Take a Christian TourWOX with Family Research Council - Christian Tour to Israel - June 2 - 12, 2020

Walk the ancient paths, meet Israeli leaders with Tony Perkins and
Family Research Council on this unique Israel Tour

Dear Friend,

Lawana and I are excited to invite you to join us on Family Research Council’s third trip to Israel on June 2 – 12, 2020. Our previous tours were described as “priceless,” “exceptional,” and “beyond amazing,” and we expect this one to be even better. Not only will your faith deepen, but you will gain a better understanding of Israel’s important role in current geopolitical affairs as you hear from some of Israel’s leaders.

Joining us on the trip: Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Jerry Boykin, FRC’s Executive Vice President, former Commander of Delta Force and former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, as well as former Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, who served on the House Intelligence Committee. We have already invited David Friedman, and rocket scientist Ari Sacher, Project Manager for Iron Dome. Worship and ministry of the Word will be foundational throughout our time together.

Whether you’re sailing on the Sea of Galilee, looking across the Mediterranean from Caesarea where Paul was imprisoned, standing at Shiloh where the Ark of the Covenant rested for 369 years, overlooking the place of Armageddon, gazing across the Dead Sea from atop Masada or journeying up to Jerusalem, the “center of the nations” according to Ezekiel, Israel is unlike any other place on earth. You will relive the final earthly days of Jesus as you pray in the Garden of Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives, look upon Golgotha and stand in the Garden Tomb. Simply put, when you walk where He walked and understand your Hebraic roots, the reality of His story comes alive in a transformative way.

We are partnering with Inspiration Cruises & Tours, a dedicated group of Christian professionals who have led thousands of people through the Land of Israel. All the details of the trip including airfare, accommodations, travel by luxury coaches and extraordinary guides will be provided by Inspiration.

Please prayerfully consider bringing your whole family and joining us for this unique life-changing experience.

Standing (Eph. 6:13)

Tony Perkins

Meet These Special Guests During Your Exceptional Travel Experience
Confirmed* and Invited Speakers

The Honorable Michele Bachmann*

First elected to the Sixth Congressional District in 2006, former Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, who currently serves on Family Research Council’s board, was the first Republican woman to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota. Her focus in Congress was on national security, intelligence and foreign policy. She served on the House Permanent Committee on Intelligence, giving her a role as overseer of the Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency and the rest of the U.S. intelligence community. She has visited the Middle East over 20 times, at times as part of a congressional delegation. The former congresswoman speaks professionally across the world, most recently in Jerusalem where she gave the keynote address for the 50th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem during the six-day war. A candidate for the Republican nomination in the 2012 U.S. presidential election, she won the Ames Straw Poll in August 2011. Prior to serving in Congress, Congresswoman Bachmann served in the Minnesota State Senate. As a federal tax litigation attorney, she worked on hundreds of cases that solidified her strong support to simplify the Tax Code and reduce tax burdens on family and small businesses. Congresswoman Bachmann and her husband, Marcus, live in Stillwater where they own a small business. The Bachmann’s have five children and have opened their home to 23 foster children.

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The Honorable Ken Blackwell*

Ken Blackwell is the Senior Fellow for Human Rights and Constitutional Governance at the Family Research Council. He serves on the Board of Directors of various high-profile organizations including the Timothy Plan, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, the United States Air Force Academy Foundation, the Club for Growth, Grove City College, the National Rifle Association, the First Liberty Institute, the National World War II Museum, and the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Board of Advisors, of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA).

He is a national bestselling author of three books: Rebuilding America: A Prescription for Creating Strong Families, Building the Wealth Of Working People, And Ending Welfare; The Blueprint: Obama’s Plan to Subvert the Constitution and Build an Imperial Presidency; and Resurgent: How Constitutional Conservatism Can Save America.

Ken has had a vast political career. He was mayor of Cincinnati, Treasurer and Secretary of State for Ohio, undersecretary at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission. He was a delegate to the White House Summit on Retirement Savings in 1998 and 2002. During the 1990s, he served on the congressionally appointed National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform and the board of the International Republican Institute. He was Co-Chairman of the U.S. Census Monitoring Board from 1999-2001.

His commentaries have been published in major newspapers and websites: The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, and Investor’s Business Daily. In addition, he has been interviewed by many media outlets including CBS’s Face the Nation, NBC’s Meet the Press, ABC’s This Week, and Fox News Sunday.

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LTG (RET) William G. `Jerry` Boykin*

Lt. Gen. (Ret.) William G. “Jerry” Boykin serves as Family Research Council’s Executive Vice President. He was one of the original members of the U.S. Army’s Delta Force. He was privileged to ultimately command these elite warriors in combat operations. Later, Jerry Boykin commanded all the Army’s Green Berets as well as the Special Warfare Center and School. In all, Lt. Gen. Boykin spent 36 years in the army, serving his last four years as the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence. He is an ordained minister with a passion for spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ and encouraging Christians to become warriors in God’s Kingdom. Jerry and his wife, Ashley, enjoy spending time with their five children and growing number of grandchildren.

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Pastor Guy Cohen*

Guy Cohen grew up in a Jewish Orthodox religious environment where the Word of God through the Old Testament and additional rabbinical teachings was studied. In 1997, the Lord opened Guy’s eyes and he accepted Yeshua as his Messiah. This background and training in the Word have given him a rich knowledge and understanding of the Word of God from a Jewish perspective.

In 1997, Guy and Tali Cohen became part of the Tents of Mercy congregation. Within a few months, the Lord called them to restore the altar of worship to God in the City of Acco. Acco is a city that has been shaped by the Romans, Ottomans, Crusaders, Mamelukes, Byzantines, and British, and fittingly is today home to a brilliantly coexistent mixed population of Jews, Christians, and Muslims. The Old City of Acco is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the oldest ports in the world. They remained at Tents of Mercy from 1997 to 2005 until the door opened and the Harvest of Asher congregation was dedicated. Harvest of Asher is part of the Tents of Mercy network and is called to serve God, Acco and the biblical territory of the Tribe of Asher.

In the over ten years of leading the Acco congregation, Pastor Cohen has grown in faith and in deeper understanding of God’s Word. He has gained valuable insight into the Jewish roots of faith in Yeshua. The Holy Spirit continues to guide him in ministering, teaching and all the challenges of serving in the Kingdom. In 2015, he completed an MA in Messianic Ministry at the Israel College of the Bible, Netanya, Israel. Today, the Harvest of Asher ministry serves the local Body as well as the surrounding area through various humanitarian aid projects.

His focus when speaking in the nations is as follows:

Jewish roots of the faith.
The Nation of Israel's calling in the end times. Helping to remove the veil from the eyes of the nations toward Israel.
Preparation for the end times and the return of Yeshua (Jesus).
The one new man, Jews and Gentiles one in Yeshua.

Jewish roots of the faith.
The Nation of Israel's calling in the end times. Helping to remove the veil from the eyes of the nations toward Israel.
Preparation for the end times and the return of Yeshua (Jesus).
The one new man, Jews and Gentiles one in Yeshua.

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Amb. David Friedman

Ambassador Friedman was nominated by President Trump on January 20, 2017 and sworn in as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the State of Israel on March 29, 2017. He was the first bilateral ambassador to be confirmed in the Trump Administration. Prior to his appointment as Ambassador, Mr. Friedman was a nationally top-ranked attorney, and a founding partner of Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman of New York, New York. He frequently represented high-profile clients in large and significant cases, and has published articles and lectured on novel and complex areas of law. Ambassador Friedman has played a lead role in negotiating multilateral disputes in some of the nation’s most complex business and financial restructurings. Well known for his excellent public speaking, negotiating and interpersonal skills, he has been active for decades in U.S. policy as it relates to Israel and the Middle East. He speaks and reads Hebrew and has traveled to Israel extensively. Ambassador Friedman earned a B.A from Columbia University in New York, New York in 1978 and a J.D. from New York University School of Law, in New York, New York in 1981. He and his wife, Tammy, have been married for 36 years, and have 5 children and 7 grandchildren.

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Jeremy Dailey*

Jeremy Dailey was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and grew up surrounded by music. The son of a pastor, he played drums in his family’s Southern Gospel quartet from the age of 10 to 18. Saved at a young age, he always knew God had a specific plan for him, but he wasn’t exactly sure where that would take him. He attended a small Christian college in Lewisville, Texas where it became clear that leading worship is where God was calling him. Upon graduating college, Jeremy moved to Louisiana where he was a teacher and eventually the principal of a small Christian school. He also led worship and organized a contemporary Christian band at the parent-church. Years later, God led Jeremy to Greenwell Springs Baptist Church where he began playing drums for the Greenwell Springs Choir and Orchestra. Jeremy began working with the student ministry there and eventually became the Student Pastor. After two years of working in that capacity, God opened the door for him to begin leading worship. For the next 10 years, Jeremy served as the Worship Pastor there. Today, Jeremy is the Worship Pastor at Marcus Pointe Baptist Church in Pensacola, Florida. He and his wife, Deborah, who works as a middle school science teacher and an instructor at the University of West Florida, reside in Pensacola with their three children. He also led worship on FRC’s 2015 and 2018 Israel trips.

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Dr. Dean Haun*

Dr. Dean Haun serves as the Senior Pastor of the First Baptist Church in Morristown, Tennessee. He has been the leader and teaching pastor for 20 trips to Israel since 1998. Dr. Haun is also President and Founder of Harvest of Israel (a partnership with the Messianic and Arab Christian Churches of Israel). He is also currently serving on the American Board of Advisors for the International Christian Embassy, Jerusalem, Israel (ICEJ). He serves as a Christian advocate for AIPAC (The American-Israel Public Affairs Committee) as well as the Christian Friends of Yad VaShem (Holocaust Memorial) in Jerusalem. Dr. Haun also serves as the Chairman of the North Africa-Middle East Affinity for the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board. He was the featured Speaker at the Worldwide Jewish Affinity Retreat in Athens, Greece, April 2014. He holds a Masters Degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and a Doctor of Ministries degree in Expository Preaching from Trinity Theological Seminary as well as extensive study on the Jewish roots of our faith. Dr. Haun and his wife, Pam, have three grown children and three grandchildren.

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Dr. Naim Khoury

Dr. Khoury is pastor and founder of some of the largest Arab churches in the Israeli and Arab P.A. Territories including First Baptist Church in Bethlehem and Calvary Church in Jerusalem. Twice each week, he leads a congregation that meets in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City. He is also the founder of Holy Land Missions, working with churches, government agencies, and other organizations to provide to provide help and hope to those who are impoverished and hurting. Dr. Khoury’s transformation from a boy involved his interaction with the Jewish and Muslim people from an early age. Pastor Dr. Naim Khoury was born in the Old City of Jerusalem; he comes from a Greek Orthodox family. His stand as an Arab Christian to share his passion for the Bible with the Arab people and his love for his neighbors, the Jews in the land, has often put him in some of the most dangerous situations, which has made his life and ministry a target to many. His educational background is in ministry with a Bachelors of Science in Pastoral Leadership, and he has earned several doctorate degrees in Old Testament, Bible Philosophy, and a Doctorate of Divinity. Dr. Khoury has met and counseled numerous Kings, country leaders, congressmen, and Parliament members on the future of the Middle East Israel, and the Holy Land from a Biblical and leadership perspective.

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Avi Melamed*

Middle East Strategic Intelligence Analyst, Avi Melamed, is the President and CEO of Inside the Middle East: Intelligence Perspectives. Avi is a former Israeli Intelligence Official and Senior Official on Arab Affairs. In his years of public service, Avi, an Israeli Jew - fluent in Arabic, English, and Hebrew, with a unique understanding of Arab society and culture - has held high-risk Government, Senior Advisory, Intelligence and Counter-Terrorist intelligence positions in Arab cities and communities on behalf of the Israeli government agencies.

Avi has a long and proven record of an accurate analysis of the Middle East. He provides intelligence analysis, briefings, and tours to diplomats, Israeli and foreign policymakers, global media outlets, and a wide variety of international businesses, organizations, and private clients on a range of Israel and Middle East Affairs.

His newest book, Inside the Middle East: Making Sense of the Most Dangerous and Complicated Region on Earth, - a GPS to help you navigate the dramatically changing Middle East, offers a unique insight into the Arab world, challenges widely-accepted perceptions, provides a guide to make sense of the events unfolding in the region,

Through all of his efforts, Avi is a bridge builder, and dedicates himself to enhancing the Arabic, English and Hebrew speaking audience’s comprehensive understanding of the Middle East and of each other.

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Tony Perkins*

Tony Perkins is Family Research Council’s fourth and longest serving president. Since joining the organization in 2003, Tony has substantially deepened the organization’s influence on Capitol Hill and throughout the country. He has also expanded the organization’s reach across the nation by building a major network of pastors and churches, encouraging them to impact the culture by thinking nationally, but acting locally. An effective communicator, Tony is the host of a daily, nationally syndicated radio show, Washington Watch with Tony Perkins. He is the author of No Fear: Real Stories of a Courageous New Generation Standing for Truth. In May 2018, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell appointed Tony to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), a nine-member bipartisan commission designed to advance religious freedom globally. He has just recently been elected as Chairman of USCIRF. A veteran of the United States Marine Corps and a former police officer, Tony brings a unique perspective to the public policy process. He and his wife, Lawana, have been married since 1986 and have five children.

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Ari Sacher

Rocket Scientist and Iron Dome Systems Engineer Ari Sacher has worked in the design and development of missiles for over twenty years. He has briefed nearly one half of the U.S. Congress on Israeli Missile Defense, including two briefings on Capitol Hill at the invitation of House Majority Leader and Israeli Ambassador. He speaks regularly for the Israeli Foreign Ministry. Ari is a highly requested speaker at AIPAC events, enabling even the layman to understand the "rocket science", and his speaking events are regularly sold-out. He speaks regularly in Israel on Science and Torah. Ari came on aliya from the USA in 1982. He spent seven years studying at the Technion- Israel Institute of Technology. Ari lives in Moreshet in the Western Galilee along with his wife and eight children.

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Tuesday June 2, 2020 (Depart for Israel)

*All dates & locations subject to change

June 3

Arrive Tel Aviv

The modern metropolis of Tel Aviv, built on the ancient port of Jaffa, where Peter had his rooftop vision, overlooks the breathtaking Mediterranean coastline. After passing through Ben Gurion Airport (voted one of the best in the world), you will meet your group and catch your first glimpse of the Sea of Galilee as you travel to Tiberias.

June 4

Central Coast & Jezreel Valley