July looks like a busy month for us all at St George’s College Jerusalem.

On July 4, two parallel programs will depart from the College campus for very different destinations.

• One group of students will head for Jordan, where they will spend five days exploring sites as diverse as the ancient baptism site at Bethany-beyond-Jordan, the Byzantine map at Madaba, the world heritage site of Petra, the ‘martian’ landscapes of the Wadi Rum, the Roman city of Jerash, and the Crusader fortress of Ajloun.
• Around the same time another group of students will head to Nazareth which will serve as their base for four days as they explore the Galilee, after which they return for another five days based in Jerusalem.

Meanwhile work on our new web site, including a new integrated registration system, is proceeding at pace. Early design work has already been completed, and we hope to be in testing mode before the end of the month. If all goes to plan the new site will be ready for release in early September. Stand by for updates on this critical project!

On July 18 we welcome a very large group for our Palestine of Jesus program, to be co-led by Dean Greg Jenks and Dr Peter Walker. We have around 40 registrations for this program, and most of them are ordinands from the UK. In a sense this is the test run for the Jerusalem Ministry Formation Program that will officially launch in January 2017. We deeply appreciate the support of the St George’s College Jerusalem Trust and the Jerusalem and Middle East Trust which has enabled us to offer several bursaries to participants in this program.

A final note. Our subscriber list has now grown to more than 800 people. Thank you for your interest and support as we seek to serve God and our world as the Anglican Center in the Holy Land.