Israel, Jordan, Turkey Study Tour with GTI Tours
January 11-23, 2026
Led by Rich Ferreira, Jerrell Jobe
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Trip Blog Posts
Day 11 - Walking with Jesus
posted on Thursday January 22 2026 at 5:00 pm UTC
For the past ten days, we have walked the Land with Bible in hand. We have traced the story of Scripture from Genesis through the Torah, the Law, the Prophets, the Psalms, and Wisdom literature. We have stepped into the Gospels and listened again to the voices of the early Church through...
Day 10 - Walking the Story
posted on Wednesday January 21 2026 at 9:00 pm UTC
Today we logged nearly 14,000 steps, but more than distance, we covered centuries. We walked through Jerusalem, moving back and forth through time as if stepping into a living time capsule. From the earliest days of the city to kings, prophets, pilgrims, and ultimately Jesus Himself, the story unfolded...
Day 09 - The Center of the Story
posted on Tuesday January 20 2026 at 9:00 pm UTC
Ezekiel 5:5 declares that Jerusalem stands at the center of the nations. While geography may depend on where one is standing, history tells us this much is true: for nearly three thousand years, Jerusalem has been a gravitational center of faith, longing, conflict, prayer, and promise. Spirituality,...
Day 08 - Driving Through the Story
posted on Monday January 19 2026 at 9:00 pm UTC
Today was a transition day. We said goodbye to the Sea of Galilee and made our way to our destination of the evening, Jerusalem. Along the way, we drove through history, literally. When you drive across the Jezreel Valley, from Beit Shean all the way over to the coastal...
Day 07 - Between Dan and Pan
posted on Sunday January 18 2026 at 9:00 pm UTC
Today reminded us that following Jesus always places us in the middle of a battle. We were reminded again that we are living in a spiritual battle, and that faithful following of Jesus is not easy. Freedom is real. Resistance is real. And, the tension between the two has always existed. Our...
Day 06 - The First Day of School
posted on Sunday January 18 2026 at 2:00 am UTC
There is a saying in the Talmud about the first day a child goes to school. It teaches that "from six we receive them and stuff them with Torah like an ox" (Bava Batra 21a). In many ways, today felt like the first day of school. We began our morning along the Sea of Galilee, reflecting...
Day 5 -| Fortress, Word, & Living Water
posted on Friday January 16 2026 at 8:00 pm UTC
Today was another full day of walking the Land with Bible in hand. We began by ascending Masada. Even its name tells a story. Metsudah, in Hebrew, means fortress. Likely, first used by the Hasmoneans in the second century BC, Masada was later transformed into an architectural...
Day 04 - From Wilderness to Promise
posted on Thursday January 15 2026 at 8:00 pm UTC
Today we said goodbye to Jordan. We crossed through the Arava Valley, moving from one side of the biblical story to the other, from wilderness memory toward fulfilled promise. The road itself felt intentional, a corridor of transition that mirrors so much of the biblical narrative. Our...
Day 03 - Petra and the God Who Forms a People
posted on Wednesday January 14 2026 at 8:00 pm UTC
Today we began Day Three of our Jordan & Israel Pastors Tour in the Rose City of Petra.The city takes its name from the rock itself, carved from sandstone that glows red, pink, and gold as the light shifts. Petra reached its height under the Nabataean Kingdom, roughly from 500 BC to 106 AD. The...
Day 02 - Standing at the Threshold
posted on Tuesday January 13 2026 at 7:00 pm UTC
Today was our first full day on the ground for the Jordan and Israel Signature Tour, and we stepped immediately into a pivotal hinge of the biblical story. We stood on Mount Nebo, looking into the Promised Land with Moses. From this height, Deuteronomy 34 came alive. God showed Moses the land in...
Day 01 - A Preface Before the Journey
posted on Monday January 12 2026 at 6:00 pm UTC
Today was our first day on the ground for the Jordan & Israel Pastors Familiarization Tour. And fittingly, it was not yet Jordan, and not yet Israel. It was a preface. We began not in the land of promise, but in the city that once stood at the crossroads of empire, theology, and global...
Preparing for Israel, Jordan, Turkey
posted on Wednesday January 07 2026 at 3:05 am UTC
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