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Nazareth Village

An Open-Air museum

Enlarge the Place of Your Tent

Each day at the Nazareth Village brings A Foundation in God's Kingdom volunteer and donor support, the blessing of
new reasons to give thanks as we grow our discoveries made us certain of our mission
in our ministry. The number and variety For almost a century, the ground that is now the – to help guide visitors to follow Jesus.
of our guests amazes us, as people Nazareth Village was an empty field owned by
from all the world’s nations stream in. the Edinburgh Medical Mission Society. Then, A Thriving Witness
As our already-mature institution continues in 1994, a local Arab Christian doctor shared
to break records for visitor numbers, we look his dream with an American missionary to have “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations,
forward to expansion, in both our village and a place where people from all over the world baptizing them in the name of the Father and
through a new Discovery Center that will could see the “living stones” of Jesus’ life and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (Matthew
strengthen our ministry. teaching. These two gentlemen approached 28). Every day, we can attest to the Great
the EMMS, and they generously granted the Commission’s fruitfulness. We constantly see
Our thriving community is deepening its land for use to develop this vision. However, the results of Christian witness, with disciples
witness in Nazareth, becoming a site where no one could have anticipated what would be from every nation pouring in and coming to
local Arab Christians, Messianic Jews, and discovered on it. During excavations on the see, taste, reflect and learn. Our guides lead
believers from all over the world collaborate land, archeologists found watch towers, water tours in twelve languages. In 2015, 60,000
to tell about the life and teachings of Jesus, channels, terraces and a wine press (in which visitors saw our lovingly-crafted village and
and thousands of local guests see our new they found Early Roman Period pottery shards, learned about life in Jesus’ time. By 2018 we
vision. As our tent widens, we see God at work making it nearly certain this press was in use have nearly doubled to over 100,000 guests!
among us, and give thanks. around Jesus' lifetime). Along with an influx of

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