September 22 - October 6, 2016
Led by the Rev. Heather Mueller, priest-in-charge at St. Andrew's Church, Taft, Calif., the Rev. Mark Stanger, canon precentor and missionary to the Holy Land from the Diocese of California; and Canon Iyad Qumri. The pilgrimage will include visits to important places in the Land of the Holy One, including Bethlehem, Nazareth, the Sea of Galilee, Jerusalem, Jericho and others. Cost is $2,700 per person, plus $1170 airfare. A flyer is here; for more information contact Mueller at heathermaymueller@yahoo.com or 661.765.2378.

January 19 - 31, 2017
Join members of St. John Chrysostom in Rancho Santa Margarita on its fifth pilgrimage to holy sites in Israel and Palestine, Jan. 19 - 31, 2017. Led by Canon Iyad Qumri, pilgrims will see the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Garden of Gethsemane, Western Wall, and other holy sites around Jerusalem; the Church of the Nativity and Shepherds' Field in Bethlehem; Jericho, the Mount of Temptation, and Herodium; the Sea of Galilee, Capernaum, Sepphoris, and other sites. They will also also get a rich feel for contemporary Israeli-Palestinian issues from special evening speakers. Approximate price of $3,950 includes air travel and almost everything else except alcohol and, at some stops, soft drinks. For more information, please contact the Rev. Canon John Taylor, St. John's vicar, at revjht@msn.com.

There is something incredibly powerful about traveling the paths of Irish saints (and some sinners) as one travels around the island containing both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. This pilgrimage will explore the varieties of Christianities - Celtic, Roman and Anglican; the inspiration for Joyce, Yeats, Shaw, Beckett and Wilde; the piety of Patrick, Brigid and Aidan; the vision that produced the Titanic and her sister ships. Join Bishop Mary Glasspool and Canon Jim Newman in this pilgrimage of prayer, discovery, and wonder in the sights, the sounds, the smells and the tastes of the Emerald Isle. The trip will depart from Los Angeles and New York on Monday, June 12, 2017, and return on Friday, June 23 - a twelve-day tour. The cost from Los Angeles is $3,899. Contact Canon Jim Newman at 310.391.5522, 888.802.6722 (toll-free) or rector@stbedesla.org. A brochure may be found here.