Freedom Ride 2010 would not have been possible without the financial support of Province IV, each of the three dioceses of North Carolina, the Swindell Major Speakers Fund, and the Bishop’s Committee on Racial Justice and Reconciliation.
Meals, lodging, showers, or other hospitality were graciously provided by St. James, Holy Cross, and the YMCA (Wilmington); Calvary (Tarboro); St. Ambrose, St. Augustine’s College Chapel, and Christ Church (Raleigh); St. Titus (Durham); St. Cyprian’s and St. Stephen’s (Oxford); Chapel of the Cross (Chapel Hill); Holy Trinity, The Beloved Community, and the YMCA (Greensboro). In addition, North Carolina Historic Sites provided site support and speaker leads--thank you, Michelle Lanier. All this help made a potentially prohibitively expensive pilgrimage easily affordable.
We pray for a few days of relaxation for an extremely dedicated, talented, and now exhausted leadership team: ADULTS: Lisa Aycock, Cookie Cantwell, Beth Crow, Pete Crow, the Rev. Canon Michael Hunn, the Rev. Kym Lucas, Osondu McPeters, and Barbara Whitesides. YOUTH: Parker Bailes, David Brown, Sarah Clark, Chris Harris, Elyse Head, Sequoia Howard, and Keva Miller. The goals were ambitious and the challenges daunting. But with God's help and a busload of eager, receptive pilgrims, as William Faulkner once said, they "not only endured, they prevailed."
