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Wilcox World Travel and Tours Presents
Baptist Heritage Tour
sponsored by the Texas Baptist Historical Collection
the Baptist General Convention of Texas and the Baptist Standard


Join us on a 13-day Baptist Heritage Tour of England
Including The Baptist World Alliance Centenary Congress
in Birmingham, July 27-31, 2005

Estimated cost $3,029 from Dallas or Houston — Other departure cities available

Experience a unique tour of Baptist heritage in England! During the tour you will see:

● The Changing of the Guard; Westminster Abbey; Wesley's Chapel and Museum; Bunhill
Fields; St. Paul's Cathedral.

● The delightful spa city of Bath with its Roman Baths, built around Britain’s only hot
mineral springs and Tewkesbury, home of the world's smallest
Baptist chapel.

● Oxford and St. Margaret’s Church, the Bodleian Library and
Regent’s Park College, home to Baptists at Oxford.

● Bedford and sites associated with John Bunyan including the
John Bunyan Museum and his birthplace in Elstow.

● Olney, where John Newton, the author of Amazing Grace,
lived and worked.

● Kettering and Fuller Baptist Church where the Baptist
Missionary Society was formed.

● Moulton, where William Carey had his first pastorate and his vision that
showed him he must take the gospel to the whole world.

● Near Cambridge, in Madingley, visit the American Military Cemetery where 3,812
service men and women who gave their lives during WWII are buried.

COME JOIN US FOR THIS WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY TO EXPERIENCE BAPTIST HERITAGE FIRSTHAND AND BE A PART OF THE GLOBAL MINISTRY OF THE BAPTIST WORLD ALLIANCE

October 2004