Walking the way of Jesus

PILGRIMAGE
INFO

  • We will gather each day starting at 9 am (except Sunday).

  • Bring weather appropriate clothes and walking shoes.

  • Pack your own lunch, snacks, water, sunscreen, etc.

  • Dogs welcome. Please follow leash laws and area regulations.

  • FPC will provide shuttle transportation back to the beginning of each route from specific locations each day. Any other transportation during the walk will need to be provided individually.

  • Bring a friend! or two!

SCHEDULE

SUNDAY April 6th
Walking with the Cloud of Witnesses

After our Sunday service ends, we will be eating lunch together at FPC and then walking a loop - taking the Interurban trail to Boulevard, around to Fairhaven Park, through Connelly Creek, Sehome, WWU, and back to FPC. The total loop is a distance of 7.1 miles. A shuttle will be available from Boulevard Park (1.5 miles) back to FPC.

Hebrews 12:1-2b- 12 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith.

MONDAY April 7th
Walking through Shadows

Starting at Marine Park in Fairhaven, we will be walking through Fairhaven and then taking the Interurban Trail past Fairhaven Park and Arroyo Park to take a lunch break at Woodstock Farm (4.5 miles). A shuttle will be provided from here back to Marine Park. Should you want to continue on your pilgrimage, we will continue to walk on the Interurban trail past Larrabee State Park, and end at the Lost Lake trailhead parking lot (4.8 miles). A shuttle will be available from here back to Marine Park. (An optional out and back to Clayton Beach would be another 1.5 miles.)

Isaiah 9:2 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. For those who lived in a land of deep shadows— light! sunbursts of light!

TUESDAY April 8th
Walking with Hands Open

Beginning at Lake Padden east entrance playground area, choose a short (2.6 miles) or long (4.5 miles) loop around Lake Padden and end at the same picnic area to share lunch. To continue in the pilgrimage - walk from Lake Padden over Galbraith, through Whatcom Falls, and end at Bloedel Donovan Park (an additional 6.6 miles). A shuttle will provided from Bloedel Donovan back to Lake Padden.

Psalm 104:28-29 All the creatures look expectantly to you to give them their meals on time. You come, and they gather around; you open your hand and they eat from it. If you turned your back, they’d die in a minute— Take back your Spirit and they die, revert to original mud; Send out your Spirit and they spring to life— the whole countryside in bloom and blossom.

WEDNESDAY April 9th
Walking Lightly

Starting at Hovander Homestead, walk a loop up the Nooksack River, through the Tennant Lake Boardwalk Trail, and back to the homestead - visiting wildlife, ducks, and chickens along the way (distance 4.1 miles). Any shorter loop is welcome as we will join back together to eat lunch at the park. To continue on the second half of the pilgrimage - we will be walking south along the Nooksack River - past Slater Road and ending at Marine Drive, where we will turn around and walk back (an additional 7 miles).

Matthew 10: 9-10 Don’t think you have to put on a fund-raising campaign before you start. You don’t need a lot of equipment. You are the equipment, and all you need to keep that going is three meals a day. Travel light.

THURSDAY April 10th
Walking Reconciled

Begin this day at Bloedel Donovan Park - walking through Whatcom Falls Park and the Whatcom Creek estuary to the downtown public library (3.8 miles) where we will eat lunch together. A shuttle will be provided from the library back to Bloedel Donovan. To continue, you may walk back to Bloedel Donovan by the way we arrived, or take a long meandering loop - walking through Maritime Heritage Park, the marina and Zuanich, Little Squalicum Park, Squalicum Park, Cornwall Park and then following the Railroad Trail back to Bloedel Donovan (11 miles).

Gal 3:28 28-29 In Christ’s family there can be no division into Jew and non-Jew, slave and free, male and female. Among us you are all equal. That is, we are all in a common relationship with Jesus Christ. Also, since you are Christ’s family, then you are Abraham’s famous “descendant,” heirs according to the covenant promises.