Seminary cohorts, Bible college classes, Christian high-school trips and church-history courses: we plan private study tours of Turkey, Greece and Egypt around what your students are reading. A licensed local guide leads every day on site, and your own faculty can teach alongside.
“You could come extremely close to walking exactly where the Apostle Paul walked. Somewhere near here has to be the Hall of Tyrannus, where he preached and taught.”
Albert Mohler, President, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
“We’re looking at where God intervened in history to reveal himself and to save humanity through Christ. And so, I love being able to be with people in the places where these things happen.”
Rob Plummer, Professor, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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A note for professors, deans and department chairs
You know your course and your students far better than we do. What we can offer is what we’ve seen from the groups and teachers who have traveled with us, and a few things we’ve found make a trip serve a course rather than sit beside it.
The biblical texts take their settings for granted. Paul doesn’t describe Ephesus to the Ephesians, and John doesn’t explain Smyrna to the church in Smyrna. For most students these places stay names on a page. A site adds nothing to the text, but it can close some of the distance between the text and the student.
We’ve found it particularly useful when a course begins with the trip. Students then carry the images of Ephesus, Corinth or the Nile through the whole semester, and every later lecture has somewhere to land. Trips at the end of a course can work well too; they just tend to serve more as a capstone than a lens.
Professors often start from the texts they’re teaching: Paul’s Footsteps in Turkey or Greece for Acts and the Pauline letters, the Seven Churches of Revelation for Revelation, Biblical Egypt for Genesis and Exodus. Every trip is private and built around your course, for up to two weeks, and tours can be combined. Our Journal’s place articles make good introductory material if you’d like something for students to read beforehand.
Professors often start from the texts they’re teaching: Paul’s Footsteps in Turkey or Greece for Acts and the Pauline letters, the Seven Churches of Revelation for Revelation, Biblical Egypt for Genesis and Exodus. Every trip is private and built around your course, for up to two weeks, and tours can be combined. Our Journal’s place articles make good introductory material if you’d like something for students to read beforehand.
Your guide provides the historic backdrop at each site, and we build time into the day for your teaching. Teachers such as Rob Plummer and Shawn Wright have taught on our tours. Our teachers come to us through trusted relationships with The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, The Gospel Coalition, 9Marks and other like-minded churches and institutions. A few moments that tend to stay with students:
Sometimes the honest answer is not to go. If a course would work just as well without the trip, or only a handful of students could afford it, it may not be the year. A trip won’t do anyone’s reading for them. But where a course turns on real places, seeing them has been, in our experience, one more way of reading the text closely.
We’re not replacing the classroom; we’re reading the text where it happened and bringing better questions back to it.
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Ephesus to Laodicea: the churches of Asia to whom Christ spoke in Revelation.
Footsteps of Paul in Antioch, Tarsus, Cappadocia, and the cities where he planted churches.
Footsteps of Paul: Philippi, Thessalonica, Athens, and Corinth, where the gospel first reached Europe.
The Nile, the pyramids, the temples of Luxor, the land of the Exodus and the patriarchs.
Your guide provides the historic backdrop at each site. If you bring a professor, we build time for teaching into the day. Teachers such as Rob Plummer and Shawn Wright have taught on our tours. Our teachers come to us through trusted relationships with The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, The Gospel Coalition, 9Marks and other like-minded churches and institutions. Our Journal place articles make for good introductory material.
Yes. We can provide day-by-day itineraries keyed to the sites up to 12 months ahead, so you can tie the trip to your course and your school's approval process.
Credit is granted by your institution, not by us. We can supply itineraries and site lists to support your own credit request.
We plan for small classes and larger groups alike. Tell us your numbers and we’ll shape the plan around them.
Every study tour is private and built to order. Send us your dates and group size and we’ll send a proposal.
Bible tours and custom journeys through the lands of Scripture.
