The Pentecost Challenge Leaflet

Take on our virtual journey from Bethlehem to Nazareth! www.friendsoftheholyland.org.uk/pentecost Use your daily exercise time to make a pilgrimage with a difference.

How to Join In • Visit www.friendsoftheholyland. org.uk/pentecost • Follow the simple instructions to set up your own fundraising page – as an individual or a team • Set your fundraising target • Walk, run, cycle or swim • Take a note of how many miles you did that day

Strava

If you already use the Strava fitness tracker on your phone, it can automatically record your milage and upload it to the map for you! Check the instructions online to set this up.

Do it as a team

If you prefer, you can complete the 84 miles as a team effort!

Why not get together a group of 4, 5 or 6 and combine your miles?

Just select the “teams” option when you set up your fundraising page and follow the instructions.

• Go back to your fundraising page and update your mileage • See where you’ve got to on the route and have a look around on Google streetview!

When to start

You can start now, as soon as you’ve set up your fundraising page!

Aim to finish by Pentecost Sunday, 23 May (but if you need a little longer, that’s okay).

How to raise funds

Choose a fundraising target You can set your own goal for how much you’d like to raise through sponsorship.

How about...

£600

Enough to support a Christian child through a year at secondary school

£1,200

Enough to keep a child with learning difficulties at Bethlehem’s School of Joy for a year Or choose a target amount of your own

Your virtual route

FINISH

Nazareth Bethlehem Jerusalem

START

Share your page

The challenge is all about raising funds for Friends of the Holy Land so we can help Christian communities through the pandemic and keep children at their schools. So remember to share your fundraising page far and wide! Post it on Facebook, send the link to your family and friends and announce your challenge in church. They can sponsor you online at any time before, during or after your challenge.

What to see on your virtual journey

It’s not possible to complete a real pilgrimage through the Holy Land right now, so let us be your virtual guide. You will get a taste of the holy sites and discover some rarely-visited Christian communities living along the route that most people drive straight past.

How? As you complete enough miles you’ll pass certain waypoints on the map, like Jerusalem, Ramallah and Nablus.

You’ll receive special emails with stories and videos from the Christian communities in that area. For instance, as you near Nazareth, you’ll hear from a church leader in Zababdeh about what life is like there and how his church serves the community.

The more you walk, the more you’ll discover – and the more lives you’ll impact.

A prayer for the journey

As you exercise around your neighbourhood or explore your Holy Land route online, why not pray a Pentecost prayer:

Children in a classroom at School of Joy

“We pray for the children of the Holy Land and their families; that the Holy Spirit will bring hope and breathe new life into their hearts as they enter a second year of the pandemic.”

THANK YOU so much for taking on the Pentecost Challenge!

Your efforts will help us keep vulnerable children at their schools across the Holy Land – and stop the pandemic stealing their future.

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