Last updated: 23 December 2020 (AEST)
As you are aware, the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the postponement and rescheduling of all pilgrimage departures worldwide for 2020 until further notice. This has been a very complex time of uncertainty and confusion for all intended travellers and we wish to express our heartfelt gratitude for your understanding and patience.
Although we at Harvest have been operating under a skeleton staff for some months now, please be assured that our 30 plus years of business operation has left us in a strong position to well and truly ride out this storm as we look to better days in the very near future.
We are pleased to acknowledge the recent successful developments of several COVID-19 vaccines worldwide that are scheduled to be rolled out systematically over the coming year. This, along with the trade talk of airlines returning to less restrictive international travel by the second half of 2021, all seems to reflect a much better outlook than 2 to 3 months ago. We will continue to watch, pray, and hope.
Please allow us in the meantime to provide some updated information and assurances about future travel with Harvest:
We wish to take this opportunity of wishing you all a grace-filled new year, as we continue to count our blessings as a nation while praying for those overseas whose circumstances remain quite uncertain for now.
With every blessing from all of us in the Harvest family.
Philip Ryall
CEO / Chairman
Oberammergau Passion Play
On March 19, 2020, the local authorities in Germany made the decision to postpone the 42nd Oberammergau Passion Play as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The event will now take place in 2022. We will be contacting all of our Oberammergau pilgrims as soon as possible in order to provide them options accordingly.