Day 8: Thessaloniki
Posted on Apr. 8, 2024Today we have the privilege of exploring our guide, Elie’s, home city. As we drive through the city, our local guide, Athena, explains its history and significant landmarks. Thessaloniki has a population…
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Day 7: Dion, Veria, and Thessaloniki
Posted on Apr. 7, 2024We start the day with a drive to Dion and Elie provides us with more historical context to help us understand why the gospels were written in Greek. Alexander the Great convinces thousands of soldiers…
Day 6: Thermopylae and Meteora
Posted on Apr. 6, 2024We have a four hour drive to Meteora, with a stop at Thermopylae on the way. We get off the bus in front of a towering statue of a Spartan holding a spear. The Battle of Thermopylae occurred in 480 BC…
Day 5: Delphi
Posted on Apr. 5, 2024We start the day with breakfast at the hotel as per usual. Mr. Hartley is adjusting particularly well to the Mediterranean diet: cake for breakfast and gelato for lunch. The four hour drive from Corinth…
Day 4: Acrocorinth and Corinth
Posted on Apr. 4, 2024We board the bus at 9:00AM for our two hour drive to Corinth from Athens. We read the comments from our last blog post to the students and pray that our slower pace today would be an opportunity to be…
Day 3: The Acropolis and Traditional Greek Meal
Posted on Apr. 3, 2024Imagine, it's between 6-7am and you and some of your friends make your way up to the rooftop of your hotel to see the sunrise over the Acropolis. I (Mrs. Cathcart) also have to imagine it because I was…
Day 1 & 2: Travel Day & An Introduction to the City…
Posted on Apr. 2, 2024Quiet anticipation hovers as students arrive, slowly at first and more rapidly as the time approaches 7AM. It is a mixture of excitement for a trip long-awaited and a dash of nerves for the uncertain…
Preparing for Greece 2024
Posted on Mar. 7, 2024From April 1 - 9, 2024 a group of students and leaders will be visiting many historical sites that were part of Paul's Second Missionary Journey. From Athens through Corinth and Thessaloniki, students…