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11 Bethania Street, MAESTEG, Mid Glamorgan, South
Wales UK
National
Director:
Pamela Thomas Tel: 01656
739494
BFP Representatives:
Brian Vaughan
01202-695-333
Harold Milton
01604-716477
John & June Rowland
0121-550-3434
Malcolm & Margaret Bowen 01934
520902
Scott & Loretta Stewart 01786
475852
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LAND OF THE BIBLE EXPERIENCE
Tour 3rd - 16th March 2008
Price £1,298
Flights depart from London, Heathrow Mon.
3rd March 2.30 pm return Sun. 16th March 7.05
pm
TOUR ITINERARY
(All lectures
and speakers are not listed.)
March 3:
Arrive in Israel and
spend the night in Tel Aviv.
March 4:
Visit an army base, see simulated medical triage and
meet soldiers training for Israel’s medical corps. Meet the
mayor of Ariel—one of
our adopted towns—hear an immigrant choir, plant vines on
the hills of Ephraim, and visit the college of Judea and
Samaria, where we help students in our Adoption Program.
Stay overnight in Netanya on the sea and meet the
mayor.
March 5:
In Caesarea, see the Roman Amphitheater,
remains of the Crusader city, the harbor, and aqueduct. At
Dor
beach, we’ll see the
remains of a first-century shipping vessel and visit
Mukraka
on Mt. Carmel, where
Elijah met the prophets of Ba’al. Hear from a former Knesset
(Parliament) member in the port city of Haifa.
March 6:
Visit our new
outreach center in Karmiel and
visit Zippori, host
to some of the most magnificent mosaic floors found in
Israel. Explore Megiddo in the
Valley of Armageddon, and in Nazareth, visit the “brow of the hill,”
from where you can see the Mt. of
Transfiguration.
March 7:
We will be escorted
through the Golan Heights by an Israeli army colonel, viewing Israel’s northern
borders, Syrian bunkers, and a hospital in Safed. At
Banias
(Caesarea Philippi),
visit the “gates of hell” and a reconstructed first-century
village in Katzrin.
March 8:
Take a boat trip on
the Sea of
Galilee from
Tiberias
to Capernaum, home to an ancient synagogue and
Peter’s house. Visit the ruins of Chorazin, the uninhabited town Jesus
cursed. Worship on the Mt. of Beatitudes before going to the Church of the Multiplication
of the Loaves and Fishes at Tabgha. Visit Kursi (Gedara), where demons were cast into a herd of
swine. End the day with a baptismal service in the
Jordan River.
March 9:
Walk through the
spectacular ruins of Beit Shean and
drive south through the Jordan Valley to Qumran, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were
discovered. Spend the night at the Dead Sea.
March 10:
Hear from a Dead Sea
Works spokesman, swim in the Dead Sea, and visit the Ein Gedi Nature Reserve and Masada, King Herod’s desert fortress.
Dine in a
Bedouin tent nomadic
style and bed down in a Jerusalem kibbutz.
March 11:
Enjoy a panoramic view of Jerusalem
on the way to visit
our Outreach
Center. In the
Old
City, visit the
Temple Institute
(Third Temple
treasures), the Western Wall Tunnel, and hear an archaeologist speak at the Southern Steps
Excavations. Walk
through the streets of downtown Jerusalem with banners and
flags in a show of solidarity. Benny Elon, Knesset member, will speak on
current events in the evening.
March 12:
Visit Shiloh, stand where the tabernacle once
stood, and tour an Israeli school. Later, hear Josh Reinstein, of the Knesset Christian Allies
Caucus, speak at the Knesset. Enjoy a
cultural evening at the BFP Volunteer Art Show and sing and
dance with a lively Israeli troupe.
March 13:
Seminar Day
featuring: Michael Freund— Operation
Prayer; Moshe Kempinski— Jewish/Christian Communication;
Itamar Marcus—Palestinian Media Watch; Rebecca
Brimmer—Understanding Israeli Politics; Khalid Abu
Toameh—Inside the Palestinian Authority; Moshe Sharon—Is
Israel the Problem? Plus others.
March 14,
(Friday,
Sabbath): After a
visit to Bethlehem,
have lunch in Jerusalem, and shop at the shuk (open-air market). Then visit our
International
Headquarters and
The Land of the
Bible Experience,
pray at the Western Wall as the sun sets, and enjoy an evening
Middle Eastern meal in the Old City
March 15: Visit many Jerusalem sites
relating to Jesus’slife: the Garden of
Gethsemane, the
Church of
AllNations where
Jesus prayed just before His arrest, St.Peter of Gallicantu Church
(ruins of Caiphas’s
house), Pool of
Bethesda, the
Via Dolorosa
(Way of the Cross),
Church of the
Holy Sepulcher, and
the Garden Tomb
for communion.
March 16:
Visit Yad VaShem, the Holocaust memorial, andhear
a Holocaust survivor share her story. Enjoy free time toshop
on Ben Yehuda
Street, followed by a
visit to the Shrineof the Book—the resting place of the Dead Sea Scrolls—andthen
King David’s
Tomb and the
Upper
Room.
For further details please contact Bridges for Peace UK
Office 01656 739494 e-mail bfpuk@btconnect.com
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