Good Shepherd Travel is a family-run Christian business with deep ties to the Holy Land. Most tour operators in the United States are using large tourist firms that conduct their tours in the Holy Land the same way they would put together a program in any other part of the world. Their goal is to fill up a tour bus and move their client’s customers from site to site as quickly as possible to complete their itinerary. There are also tour operators who claim to provide “VIP Service” but are little more than bus drivers who take groups from site to site without providing pilgrims an understanding of what they are seeing. Good Shepherd Travel was established to provide a quality option for Christians to have a truly comprehensive, spiritual pilgrimage that would allow for participants to truly understand the Holy Land. It’s not enough to simply to be chaperoned from site to site and be told what you are looking at. A true pilgrimage allows for the pilgrim to enrich their knowledge and understanding of the sites important to their faith, and to live their faith through the five senses of hearing, taste, touch, smell and sight. Good Shepherd Travel facilitates a pilgrimage by handling all the details of ground arrangements, including the program itinerary, ground arrangements (including guides, transportation, accommodation and meals), and any special requests that a program may have to visit a particular site, meet with a particular religious order or individual, or to fix a simple request, such as stopping a little longer at a particular sight that has a special meaning to the group or an individual pilgrim. Each pilgrimage must reflect the unique characteristics and nature of the particular group, and we will work with you and your faith community to make sure that it happens.