Alumni Events
Upcoming Events:
Sunday, January 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM (Utah time). Dr. David Whitchurch will deepen and enrich our understanding of the Orson Hyde Garden.
Zoom Link: https://byu.zoom.us/j/97209266572
Dr. Whitchurch will share insights into the historical and spiritual significance of the Orson Hyde Garden, a notable site in the Holy Land, with rich connections to early church history. This presentation will deepen our appreciation for this important garden and its contribution to the creation of the BYU Jerusalem Center.
Previous Events:
This devotional available to be viewed, here:
https://byujerusalemalumni.com/upcoming-events/holy-land-site-devotional-series/
BYU Education Week
Jerusalem Center Class
Come to the Provo campus August 20–23, 2024 and enjoy a class about the BYU Jerusalem Center and what the students learn and experience there.
The Jerusalem Center Alumni Present a series of 4 lectures that will help attendees understand the purpose of the Jerusalem Center and its student program.
Class presenters include:
Tuesday, August 20
Jim Kearl, Special Assistant the President of the University — BYU Jerusalem Center
The History of the Church in the Holy Land
Wednesday, August 21
Frank Judd, professor of ancient scripture at BYU, professor and former Associate Director of the BYU Jerusalem Center
The Jerusalem Center Student Program, Where Students Go and What They See
Thursday, August 22
Matthew Grey, professor of ancient scripture at BYU, Jerusalem Center Professor
Archaeology and the Jerusalem Center Program: Emphasizing more recently uncovered sites
Friday, August 23
Jim Kearl
The Jerusalem Center Building and the Community it Serves: A tour of the renovated Jerusalem Center building and an overview of the Center’s community outreach programs
See schedule for all of Education Week here: https://educationweek.byu.edu/schedule
This devotional available to be viewed, here:
https://byujerusalemalumni.com/upcoming-events/holy-land-site-devotional-series/
This devotional available to be viewed, here:
https://byujerusalemalumni.com/upcoming-events/holy-land-site-devotional-series/
Jerusalem: An Afternoon of Art and Ideas
Saturday, September 23, 2023
2 pm – 6 pm
Tickets are free but required and seats are limited: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/686592084407
Enjoy Jerusalem-inspired musical performances, works of art and photography, and thoughtful presentations.
Dr. Kerry Muhlestein: Covenant, Connection, and the Promised Land
Many of us have felt a connection to the Holy Land that we can’t fully explain. As we learn more about the connecting power of covenants, we may come to better understand this feeling. However, it should not stop there. Our deepening identities as covenant keepers and our connection to the land should also help us connect more and more with our covenant family, past and present. This can help make the scriptures become even more powerful for us. Increasing our covenant consciousness can help make our past experience in the Holy Land continue to yield spiritual blessings to us even as we live in a different Promised Land.
Dr. Jenet Erickson: Thirty Years Later, Returning Once Again: Why the Jerusalem Center Experience Only Grows in Power and Meaning Over Time
The experience we have as students is so profound, we may be unsure of its power to mean the same to us over time. Returning 30 years later, I found in “coming home” that its meaning had only increased. More life experience gave deeper understanding to the truths glimpsed years before: the sure reality of our covenant identity, the purpose of pain, our covenant belonging to one another, the unspeakable gift of His glorious Resurrection, and so many others.
Jim Welch: Listen to the music of Jerusalem by the entertaining and accomplished professional organist and recent service volunteer at the Jerusalem Center.
View a fascinating collection of artistic, antiquarian maps of the city of Jerusalem, along with original art by alumni. Also view a colorful and artistic ancient Jerusalem map collection that will be on display.
Healthy Holy Land-inspired refreshments will be provided. This event is open to all Jerusalem Study Abroad alumni and to the public as well.
This devotional available to be viewed, here:
https://byujerusalemalumni.com/upcoming-events/holy-land-site-devotional-series/
This devotional available to be viewed, here:
https://byujerusalemalumni.com/upcoming-events/holy-land-site-devotional-series/
This devotional available to be viewed, here:
https://byujerusalemalumni.com/upcoming-events/holy-land-site-devotional-series/
This devotional available to be viewed, here:
https://byujerusalemalumni.com/upcoming-events/holy-land-site-devotional-series/
This devotional was recorded and is available here:
https://byujerusalemalumni.com/upcoming-events/holy-land-site-devotional-series/
Past Events:
Image by AVRAM GRAICER
This devotional was recorded and is available here:
https://byujerusalemalumni.com/upcoming-events/holy-land-site-devotional-series/
To View the 2022 Conference presentations and more details about the conference, click here.
BYU Jerusalem Center Alumni Conference
“Walk in the Light of the Lord” –Isaiah 2:5
BYU Jerusalem Center Alumni cordially invite you to the first Alumni Conference on Saturday, April 9, 2022, on the campus of Brigham Young University.
Presenters included:
Elder Randy D. Funk
Dr. Jeff Chadwick
Dr. Frank Judd
Dr. D. Kelly Ogden
Dr. Andrew Skinner
Dr. Gaye Strathearn
This is the Conference Program: https://byujerusalemalumni.com/2022-jca-conference-program/
Pre-Conference Seder
There was a pre-Conference Passover Seder on Friday evening, April 8, 2022, at 6:00 pm in the Provo City Library Ballroom. This unique event included an authentic Seder program and full-course dinner with musical performances by the Bonner Family and Jamie Baer Peterson.
View of the Old City Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives with olive trees in the foreground
Jerusalem 3D movie screening, exclusively for alumni & friends
Thanksgiving Point, Museum of Ancient Life in Lehi, Utah
Friday November 5 and January 7 at 7:00 pm
Holy Land Site Devotional Series
Dr. Eric Huntsman
Wednesday October 6, 2021 at 7:00 pm MDT on zoom
To view this devotional, link here
Holy Land Site Devotional Series
Dr. Frank Judd
Kursi, the site where Christ cast out demons into swine
to view this devotional, link here.
It was wonderful to “visit” Kursi with Dr. Judd on Thursday, August 5, 2021. If you missed this devotional, it was recorded and you can watch the event below.
This is the location of a famous but controversial miracle of the Savior. Between Capernaum (the Savior’s Galilean headquarters) and Ein Gev (where JC students stay when they are in Galilee) along the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee is a site called Kursi, which is the traditional location where the Savior cast out demons into swine which then ran into the sea. Only some JC groups have visited Kursi so this will be brand new for some alumni. The site of Kursi is the location of the largest Byzantine monastery ever discovered in the region of Galilee, recently excavated and partially reconstructed and now located in a National Park. Brother Judd will provide a tour of the site as well as give insights into the strange miracle in order that we might understand it better.
Online Kickoff Event
this happened June 17, 2021
We are so grateful to all of you who participated and are sorry that some struggled to get into the zoom. Here is a recording of the event. We hope you will watch and enjoy.