Join a Journey of Understanding and Solidarity – This trip invites participants into a unique experience, bridging narratives from Israel/Palestine with the complex history of the American South. With leading and emerging Palestinian Christian voices at the forefront, participants will explore the shared challenges and opportunities for peace, justice, and mutual flourishing across diverse contexts. This is more than a learning experience; it’s an opportunity to build authentic relationships with Palestinian Christian leaders and Telos’s dedicated team, whose insights offer a profound lens into both regions’ histories and aspirations.

Through honest dialogues, shared learning, and meaningful interactions, this journey equips participants with the tools and perspectives needed to thoughtfully engage with and contribute to the work of healing and reconciliation. Join us on this path of connection and discovery, where stories intersect, and hope is fostered through mutual commitment to a just and compassionate world.

We engage with a variety of opportunities that prompt exploration, listening, learning, and connection. These include: 

• Visits to museums and historic sites that focus on crucial aspects of our history, from slavery, to Jim Crow, to the civil rights movement. 
• Meeting with peacemakers from the civil rights leaders and movement builders to nonviolence educators. We also meet with public historians, artists, and community stakeholders. 
• Participation in a Kingian Nonviolence training. 
• Discovering the impacts of racial injustice on climate, the environment, and medicine.
• A visit with indigenous communities in coastal Louisiana, examining the effects of climate change in their community.
• Learning about enslaved women from Alabama who endured unethical medical experiments and helped shape modern gynecology, and how racial disparities in healthcare persist today.
• Exploring local culture through art and cuisine. 
• Sharing space and meals with locals from diverse communities. 

Will I be able to apply what I learn in my community even if I don’t live in the South?  Through a trip with ReStory US, we come to understand how we are all connected through a history that has shaped the formation of every community in this country. As such, it gives us a holistic vision for how we might heal not only ourselves, but our communities as a whole.  

What does the cost of this trip cover?  The cost of the trip covers everything within the itinerary, such as Telos staff, meals, snacks, accommodations, transportation, museum and historic site admissions, and guest honorariums.  *Costs do not cover flights. This is the responsibility of each participant.*