Embark on a transformative 9-day biblical study tour in Turkey. Experience the Seven Churches of Revelation and the Early Church, with 6 full days immersed in the rich biblical context of these Lands of the Bible.

This journey will inspire your faith and enrich your biblical knowledge like never before!

Throughout this tour, we step into the world of the first Christians — not as tourists, but as Followers of the Way. We move through the ancient cities of Asia Minor where trade routes, pagan temples, and Roman power shaped the struggles of the early church. Here, the New Testament writings and the letters of Revelation stop being confusing and start being exactly what they always were — a message of hope written to real people, in real places, facing impossible pressure.

Faith Discovery Tours are designed for all types of travelers, offering an experience of the Lands of the Bible without the physical demands or extended schedules of the other Faith Encounter and Faith Immersion tours.  The tour is designed for travelers with no significant mobility issues and are able to walk on uneven terrain, navigate steps, and walk up or down hills.

Sites in Turkey are typically rather large. This usually requires walking 2-3 miles a day across dirt paths, and some uneven terrain. Some sites also require ascending or descending steps or hills to see the different places. The pace is relaxed, and is done with many stops and chances to sit down before proceeding to the next stop.

Daily activities

• Tours begin every morning at about 7am with a group huddle. Community is a key focus and bringing everyone together as a single body. After a quick check-in, devotions, and prayer, we board the bus for that days adventure.

• Each day will have a continual story-line and theme that allows for easy to understand locations and topics. This creates a far deeper and impactful experience than non-stop information overload.

• With our Discovery Tours, we try to organize locations that keep restroom facilities fairly close together.

• Each location will have key moments where the story comes alive. In touching, smelling, seeing, and feeling the locations of the Bible, the stories become far more impactful. Instead of following a tour guide that walks and talks non-stop, we break the locations up and provide places to sit and to better understand the location.

• Most days you will have the ability to purchase food around lunch times. Having large breakfasts, and dinner buffets provided lowers the need for 3 full meals a day.

• After a full day of touring, we return to the hotel around 6pm in the evening for a full meal, great conversations, and to relax before the next day.

• Each day brings deepening conversations, experiences and relationships that last for a lifetime.

A 9 day Faith Discovery Tour in Turkey includes 6 full days of touring in Israel

Each tour is designed to provide a faith-immersive experience rooted in biblical storytelling and experiential learning. Our tours follow a structured approach, where each location builds upon the last, creating a deeper spiritual journey. While every tour is unique, they all share the same commitment to bringing Scripture to life in a way that is engaging, educational, and transformative.

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Turkey Faith Dicovery Tour Itinerary

All travelers will depart from their nearest International Airport to arrive in Izmir, Turkey to join the tour.

Group arrivals and through passport control.  All participants will be arriving between 12pm (noon) and 4pm at Izmir Adnan Menderes Airport to allow for smooth arrivals.

We will spend our first evening as a community of believers coming together to hear the words of Rabbi Jesus, "Go, and make disciples...teaching them to obey." His disciples took the words of Christ and traveled the Roman Empire. We gather together to join them in their journey living out the words of Jesus.


Topic: Going into all the World
When the Rabbi tells you to go...

Today we enter two of the most dramatic cities in the ancient world — and two of the most revealing in all of Scripture. From the wealthy port city of Smyrna to the magnificent acropolis of Pergamum, we begin to understand what it actually cost to follow Jesus in the Roman world.

These are not simply ruins. They are the streets where the early church made impossible choices every single day.

Today we leave the coastline behind and move inland to the cities of Thyatira, Sardis and Philadelphia — and everything changes. The massive port cities give way to river valleys, military outposts, and blue-collar towns. These are the churches nobody talks about. But for the early followers of the Way, these were the cities where the hardest questions lived.

Not the dramatic questions of persecution and martyrdom — but the quiet, daily ones.

How do you make a living in a world where your livelihood and your faith are on a collision course?

Today we arrive at one of the most visually stunning and spiritually revealing locations on the entire journey. The travertine terraces of Pamukkale — ancient Hierapolis — rise white and dramatic from the valley floor, fed by thermal springs that have been flowing for thousands of years. It is breathtaking. It is also the key that unlocks one of the most quoted — and most misunderstood — letters in all of Revelation.

From Hierapolis we visit one of the richest cities in Asia Minor - Laodicea.

Laodicea was one of the richest cities in Asia Minor. When a massive earthquake destroyed it in AD 60, the city refused financial aid from Rome. They rebuilt entirely from their own wealth. They were self-sufficient, self-satisfied, and self-reliant. Their banking industry was world-class and their medical school was famous across the empire.

They had everything.

And Christ had this to say to them: "You are lukewarm — neither hot nor cold. You say 'I am rich, I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.' But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked."

Every word of that letter was a direct reference to something this city was proud of.


Optional Sunrise Ballon Ride Available

Today we move through one of the most undervisited and underappreciated corridors of the entire New Testament world. From the ruins of Colossae to the breathtaking marble city of Aphrodisias, built entirely around the worship of the goddess of love, we discover what happens when the gospel of Jesus Christ collides head-on with the most seductive cultural forces of the Roman Empire.

In the Roman world there was no Bible sitting on your nightstand. There was no prayer line. There was no still small voice whispering in the quiet of the morning. If you wanted to hear from the gods — and everyone did — you paid. You traveled. You waited. And you hoped the answer made sense.

Today we visit three cities that show us exactly what that world looked like. And by the time the day is over, you will never read the opening of the Gospel of John the same way again.

Priene - one of the best preserved Greek cities in all of Turkey — and a city that almost nobody visits. Which means today it belongs to us.

Twelve miles south of Priene, connected by a 15-mile sacred processional road lined with colonnaded structures, shrines, and stopping points for pilgrims — the Oracle of Didyma was one of the four great oracles of the ancient world. People traveled from across the Roman Empire to hear the voice of the god Apollo speak.

Miletus - Here the story gets personal.

Miletus was one of the great port cities of the Aegean — a city of philosophers, merchants, and trade routes. It was also the place where Paul said goodbye. This is why we come. Not for the ruins. For the moment when the story steps out of the text and into the world where it actually happened.

We have been building toward this all week. Every city we have visited, every guild hall and oracle and counterfeit temple — all of it has been preparing us for this moment. Today we walk Ephesus. The largest city in Asia Minor. The third largest city in the Roman Empire. The city John called home. The city Paul spent three years in. The city where the gospel took root in the middle of one of the most powerful, most seductive, most religiously saturated urban environments in the ancient world.

And the city where Christ looked at a church that was doing everything right — and said "I have this against you."

You left your first love.

Today we find out what that means.

Flights can be booked to leave after 11pm on Friday the 18th or by 4am on Saturday the 19th.