Pilgrimages are essential to our spiritual health and to the health of our students. Here are five simple pilgrimage ideas you can use.
- With two or three students, visit the four corners of your city or county. At each corner, read Jeremiah 29:4-7. Then pray for the peace and prosperity of your community.
- Talk with God about the physical location where you have felt the most ministry pain, the place you avoid because you don’t want to be reminded of failure or betrayal. Offer God your willingness to meet Him in that place, and then be open to your path being directed to that place.
- Gather a group of students and read the Bible aloud. It can be done in 70 hours. This pilgrimage walks a group though the whole story of God.
- During Holy Week, gather each evening with friends as Jesus did at Martha’s during His last week. Eat together and recount the events of His last week and your day.
- On your next work trip, have students each bring back a fist-sized stone from the worksite. Build a pile of stones at a location most students walk by (e.g., a flower bed somewhere around the church building, in a corner of the youth room, or as the ground covering around a tree).
