Cost: $900
March 11-18, 2025: MMN will host a Civil Rights pilgrimage open to individuals. Please use the “Contact Information” form at the bottom of the page for more information about this pilgrimage or to schedule your group. (registration deadline is January 15, 2025)
April 30-May 4, 2025; Led by Glen Guyton, MC USA executive director: For young adult participants. To foster opportunities for shared learning and deeper understanding, participants will embark on this pilgrimage in pairs, with a partner of a different race than themselves. Cost: $700 (registration deadline is March 15, 2025)
You will learn about the struggle for dignity and humanity from museums, significant places and powerful memorials.
You will also hear first-hand reflections from people who participated in the civil rights movement as well as learn from others who help unpack the significance of the civil rights movement, the lessons we need to learn from it, and the way in which this is an ongoing struggle for justice and equality that this history both tells and invites us to participate in.
Your pilgrimage might begin in Tennessee or Georgia with visits to places like the National Center for Human and Civil Rights. Then travel to Alabama and Mississippi for fellowship and prayer with Mission Network partners, guided walking tours and museums.
Civil Rights tour frequently asked questions
Sample itinerary—U.S. Civil Rights Pilgrimage
Day 1
Travel to Atlanta
Dinner with Casa Alterna
Day 2
Human and Civil Rights walking tour of Atlanta
Lunch at Sweet Auburn Curb Market
Afternoon: Travel to Montgomery
Evening: Check-in and debrief
Day 3
National Memorial for Peace and Justice
Legacy Museum in Montgomery
Evening: Check-in and debrief
Day 4
Tour of Montgomery and Selma
Afternoon/Evening: Check-in and Prep for Friday: review story of Freedom Summer murders and watch Neshoba: The Price of Freedom
Lodging at Pine Lake Fellowship Camp
Day 5
Tour of Philadelphia, MS, story of Freedom Summer murders
Dancing Rabbit Treaty Site
Meal and contacts at Nanih Waiya Mennonite Church
Evening: Check-in
Lodging at Pine Lake Camp
Day 6
Worship with Open Door Mennonite Church in Jackson
Mississippi Civil Rights Museum
Conversation with folks from Open Door
Evening: Check-in
Day 7
Jackson or Memphis
Evening check-in and ending celebration
Day 8
Travel day home
Pilgrims set out not so much to assist strangers but to eat with them. They journey in the wisdom about transformation held in the Rwandan proverb “if you cannot hear the mouth eating, you cannot hear the mouth crying.
– From The “Practice of Pilgrimage” by Emmanuel Katongole and Chris Rice, Reconciling All Things, 2008.
Related
Civil rights learning tour recap: days one and two
Civil rights learning tour recap: day three
Civil rights learning tour recap: day four
Civil rights learning tour recap: day five
Civil rights learning tour recap: days six and seven
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