Holy Land Pilgrimage

Saturday, May 3, 2014

Come and See…. Pilgrimage to the Holy Land

June 4-18, 2015

Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you…”

Our faith tradition places us in a long line of pilgrims, seeking an encounter with the sacred--the things that evoke awe and wonder and stretch our boundaries. Pilgrimage invites us to discover our deepest longings.

Abraham’s descendants invite us to experience their culture of hospitality, to visit the ancient stones and meet the “living stones,” the people of the land today.

Stay in the Old City of Jerusalem—explore the holy sites and bazaars, the Western Wall, Dome of the Rock and Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Connect with the Palestinian Christians and their peace-building ministries
See the holy sites in Capernaum, Nazareth
Sail on the Sea of Galilee
Worship with Lutherans in Bethlehem & Jerusalem
Visit the ministries of the Christmas Lutheran Church in Bethlehem
Visit Qumran, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered; tour Masada; swim in the Dead Sea
Walk down the Mount of Olives; visit Augusta Victoria Hospital
Daily reflection time, free time to explore

Led by Pastor Alena Lamirato and Jan Miller, with local tour guides. Tentative cost: $3900, including airfare from Denver and two meals per day.

For more information:
Email: millerjan68@gmail.com
Jan Miller: 303-332-1263

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Pastor Alena Lamirato is pastor of St. Luke's Lutheran Church, Buffalo, Wyoming. She graduated from the Lutheran Theological Seminary Gettysburg with a Master's of Divinity and was ordained into Word and Sacrament in 2007. She grew up in Denver and previously served as a pastor in Nebraska.

Pr. Alena has been to the Holy Land twice and has led accompaniment trips to Guyana and Argentina. She has a passion for international travel and has been on every continent except Antarctica.

Believing that we grow closer to God the further we travel from home, Pr. Alena is excited to walk with you through the Holy Land as we get to know not only the places, but also the people. One of the most important aspects of this trip is that we will visit with the living stones - the people of the Land. As we hear the stories of those whom we encounter on our own road to Emmaus, we'll find out we are not so different from one another, we all seek peace and love. With Jesus at our side, our hearts will burn within us as we grow in faith and realize we have nothing to fear.

Jan Miller has traveled to the Holy Land seven times, twice as a co-leader of pilgrimage groups. She has toured with a Sabeel fact-finding delegation, a Compassionate Listening Project delegation, and, most recently, with an Interfaith Peacebuilders' group.

"On my first trip in 2005, I was astonished to see that the situation for Palestinians was not at all what I had read and seen in the US media. One of the Palestinians I met asked me to tell their story, and this became my vocation."

She is dedicated to bringing people to see for themselves and to meet and listen to Israelis and Palestinians, the "living stones" of the Holy Land today.

She is active with the Peace Not Walls initiative of the ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) and with Friends of Sabeel-Colorado. She is also a spiritual director, working with women in prison. In 2008 she received her M. Div. from Iliff School of Theology.

Holy Land Pilgrimage

Saturday, May 3, 2014

Come and See…. Pilgrimage to the Holy Land

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