Wilderness Trek Blog
Day 3 Examine the scripture
Acts 17:11 “for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the scripture every day to see if what Paul said was true.” Today's prayer is about spiritual hunger. Are you hungry for Gods presence, do you have hunger pains when you are far from...
Day 2 Freed from Suffering
Day 2 of 14 Mark 5:28- “she thought to herself, ‘If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.’ Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.” If national statics its hold true, this year on our wilderness Treks out...
14 days of prayer for summer 2019
We are kicking our summer off by spending 14 days in prayer as friends, co-workers and supporters of Trek. Every day for the next two weeks we will post a simple prayer for you to lift up individually during your personal prayer time. This is just a small way to...
The Path of Youth Ministry
Every year youth ministry gets harder. Teens and families are more distracted, the pressure to have bigger and better programs intensifies and the internal desire to have a healthy, impactful ministry quietly nag at our psyche. As ministers we are all used to outside...
Adventure as spiritual development
“This is not normal” I thought to myself as I gasped for breath. With sweat dripping into my eyes, my chest heaving, I was trying to decide if I was going to puke or pass out. Choosing neither, I rolled my bike to a stop and assumed a new yoga position I dubbed...
What is behind the sunset?
People often tell us “When on a Trek, I see God more clearly.” Usually this means that they notice nature more while hiking, backpacking, traveling and generally living outside. Spending most of our time in our insulated and walled offices, homes and...
The Importance of Connection
The Importance of Connection Connection. Connection is something we both need and desire. To be connected to something, wither it be a cause, a group, a movement, or just other people, seems to be a human need. The desire for connection drives...
The Journey is the experience
As I threw my leg over the rumbling motorcycle I was truly terrified. It had started as a simple thought, “I bet I would like an off-road motorcycle”. After decades of riding mountain bikes, I had recently moved to a new town with an unthinkable issue…they had...
Inspiration free with admission
7 or 8 years ago I was stuck in a rut. I was "stuck" in a job that no longer gave me passion, I was out of sync spiritually with Gods plan for my life and I felt like everything was shrinking, not growing. The funny thing was, I was a full-time minister. It...
What I learned about nature after Columbine.
The only thing I was sure of that evening when I left Columbine after the shooting was that everything had changed. The next 3 days I shut myself into my house and tried to make sense of the suffering I saw. As I binged watched cable news I would find myself screaming...