Backpacking Believers

Greetings Friends, Family and Fellow Hikers,               We have been held up these last few days due to the terrible  weather around our Nation. We call the no hiking days, Zero Days. We have been truly BLESSED though,  as we have had these days to be encouraged by the LORD and HIS followers. We have had a wonderful time here in W.V. still at the Brenneman's home. Yesterday,  we were picked up and treated to lunch and then supper again by Mr. and Mrs. Hemlick. Dick and JoAnne have treated us like family. They had us for lunch and to meet their breakfast group and had us share our mission with them. It was wonderful to be able to share with others the love of our Lord.               Mr. Dick and Mrs. JoAnne, then took us out for supper at a nice Italian place to eat. Of course,  this was after taking us around towns to resupply and ...

                  Hello Again,         Greetings to Everyone! I will try to continue to catch you all up on where  we are today. From our last blog post from Paw Paw , W.V. to West Virginia, we have completed MD. another state finished and a new one began. West Virginia so far has not been an easy task. The steep mountains so far have been very trying on our knees. We have been told by the people whom are ahead of us that it only gets harder from now on. Please continue to pray for Gentle Fir's knees, as they have been swelling and have bee really feeling these steep climbs. God is merciful though, Praise God!          We have had an interesting few days....! Since Pilgrim's leaving the trail, we continued our walk into Fort Ashby. Here we stopped into a little cafe' and had some good hot food. We then continued on our ...

Hello to our Friends, Family and Fellow Hikers,              It has been a while since we have been able to blog                    and to inform you all of what we have been doing and seeing     on our amazing mission journey across our nation. I will do my best to catch you up to today.                            On March 23,2014 we walk a short day with plans of taking a  day off to rest and resupply. We walked through the Paw Paw Tunnel which is on the C & O Canal. This tunnel is amazing and one of the grand things to see on this trip. It was built in 1836- 1850 , some interesting information we learned about this tunnel is that on the inside it is layered...

       Hello Everyone,                   It has been a while since we were able to do a blog post. We have so much to catch you up on that it is impossible to say in one blog but I will try to narrow it down. We will have to continue to put small post on face book from the phone daily so please watch for those short post as well.                 Starting with April 12 Th, We hiked 18.5 miles this day along the  C & O canal and ended at Calico Rocks camp ground on the canal. Along the canal  we have met a variety of people biking, walking, hiking with their dogs, bird watching or just out for a stroll in the woods.  We have seen some beautiful flowers along our walk , some of them we have never seen before like the Virginia blue bonnets, they are very dainty and pretty. We also ...

       We hiked from Bowie to Greenbelt 22 miles. It was our longest day yet very painful but yet very BLESSED. Our friends put us up at National Harbor for a few days and took us all over D.C. and were our personal tour guides. What a blessing they are.        While we were almost done with our hike on Saturday we met a lady named Violet, from Russia, we were able to share the gospel with her. While we were talking with her another couple came up and we were able to share with them and they asked to pray with us. It was such a blessing to be in the middle of God's creation on a trail by the water and circle up in prayer with complete strangers all from different backgrounds and pray together. That is what this trip is all about, sharing God's Love. Mrs. Chris came to pick us up and took us to our room for the night and she would get us in the morning for D.C. touring.         We started the...

       Hello Friends and Family, we made it over 100 miles so far and we are still alive. Our feet are blistered and sore and our knees are hurting but our spirits are high. We have been so BLESSED out here in the unknown. We have been able to witness to many people and many people have been very receptive. We  have been treated like family from our trail angel families. They are amazing christians.        We have seen 7 bald eagles and 10 osprey so far, what a blessing that has been. God is Amazing! We have walked along the coastal waterways and boardwalks, busy high traffic dangerous main roads, gravel country roads, city sidewalks, roads with out shoulders and everything in between. It has truly been an experience thus far for all of us. It has definitely been a walk of faith and a leaning on the LORD daily for strength. Today when it seemed that everything was going wrong, God put several people in our path to encourage us. We got starte...