ASCEND FREEDOM FITNESS MINISTRIES hiking series is designed to take you outdoors to encounter God in HIS creation! Each adventure is designed to leads you into the wilderness of your heart, soul, mind, and encourages learning and growing in your relationship with Jesus. With the guidance of our amazing adventure leadership team and our HIKE study guide sheets (given to you prior to each outing), we will support and guide you through each hike. HIKE is an acronym we use to move into our intentions while we are moving our bodies. Each hike will have a study guide sheet with the following:

• H: Hear: We will be focusing each hike on a particular passage of scripture that you will be encouraged to read ahead of time.

• I: Inspire: Along with the word given, somewhere on the trail you will hear an inspiring story or connection pieces in reference to the scripture.

• K: Kneel: NO hike would be that great unless we are able to stop and kneel and pray over what God is showing you though the intention, in creation and with the experience.

• E: Execute: Once you have had time to reflect, pray and contemplate what the Lord is revealing to you through your hike you will have a pretty cool way of executing all this in some activity or action step!

All of this will be lead by your amazing trail lead!

We encourage you to join us this summer for an ADVENTURE like you never knew you could have! Our prayer is that God will take you deeper into relationship with him, grow your love for the outdoors, and build a loving and supportive community around you!

How do I participate?

1. Sign up for the hikes that work with your summer schedule in the link below!

2. All our hikes are FREE of charge due to the amazing personal and business sponsors in our community. If you feel lead to give back there are options upon checkout to donate, please select the option that works best for you.

3. You must be pre-registered by Thursday night of the week of before your hike. EX: If you are hiking June 24th, you must be registered by the evening of June 22nd.

   1. You will be contacted by your trail lead the Friday, via text and/email, prior to the hike for any additional details and any potential changes you will need to know.

   2. Hiking meetup times will vary depending on the hike and the duration. These details will be disclosed to you by your trail lead.

4. Come prepared for your hike

   1. Bring your day pack

      1. Enough water for the day

      2. Hiking poles if desired

      3. Lunch and snacks

      4. Journal and pen

   2. Come prepared in the appropriate clothing. We recommend dressing in layers and wear good shoes!

5. Saturday you will meet your hiking peeps at the trailhead and/or carpool (details will be discussed prior to your hike day)

6. Only 12 people will be able to join each hike so make sure you get registered early!

7. Enjoy your encounter with the Lord and developing new, old, and amazing friendships!