Bring humanitarian aid to Israelis on the SOLIDARITY ISRAEL TOUR OCT 12-21, 2024.
STAND with Israel by staying with Israelis in their time of need.
ENCOURAGE Israelis with your visit to Israel to help, listen, and pray.
HELP in practical ways to communicate your support to the people of Israel.
MEET Jews, religious and secular, Arab Israelis, Israeli farmers, displaced families, and service men and women in the Israeli Defense Force. You will leave with new friends in Israel.
EXPLORE the land Jesus called home with adventure in Galilee and Jerusalem, reflection at holy sites, and conversations with people of the land.
STAY SAFE with Israel arrangements through partners Sar-El Tours, Israel's most experienced travel professionals.
This trip is provided by Philip's House LLC, a Seattle-based tour company that will introduce you to Israelis who want your help.
Israel's leading tour company, Sar-El Tours, partners with Philip’s House to provide the safest and best in travel, accommodation, professional tour guides, and opportunities to help.
Your tour host is Philip McCallum, pastor of Evergreen Church in Bothell. He is experienced in Israel travel. He has been to Israel multiple times during this difficult time.
Your tour leaders are Dean and Marcy Valento from Evergreen Church. Listen to their invitation here.
Philip’s House tours are about ENCOUNTER. Get sand in your shoes that the disciples shook from their sandals.
ACTIVE: Explore the paths Jesus walked. Scan the mountains on the horizon that his eyes saw.
REFLECTIVE: You are encouraged to take a paper Bible along. You will have time to reflect on a passage written about the spot where you stand.
RELATIONAL: Meet Jews and Israeli-Arabs. Some are secular, some are religious, and a few are believers in Jesus. Israelis you meet will cause Bible personalities of history to spring to life in your imagination.
PHILIP’S HOUSE hosts ACTIVE tours of ISRAEL for INFLUENCERS from all nations to make Israeli FRIENDS and return home to a life of huge INFLUENCE.
Reflect over the Sea of Galilee. Double occupancy room. Private room extra fee.
Trace the steps of Jesus in the Holy City and pray at the Western Wall.
Every floor of your accommodation features a shelter room should an emergency arise.
How? Pick fruit at farms that are short-handed. Meet families displaced by war. Serve a BBQ to soldiers. Weed, clean, paint, or anything to help Israelis get on their feet.
Hike the paths Jesus walked. Scale the mountains he climbed to pray. Kayak the Sea of Galilee.
Holy sites are empty of tourists. Enjoy peace at holy sites like Capernaum, the Mount of Beatitudes, Mount Arbel, Golgotha, and the resurrection tomb of Jesus.
Visit Bible sites with time to reflect on passages written about events at locations you where you will stand.
See more than rocks of archaeology. Meet living stones--Jewish and Arab believers in Yeshua.
Visit an outdoor park where 364 young adults lost their lives at the hands of terrorists and comfort those who grieve in Zion.
Meet Jews and Israeli-Arabs. Some are secular, some religious, and a few are believers in Jesus.
Become a watch-person on the walls of Jerusalem to pray for the State of Israel.
Breakfast is included. Lunch and dinner are paid by you at restaurants to support Israeli businesses struggling during the war. Expect to pay around $15-$20 lunch and $25-$50 dinner.
Are available. The sooner you book, the smaller your payment.
Lunch is extra, so plan about $15-$20 per day.
Dinner is extra, so plan about $25-$50 per day.
Remember your bus driver, tour guide, and waiter/waitress. Plan about $12 per day.
Here is a link to detailed information about what to pack and what to expect on your tour. https://www.philipshouse.com/questions
Depart from Seattle or your USA departure airport to connect with an international flight to Israel. (Airlines, flights, times, hotels, and sites are subject to change without notice.)
Note that all international travelers from visa-exempt countries to Israel must have a valid ETA-IL (Electronic Travel Authorization) prior to departing for Israel. A small fee will apply. Visit the State of Israel visa website here israel-entry.piba.gov.il
Arrive at Ben Gurion Airport, between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. You will pass through Israel’s immigration and be greeted by a Philip’s House representative. Look for the smiling face holding the Philip’s House sign! Your flight arrives just before midnight, so your hotel is just 30 minutes north in Netanyah.
Hotel Netanyah
Travel to Nazareth. See the childhood sites of Jesus and a tour of the old city. Take in the aromas of Elabarbor, Israel’s oldest spice shop. Meet Pastor Salim Salash of Home of Jesus the King Church. This Arab Israeli congregation has been serving Orthodox Jews in Nazareth for years. Discover why some Arabs love Jews in Israel.
Step into Capernaum and see the home of Peter's mother-in-law.
Climb aboard a vessel to sail the lake where Jesus walked.
Meet Father Eaman Kelly and his sister Celine at the newly excavated town of Magdala, where Mary Magdalene met Jesus. See a synagogue where Jesus taught and where Jews and Gentiles can meet today.
Your accommodation is at Virginia House, a hostel in Midgal for Israel travelers overlooking the Sea of Galilee.
Accommodation Virginia House
Optional morning kayak experience on the lake.
Take in the view of the lake from Mount Arbel, where Jesus prayed all night and gave the Great Commission.
Sit on the Mount of Beatitudes and read through the Sermon on the Mount on location.
View Mount Hermon from the Valley of Tears--overlooking the region where Jesus proclaimed his church and was transfigured.
Take in the panorama of Galilee from the ancient city of Hippos in Sussita National Park, the location where Jesus liberated a man from a legion of demons to reach 4,000 Gentile families.
Service project: Share dinner in a Tiberias hotel with some of the 200,000 people displaced from border communities by the war now crowding into hotel rooms around Israel.
Accommodation Virginia House
Optional dawn climb of Mount Arbel, where Jesus often prayed and gave the Great Commission.
Travel to Jerusalem and take in your first view of the Holy City.
Night Jerusalem Hotel
Experience Jerusalem as Jesus experienced it.
Drive towards the NOVA festival site to pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
On the way stop at the Valley of Elah where David overcame Goliath.
Travel south to NOVA, the outdoor park on the Gaza border where 364 young adults lost their lives, and 40 were taken hostage on October 7, 2023.
Visit Pastor Michael Beener and his Messianic congregation in Sedrot
Drive north to Ashdod. This is the biblical city of Azotus, where Philip the Evangelist landed, Samson brought down the house, Jonah washed up on shore, and the Philistines captured the Ark of the Covenant. Meet Pastor Israel Pochtar with Beit Hallel Congregation and its remarkable work with humanitarian aid for Jewish refugees.
Meet with the congregation for Friday night service and enjoy a Shabbat meal.
Hotel Jerusalem
Hotel Jerusalem
Hotel Jerusalem
Rise and shine for your flight home. Your flight departs after 10 am. You need to allow a 3-hour check-in time for immigration. So be ready for an early hotel departure to Ben Gurion airport.
Thanks to the time zone, you will arrive home on the same day, Monday, October 21.
You now have social media friends in Israel. You've left a part of yourself in the Holy Land. You want to pray for the peace of Jerusalem and go back one day soon.
