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The Sacred Parks Project

3 Travel Phases: Sacred Parks Project travels, near and far...

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Milner Pass, Rocky Mountain National Park
Where in the world is (are) Sacred Parks?

The Sacred Parks Project, at its inception, was designed to last one year, from February 2010 to February 2011, and was eventually divided into three general phases: the Concept, Immersion, and Transition phases. [Learn more about the philosophy of having a travel year]

The first four months of the project (Feb-May, 2010), or Concept Phase, consisted of putting together a sense of cause and symmetry between the theoretical and the practical, putting together a project framework, and discovering a theology that interacts with our God-given wilderness. [Read more about this]

The second four months (Jun-Sep, 2010) constituted the Immersion Phase: living more fully into the project ideals, engaging more intentionally with communities inside and outside of parks, and discerning what about this project could, or should, make its way into a future ministry. [Read more about  this]

The third phase for the "Project Year" (i.e. Oct-Jan) has thus far been dubbed the Transition Phase: the period where the travels to faraway parks moves back to parks nearby, and a time when the “I” becomes a “We." Here the word partnership takes on new (and “true”) form...so what will that "We" include for the future? [Read more about  this]


Click on pics and links below to see descriptions and photos of Sacred Parks Trips and their respective Project Phases:

Concept Phase                                         Immersion Phase                                        Transition Phase