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Trip Itinerary
Day 1 - Monday, December 1, 2025
Depart from various cities for Athens, Greece.
Day 2 - Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Arrive in Athens, Greece! (ATH) Meet our welcome staff and transfer to your hotel. Dinner and overnight in Athens.
Day 3 - Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Tour of Athens. City sightseeing includes a visit to the world-renowned Acropolis, with the ruins of the Parthenon, Erechteum and Propylea. Then, we ascend Mars Hill, where Paul preached (Acts 17:16-34). Also, view the Agora (ancient market place and former center of Athenian public life), the House of Parliament, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the Presidential Palace. Shopping at “The Plaka.” Dinner and overnight in Athens.
Day 4 - Thursday, December 4, 2025
Depart on our deluxe motor coach for Northern Greece. Drive to Vergina, Burial place Philip 11of Macedon. Then on to Berea where Paul established a small Church (Acts 17:10-15). View the reconstructed steps of the Bema (or rostrum) and see the newly placed mosaics of Paul. Arrive at Thessaloniki, a city built in 316 BC by the Macedonian king Kassandros and named after his wife, Thessalonika, the sister of Alexander the Great. Paul established another church here (Acts 17:1-9) and wrote them at least two epistlies (Thessalonians 1 and 2). Later the city flourished under the Byzantine Empire. Check in to our hotel in Thessaloniki for the next two nights. Dinner and overnight.
Day 5 - Friday, December 5, 2025
Drive to Philippi, where Paul delivered his first sermon in Europe, sowing the seeds of Christianity (Acts 16:12-18). Here Paul baptized a certain woman named Lydia, the first Christian convert in Europe. Visit the Roman forum and the prison where Paul and Silas were held (Acts 16:16-23). Gather at the Roman theatre for prayer and teaching. Continue into the modern port city of Kavala, ancient Neapolis, where Paul, accompanied by Silas, Luke, and Timothy, first set foot in Europe (Acts 16:11). This ancient city was later renamed Christoupolis because it was the first European city to accept Christianity. See the Lion of Amphipolis, a massive tomb sculpture from the 4 th century B.C. Dinner and overnight in Thessaloniki.
Day 6 - Saturday, December 6, 2025
Conclude tour of Thessaloniki. Sites include Arch of Galerius and Rotunda, the ancient walls overlooking the city, the White Tower, Byzantine churches, the cave and Well of the Apostle Paul, Vlatadon Monastery and the location of the House of Jason (Acts 17:5-9); Aristotle’s Square, and statue of Alexander the Great. Then, we start our drive back to Athens; we stop at Thermopylae, where Leonidas and his 300 soldiers faced the Persian army. Dinner and overnight in Athens.
Day 7 - Sunday, December 7, 2025
Depart for Corinth with a brief stop at the Corinth Canal, which separates the Peloponnese from the Greek mainland and connects the two seas (Ionian and Aegean). Later visit Corinth which was home for Paul for eighteen months (Acts 18:1-16). We visit the Bema, the Market Place, and the Temples. From the Bema at Corinth, Paul spoke to the Corinthians about Jesus. We drive back to Athens for dinner and overnight.
Day 8 - Monday, December 8, 2025
Morning Depart Athens for USA
