{"id":776,"date":"2005-09-26T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-26T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/2005\/09\/tour-time--the-trip-of-a-lifetime-june-2006.html"},"modified":"2005-09-26T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-26T10:00:00","slug":"tour-time-the-trip-of-a-lifetime-june-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2005\/09\/tour-time-the-trip-of-a-lifetime-june-2006.html","title":{"rendered":"Tour Time&#8211; The Trip of a Lifetime, June 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a brief announcement to let you know that once again I will be leading a tour to two of the Lands of the Bible on behalf of Asbury Seminary.  We will be spending a week in Israel and a week in Turkey between June 19th-July 3rd 2006. Inasmuch as we will have only limited seating (we will all be together in one large bus) we have only 50 spots for this tour.  This will not be a cosmetic &#8216;shopping&#8217; tour, though of course there will be time to get some souvenirs and Christmas presents. We will be visiting various of the major Christian and archaeological sites and I will be lecturing on the sites&#8211; this includes Jerusalem, Bethelem, Nazareth, Capernaum, Bethsaida, Qumran, Masada, Ephesus, Pergamon, Sardis, Laodicea, Colossae, Istanbul and many other sites.  Furthermore we will be on pilgrimage, as this is intended to be a spiritually formative journey. If any of you out there in the blogosphere are interesting in going, my advice would be to sign up now by contacting Ms. Tammy Cessna at the seminary at  Tammy_Cessna@asburyseminary.edu. <\/p>\n<p>A good and blessed time will be had by all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a brief announcement to let you know that once again I will be leading a tour to two of the Lands of the Bible on behalf of Asbury Seminary. 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