Thursday, May 13 — Depart the United States (make your own flight arrangements to Tel Aviv).

Day 1 — Friday, May 14 — Arrive in Tel Aviv

We land on the shores of the Mediterranean and settle in for our first night near Tel Aviv, adjacent to ancient Joppa (modern Jaffa) — the port from which Jonah once fled (Jonah 1:3) and where Peter received the vision that convinced him the gospel was for all nations (Acts 10:9-16). Dinner included. Overnight near Tel Aviv.

Day 2 — Saturday, May 15 — Caesarea Maritima, Mount Carmel & Megiddo

Today unfolds like a fast-forward through centuries of biblical history. We begin at Caesarea Maritima, Herod the Great's magnificent port city, where the Roman centurion Cornelius welcomed the gospel and where the apostle Paul stood trial before governors and a king (Acts 10; Acts 23-26). From there we climb Mount Carmel, where the prophet Elijah stood alone against 450 prophets of Baal and called down fire from heaven (1 Kings 18:16-39). We finish at Megiddo, the ancient fortress city that witnessed King Josiah's death (2 Kings 23:29) and gave its name — Armageddon — to the final battle of Revelation (Revelation 16:16). Breakfast and dinner provided. Overnight in Nazareth.

Day 3 — Sunday, May 16 — Nazareth & Mount Precipice

We begin the day with worship at the Nazareth Church of Christ. From here we walk the streets of Nazareth, where the angel Gabriel announced to a young Mary that she would bear the Son of God (Luke 1:26-38), and where Jesus grew "in wisdom and stature" in relative obscurity for three decades (Luke 2:52). We'll visit Mount Precipice, the traditional site overlooking the Jezreel Valley where Jesus's own neighbors, enraged by his sermon in the synagogue, tried to throw him from the cliff (Luke 4:16-30). From here we descend into the Galilee and settle in for three nights along the very sea where Jesus called fishermen to become fishers of men. Breakfast and dinner provided. Overnight at the Sea of Galilee.

Day 4 — Monday, May 17 — Caesarea Philippi, Dan, Hazor & Mount Bental

At Caesarea Philippi, in the shadow of the springs of the Jordan, Peter made his bold declaration — "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God" — and Jesus responded with the promise to build his church (Matthew 16:13-20). We travel to Dan, Israel's northernmost city, where Abraham once rescued his nephew Lot (Genesis 14:14), and where centuries later Jeroboam set up an idolatrous shrine that led the northern kingdom astray (1 Kings 12:28-30). At Hazor, once one of the largest Canaanite cities, we walk among ruins Joshua conquered (Joshua 11:10-13). We close the day atop Mount Bental in the Golan Heights — biblical Bashan (Deuteronomy 3:1-11), land of giants and kings — with sweeping views that bring the region's ancient and modern history into one frame. Breakfast and dinner provided. Overnight at the Sea of Galilee.

Day 5 — Tuesday, May 18 — Sea of Galilee, Capernaum & Mount Arbel

Today belongs entirely to the sea that shaped so much of Jesus's ministry. We set sail on the Sea of Galilee itself, on the same waters where Jesus calmed the storm and walked toward his frightened disciples in the night (Mark 4:35-41; Matthew 14:22-33). In Capernaum, Jesus's adopted home base during his ministry (Matthew 4:13), we'll stand among the ruins of the ancient synagogue and the traditional site of Peter's house, where a paralyzed man was lowered through a roof to be healed (Mark 2:1-12). We end the day atop Mount Arbel, with a panoramic view over the towns where Jesus taught, healed, and called his disciples. Breakfast and dinner provided. Overnight at the Sea of Galilee.

Day 6 — Wednesday, May 19 — Beit Shean, Shiloh & Jericho

We head south and stop at Beit Shean, where the Philistines once displayed the bodies of King Saul and his sons after the tragic battle on Mount Gilboa (1 Samuel 31:8-13). Then it's on to Shiloh, where the Tabernacle rested for centuries before the Temple was built — the place where young Samuel first heard God's voice in the night and where Hannah's prayer for a son was answered (1 Samuel 1-3). Finally, we arrive in Jericho, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities on earth, where Joshua's shout brought down the walls (Joshua 6:20), and where Jesus welcomed himself into the home of a despised tax collector named Zacchaeus (Luke 19:1-10). Breakfast and dinner provided. Overnight in Jerusalem.

Day 7 — Thursday, May 20 — Temple Mount, Ophel & City of David

Our first full day in Jerusalem takes us to the Temple Mount, where tradition holds that Abraham once offered Isaac (Genesis 22), and where Solomon later built the Temple of the Lord (1 Kings 6) — the same courts where a twelve-year-old Jesus astonished the teachers (Luke 2:41-49). At the Ophel, we walk through the royal and administrative quarter of ancient Jerusalem, near where Nehemiah's wall builders once labored (Nehemiah 3:26-27). In the City of David, the oldest part of Jerusalem, we descend to the Gihon Spring (2 Samuel 5:6-9) and walk through Hezekiah's Tunnel, built to protect the city's water supply during the Assyrian siege (2 Kings 20:20). Breakfast and dinner provided. Overnight in Jerusalem.

Day 8 — Friday, May 21 — Mount of Olives, Gethsemane & Via Dolorosa

Today we walk in the steps of Jesus. From the Mount of Olives, we look out over the city as Jesus once did, weeping over Jerusalem before his triumphal entry, and later ascending into heaven from this same ridge (Luke 19:37-41; Acts 1:9-12). At the Garden of Gethsemane, we remember the night Jesus prayed in anguish, "not my will, but yours be done," just before his arrest (Luke 22:39-44). Walking the Via Dolorosa, the traditional path to the cross, we trace the final hours of the Gospel accounts, arriving at the place tradition holds as Golgotha itself (John 19). Breakfast and dinner provided. Overnight in Jerusalem.

Day 9 — Saturday, May 22 — Fly to Athens

Today we board a plane in Tel Aviv and make our way to Athens. We will fly over land and sea where first-century Christians once traveled from Jerusalem into the wider Greco-Roman world. As Jesus told his disciples they would be his witnesses "in Jerusalem... and to the ends of the earth" (Acts 1:8), we now follow the apostle Paul's own path across the Aegean, from the land of the prophets to the land of the philosophers. Breakfast included. Overnight in Athens.

Day 10 — Sunday, May 23 — Mars Hill, Acropolis & Ancient Agora

Standing atop the Areopagus (Mars Hill), we read aloud Paul's sermon to the philosophers of Athens — his declaration that the "unknown god" they worshiped in ignorance was in fact the one true God, "in whom we live and move and have our being" (Acts 17:16-34). We'll look up at the Acropolis and the Parthenon, a lasting monument to the idolatry Paul confronted in a city he described as "full of idols," and walk through the Ancient Agora, the very marketplace where Paul reasoned with the Athenians day after day. We close the day in worship, joining the Glyfada Church of Christ, a living congregation carrying the same gospel Paul preached on this ground nearly two thousand years ago. Breakfast included. Overnight in Athens.

Day 11 — Monday, May 24 — Corinth, Corinth Canal & Cenchreae

We travel to Corinth, where Paul spent eighteen months establishing a church that he would later write two of his most personal and pastoral letters to address (Acts 18:1-18). We'll stand before the bema, the judgment seat where Paul was hauled before the proconsul Gallio, and see the famous Corinth Canal, a reminder of how strategically vital — and how morally notorious — this wealthy crossroads city was in the ancient world. At Cenchreae, Corinth's eastern port, we remember Phoebe, the faithful servant of the church whom Paul commended to the believers in Rome (Romans 16:1-2), and the harbor from which Paul himself set sail at the end of his ministry in Corinth. Breakfast included. Overnight in Athens.

Day 12 — Tuesday, May 25 — Free Day in Athens

A day to explore at your own pace. Many will choose the optional excursion to Delphi, home of the ancient oracle whose priestess spoke in a trance not unlike the "spirit of divination" Paul encountered in a slave girl at Philippi (Acts 16:16-18). Others may visit the Temple of Olympian Zeus or one of Athens's world-class museums, or simply take the day to reflect, shop, and rest before the journey home. Breakfast included. Overnight in Athens.

Day 13 — Wednesday, May 26 — Depart Athens

As we head for home, we carry with us more than souvenirs and photographs — we carry the very ground of Scripture now walked, seen, and felt firsthand. Like Paul's own converts, sent out to carry the gospel to their own corners of the world (Acts 13:1-3), we return home to share what we've seen: that this story is not myth or metaphor, but history — real places, real events, and a real Savior who still calls us to follow him. Breakfast included.