Alternative Break Program--> 2009-2010 Trip DescriptionS

Appalachian Institute (Co-sponsored with Interfaith Coalition)

Appalachian Institute, WV

Focus on Appalachia

Walking the Way of Peace - An Interfaith Trip to Appalachia
This trip provides an immersion experience through which we will live and work side-by-side with residents of New Martinsville, WV - in the heart of Appalachia. Our partnering organization who is helping to coordinate the trip is the Appalachian Institute of Wheeling Jesuit University. During the week we will stay at Lantz Farm, a remote retreat center near New Martinsville. During the week, we will assume the posture of learners toward our community hosts, learning from their lives, their stories, and their experiences. We will also assume the posture of servants to provide meaningful service to the community. Those who go on the trip will have the opportunity to look outward, to hear and share life stories with others who are very different from themselves, and to experience the realities of poverty. In this way, it is hoped that we will see our own lives in a new way, and that we will hear an invitation to live differently... that we will seek a path whereby God can transform us inwardly so that we can move outward to help mend the brokenness in the world - to become God's agents of healing and peace.

Trip leaders are Courtney Riall and Liz Coates.

Total Cost: $250.00

This is a Domestic-Driving Trip

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