From 1984 to 1995, John-Roger directed 9 remarkable month-long journeys through Egypt and Israel with groups of 150 people. These trips, called PAT IV and PAT V (Peace Awareness Training), were dream-come-true sojourns for many.
The first PAT V group of 150 departs on group flights from New York and Los Angeles to meet up in Israel.
Group arrival in Tel Aviv and transfer to our first stop in Israel.
We join old friends in Jerusalem, Benji Shavit, Berte and Shrage to start our touring in the area.
Group 1 ends it's final night of the PAT V in Cairo.
Those traveling on to the Greek Cruise depart for Athens. The rest of the group returns home via group and individual flights.
The Second section of the PAT V arrives in Cairo from the US and Athens. The Athens group is reduced due to the incident aboard the Stella Solaris which ended with some people hospitalized for Salmonella. Some staff arrive in Cairo with John to start the PAT V. Additional staff members remain in Athens to attend to those hospitalized and organize returns for the cruise passengers.
From Randy Garver:
Hanging out with J-R was always an adventure. One time we went on another trip, a PAT IV [a series of annual spiritual journeys to the middle east from 1984 through 1990—ed.] in Egypt. J-R was doing two PAT IV’s, and then they punctuated it with a Greek cruise in between, and on the Greek cruise, about 60% or 70% of the people got sick, and I think J-R got hammered a little bit as well. Then they had to do the second PAT IV (sic - PAT V). J-R was not feeling well, and he was very grumpy. It was like, okay, give J-R a lot of physical space. Interestingly enough, I took my godson Jeffrey with me. He was 10 at the time. And J-R would just welcome the children coming to him and meeting with him and climbing on him. He wasn’t feeling that well, but it seemed like it really enlivened him.