Almost every year we take a special trip on Spring Break, to expand our view of the world.  In recent years we have traveled to San Diego to learn more about the border, to Arizona to join No More Deaths on their humanitarian mission of placing water in the desert, and to Memphis to honor Dr. King’s legacy on the 50th anniversary of his death, and to reflect on the civil rights struggle, in history and in the present.  We are hopeful that there may be a possibility of a trip for vaccinated students in spring of 2022.

Mural of the Virgin of Guadalupe at Chicano Park in San Diego

San Diego trip group

Learning from Enrique Morones of Border Angels in San Diego

Water drop with Border Angels in the high desert of southern California

Standing by “Friendship Park” looking at the wall at the very SW corner of the US

Learning and training for humanitarian aid with No More Deaths in Tucson, AZ

Picking up water by the pallet in Ajo, AZ

Camping out in the AZ desert

Long drives on dirt roads with trucks full of water, to save lives in remote AZ desert

hiking the last miles from the road with packs full of water and supplies

It is not uncommon to find that previous caches of humanitarian aid have been deliberately destroyed

Enjoying Bennie’s lovely art-filled home in Memphis

Walking Main Street in Memphis, where striking sanitation workers marched every day for months in the protest that brought Dr. King to Memphis in March and April 1968

The striking sanitation workers in ’68 gathered at this church before their daily marches

Real Memphis blues on Beale St.

Real soul food in Soulsville at the historic Four Way restaurant

Our group at Slave Haven/Burkle Estate underground railroad site and museum

Visiting the site of STAX studio and label, now the STAX museum of American Soul Music

The National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis

Mason Temple, COGIC, where Dr. King gave his “Mountaintop” speech the night before his assassination

Outside Royal Studios, a long time historical studio, most noted for Al Green’s recordings, still active today

By the mighty Mississippi

The balcony at the Lorraine Motel – remembering Dr. King’s courage to go on, despite continual threats to his life

Taking a trail ride together at Pastor Matt’s family’s horse farm