Discovering the Holy Land on Tour

asterbridge offers custom-designed church group travel programs, Christian pilgrimage tours and Biblical tours to meet all of the specific needs of your church. With local contacts and knowledge accrued since 1979, nobody is better placed to facilitate church group travel opportunities in the Holy Land. Our Biblical tours offer opportunities for fellowship and worship that can contribute to providing a genuinely meaningful touring experience for your church group or biblical community. We have expertise in designing Biblical tours for youth or adult groups, and we are sensitive to the unique needs of all of the major denominations that take church group travel programs to the Holy Land. No request is too specialized for our staff, and we are accustomed to working in great detail with all of our church group leaders. Our goal is always to provide Biblical tours and Christian pilgrimage tours that meet the precise touring and spiritual experiences that each church travel group requires. Casterbridge Church Tours is dedicated to offering all the participants on our church group tours unique opportunities for international exchange, fellowship and worship, while they experience a Casterbridge Biblical tour in the Holy Land.

A WEALTH OF MEMORIES

he Holy Land has been described as the crossroads where the three great religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam meet. Each year millions of pilgrims and church groups travel to the land of kings, prophets, and apostles and each person believes that their biblical tour of Israel is the most meaningful they have ever undertaken. Marvel at the breathtaking natural beauty of the land that produced the three great patriarchs of Judaism: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob on your biblical tour. Retrace the Exodus as you journey from the Nile into the desert. Stand in the very space where David confronted Goliath. Journey as the magi did to Grotto of the Nativity in Bethlehem, the site of the birth of Christ. Follow Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem for the census. See where John baptized Christ in the Jordan River. Climb the Mount of Beatitudes or pray in the Church of Transfiguration. As your church group travels on a biblical tour, you can follow any of these paths or chart your own through biblical memories and stories.

eet the historic places of Jerusalem that are sacred to the Islamic world and understand the issues facing locals today. On your biblical tour, your church group will see the site from which Muhammad began his celestial journey and where the 9th Caliph, Abd al-Malikon, built the Dome of the Rock to commemorate this event. The Dome also covers a stone that Jews believe was used by Abraham while preparing to sacrifice Isaac.

Casterbridge strives to arrange the most authentic church group travel experience possible from dinners that represent the national cuisine to activities that encourage cultural exchange with the local population. Our featured biblical tours itineraries can offer thematic pilgrimage experiences in Israel or Jordan to church group leaders, such as "Churches of Revelation" and "Path of the Holy Family," all of which you may read about below. Additionally Casterbridge can customize any itinerary to meet your group's specific needs within the Holy Land as our coordinators are specially equipped to design any scriptural or spiritual theme. Needless to say, our Christian pilgrimages to the Holy Land can be carefully crafted to feature the sights that would be most relevant for a Catholic pilgrimage or a Protestant church group experience.