Travel Opportunities

Upcoming Trips

This coming Spring Break (March 9-19, 2011), LeTourneau will offer two class in Greece:

• BIBL 4413: PHYSICAL SETTINGS OF THE BIBLE. This course will focus on Paul’s travels in Greece to places like Corinth, Athens, and Thessaloniki. The theological issues and situations Paul faced as he wrote a number of his letters will be examined in the context of the Greek culture and society in which Christianity was taking root. Professor Kelly Liebengood will be teaching this course.

• HIST 4493: WAR AND SOCIETY IN ANCIENT GREECE. This course will examine ancient Greek society and culture from 800 B.C. until the conquest of Greece by Rome in 146 B.C. The role of warfare among the Greek city states will be emphasized along with the social, religious, and economic factors impacting the development of ancient Greece. Dr. A. Paul Kubricht will be teaching this course.

Spring Break Missions Trips

Each year, groups of students spend a week serving during their spring break. Many students also work in a variety of places with several different missionary organizations during the summer.

Study Abroad

• At Jerusalem University College:  Through a relationship with Jerusalem University College (JUC), LeTourneau students can spend a semester or shorter period studying in Jerusalem. You would still get course credit at LeTourneau for your classes you take there. LeTourneau tuition scholarships could be applied to cover JUC tuition.

• In Cairo, Egypt:  Through a relationship with the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU), LeTourneau students can spend a semester studying at Best Semester's Middle East Studies Program in Cairo, Egypt. You would still get course credit at LeTourneau for your classes you take there. LeTourneau tuition scholarships could be applied to cover tuition.

Recent Trips

Israel

Students traveled to Jerusalem, Beth Shemish, Beer Sheba, Arad, Masada, Qumran, Capernaum, Hazor, Dan, Megiddo, Mt. Carmel, Caesarea, and many other places. The students experienced Middle Eastern culture, Judaism, Islam, Orthodox Christianity.They also stayed busy eating new foods, sailing on the Sea of Galilee, wading through Hezekiah’s Tunnel, visiting a Bedouin camp, and looking over Galilee from the cliffs of Arbel. Check out images from the 2010 Israel trip.

Egypt / Jordan

Students traveled the basic route of the exodus and wilderness wandering. Students visited Cairo, the pyramids of Giza, the step pyramid at Saqqara, Succoth in the area of Goshen, the Sinai desert, St. Catherine’s monastery, the traditional site of Mt. Sinai, the Red Sea, the ancient area of Edom and Moab, Mt. Nebo, Amman, and Gadarea.

The students sailed on the Nile, crawled through tunnels to reach the tombs in pyramids, rode camels to the top of Mt. Sinai, watched the sun rise over Sinai, climbed sand dunes in Wadi Rum, and looked into the Promised Land from Mt. Nebo.

Turkey

The students visited many of the sites of Paul’s missionary journeys as well as five of the seven churches of Revelation. The students also explored the historical sites of Istanbul, Troy, and Hattusha (the capital of the ancient Hittite Empire). The students learned much about the biblical sites, but they also learned much about the Byzantines, Ottomans, and Islam.

Greece

The students followed the route of Paul’s second missionary journey from Philippi, Thessalonica, Berea, Athens, to Corinth. The students also explored the Parthenon, Olympus, Thermopylae, and Vergina (ancient capital of the Macedonians and burial of Alexander the Great’s father).

Italy

Students toured the eternal city of Rome, introducing the Roman Forum, Arch of Titus, Pantheon, Vatican, Colosseum. They also visited Tivoli and Pompeii.