Home
Dale and Tara in Israel
Our mission is two-fold: first, to take people into the biblical world, and second, to help them clearly understand why we took them there.
We are convinced that the Bible is the living Word of God, and when energized by the Spirit of God, it has the power to transform lives. However, for us today there are great gaps that often hinder our ability to understand God’s awesome Word. These gaps include 2,000 – 3,500 years in time, and an understanding of the culture, the language, the idioms, the customs, and the geography of the Biblical world.
We are convinced that the Bible is the living Word of God, and when energized by the Spirit of God, it has the power to transform lives. However, for us today there are great gaps that often hinder our ability to understand God’s awesome Word. These gaps include 2,000 – 3,500 years in time, and an understanding of the culture, the language, the idioms, the customs, and the geography of the Biblical world.
We emphasize Bible lands study tours where we lead people on biblical encounters on location. Other activities include preaching, teaching, writing, and presenting biblical characters through dramatic re-enactments. The second part of our mission is accomplished in various ways as we seek to help people understand the universal timeless principles contained in the Word of God. Our goal is for the intended meaning of the scriptures to be clear and intensely personal and practical in order that people will be doers and not only hearers of the Word of God.
We seek to carry out this two-fold mission through seven avenues:
- Touring: Leading biblical study tours to the Bible lands
- Teaching: Leading biblical study tours to the Bible lands
- Serving: Offering consulting service and short term pastoral ministry to churches seeking assistance
- Writing: Books on Bible backgrounds and Christian living, Resources for church ministry (Bible Study curriculum, Children?s ministry materials, dramatic and musical programs for use in smaller congregations)
- Mentoring: Seeking to help build and shape Christian leaders for today and tomorrow
- Mobilizing: Raising awareness and funds to assist mission activity in the US and abroad
- Funding: The foundation provides financial assistance for pastors of small and rural congregations in the US and around the world to pursue study and growth opportunities such as seminars, conferences, clergy study tours, sabbaticals, and formal courses of study
Do keep checking the site as more information and articles become available. And do feel free to contact us at any time.
Warmly, Dr. Dale and Tara Pederson-McDonnell