SAILING ACTS: The Grand Finale Tour

For 20 wonderful years, Janet and I have taken many tours by land and sea. From 3-5 graduate students aboard SailingActs and public transportation, learning voyages in Turkey, Greek Islands, and Rome by coach and ferry, on a variety of routes by Turkish gulets along the Turkish coast and in the Greek Islands, we have explored the routes of Acts and the Early Christian Movement in the Mediteranean with hundreds voyagers. These have been some of the most rewarding times of our Sailing Acts experience, if not our lives.

With the “grand finale” last fall of the special “On the Face of the Deep” tour with the shanty-singing group “Cantore,” Janet and I realized that we have run the course. We are still planning to spend time aboard SailingActs in the Mediterranean for as many sailing seasons as we can enjoy, but finally and reluctantly decided that to make promises for the future to lead the tours would not be fair to guests. Plans and projections in 0ur unpredictable world and lives are not as confidently long and ambitious as they’ve been in the past 20 years. We have not needed to cancel previous trips (except during Covid) and do not plan to start.

For the past year or so, I’ve been working with some younger experienced sailor/tour leaders who are eager to continue offering the SailingActs program in the same way. I will post information about any of these upcoming tours that are being planned when information is available in 2027 at the earliest.

LAUNCHING PASSAGES & PERIPLUS

**THE VOYAGES OF SAILINGACTS CONTINUE!**

I posted the following on Facebook recently: (https://web.facebook.com/linford.stutzman)

Here we go again. Once again, I’m trying to SailActs into the sunset. Once again, I’ve failed!

Once again, the Mediterranean, the prospect of a week aboard a gulet sailing downwind on the most storied route of history and Acts, exploring once again the incredible ports of Paul, Greek philosophers, with biblical explorers of sea and land, won.

In 2027, I, along with Aram DiGennaro, the new leader of SailingActs/Passages and Periplus, plan to lead 2 tours, beginning in Ephesus and ending in Antalya, following the exact route and direction as Paul did on his 2nd and 3rd journeys. After 2027, Aram plans to continue offering these tours.

The dates for the first 2027 voyage are May 20-30, 2027. There are 5 or 6 cabins available. The second one will be in October, 2027. That one is already filled.

For the brochure including final description, itinerary, costs, and registration, please click on this link: https://passageandperiplus.com/brochure and respond directly on the link or email me with any questions.

Once again, I am so grateful for another unplanned and unexpected opportunity with any of you fellow explorers on the voyage of faith and life.