Israel is a bucket list trip. What believer wouldn't want to walk where Jesus walked? A trip to Israel is like a year of Bible college, like stepping into the very pages of your Bible.

But there's an even better reason to go. Millions of Christians have visited the Holy Land, yet many Israelis have never met a follower of Jesus, someone like you. Why? Most are trapped in a tour bus and holed up in a hotel, out of reach of everyday people.

You're invited to an Israel Friendship Retreat. It's a retreat because it's designed to encounter God in Israel. It's friendship because the best travel is seeing places and people. Each day you'll hike, learn, and pray where Bible heroes walked, and each day you'll be invited to help Israeli organizations making a real difference. You'll even worship with Jews and Arabs who follow Jesus, and you could be the first evangelical Christian a Jewish person has ever met.

You will stand at the house of Simon the Tanner in Jaffa, where Peter's vision opened the door to the nations. You will hike Mount Arbel before breakfast and read the Great Commission at the summit. You will sail the Sea of Galilee, walk Capernaum and Bethsaida, and hike down from the Mount of Beatitudes. You will walk the Banias river trail toward Hermon and spend a Shabbat afternoon planting trees with kibbutz families. You will float in the Dead Sea and sleep under the desert stars at Kfar HaNokdim. You will take communion at the Garden Tomb, wade Hezekiah's Tunnel, and pray at the Western Wall.

You will also meet the people. Pastor Salim's congregation and their aid center in Nazareth. Kibbutz families in the Upper Galilee on a Shabbat afternoon. And on the last evening, Beit Hallel in Ashdod and a farewell dinner together before the coach takes you to the airport.

The price is $1,900 per person for the full land tour. Contact the E4Life Office for payment arrangements. That covers your hotels, breakfast and dinner every day, the farewell dinner, your private motor coach, a believing guide, every site admission, headsets, and all tips. Your flights are arranged by E4 Life. Lunches, about $20 a day, travel insurance, and the ETA-IL entry permit are yours.

Nothing is due at registration. Register here so we have your details for the hotels and for Israel's entry rules.

Israel is possible. You can go.

Philip’s House tours are about ENCOUNTER. Get sand in your shoes that the disciples shook from their sandals.

ACTIVE: Explore the paths Jesus walked. Scan the mountains on the horizon that his eyes saw.

REFLECTIVE: You are encouraged to take a paper Bible along. You will have time to reflect on a passage written about the spot where you stand. 

RELATIONAL: Meet Jews and Israeli-Arabs. Some are secular, some are religious, and a few are believers in Jesus. Israelis you meet will cause Bible personalities of history to spring to life in your imagination.

PHILIP’S HOUSE hosts ACTIVE tours of ISRAEL for INFLUENCERS from all nations to make Israeli FRIENDS and return home to a life of huge INFLUENCE.

Philip’s House tours are about ENCOUNTER. Get sand in your shoes that the disciples shook from their sandals.

ACTIVE: Explore the paths Jesus walked. Scan the mountains on the horizon that his eyes saw.

REFLECTIVE: You are encouraged to take a paper Bible along. You will have time to reflect on a passage written about the spot where you stand. 

RELATIONAL: Meet Jews and Israeli-Arabs. Some are secular, some are religious, and a few are believers in Jesus. Israelis you meet will cause Bible personalities of history to spring to life in your imagination.

PHILIP’S HOUSE hosts ACTIVE tours of ISRAEL for INFLUENCERS from all nations to make Israeli FRIENDS and return home to a life of huge INFLUENCE.

7 nights, every one of them beside the story. Twin share throughout; married couples room together.

1 night in Jaffa · Ruth Daniel Residence

In old Jaffa, minutes from the port where Peter had his vision, and the first dinner of the retreat.

mishkenot-jaffa.co.il

3 Galilee nights · Astoria Galilee Hotel, Tiberias

Above the Sea of Galilee in Tiberias, your base for the days that hold most of the gospels. Shabbat dinner here on Friday.

astoria.co.il

1 desert night · Kfar HaNokdim, Arad

Communal tents in the Judean desert near Arad. A Poyke dinner cooked over the fire, and a sky with nothing in the way. Bring a warm layer; desert nights in November are cold.

kfarhanokdim.co.il/en

2 Jerusalem nights · Spirit of Herzl Hotel

Near Mount Herzl, a short ride from the gates of the Old City.

hotelherzl.com/ens

Your safe journey and confidence in booking come first.

If international events require it, we will rebook your land tour for a future date. If that date does not work for you, we will refund 100% of what was paid for your place.

Because E4 Life arranges the flights, your airline's rules apply to your ticket.

Full terms: philipshouse.com/terms