METour
The Mission Education Tour has already left for 2009. Read about their trip here. Check back after January 2010 for new information and application!
2009 Itinerary
| Wichita, Ks | Jacksonville, IL | Omaha, NE |
| Emporia, KS | Chicago, IL | Lincoln, NE |
| St. Joseph, MO | Evanston, IL | York, NE |
| Kansas City, MO | Rockford, IL | Salina, KS |
| Columbia, MO | Iowa City, IA | Newton, KS |
| St. Louis, MO | Des Moines, IA | Back to Wichita! |
| East St. Louis, IL | Harlan, IA |
*Day 1
We meet at
*Day 2 Wichita, KS to
Wake-up time comes bright and early this morning! East Heights UMW will fix us a
fabulous breakfast and then we’ll be on the road to our first
stop. We will meet at Open Door ministries to do our first mission work
of the trip. Then it’s time to set sail for Emporia, where we’ll meet
with the United
Methodist Campus Center director for lunch. After that,
we’ll head up to St. Joseph, MO to pay a visit to InterServ’s new
facility. We’ll stay the night at Huffman UMC
and fix a meal of chicken alfredo, worship together, and then hit the sack after a long first day.
*Day 3 St. Joseph, MO to
Day 3 starts out with a breakfast prepared by one of our groups. Our
first will be to Della Lamb, an agency that works with low-income
clients in
*Day 4* *
After a quick breakfast, we will head east to East St. Louis, IL to Lessie Bates Davis
Neighborhood House. We will spend the morning touring their
agency and then travel to Epworth Children and Family Services to eat lunch and
do some mission work. We will then travel to Shalom House, a homeless shelter in
St. Louis. We will eat supper at Centenary
*Day 5 Jacksonville, IL to
We will become very familiar with the bus on Day 5. We will get up at
the crack of dawn and travel to Chicago Temple
*Day 6 Chicago, IL to
This day will be a fun day for the girls! We will spend the morning at
our mystery stop, which the girls will find out the location of on
Friday morning as we’re traveling there. We’ll eat lunch with two female Kansas
seminary students at Garrett Theological Seminary and then travel to see the
fascinating exhibits at the Museum
of Science and Industry. After learning all about science and industry, we’ll travel to
*Day 7 Rockford, IL to
Saturday will be a day of a lot of traveling for the METour posse. We
have a long bus trip to the University
of Iowa Wesley Foundation, where
we’ll hear from students about campus ministry and college life. We’ll
then travel to Cedar Rapids, IA, a town still recovering from a
devastating flood a year ago, to do a little bit of flood recovery work.
The girls will also receive disaster response training while traveling
on the bus-a bonus for this METour! After an afternoon of labor, we’ll
travel to Harlan, IA where we’ll rest our heads for the night.
*Day 8 Harlan, IA to Omaha, NE*
We’ll worship with our host church, Harlan
*Day 9 Omaha, NE to
We’re starting the day out in
*Day 10 Lincoln, NE to
Our first stop is only a short hour away from
*Day 11 Salina, KS to
The trip has gone by at lightning speed! Our last morning will be spent
at Youthville, Kansas’s largest non-profit group, in Newton. We’ll eat a
quick lunch and then be back at
