FIRST ISRAEL TOUR MEETING - MAY 12TH @ 7:00PM... PLEASE COME FOR MORE INFO!
Over the past 10 years, not counting all the trips with Pastor Ron in the 90's, Compassion Minisries has been to the holy Land 5 times... 2007, 2010, 2011, 2013, and 2015. As you can see, on average, there are about 2 years between trips. But we have considered and prayed a lot about how to modify our trips so that more people would be able to come, and we decided to try something new.
The last two trips have been longer 15 day trips, and even the three previous trips were 12 days. The idea being, many people only travel there once in their lives, and so we decided to stay longer and see more things than most tours do, including going down into the southern end of the country - the "Old Testament" part as we lovingly refer to it. And this has been great, response to the trips has been amazing, and in fact our second largest trip was the one we took last year.
But we have heard from some of you who wanted to go, but couldnt be gone for that long, and we wanted to address that. We heard from you, and recognize that a 15 day trip is an extra 5 days away from work, from kids, grandkids, dogs... whatever is important to you! So we decided that this next trip would be a shorter one, to accomodate some people who havent been able to travel with us the last few times.
We also wanted to make it as afforable as possible - but when I presented my goals to the tour company contact I have, he said "door to door (meaning from Portland, not priced from New York or LA as many national tours are) "tours under $3000 just dont exist in 2016... theyre like Unicorns".
Well, the price we eventually worked out is $2997... so I made him start calling it the "Unicorn Tour" as a code name! But seriously, we believe you won't find a tour anyplace that covers what we will cover with the level of hotels we'll use and the preparation we provide at $3000... maybe not at $4000.
So if you are interested, please email us at info@heartoftheword.org , and I will send you more information. Look here on the website or listen to the program for the time and location of our first meeting which will be in the early part of May.
And beyond that, please prayerfully consider travelling to His land with us, and your fellow Compassion Ministries/Heart of the Word listeners, and supporters.