Hi again friends! We are traveling back to Israel, this time with our two daughters! Like in 2017, we have created this page for our friends and family so that you can experience our trip to the Holy Land with us!  When we returned to the States in 2017 , we were positive we wanted our children to experience this trip. This year we found we had the opportunity and it coordinated with the girls schedules.  We hope that through this page you see Gods Word come alive with photos and descriptions that we post. Our trip is being led by our Pastor and his wife Joe and Cheryl Hishmeh.  Below we have posted our daily itinerary. We will be leaving October 19th and arrive at Israel in the season of olive and grape harvest! We are truly fortunate to visit Israel in two different seasons!

Israel 2019 – October 19 - 30, 2019

Itinerary with Bible Passages

Led by Joe and Cheryl Hishmeh

Day 1 Saturday, October 19 - Depart U.S. 6:00a Kansas City to Atlanta to JFK to Tel Aviv

The following descriptions and passages are from the book:

The Christian Traveler’s Guide to the Holy Land – by Charles Dyer and Greg Hatteberg. I have aligned the passages and descriptions of the book to our itinerary.

Day 2 Sunday, October 20 – Morning Arrival into Tel Aviv.

Day 3 Monday, October 21 - Mt. Carmel,   Megiddo;   Nazareth,  Sepphoris,  Mt. Arbel, Magdal

Day 4 Tuesday, October 22 – Mount of Beatitudes, Capernaum, Caesarea Philippi, Dan Nature Preserve, Tel Dan, Mt. Hermon, Jordan River Source, Chorazim, Bethsaida

Day 5 Wednesday, October 23 – Today we head south along the Jordan to the Judean Wilderness and the Dead Sea. Along the way we will visit the ruins of a great Greek/Roman city of Jesus’ day, Beth-Shan, now called “the Disneyland of Archaeology.” We will drive through Jericho, eat lunch at Qumran and view the caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found. We will float in the Dead Sea, then eat like kings and sleep wonderfully for two nights at the David Dead Sea Resort.

Day 6 Thursday, October 24 – We will begin our day by taking the cable car up to the top of Masada; the imposing fortress palace built by Herod the Great. We will re-live the last moments of the 960 Jewish rebels and their families, who took their own lives rather than surrender to the Roman army. We will experience life with Abraham by taking a camel ride to a Bedouin tents and enjoying an authentic lunch in the land Abraham first saw of the Promised Land. Then we will visit Arad (Num. 21) and Beersheba (Abraham and Hagar, Genesis 21), the southern border of ancient Israel (“from Dan to Beersheba”). We will have dinner and stay another night at the Dead Sea.

Day 7 Friday, October 25 – This morning we will travel to Bethlehem, the homeland of David and birthplace of Jesus. After lunch we will travel a few miles to the Herodium, the palace of Herod in between Bethlehem and Jerusalem. We will then enter Jerusalem where we will stay for the rest of the trip at the Dan Panorama Hotel.

Days 8-11 Saturday-Tuesday, - October 26-29 -- JERUSALEM and environs! We will see and do so much in God’s favorite city during these three days: Mt. of Olives; The Old City; Pool of Bethesda; Via Dolorosa; Church of the Holy Sepulcher; Jewish Quarter; Western Wall with bar mitvahs; Western Wall tunnels; Temple Mount; Dome of the Rock; Southern Wall excavations; City of David; Davidson Center; remains of David’s palace; Hezekiah’s Tunnel; Pool of Siloam; the Golden Gate; Jewish Quarter; The Upper Room; Israel Museum; the Garden Tomb. Shopping in the Arab and Jewish quarters of the Old City, and in Ben Yehuda Street.

Day 12 Tuesday, - October 30 arrive in US –NYC to Minneapolis to Kansas City

We will depart from Tel Aviv late on Tuesday evening and return to the states on Wednesday morning before heading to Minneapolis and then home to Kansas City.