When Burdell was

born, his family was very

poor and there was “no

crib for a bed” so he was

wrapped up and laid in a

suitcase. He says he was

born to travel because of

his first crib and the

monument the city fa-

thers built on his birth

site—a Casey’s store.

Each year we attend

several travel conferences

where we meet with nu-

merous providers of

travel attractions, have

opportunities to network

with other travel escorts,

and participate in semi-

nars for travel planners.

“You’all come join

us on a tour!”

Blessed Byways Christian Tours Expanding

I N S I D E T H I S

I S S U E :

Jubilee Christ-

mas Tour

2

Gospel Music

USA

2

Eureka Springs 2

Lake Geneva 3

Let’s Play Ball 3

NQC 3

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Ball On Tours

4

Who We Are

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P O I N T S O F

I N T E R E S T :

Blessed By-

ways Christian

Tours Expand-

ing

Up Coming

Tours

Who We Are

Blessed Byways Christian

Tours is expanding and will

be offering a variety of faith

based and secular tours

with one-day or multi-day

itineraries for interested

travelers, banks, churches

and civic groups. We are

now registered as Blessed

Byways Tours.

Upcoming

Faith—Based

Tours

Jubilee Christmas

Tour 2015

Sioux Falls, SD

Nov. 30—Dec. 1

Gospel Music USA

Jefferson City, MO

Dec. 31—Jan. 3

NQC

Pigeon Forge, TN

Sept 27—Oct. 2, 2016

Christmas in

Branson

Nov. 15-18

Creation Museum and

the Ark

TBA

Secular Tours

Eureka Springs and

Northwest Arkansas

April 26—30

Lake Geneva and

Southeast Wisconsin

July 26-29

Cubs/Cardinals

Royals/As Baseball

Tour

Sept. 14-15

3-Day Mystery Tour

Oct. 24—26

Gift Certificates Available for Any Amount on Trips

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Booth Brothers,

Greater Vision

Legacy Five

Dec. 31—Jan. 3, 2016 Gospel Music USA

Eureka Springs and Northwest Arkansas

Jubilee Christmas Tour 2015

to check out later. We’ll also visit Thorncrown Chapel, the Christ of the Ozarks Statue, take in a show, Turpentine Creek Big Cat Sanctuary (a refuge for tigers, lions, bears, cou-gars, etc. where folks have a great opportunity to watch the big cats running, playing and stalking just like they would in the wild),

Springtime in the Ozarks with the dogwoods and redbuds is beautiful! Eureka Springs is known as the Little Switzerland of the Ozarks. Its entire down-town area is on the Na-tional Register of Historic Places. and has block after block of one-of-a-kind shops which our city trolley tour will point out for you

Crystal Bridges Art Mu-seum, Walton’s General Store and the Square in Bentonsville, Blue Bird of Happiness—an out of the way wonderland of art and home of the original Blue-bird of Happiness plus we’ll be stopping at Chicken and Pickin’ in a barn in the mid-dle of no where for the time of your life. Pricing

not complete yet.

day morning at 9am fea-tures a Hymn Book Sing with each person leaving with their very own hard back hymnal. The afternoon session begins at 1:30pm and includes the Blackwood Brothers Quartet and 4 His Love Quartet. Saturday evening will be the banquet and Quartet Night with the Blackwood Brothers, Jour-ney Bound, Calvarymen, Final Authority, and 4 His

Love. Sunday morning worship will be led by Jour-ney bound and the Calvary-men. $480 single, $375

double $325 Triple.

This event begins with a gala New Year’s Eve event with the Booth Brothers for concerts at 6 and 10:00p.m. to ring in the New Year. Friday you can sleep in, watch the Rose Bowl Parade, enjoy some table games, etc. At 6pm the evening schedule will include the Kingsmen Quartet, the Lester’s, Final Authority, the McCune’s and Becky Lercher. Satur-

B L E S S E D B Y W A Y S T O U R S

November 30—December 1, 2015

Sioux Falls, SD

“Join us as these artists take us on a musical journey that will rekin-

dle your fondest memories of Christmas, and create new memories that

will last forever.” This state-of the-art production will featured Christ-

mas music, both old and new, as well as lots of laughs.

Are you aware that during WW2 from 1944-1946, Algona was where

10,000 German POWs were held. They worked for farmers, detasseled

corn, worked in milk processing plants, at a box & barrel factory, did

silo construction, etc. While there, six of the prisoners built a nativity

scene with 65 figures which are 1/2 life size . We will see that nativity

set and the museum. When the prisoners returned home, they gave the

nativity set to the town of Algona. On our way home we’ll be visiting

The DeSota National Wildlife Refuge where the snow geese migration should be in full swing.

Each spring and fall since the ice age a half million snow geese utilize this area for resting and feed-

ing. The Steamboat Bertrand sunk in 10 minutes April 1, 1865. 100 years later 1/2 of its cargo

which we will get to see was recovered. Single $235—Double $199—$175 Triple

Join us for a

Gala

New Year’s Eve

Event

at

Capitol Plaza

Jefferson City, MO

April 26—30, 2016

Lake Geneva and Southeast Wisconsin

P A G E 3 J U L Y 2 6 — 2 9 , 2 0 1 6

For nearly 100 years they’ve been delivering mail like this to about 75 homes around Lake Geneva. We’ll get to tag along and you’ll hear all about them on the 2 1/2 hour nar-rated tour as we cruise pass beauti-

ful estates and man-sions and the mail person jumps on and off our moving boat

to deliver their mail..

Other attractions: we’ll visit are Rushing Waters Trout Farm where you catch

your own dinner—they provide the fishing equipment (no license is required) clean it and cook it for

you.

At the Fireside Dinner Theatre which was named as one of North America’s top 100 Events by the American Bus Association you’ll have an opportunity to shop their spectacular gift shops filled with

50,000 gift ideas, enjoy award win-ning cuisine and enjoy the musical

Singing in the Rain.

Tempel Farms and the Lipizzan Stallions, - The beautiful rolling hills of Tempel farms is the backdrop for a 90-minute performance which chronicles these horses of kings training from the youngest which are born dark to the most highly trained stallions that keep lightening until they reach their characteristic whiteness.. All per-

form to musical accompaniment.

We’ll also visit Apple Holler which is a restaurant, dinner thea-ter, bakery, gift shop and apple orchard which features many activi-

ties . Pricing not completed yet.

with chapels, showcases, fan

awards, talent competitions,

exhibits, etc. plus Pigeon Forge

has so many neat places to eat,

shop, take in a show, even go

zip lining which we will do

again in 2016 Lord willin’

For over 50 years NQC has

showcased the very best in

Southern Gospel. It is the big-

gest gathering of Southern Gos-

pel artists and fans of the year.

In 2016 they are expecting fans

from at least 40 different states

and a half-dozen countries.

Convention week is filled

erty and named it Hardsrabble.” In 1977 the cabin was restored. The fence across from the cabin was constructed from 2,563 rifle barrels as a Civil War memorial. Today this property is owned by

the Busch family.

You can pet, hand feed , attend shows of some of the animals and

even take a camel ride. Today this property combines history, heritage and wildlife that create an unforgettable experience. Tram rides are provided through Deer Park, which is

home for over 1,000 exotic animals from six continents that are allowed roam free in their natural setting. Lakes here are filled with brilliant orange and

white Japanese Koi.

A morning at Warm Springs Ranch, home of the Budweiser Clydesdale is also on the agenda. It features a mare/stallion and foaling barn, veteri-nary lab and 10 pastures. Warm Springs Ranch is home to 70 Clydesdales from foals to

stallions.

Burdell’s working on a base-ball trip if the dates and times all come together to make it possible that will take folks to St. Louis for a Cardinals/Cubs game and then the next day to Kansas City for the Royals/A’s

game.

Also planned is an evening at Grant’s Farm. In 1855 Ulysses S. Grant, who later became our 18th President, built a four-room, two-story cabin on a section of this 281 acre prop-

Sometimes

the mail

carrier

misses!

Cardinals/Cubs—Royals/A’s Games

National Quartet Convention—

September 27—October 1, 2016

Let’s

Play

Ball!

September

14 & 15

dining room, the young girls

serenaded us (they sounded

just like the Trapp family), gave

us a tour of their colony and

even invited us into their

homes.

Travelers have been treated to

a gourmet candlelight dinner

complete with linens, china and

silver served on a 1800s cov-

ered bridge which sets over a

beautiful falls.

We’ve gone zip lining in TN,

white water rafting in UT,

horseback riding on a dude

ranch, in TX kissed reindeer

and learned that “reindeer

really do fly” in IL and gone

snow tubing down Liberty Uni-

versity’s Snowflex Mountain in

VA in August.

On the Santa’s Lost His Marbles

Tour we took folks to a Decorated

Outhouse Tour.

On a Kentucky Adventure, a pick-em

-up truck came roaring up to the bus

and two hillbillies tumbled out—one

with his hillbilly brief case—boxer

shorts tacked to a split tree branch

and the other carrying her tick in-

fested hound dog (stuffed of course.)

All kinds of things take place on the

bus from Bug Splat Bingo, Auctions,

Barnyard Bingo, Stuff the Turkey,

Music with Comb Kazoos, Dem

Bones, Dem Bones, Dem Dry Bones

Relays, Reverse Drawings, Anniver-

sary Receptions etc.

We’ve been guests of a Hutterite

Colony for dinner in their communal

Burdell and Charlotte Hensley

1302 North E St.

Oskaloosa, Iowa 52577

Phone: 641-672-2428

E-mail - hensley@mahaska.org

T O U R S B E I N G D E V E L O P E D

3-Day Mystery Trip

This is going to be a fun, fun, trip—a real mystery.

Christmas in Branson—Including Moses,

Twice Adopted, etc.

Creation Museum and the Ark—The Ark

is to be completed in 2016

A Mystery Trip in 2017 to a gorgeous part

of our country where you’ll have an opportunity

to do probably three or four things you have

never done before. This will be one UNUSUAL

trip.

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