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Every year, Maryville College students interested in pursuing graduate-level theology have the opportunity to visit and learn more about various schools and seminaries around the country.

The Rev. Anne McKee, Maryville College's campus minister, and Diana Lovelace -- coordinator for service, mission and vocation -- recently traveled with 11 students to the northeast and visited Yale Divinity School, Union Theological Seminary and Princeton Theological Seminary.

The group's first stop at Yale Divinity School in New Haven, Conn., involved class sessions with several professors and worship service in the Marquand Chapel.

The group Oct. 8 traveled to New York City to tour Union Theological Seminary.

The train left Grand Central Station for Princeton, N.J., on Oct. 9. The group attended at Princeton Theological Seminary a Miller Chapel service and visited the holistic health fair. Current MC students also had the opportunity to visit MC alumni who are now enrolled at the seminary.

The 2009 seminary exploration trip was made possible with funds from the college's Initiative on Vocation. This program, which was created with grant funds from Lilly Endowment Inc., seeks to give students a sustained opportunity to explore the roots of vocation and begin to discern their own specific calling in the world.