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The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship is excited to partner with Arrabon, a spiritual formation ministry that equips Christ-followers to actively and creatively pursue reconciliation and racial healing in their communities, to offer three curated experiential learning trips to Montgomery, Alabama, Washington, DC, and El Paso, Texas.
This experiential learning trip to El Paso, Texas is offered in partnership with Abara, a ministry at the U.S.-Mexico border, and focuses on the complex border dynamics.
An Arrabon experiential learning trip guides communities into spaces of disintegration to hold a trauma-informed space framed by our Foundation of a Reconciling Community workshop. The work of racial healing and reconciliation is often impacted by fear, anger, shame, and grief. During this experience, participants will process these complex emotions to gain confidence in their ability to lead their communities as ambassadors of reconciliation.
Integration of spiritual formation and experiential learning related to race, class, and culture
Interactive engagement alongside others in your community
Guided discussion through our Foundations of a Reconciling Community workshop exploring the complicated emotions of fear, anger, shame, and grief
Guided morning sessions followed by afternoons journeying through various experiences
Access to an app-based spiritual formation guide that creates space for prayer, meditation, reflection, and spiritual transformation
Integration of the theology and sociology that have informed our shared history around race in America
Two or three pastoral or nonprofit leaders from the same organization. The goal is for participants to maximize and contextualize their learning as they strive to embody and integrate the work of reconciliation into their own community context.
*Trip capacity is limited.
Each participant will pay a $100 non-refundable trip deposit due to Arrabon no later than April 7, 2025.
Each participant will be responsible for their own travel to and from El Paso, Texas.
Each participant must secure and bring a passport for travel into and out of Juárez, Mexico.
The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship will cover all program costs, including lodging, meals, and transport between El Paso locales and the hotel.
