Visit Yardenit:
the Jordan River Baptism Experience

You'll find the Bible's most famous river, in which John baptized Jesus, flowing tranquilly at Yardenit, where it emerges from the Sea of Galilee. A visit to Yardenit, where you can enter the Jordan River to commemorate your baptism or be baptized for the first time, will be a defining moment in your Israel experience. Forever after, you'll remember that day, when you reaffirmed your faith the way Christians have done in these waters for 2,000 years.

A visit to Yardenit, where you can enter the Jordan River to ... be baptized, will be a defining moment in your Israel experience.

The shadows of old-growth eucalyptus trees dance on the water and iridescent kingfishers flash among the branches, as you make your way down the stairs at Yardenit to the riverbank. There, in the presence of friends and loved ones, gathered in the little amphitheater built especially for your convenience, and with the good wishes and prayers of those at home in your heart, you'll walk out into the river, where your pastor awaits to baptize you. With faith flowing like the river itself, you'll feel the true meaning of John's immortal as he baptized many people in these very waters: "I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit" (Mark 1:8).