Dr. Lillie at the Garden of Gethsemane in 2019

Our May 2023 Study Tour Pilgrimage to Israel and Palestine is just around the corner and we are excited! A couple of us have already arrived and the majority of us are putting final touches in our preparations to leave.

Twelve of us will be traveling with early Christian Historian Dr. Celene Lillie, and Wi’am Guide Usama Nicola. We look forward to learning about the past and listening and sitting in the present with the people on the ground, the “living stones”. We will meet many people who are working for a just and lasting peace. We anticipate many conversations about the current situation and the future of this place that so many people call “the Holy Land”.

As poet John O’Donohue put it in his poem For The Traveler, “may we travel in an awakened way, gathered wisely into our inner ground; that we may not waste the invitations which wait along the way to transform us. May we travel safely, arrive refreshed, and live our time away to its fullest.”

Brenda Mehos