I’m heading out for Israel early Saturday morning - and am including a brief itenerary, as many wanted to know where we’d be on each day.  Please please please keep our group over there in prayer, prayer for safety on the travel side and just safety from injury / sickness over there.  Thanks everyone!  I’ll have plenty of pics when I get back…

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June 4 - - Traveling from US to Germany

June 5 - - Arrive in Frankfurt, Germany, depart for Tel Aviv, Israel,

June 6 - - Old Jaffa and Tel Aviv, going to the ancient port of Joffa, from which Jonah sailed.  Touring old city, markets, and a coffehouse run by messianic jews, also visiting the spot where Prime Minister Rabin was shot.  Free for night / swim in mediterranean…

Juny 7 - - Tel Aviv to the Sea of Galilee:

• Excavations of Caesarea Maritime, the Roman capital at the time of Christ
  • Where the first Gentile, Cornelius, accepted the Lord
• See the Roman ampitheater, aquaduct constructed by Herod
• North along med coast, to Elijah’s triumph over the prophets of Baal, also a pan view of the valley of armageddon
• Travel to the western shore of the sea of Galilee

June 8 — Worship services at sites that were important in the life of Jesus

• Cruise on the Sea of Galilee, devotional, peters walk on water
• Hill of the Beattitudes, for a devotional service
• Visity Korazin, where there are remains of a first century church Jesus ministered at
• Capernaum, headquarters of Jesus Ministry
• Church of St. Peter’s Primacy at Tabgha
• South end of Galilee, Jordan river baptismal

June 9

• Visiting Nazareth, boyhood home of Christ
• Church of Annunciation and the Church of St. Joseph (located over teh traditional site where Joseph and Mary Lived)
• Traditional site where Jesus did his first sermon
• Drive across Valley of armageddon to the tell of Megiddo
• Jordan River Valley
• Excavations at Beit Shean, where the body of King Saul was nailed to the walls, largest excavation is Israel
• We have to bypass Jericho (under palestinian occupation…no tourists!)
• Ascent to Jerusalem / mingle with Israelis

June 10 — Mount of Olives and Old City

• Top of Mount of Olives
• Garden of Gethsemane / Dominus Fleit Chapel
• Church of all Nations
• Old City / Wailing Wall, Archeological tunnel
• Pool of Betheseda, Crusader Church of St. Anne
• Vio Doloraso (walk of pain), Jesus’ path with the cross
• Church of the Holy Sepulcher (catholic site of the crucifixtion and buriel of Jesus)
• Temple Institute
• Mount Zion / Upper Room / Tomb of David

June 11 — The Dead Sea

• Lowest point on the surface of the Earth
• Herod’s Fortress of Masada
• Swim in Dead Sea
• Qumran where the dead sea scrolls were found in 1947

June 12 - New jerusalem and Bethlehem

• The Holocaust Museum adn the Dead Sea Scrolls Museam
• Church of the Natiity, traditional birth site of Christ

June 13 — Free DAY

• Free day in Jerusalem, shopping, etc, visit other sites

June 14 –

• Garden Tomb / Communion service
• Church in Abu Gosh (where the ark of the covenant rested)
• Proceed to airport , fly back to Frankfurt Germany, Spen the night there

June 15 - -

• Flight back to Dallas