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American Christian Tours is committed to partnering
with Christian schools to teach and train the next
generation for Christ.
Our Education Program Leaders infuse each of our
programs with godly principles and biblical
worldview. Our exclusive training tool entitled,
The Big Idea!, integrates the core virtues of
humility, responsibility, compassion, integrity, and
many more, into each site visited while on our
programs.
These virtues and character building blocks of great
leaders from our past must be taught to our students
as we inspire them to become the world changers for
today. This training is designed to reinforce the
foundation stones being laid daily in your school.
American Christian Tours believes that the biggest
Big Idea is that
your students were placed in their time and place
‘for such a time as this.’
We are honored to have the opportunity to
partner with Christian schools who share that same
vision and passion of challenging their students to
know, love, and serve God, and impact their world
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 Why
should you choose ACTS?
When it
comes to choosing a company to be your students educational
tour program provider, we know you have a number of choices.
Take a few minutes to look through the reasons we feel
American Christian Tours is the company for you to choose. |
WE ARE A CHRISTIAN COMPANY
American Christian Tours was founded as a Christian
company to serve Christian schools and groups. We
want to please God in all that we do.
Our hope is that each student will come away with a
new understanding of America’s past and a desire to
make a difference and be a world changer for Christ. |
WE TAKE PRIDE IN KNOWING YOUR NAME
You are
not just a number in the crowd with ACTS. You are
someone we want to know as a friend.
From your own personal Education Program
Consultant to our Accounting Department, our team
will be with you as you plan your tour, every step
of the way. |
WE HAVE EXPERIENCE
Founded in 1984, ACTS has safely and successfully
taken over 100,000 participants on educational tour
programs throughout
the United States, Canada, and Europe. |
WE ARE FULL SERVICE
From professional pre-tour planning with your
personal Education Program Consultant,
in-house/online accounting and computerized billing,
professional licensed and trained Education
Program Leaders, in-house travel arrangements,
complete education program packages, student workbooks, online
Teachers E-Office and personal group website, on-site
staff and security...we do it all. Our teachers just
call and give us the dates and desired sites - we do
the rest! |
WE ARE INDEPENDENTLY OWNED AND OPERATED
We are not part of a large
conglomeration of companies. We are solely owned by
Grant and Nancy Jonsson, who are committed to
providing you with the highest level of service
possible. |
OUR PACKAGES - QUALITY AND AFFORDABILITY
We use
deluxe motorcoaches, high quality hotels, and
provide delicious meals - all at affordable,
competitive prices. Comparing "apples to apples,"
you can rest assured that the price we offer you is
the same price we offer the school across town. We
won’t play games to beat the competition. We will
not reduce a rate to entice you to go with us the
first year and then charge you for it later. |
WE HAVE THE BEST FINANCIAL PROTECTION
All of our participant’s monies are held in a trust
account managed by an outside accounting firm.
The account is not self-administered. We are not
able to access the account until after the
completion of your education tour program.
There is no better protection than that. None.
>>read
more below |
WE CUSTOMIZE YOUR TRIP TO YOUR NEEDS
You tell your personal Education Program
Consultant where you want to go and what you want to
see. We will customize your education tour program to the needs of
your classroom. We will make it happen. |
WE HAVE TRAINED, LICENSED 24-HOUR EDUCATION PROGRAM LEADERS
Our helpful, friendly Education Program Leader is with your group
24 hours a day. From the moment you arrive to the
moment you depart - we are there.
ACTS Education Program Leaders are trained by our Director of
Education, Christian historian and author, Dr.
Marshall Foster.
ACTS Education Program Leaders are all licensed
by the District of Columbia government. |
WE OFFER A UNIQUE CHRISTIANS IN HISTORY PROGRAM
This evening program will introduce your group to a
Christian from our nation’s rich history as an actor
portrays a period from that character’s life.
>>read more below |
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 ACTS
Solid Financial Protection
Every student tour company will provide a trust account
for client funds. Trust accounts are usually required by
state law. As far as we know, ACTS and its
sister company are the only student education tour program
operators to provide the unmatched financial protection of
an FDIC insured bank trust account administered by an
independent firm of Certified Public Accountants (CPA's) for
our client funds.
Other student tour
operators offer self-administered trust accounts. The
account is administered by, and accessible to, the tour
operator itself. One student tour operator that went out of
business only a few years ago did so leaving students and
their parents out almost eighteen million dollars.
When you
send money (except usually for the deposit, which is paid
directly to ACTS but never exceeds ten percent
of the trip price) to ACTS it is held in an
FDIC insured trust account administered by Anderson, Hager &
Moe S.C., CPA's, an independent firm of Certified Public
Accountants. Anderson, Hager & Moe pays major trip expenses
as they come up. ACTS is only paid what is
left in the account five business days after
the scheduled completion of your education program. The incredible peace of
mind this provides costs no more. As a matter of fact ACTS
Education Programs are usually less expensive than
tours of the same length provided by other student tour
operators.
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 ACTS
Christians In History Program
ACTS
began its first "Christians In History"
season in 1993. Each year since then we have picked
a character from America's past whose
Christian testimony sets them apart. We then have worked with an actor
or actress to portray the character and develop an
appropriate script. The actual "one man show" (or "one woman
show") is performed on an evening in Washington, D.C. when
groups return back to the hotel relatively early, and almost
always immediately follows a hotel dinner function. The
performance generally lasts about 45 minutes.
Past
characters have included Abraham Lincoln, George Washington,
Abigail Adams, Stonewall Jackson, and George W. Carver.
Our
current character is Dr. George Washington Carver. "Dr. Carver" speaks
with the
students as though they were reporters gathered to hear
about his day testifying before a Congressional committee. He
speaks on
everything from his slave roots, to his education, to the
discrimination he faces, to his monumental work with the
peanut, and why he calls his laboratory "God's little
workshop".
We are thankful for of our
"Christians In History" program. It has been well received
by the students and gives us an opportunity to show a side
of American history that is not usually seen.
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