May 2025 · Bryce Canyon & Zion
Theme: Family | Matthew 16:24
9 pilgrims · 5 days · May 2025
"Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone wants to follow after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.” — Matthew 16:24
Some wounds run deep. Deeper than we admit. Deeper than we know how to carry alone.
Family can be our greatest gift and our greatest grief; sometimes at the very same time.
Our May 2025 pilgrimage, woven through Bryce Canyon and Zion, was an invitation to bring all of it. The love, the hurt, the hope. And lay it down on the trail.
He Called Us Into the Wild to Heal
Every woman who showed up carried something: a complicated relationship, a longing for restoration, a grief that had no name.
But that's exactly why God called us here.
Matthew 16:24 reminds us that following Christ means taking up our cross. Not setting it down at the trailhead, but carrying it with Him, step by step, into the places He leads.
Across the hoodoos of Bryce Canyon and the sweeping canyon views of Zion, God met each woman exactly where she was. In the teaching sessions. On the trail. Around the table. In the quiet moments with a coffee mug and the sound of wind through the pines.
Nine women arrived as pilgrims. They left as family.
"I didn't understand why God had me on this pilgrimage until He used it to set me free. A difficult family relationship had consumed me for years. Through Lisa's testimony, God softened my heart in a way I hadn't thought possible. I was able to see this person again — twice — and offer them genuine love and grace, even when nothing had changed on their end. I even hugged them and told them I loved them. They didn't reciprocate. But I left with nothing but joy. Only God."
— Tracy B, May 2025
More Than a Hike
Our days were full but never rushed. Each one was thoughtfully crafted to move between the physical and the spiritual, the communal and the quiet.
A typical day flowed like this: Early worship · Trail time · Reflection · Dinner together · Evening testimony and prayer
But the real moments happened in between.
A sunrise over the canyon that stopped everyone mid-step. A teaching session on the trail with red rock walls as the backdrop and journals open in laps. Reflections at the end of the day when women shared what God had stirred in them on the path. Evenings gathered around each other listening to one another's testimonies and praying together.
Free time that wasn't really free; it was full. Full of God showing up in the stillness, in the conversations on the trail, in the quiet morning with a coffee mug and the sound of wind through the pines.
We hiked Bryce Canyon's hoodoos and Zion's sweeping overlooks. We descended into the Belly of the Dragon. We climbed trails that asked more of us than we expected. And we discovered that God had been preparing us for exactly this.
Nine women. Every step intentional. Every moment held.
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