Georgia Magazine - January 2015 - 26A

★★
W

ashington Youth Tour (WYT)
delegates get so much out of
the weeklong experience-visits
to many historic locations, lessons
in leadership and team-building
opportunities, not to mention an
all-expenses-paid trip to the nation's
capital. Although they cherish the
memories, one thing that often stays
with the delegates longer is the close
bonds they develop.
"When you don't know anybody,
you make friends fast," says Courtney
Bearrentine, a 2012 delegate from
Grady EMC in Cairo. "Fast friends
are not always forever friends, but
with WYT, somehow they are. It's
the common experience that creates
those strong bonds."

BYRON McCOMBS

Above: Cassidy
Curry (Altamaha
EMC, Lyons) takes
time to reflect at the
Vietnam Veterans
Memorial. "It was mind-blowing to see how many men died for our country," she says.
Right: Enjoying the National Air and Space Museum (part of the Smithsonian Institution)
are, from left, Kailee Kivett, Sarah Roberson and Meredith McGlamory (all representing
Middle Georgia EMC, Vienna) and Michael Smith (Jackson EMC, Jefferson).
January 2015

Top left: Joseph Jones, of Pinehurst, and Emily Hill, of Millen, represented Georgia EMC
on the 2014 Washington Youth Tour.
Above: From left, delegates Carlmalita Parker
(Mitchell EMC, Ashburn), Kaylon Gilbert and
Katelyn Flynn (both Diverse Power, LaGrange) and Jessica Johnson (Flint Energies,
Reynolds) gather at the Lincoln Memorial.

College in Waycross, so the odds
of them ever meeting otherwise are
remote. Their wedding is planned
for spring 2017.

★ Washington Youth Tour
2015 tentative itinerary

★

BYRON McCOMBS

★

Ashley Thompson (2008 Snapping Shoals EMC, Covington) recalls
fearing she'd be lost in the shuffle
when she moved into her dorm
to begin her freshman year at the
University of Georgia in Athens. "I
was incredibly blessed that Lindsay
(Peavy) Drew (Ocmulgee EMC, Eastman) was randomly assigned to the
dorm room next to me. What started
out as friendship on the tour turned
into a lifelong bond. I'm grateful that
Youth Tour gave me that connection to spark a friendship in a place
where I knew very few people."
Two other 2012 delegates
developed more than a friendship.
Tyler Day (Rayle EMC, Washington)
and Sarah Kate Miles (Satilla REMC,
Alma), who met on the tour, are engaged. Day attends UGA while Miles
is a student at South Georgia State

BYRON McCOMBS

Youth Tour
builds bonds
that last

LOUIS TONSMEIRE / PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY GAYLE HARTMAN

★Washington

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June 11: Kickoff banquet, Atlanta Airport
Marriott, Atlanta
June 12: Team-building activities; flight to
Washington, D.C.
June 13: Tour and lunch at Mount Vernon;
dinner at Union Station; evening guided tour of
FDR, Jefferson, Martin Luther King Jr., World
War II memorials; photo op of White House
June 14: Guided tour of Lincoln, Korean War
and Vietnam Veterans memorials; Arlington
National Cemetery guided tour; dinner performance of "1776" at Toby's Dinner Theatre in
Columbia, Md.
June 15: All States assembly; tour Smithsonian museums; cruise on Potomac River
June 16: Tour Supreme Court, U.S. Capitol
and Washington National Cathedral; Sunset
Parade at U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial
(Iwo Jima statue)
June 17: Meet with Georgia's congressional
delegation; tour Newseum and Madame Tussauds Wax Museum; All States farewell event
June 18: Return flight to Atlanta
Note: Itinerary subject to change
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