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Where Ministry Families Travel

Alaska, the Caribbean, the Mediterranean and the Holy Land — the places I plan most, and why each one suits a rest.

Alaska & North America

A cruise ship in an Alaskan fjord below forested mountains and iceThe Alaska Inside PassageAlaskaCruising where the scenery does the work and nobody expects you to be anywhere.Read moreCrowds filling a palm-lined theme-park street beneath ride structuresOrlandoFloridaThe easiest family trip to plan in America — no passports, no connections, no surprises.Read more

Caribbean & Mexico

Aerial view of surf and clear green shallows meeting a broad pale sand beachArubaDutch CaribbeanThe most weather-reliable week in the Caribbean, which matters when you only get one.Read moreA calm turquoise bay on the west coast of BarbadosBarbadosCaribbeanBeach resort and centuries of church history on the same small island.Read moreAerial view of a small green island edged with jetties in turquoise waterNassauBahamasThe shortest sail from Florida, and the right place to find out whether cruising suits you.Read moreDeep open water under a wide cloudy sky, a low coastline on the far horizonCozumelMexicoA diver’s island on the second-largest reef on earth, and one of the busiest ports anywhere.Read moreA low wooded point with scattered buildings seen across calm waterGrand CaymanCayman IslandsSeven Mile Beach, Stingray City, and a port where your ship never actually docks.Read moreCharlotte Amalie harbour seen from the green hills aboveSt ThomasUS Virgin IslandsUS territory, so no passport control at the pier — the easiest Caribbean day most Americans will have.Read moreA palm-lined beach and calm water at Montego BayMontego BayJamaicaJamaica with its personality intact — louder, warmer, and less smoothed-over than its neighbors.Read moreThe Pitons rising steeply out of the sea on St LuciaSt LuciaCaribbeanTwo volcanic spires, a skyline unlike anywhere in the Caribbean, and two very different halves.Read moreThe pale sand and flat clear shallows of Grace BayTurks & CaicosCaribbeanGrace Bay, which wins best-beach lists often enough that it has stopped being a surprise.Read moreA long stretch of palm-backed beach at Punta CanaPunta CanaDominican RepublicThe Caribbean’s best value per night, and the easiest place to make a family budget work.Read moreA hammock slung between two palms above the turquoise Caribbean at Riviera MayaRiviera Maya & CancúnMexicoBeach week and Mayan ruins on the same trip, with the easiest flights in the region.Read moreEl Arco, the rock arch at Land's End, with desert cliffs behindLos CabosMexicoDesert meets ocean at the tip of Baja — a drier, starker Mexico than the Caribbean coast.Read more

Mediterranean

Excavated stone ruins and a standing arched fragment below a wooded hillsideEphesusTurkeyMarble streets Paul walked, preserved well enough to make an epistle feel like mail.Read moreThe Erechtheion on the Acropolis, its caryatid porch above scattered stone ruinsAthens & CorinthGreeceTwo cities from Acts, an hour apart, both still legible enough to preach from.Read moreThe facade of St Peter's Basilica with statues ranged along its rooflineRome & Vatican CityItalyWhere the early church went from persecuted to established, with the receipts still standing.Read moreA cruise ship on a calm sea at sunset, a dark island silhouetted beyondSantoriniGreeceThe Greek island that earns its photographs — and rewards anyone who stays past the day-trippers.Read more

Holy Land

Crowds gathered in the plaza before the great stone courses of the Western WallJerusalemIsraelThe city at the center of nearly every Holy Land itinerary, and the one that asks most of you.Read moreA stone church with a cross-topped bell tower rising above high fortified wallsBethlehemPalestinian TerritoriesA short drive from Jerusalem, and a quieter, smaller place to spend half a day.Read moreBoulders along a calm shoreline with low hills across the waterNazareth & the Sea of GalileeIsraelThe greener, slower half of a Holy Land trip — and the half that tends to do the restoring.Read moreA white colonnaded walkway on a narrow spit reaching into still turquoise waterThe Dead SeaIsraelThe one stop on a Holy Land itinerary that asks nothing of anybody.Read moreThe Treasury at Petra, carved into a rose-coloured rock facePetraJordanAn extension, not a stop — and the day people are gladdest they paid for.Read more

For travel safety information and destination resources for your next ministry trip, visit the U.S. State Department’s official site at travel.state.gov.

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