FLY Pilgrimage

Run/walk/swim, etc. Add to your miles each time you journey farther, up to a total 100 miles.

Bible Study and Learning Challenge. Log your personal or group Bible study with the passage and what challenged or benefited you from the day’s study. Alternatively, learn a new recipe and cook/bake it, a new skill, or about a new subject upload a photo and caption. 10 miles/80–100-word entry or photo with note/caption of 25–40 words.) Add to your miles each time you complete another entry, up to a total 100 miles.

Participate in virtual or in-person youth events and Sunday school. (10 miles/event with a 50-word description—or photo with note/caption of 25–40 words—of how you were challenged or benefited by the event). Add to your miles each time you participate and complete your entry, up to a total 100 miles.

Acts of Service Challenge. Record your progress along the journey of giving of yourself to family, friends, and others. (10 miles/80–100-word entry or photo with note/caption of 25–40 words.) Add to your miles each time you complete an act of service and your journal entry, up to a total 100 miles.

Relationship Challenge. Spend time getting to know your grandparents, parents, or another special and trusted adult by asking new questions and recording the answers. (10 miles/80–100-word entry or photo with note/caption of 25–40 words.) Add to your miles each time you complete a journal entry, up to a total 100 miles.

Paddle Sports. Minnesota’s name origin lends itself to honoring the destination namesake with water sports. (actual miles rowing, canoeing, paddleboarding, sailing, etc.) Add to your miles each time you journey farther, up to a total 100 miles.

Bike Ride. Mettle (n. Courage and fortitude) is a goal of physical and spiritual strengthening. Ride on the Great Dismal Swamp trail or other locations as a FLY group. (20 miles/ride or actual miles, whichever is greater). Add to your miles each time you journey farther, up to a total 100 miles.

Events to be determined. Add to your miles each time you journey farther, up to a total 100 miles.

Prayer, yoga, kindness to self challenge. Keep a log of prayer concerns and answered prayer; and/or log challenges and results of yoga sessions with an online instructor such as Adriene Mishler and her dog Benji. (10 miles/30 minutes of prayer or 30 minutes of yoga, with log kept for either or both.)Add to your miles each time you complete another journal entry, up to a total 100 miles.

Record your progress along the journey. Suggestions: Try a recipe from one of the states from Virginia to Minnesota and upload a photo. Talk up a tourist site marked on the challenge map from Norfolk to Minneapolis—or choose others along the way and describe it in the Comments of your Results page. Create a rap, song, or dance move that represents something about the journey to Minneapolis. Load the lyrics or a photo with caption. the (10 miles/80–100-word entry or photo with note/caption of 25–40 words.) Add to your miles each time you complete another journal entry, up to a total 100 miles.

Variety is the spice of life. Your reward for participating in a variety of Pilgrimage events, allowing yourself to grow in various aspects of your life, is great! For participating in 5 or 6 different events, you receive a 100-mile bonus; in 7 or 8 events, a 200-mile bonus; and in 9 or 10 events, a 300-mile bonus.