Washington D.C.

Historical Trip & Outreach

  • March
  • Open to Junior & Senior class students

2009 Washington D.C. Trip Details:

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Thirty One Students and Chaperones returned M arch 17th from a successful  ground breaking Historical Tour of the East Coast.  Cities toured included Washington DC, Boston, Philadelphia, Gettysburg, Mt. Vernon, Hartford and New York.  The homes of Mike and Karen Shaughnessy and Adrian and Sylvia Rodriguez were made available to host this large and happy group, for which we are most thankful for the lodging, food, fellowship and hospitality.Historian Dr. Marshall Foster accompanied the group to Washington lending his expertise to our Chrisitan heritage, imparting the sacrifices made by our forefathers for the liberties we as American have today.  Each student was impacted by the hardships suffered during the birth of our nation and it’s struggle for religious freedom.

This year’s Junior/Senior trip marks a new era with the addition of an America’s Founding history tour. More than 30 students and adults began in Washington DC with 4 fact-packed days of Memorials, monuments, sites and of course the working homes of our Constitutional Republic: the Capitol, Supreme Court, and White House.

Outreach-DC-002We were led by our favorite historians, Pastor Rob Scribner and Dr. Marshall Foster. We also partnered with one of our Tucson pioneer churches in nearby Silver Spring, Maryland to preach and share the gospel with this beautiful, important, but also very needy area of our country.

A day trip to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania gave a small, potent taste of the Civil War and was followed by a move north of the Mason-Dixon line. We also stopped in Philadelphia to stand where our Declaration of Independence was written and first read to the world and spent one whirlwind day in New York City seeing Ground Zero, the Statue of Liberty, the United Nations, and everything else we squeezed in!

After these quick trips we settled in around the Boston/Salem,/Lexington area for about five days of more fact-packed touring. We again  were able to partner with a Fellowship Church to share the gospel and hold Revival services in the Salem area. This year’s tour of America’s founding ended with a final night in DC before catching a flight back home!