sales Group Tour Coordinator Lands of the Bible’, a show that incorporates an awesome [email protected] [email protected] combination of “Food… and The Bible”. You can also visit www.mtitravelchannel.com to view his other productions. 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