Join Us!

This isn’t just for fun, although we hope to have a lot of it. Our biggest hope is that as many peo­ple can accom­pany us as pos­si­ble. You can do this in sev­eral ways:

Read Scrip­ture and pray with us…

A pil­grim­age is a time for prayer and reflec­tion. As we walk we’ll be read­ing Scrip­ture and pray­ing for the com­mon wit­ness and vis­i­ble unity of Chris­tians around the world. We invite you to make your own spir­i­tual pil­grim­age while we’re mak­ing the phys­i­cal pil­grim­age by join­ing our prayers that the church may be one (John 17:11). You can med­i­tate and pray on the same Scrip­ture as us and all the other spir­i­tual pil­grims out there by sign­ing up to receive sev­enty days of Scrip­ture verses for your med­i­ta­tion, start­ing August 22nd.

Fol­low us electronically…

(Warn­ing: For techno­phobes only!) Those lit­tle “F”, “T”, orange box with white strips, and white enve­lope but­tons in the “Fol­low Us!” box just to the right of this page let you fol­low to us using var­i­ous social net­works. If you “like” us, you’ll get our sta­tus updates on your Face­book page. Twit­ter sends you brief com­ments from us about what we’re up to at any given moment. Another great way to keep up with us is using a RSS feed reader (such as web-based Google Reader or browser-based Sage).

If you’re not the social net­work­ing type, sim­ply click the lit­tle white enve­lope and enter your email address. This last one is a third party ser­vice, so though your updates will be labeled “Here I Walk,” they won’t be com­ing from us directly. (For the curi­ous: these emails are just pack­aged RSS news feeds).

Or, you can just visit our site as often as you like. Come late August, there should be updates at least once a day.

Join us in person…

Con­sider join­ing us for a day, a week, or the whole way! Our itin­er­ary is pub­lished here and our route here. (Check out the “resources” tab above for ref­er­ences to more infor­ma­tion about the routes we’ll be fol­low­ing.) If you do decide to join us in per­son, make sure to double-check our progress at this web­site, and be pre­pared to make your own food and lodg­ing arrangements.

Con­tact us…

You can always leave a com­ment on a post, or if you’d pre­fer email drop us a line: herei­walk at gmail dot com.

Sup­port us…

We have fan­tas­tic spon­sors who have been won­der­fully gen­er­ous to us. But this still is a huge under­tak­ing, and we esti­mate it’ll cost us around $10,000 out of pocket when all is said and done. God has been good to us and we won’t go bank­rupt in the process, but if this same God so moves you to make a dona­tion toward this project, we will gladly say alleluia and amen! Even $5 makes a dif­fer­ence. You don’t get a tax credit since we’re just pri­vate indi­vid­u­als, but you will get our eter­nal grat­i­tude. Click the but­ton to make a gift through PayPal.

Frank Cahill says:
August 21, 2010 at 3:27 am
Thanks for you arti­cle in today’s WSJ. We will be fol­low­ing your progress on what to us is a remark­able endeavor. Good jour­ney! Frank Cahill
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Ken Johnson says:
August 21, 2010 at 11:00 pm
Very bter­est­ing. We will fol­low your progress from south­ern Ohio, USA. God’s blessings!
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charles Lewis says:
August 22, 2010 at 12:37 pm
I’m the reli­gion reporter for the National Post news­pa­per in Toronto. I’d like to do an inter­view. Just read the piece in WSJ.
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ELDER Frank Billue says:
August 23, 2010 at 3:36 am
Greet­ing fel­low co-workers and labor­ers. I am excited about your pil­grim­age, and wish we were there to walk with you. We shall keep you in our prayers for a sucess­full and fruit­ful jour­ney. May the con­tin­ued peace, power, pres­ence, guid­ance, and pro­tec­tion be you ever­more. i am excited about the new thing that God is doing in Europe. Love and Peace We shall stay in touch, Bless­ings.
Frank & Mar­i­lyn Bil­lue
Elder
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David E says:
August 25, 2010 at 6:11 pm
This is a won­der­ful project and is very inspir­ing to me and oth­ers as well. I am plan­ning to join you on the Wilhams-Scheidegg sec­tion. I am not sure which day you will be there but I will track your progress to meet you at the begin­ning or the end. More details on how to join (like when and where to meet at the start point for that day, or your hotel to leave a mes­sage) would be appre­ci­ated. See you in a few weeks.
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Tim says:
August 28, 2010 at 11:15 pm
Read the piece in the WSJ. Will fol­low you progress daily.
Tim
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Gerry Swanson says:
September 5, 2010 at 3:55 pm
Your walk to encour­age ecu­meni­cal aware­nessa both a grass roots and insti­tu­tional level deserves a top drawer in my book. Fol­low­ing you with inter­est and prayers!
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Judy E Black says:
September 6, 2010 at 2:26 am
I read about your jour­ney in the Wall Street Jour­nal and cut the arti­cle out as I was fas­ci­nated by your expe­ri­ence. You have done what most peo­ple never think is pos­si­ble. I con­grat­u­late you both. As a Lutheran of Ger­man ori­gin, I grew up with half my fam­ily Ger­man Catholics. It was never an issue. We were Ger­man and that was that. How­ever, the Lutheran side dom­i­nated all think­ing and some how we all fol­lowed Luther (right or wrong).
I will con­tinue to fol­low your jour­ney and know you will be treated so very kindly. You have many peo­ple think­ing of you. It is not like it was 500 years ago.
Best of luck,
Judy E. Black
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Delores D. Walk says:
September 9, 2010 at 8:13 pm
Our pas­tor, Scott Jur­gens, Trin­ity Lutheran Church in Lewis­ton, ID made us aware of your jour­ney. I am enjoy­ing check­ing in on the two of you. Prayers for all.
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Jean Beres says:
September 13, 2010 at 2:28 am
Just want to fol­low your jour­ney by email or RSS feeds, or what­ever. I’m Lutheran, my hus­band a Roman Catholic.
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Carolina says:
October 18, 2010 at 10:57 am
Hi! I’m the girl who has hung the pilgrim’s book on the oak tree near “Felegara”(Parma).
I’ve seen your address on the book and so I’ve thought to write a com­ment…
I would like very much make a pil­grim­age to savred places as you,but I haven’t a fel­low trav­eller and it’s dan­ger­ous to make the jour­ney alone,for my opin­ion…
I wish you a good walk!!!!!!
Write me,if you want…and.…sorry for my english!!!!I don’t know this lan­guage vey much…:)
Carolina
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Frank says:
November 4, 2010 at 4:08 pm
What kind of job do I need so I too can take 70 days off work and walk around Europe? Must be nice.
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