Goodshepherd Travel

Specialties

Good Shepherd Travel is a family-​run Christian business with deep ties to the Holy Land.

Most tour operators in the United States are using large tourist firms that conduct their tours in the Holy Land the same way they would put together a program in any other part of the world. Their goal is to fill up a tour bus and move their client’s customers from site to site as quickly as possible to complete their itinerary.

There are also tour operators who claim to provide «VIP Service» but are little more than bus drivers who take groups from site to site without providing pilgrims an understanding of what they are seeing.

Good Shepherd Travel was established to provide a quality option for Christians to have a truly comprehensive, spiritual pilgrimage that would allow for participants to truly understand the Holy Land. It’s not enough to simply to be chaperoned from site to site and be told what you are looking at. A true pilgrimage allows for the pilgrim to enrich their knowledge and understanding of the sites important to their faith, and to live their faith through the five senses of hearing, taste, touch, smell and sight. Good Shepherd Travel facilitates a pilgrimage by handling all the details of ground arrangements, including the program itinerary, ground arrangements (including guides, transportation, accommodation and meals), and any special requests that a program may have to visit a particular site, meet with a particular religious order or individual, or to fix a si

History

Established in 1990.

Good Shepherd Travel is a pilgrimage company, based in Fort Worth, Texas. It is owned and operated by Tony Abuaita, who moved to the United States in 1990 from Beit Sahour in the Holy Land, a few miles from Bethlehem, and the place where the shepherd’s first heard the news of the birth of Christ unto the world. Beit Sahour is one the largest Christian communities in the Middle East, and is well known for the production of olive wood handicrafts for pilgrims.

Tony established Good Shepherd Travel for one purpose: to bring Christians from the United States to the Holy Land on safe, affordable and meaningful pilgrimages to better their understanding of their faith, and to help support the Christian presence in his home country.

Meet the Business Owner

Tony A.

Business Owner

Good Shepherd Travel is a pilgrimage company, based in Fort Worth, Texas. It is owned and operated by Tony Abuaita, who moved to the United States in 1990 from Beit Sahour in the Holy Land, a few miles from Bethlehem, and the place where the shepherd’s first heard the news of the birth of Christ unto the world. Beit Sahour is one the largest Christian communities in the Middle East, and is well known for the production of olive wood handicrafts for pilgrims.

Tony established Good Shepherd Travel for one purpose: to bring Christians from the United States to the Holy Land on safe, affordable and meaningful pilgrimages to better their understanding of their faith, and to help support the Christian presence in his home country.