Darren Jacobs was kind enough to forward another update on the C.S. Lewis 2009 Tour. The update comes by way of the C.S. Lewis Society.
We have added a new and exciting dimension to our C.S. Lewis Society’s tour, “The Path of C.S. Lewis and British Christianity.” Douglas Gresham, the step-son of C.S. Lewis, will be our special guest for the Oxford portion of our nine-day educational tour of England, May 31st through June 8th, 2009. He will personally accompany us as we visit the colleges at Oxford, tour the Kilns (Lewis’s and Douglas’s home in Oxford,) and enjoy an evening meal at the Trout Inn, where J. R. R. Tolkien ate often with “Jack.” He will travel with us as we visit the Eagle and Child Pub, where Lewis gathered with his Christian soul mates, the “Inklings.” It is an incredible honor for our society to have Mr. Gresham with us, who is co-producer of the two recent Narnia Disney films. It is gracious of him to share with us his personal life-memories of his years with C.S. Lewis.
With its main focus on both Oxford and Cambridge, the trip has been designed to touch minds and hearts–to inform and transform. By tracing the remarkable spread of the gospel in Great Britain and beyond-and C.S. Lewis’s unique role in that advance-we seek to inspire a vision of what God can do yet again, facing today’s challenges.
In addition to our time in Oxford, the tour will include visits to Salisbury Cathedral, Stonehenge, the colleges and private tours of Cambridge, Ely Cathedral’s Evensong Service, and worship on Sunday at Cambridge’s historic Holy Trinity Church, where the gospel has been boldly preached for many centuries!
Daily talks will be given by not only our newly added guest speaker, Douglas Gresham, but also by Society director, Dr. Tom Woodward, on the life and theology of C.S. Lewis and the history of Christianity in England.
We have been invited for a private visit to Tyndale House in Cambridge to hear an evening lecture by the brilliant young British theologian, Dr. Peter Williams. British ministry leaders Ranald Macauley and Peter Loose will also give exciting talks, and joining us from Portland, Oregon is C. S. Lewis scholar, Darren Jacobs. (It is Darren who is a personal friend of Douglas Gresham and arranged for Mr. Gresham to join us while we are in Oxford!)
A comfortable, air-conditioned tour bus will carry us from start to finish, and all lodging, ground transportation, daily breakfasts, and entrance fees to all tour events are covered. There is an optional group rate for air travel from the US to London from your departure city or NYC, leaving May 30th, arriving in London on May 31st, and returning to the US on June 9th.
With only two weeks left to enroll for this tour, this is our final invitation for you to join us. It is recommended that you are able to walk several miles in some locations while on a walking tour, such as Cambridge. Our bus will carry us to any location that we otherwise desire. Also, a valid passport is required.
If you are interested in joining us for this exciting tour and receiving details concerning the price with an optional airfare package, please contact Normandy Woodward ASAP via email at:
normandywoodward@tampabay.rr.com or call (727) 244-4173. All monies and flight tickets will be handled through Educational Opportunities Tours, which is a Christian tour company. Normandy is the coordinator for the tour, but is working closely with them to insure that all reservations and entrance fees are secure and confirmed, and that all arrangements are done professionally to give you the highest quality tour possible.
We hope that many of you can join us for this memorable tour!
For those of you in the Tampa Bay area, don’t forget our upcoming event, DARWIN’S LEGACY, The Hidden Story, at the Oval Theatre, University of South Florida’s Marshall Center on Feb. 26th, 7:00 – 9:00 pm. Featured speakers will be talk show host Michael Medved, sociologist from England Dr. Steve Fuller, and our Society’s Director Dr. Tom Woodward. Tickets are available in advance by calling WTBN radio station at (813) 639-1903 or by clicking here at: www.bayword.com. Adults $10.00, students $5.00. Tickets are available at the door, but the capacity for the auditiorium is 700, so we advise you to get your tickets in advance.
Tom and Normandy Woodward
C. S. Lewis Society
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