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2019 Plumbline Tour

Location: Washington D.C.

Dates: Wed., 7/31 – Sat., 8/3/19
Cost: $699

Deadline Extended!

All registrations, materials, and a $50 deposit are due by May 1, 2019. The remaining balance is due by June 1, 2019. 

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The NIC Plumbline Tour enters its 17th year since its founding in 2002. Although there have been a few years when the tour was not held, it has provided a generation of youth and now adults an opportunity to learn and mature in their faith understanding as it relates to world events.

It all came about as a result of Conference Treasurer Lonnie Chafin’s vision to expose conference youth to new experiences of expanding and deepening their faith with other teens. As a teenager, Lonnie had the opportunity to go to NYC to the United Methodist Women’s Building with other teenagers and remembers the life-changing experience it had on him.
 
The tour provides an opportunity to not only connect students’ Christian faith and social justice, but to meet other teens from rural, urban, and suburban communities within the conference.  Over the past 17 years, hundreds of youth have gone to New York City to seminars at the United Methodist Women’s Building and experienced many sites in NYC.

This year, the group will head to Washington, D.C. The seminars will be held in the United Methodist Building on Capitol Hill which is the only non-governmental building on Capitol Hill. In addition to the daily seminars, the group will have an opportunity to visit other D.C. sites including monuments, museums, a Congressional visit, and more.
 
The tour cost of $699 per student includes air, hotel, meals, and excursions. Limited scholarships are available based on financial need. Please see the flyer below for additional details. Space is limited.
 
Should you have any questions, please contact Plumbline Tour Coordinator, Amania Drane, at niaenterprises1@comcast.net.


 

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