Tabgha Tours plans and leads Biblical tours for all ages. We treat every traveler like family. POST-DEPARTURE INSURANCE INCLUDED. Remainder issued as tour credit.
We treat every traveler like family and anticipate each new journey together. Our tours include:
Israel in Jesus' Steps (with optional extensions to Jordan and Egypt)
Egypt & Exodus: From the Nile to the Sinai
New Testament Alive: Turkey/Revelation's 7 Church, Patmos, & Greece
Germany 500: From Martin Luther to WWII and Beyond
British Reformation & Christianity
Thailand: The Land of Smiles (plus
service project)
Tanzanian Safari (plus service project)
TABGHA TOURS plans and leads biblical tours for all ages. By offering beautiful and inspirational tours at affordable prices, we desire for as many people as possible to experience the lands of the Bible. Post-departure trip insurance is included with all our tours, including generous coverage for hospitalization (up to $140,000), lost luggage, and other emergencies. The post-departure insurance is purchased one month prior to travel, and is provided for all travelers up to age 84. CANCELLATION POLICY
Deposit Period (up to 4 four months to departure): Initial tour deposit ($250) is not refundable.
1-4 Months Prior to Tour: $750/person not refundable; $500 of which issued as tour credit. Less than 1 Month Prior to Tour: $1500/person not refundable. (Note: Post-departure trip insurance purchased one month prior to tour provides up to $1000 cancellation coverage for documented medical emergencies only.) Once flights come available (11 months prior to travel) Tabgha Tours is committed to our scheduled tours. Our tour destinations are heavily traveled and statistically safe, and we look forward to each journey together. Should portions of our scheduled itineraries be affected for any reason, we will adapt our itinerary with sites of comparable monetary value. Should rare external factors, such as a pandemic or conflict, cause airlines to cancel flights and a tour to be cancelled, a choice of refund or tour credit will be offered to travelers. The minimum age for our tours is age 6. Travelers should be in good health and able to do a significant amount of walking. TESTIMONIALS
“Best trip of my life. And I can't even think of a distant second. This one was that good!” —Mike Mennard, Israel 2022
The best trip I've ever had. Nothing comes close to this."—Ronald DeLong, Israel June 2016
“Our best ever travel excursion was by far our trip to Israel with you!”—Fleurette Etienne, Israel 2019
"An awesome experience"— Shirley Gray, Israel November 2014
"Andy Nash offers a first-class tour of the Holy Land. Not only is he meticulous in planning all tour details, but he exhibits the ideal combination of serious organizational skill mixed with delightful spontaneity, a mix needed to make any travel adventure a great success. I particularly appreciated his in-depth knowledge of the rich and complex history of the Holy Land and his use of numerous Biblical texts to explain in layman's terms the significance of the places we visited. He makes the familiar Bible stories I learned growing up come alive in a way that is not only inspiring, but even life changing. And I especially loved the opportunity to worship and learn together with fellow believers from around the world." --Carlos A. Schwantes, Saint Louis Mercantile Library Endowed Professor, Israel May 2013
“Our trip to Thailand was a fabulous experience for my whole family." –Rick Stern, Thailand 2015
“Thanks for making a dream vacation come true.” –Sherri Vance, Israel 2013, Thailand 2015
“Tabgha Tours are always fabulous!” –Stacy Mecklenburg, Israel 2013, Thailand 2015, New Testament Alive 2016, Egypt 2021
05/30/2025
Pack & Go!
We've had 2 openings come available on our Greece Land & Sea Tour, with a Balcony Cruise Cabin! Email us ASAP at [email protected] to join us.
GREECE BY LAND & SEA (June 25-July 4, 2025). With Andy Nash, Greg King, and Local Christian Guides. Travel the New Testament from Acts to Revelation. Including Athens, Philippi, Thessaloniki, Patmos, Crete, Mykonos, Santorini, and much more. Plus, optional extensions to Rome, Istanbul, and Revelation's 7 Churches
04/14/2025
Happy Easter Week!
Andy Nash's new book, Saved, is now available in two ways:
1. Print Edition. Order at tabghatours.com/payment at a cost of $20/book, plus $5 shipping. (Special Offer: Total shipping is only $5 no matter how many books you order!)
Explore the grand narrative of Scripture in a powerful new way.
Journey through the Bible chronologically—from Genesis to Revelation.
Soar over the windswept peaks of the salvation story: our separation from God, and God's relentless pursuit of us.
Read swiftly like a storybook—or slowly like a textbook.
Enjoy more than 50 biblical maps; plus Bible reading guides.
Watch Jesus save the world.
Experience Saved: The Story of God & Us. Because God's story is also your story.
"Well written, fast moving, tremendous insights."—Clifford Goldstein, editor, Adult Bible Study Guide
"Andy Nash's insights into Scripture are always penetrating and relevant."—Dr. Greg King, dean of the School of Religion, Southern Adventist University
02/07/2025
ISRAEL TOUR IN JESUS' STEPS
With Dr. Andy Nash & Local Christian Guides
For those who have been waiting, we are returning to Israel June 15-24, 2025. There are optional extensions to Jordan, Greece, & Luxor.
If you or your loved ones are looking for a guide to understanding the Bible, SAVED can be read as a storybook or a textbook. https://a.co/d/dGKZsV7
12/27/2024
2025: THE YEAR OF YOUR BIBLE
By Andy Nash
Whatever else happens in 2025, what if next year became your BEST year in God's Word?
Here are three tools for your journey:
1. Treat yourself to a special new Bible. My favorite Bible is the Hebrew-Greek Key Word Study Bible, with an easy-to-use numbering system that helps you go deeper in the text: https://a.co/d/5a1wqoE
Or how about this cool waterproof Bible that you can read in the bathtub or hot tub: https://a.co/d/236bKU8
2. Do a Bible reading plan. There are different ways to walk, run, and fly through Scripture. You could read through the Bible intensively in a month, or more slowly in a year. You can read the books of the Bible in their traditional order, or read them chronologically. If you'd like to do a 40-week chronological reading plan, join us for a Thursday night online discussion right here: Meet At The Text We launch Thursday, January 2, at 8:00 p.m. eastern time. The first reading discussion (on Genesis) will be January 9.
3. If you’d like a guide to understanding the Bible better, my new book Saved is a chronological journey through Scripture, written as a single story. Genesis is followed by Job; the prophets and kings are woven together; and life and ministry of Jesus unfold sequentially. Saved is both a storybook and a textbook, designed to help understand the flow of Scripture. You can get it with a click: https://a.co/d/c1PKhyx
Together let's make 2025 the year of the Bible. Let's meet at the text.
Exploring God's Word together, verse by verse, with Adventist pastor Andy Nash and friends
12/22/2024
Now Available in E-Book; Click the Link Below
464 pages with more than 50 full-color biblical maps
SAVED: THE STORY OF GOD & US
By Andy Nash
A LIFE-CHANGING JOURNEY THROUGH THE BIBLE
Explore the grand narrative of Scripture in a powerful new way.
* Journey through the Bible chronologically—from Genesis to Revelation.
* Soar over the windswept peaks of the salvation story: our separation from God, and God's relentless pursuit of us.
* Read swiftly like a storybook—or slowly like a textbook.
* Enjoy more than 50 full-color maps; plus Bible reading guides.
* Watch Jesus save the world.
Experience Saved: The Story of God & Us. Because God's story is also your story.
"Well written, fast moving, tremendous insights."—Clifford Goldstein, editor, Adult Bible Study Guide
"Andy Nash's insights into Scripture are always penetrating and relevant."—Dr. Greg King, dean, School of Religion, Southern Adventist University
SAVED: THE STORY OF GOD & US
12/22/2024
07/02/2024
06/25/2024
Thailand 2024 Group
03/31/2024
03/29/2024
FRIDAY: Dead-Set
Andy Nash
On my first visit to Jerusalem, I’d read how beautiful it was to hike down the Mount of Olives, to the temple mount, in the morning light.
But the night before, our 8-year-old daughter Morgan woke up with an upset stomach and a strange dream about Mary and Joseph. So rather than hike, we just took a taxi to the Sheep Gate, where I’d noticed a temple mount entrance on my map.
As we walked through the gate, someone called out, “Are you Muslim?”
“No,” I said, realizing this was a Muslim-only entrance.
They motioned to continue on the road were already on. “Keep walking up the Via Dolorosa—then take the next left.”
The road was cobbled and uphill, and Morgan began to tug on my hand. Morgan didn’t usually want me to carry her anymore. Like all twinkled-eyed daughters, she was growing out of her dad’s arms. But she kept tugging.
“Sweetheart,” I asked, “do you want me to carry you?”
She nodded and lifted her arms—my little girl again.
Resting her hand on my neck, she sipped from her water bottle as we trudged along together.
In time we turned left, found the entrance, and spent two special hours on the temple mount. By the end Morgan was rejuvenated and her old self again. She poured her bottled water over Ally’s head.
It wasn’t until later that afternoon, as I watched the girls giggling away a hot day in a swimming pool, that it dawned on me: The street where I’d carried Morgan was the Via Dolorosa, the way of the cross.
Intellectually I’d known this, but I wasn’t thinking about it at the time. I was thinking only about my little girl. As she leaned softly against me, my sole desire was simply to hold her, to ease her burden—the strange yet welcome love that helps a parent understand the love of Christ.
Somehow carrying my daughter felt lighter than . . . not carrying her.
Dead-Set
By the time Jesus emerged from the Garden of Gethsemane, he had the look of a parent determined to save his lost children. There was no stopping Him.
While it appeared to everyone else that Jesus had lost control of the situation, in reality he was in total control.
Films such as The Passion of the Christ have focused heavily on the physical suffering endured by Jesus. And Jesus certainly felt the pain and violence of what was happening to him. To be flogged was to have your back ripped open. The whips the soldiers used were embedded with small jagged rocks that tore the flesh; many didn’t survive it. To have a crown of thorns driven into your head and to be jeered at—this would have been a sickening experience.
But not for a moment did Jesus hesitate, or attempt to spare his own life. Instead, the resolved Messiah led the multitude up the road to the Cross.
At the cross, Jesus was twice offered a drink. About 9 a.m., just before He was crucified, the soldiers offered Jesus wine and gall (see Matt. 27:34); gall was a bitter-tasting poison that deadened the pain. Jesus refused it.
Six hours later—at 3:00 in the afternoon—Jesus said he was thirsty and was given wine vinegar raised to him on the stalk of a hyssop plant (see John 19:28-29). Jesus received this drink, fulfilling scripture . . .
Thousands of years earlier, as the Hebrews were leaving Egypt, the blood of a lamb was taken and smeared on the doorposts of their homes as protection against the angel of death who passed over. The instruction was to “take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe. . . . When the Lord goes through the land . . . he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down” (Ex. 12:22–23). Jesus was the final Lamb of God that covers the sins of the world.
Crucified at 9:00 in the morning, Jesus hung on the cross for six hours before dying. For the first three hours, between 9:00 and 12:00, Jesus continued his ministry: he made sure his mother was taken care, he saved the thief next to him, he prayed for those crucifying Him.
But at noon something changed; “darkness covered over all the land” (Matt. 27:45) and about 3:00 Jesus cried out, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matt. 27:46). It was during this time that Jesus was experiencing hell. His Father had drawn back from Him, and Jesus had become sin. “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Cor. 5:21).
As he died, Jesus yelled out “It is finished” (literally, “paid in full”). The curtain in the temple was torn from top to bottom, signifying our direct access into the presence of God through Christ our high priest.
There was one additional instruction about the Passover Lamb: the bones of the must not be broken.
Since Jesus had already died, the soldiers didn’t need to break his legs to make breathing difficult and hasten death. But just to make sure, a soldier thrust a spear into Jesus’ side (see John 19:33-37), bringing forth blood and water that flowed down onto his sin-covered waist and his perfume-covered feet. “These happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: ‘Not one of his bones will be broken,’ and, as another scripture says, ‘They will look on the one they have pierced’” (John 19:36-37).
The body of Jesus was then taken down from the cross, and placed in a nearby tomb.
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"The best trip I've ever had. Nothing comes close to this."--Ronald DeLong, Israel June 2016
“Loved loved loved every aspect of our Israel tour last summer with Andy Nash. Everything was perfection: the leader, the sites, the music, the fellow travelers, the food, the accommodations, the price. Love Israel, Palestine, Jordan.” –Terrie Breetzke, Israel 2017
“Andy’s tours are always fabulous!” –Stacy Mecklenburg, Israel 2013, Thailand 2015, New Testament Alive 2016
"Andy Nash offers a first-class tour of the Holy Land. Not only is he meticulous in planning all tour details, but he exhibits the ideal combination of serious organizational skill mixed with delightful spontenaity, a mix needed to make any travel adventure a great success. I particularly appreciated his in-depth knowledge of the rich and complex history of the Holy Land and his use of numerous Biblical texts to explain in layman's terms the significance of the places we visited. He makes the familiar Bible stories I learned growing up come alive in a way that is not only inspiring, but even life changing. And I especially loved the opportunity to worship and learn together with fellow believers from around the world." --Carlos A. Schwantes, Saint Louis Mercantile Library Endowed Professor, Israel May 2013
"An awesome experience"--Shirley Gray, Israel November 2014
“We just wanted to say again how meaningful and enjoyable the Israel and Jordan trip was.. We have traveled all over the world, but no trip has had the deep meaning that this one did. Our spiritual lives were refreshed and our Bible reading has taken on a whole new level after being where Jesus walked and seeing the things we saw. Thank you for your expertise and insights.”--Ron and Holly Abrams, Israel 2017
“Our trip to Thailand was a fabulous experience for my whole family. I still can’t believe we were able to ride elephants and hug tigers! It’s a little glimpse of heaven. The scenery was just breathtaking!” –Rick Stern, Thailand 2015
“What an incredible trip it was! Thanks to Andy for making a dream vacation come true.” –Sherri Vance, Thailand 2015
