Sacred Parks - Project Year Travels: Transition Phase (October, 2010 - February, 2011)
Bright red leaves above Jordan Pond, Acadia NP
What is the "Transition Phase" of the project travel year?
The third of the three “phases” of the project (travel) year is the "Transition Phase" (roughly October 2010 through next February.) This phase will perhaps be the most exciting, as it is a chapter still being written! This phase began in transition, with one last big trip to Acadia National Park in Maine and the Bar Harbor community. A major highlight of this trip was meeting Rob Benson aboard the Maine Seacoast Mission's 74-foot ministry boat, The Sunbeam, and learning about the unique ministry they provide to the people of the coastal islands and the sacred space they inhabit.
Project travel is now seen through new eyes, as Sacred Parks moves officially from the theoretical to the practical, and zooms in from the national / global to the local. This is the phase when questions form like "How does Sacred Parks move from a project with finite time boundaries to a ministry with real traction and a future projected outcome?"
The third of the three “phases” of the project (travel) year is the "Transition Phase" (roughly October 2010 through next February.) This phase will perhaps be the most exciting, as it is a chapter still being written! This phase began in transition, with one last big trip to Acadia National Park in Maine and the Bar Harbor community. A major highlight of this trip was meeting Rob Benson aboard the Maine Seacoast Mission's 74-foot ministry boat, The Sunbeam, and learning about the unique ministry they provide to the people of the coastal islands and the sacred space they inhabit.
Project travel is now seen through new eyes, as Sacred Parks moves officially from the theoretical to the practical, and zooms in from the national / global to the local. This is the phase when questions form like "How does Sacred Parks move from a project with finite time boundaries to a ministry with real traction and a future projected outcome?"
Sacred Parks Trip #10: October 8 - 11, 2010 - Maine [Photos]
Coastline, Acadia NP
This was the trip that served as the "no wake" buoy of the travel year, as the proverbial project "boat" made its way back home, slowing down to return to harbor. It began and ended from Boston, and a drive up and down the New England coast to Bar Harbor, Maine - staying among the trees of the Blackwoods campground of Acadia National Park. The timing could not have been more powerful, as the colors of transition on Maine's trees were stunning, and the cool fall winds brought the obvious message that winter - and a new season of life - is around the corner.