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2004 Pilgrimage for Reconciliation
PfR / Domestic 2004The United States Pilgrimage is slightly different than the other two. Designed for InterVarsity staff as a training program, it is actually two consecutive programs:
During the first half of July, the partici-pants travel along the Cherokee Trail of Tears from North Carolina to Oklahoma. They will meet people and study history and faith as manifest in the Georgia gold rush and subsequent ethnic cleansing of the Smoky Mountains. Participants explore some of the darkest moments in US history, at which time the young nation invented a new and gruesome phenomenon: the concentration camp.
Even amidst this sin and its ongoing fallout, our Father is not without a witness, and PfR participants will also be studying scripture with new eyes, seeing God's faithfulness and our responsibility as His children.
During the second half of July, the PfR is wending back to Atlanta along some of the American church's finest moments: the Civil Rights movement of the middle of the twentieth century. Participants will meet key leaders, confront the church's division at the time, and explore the nexus of faith and social action.
Despite recent decades' popular appropriation of the movement, the Civil Rights leaders were acting out of their deepest spiritual convictions, which faithfulness to scripture should inform our own walk today.
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