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Pastor’s 2000 Step Challenge

 

Take the challenge for your health and for a healthier world.

 

 

The Dates:                 

The Challenge:             

Right Now Is A Good Time To Start

 

1.  Take 2000 more steps than you normally take each day

 

2.  Save any money you would have spent on junk food, collect it, and give it to the ELCA World Hunger Appeal

 

To make a donation directly to ELCA World Hunger Click Here

 

 

Take 2000 Steps Everyday and grab a Bible Verse to be your companion along the way.

 

Steps to Getting Started:

Step One: Get A Step Counter

A step counter (pedometer) is a small, battery-operated device that clips to your waist and counts the steps you take. Just push a button to reset your counter to zero. Then clip the counter to your waist and go! 

Step Counter Tips 

Clip it on
Wear your step counter on the waistband of your pants, skirt, or belt. Line it up above your knee. The step counter can also clip to undergarments.

Keep it snug and closed
Make sure that the step counter is straight and snug on your body, and that the cover is closed. It won’t count steps properly when the cover is open.

Test your counter
Clip on your step counter and walk 100 steps. Your step counter should register between 90 and 110 steps. If your display shows a different number, readjust the position of your step counter and check it again with another 100 steps.

Log your numbers
Record your steps in your daily log when you go to bed.

Make it a habit
Reset your step counter the next morning by pressing the yellow reset button, and start your next day of stepping!

Stay Dry
Remember to take your step counter off in the shower or pool, since the case isn’t waterproof.

Step One and a Half:  Find a Time of Day to Walk 2000 Steps

You may plan a daily time (Lunch Break, After Work, etc.) to walk 2000 steps.  Not possible?  Continue on to Step Two.

Step Two: Find Your Baseline

Your baseline is the number of steps you usually walk each day.

To establish your baseline, wear your step counter for one full week. There’s no need to change your regular routine this week.

At the beginning of each day

Reset your step counter by pressing the reset button. Remember to keep your routine the same for now.

At the end of each day

Record the number of steps displayed on your step counter.

At the end of seven days

Add your total steps for each day and divide the sum by seven. Now you’ve got your baseline number, and you’re ready to set your personal step goals! 

Step Three: Set Your Personal Goal

Congratulations on finding your baseline number! In just one week, you’ve started to establish your step counter habit and you’ve determined your unique starting point for the Pastor’s 2000 step challenge. Now, you’re ready for the best part – setting your personal step goal.

 

Recommended Goal

To set your goal, take your baseline number and simply add 2000 steps to it For example, if your baseline number is 4500 per day, use 6500 as your step goal. Adding 2000 steps may sound like a lot, but it should only take 15-20 minutes over the course of your day. Try it and see!

Don’t be frustrated if you have trouble reaching 2000 steps. You can also increase your steps by percentage. For instance, if you’re currently walking 3000 steps per day, an increase of 20% will mean 3600 steps. As adding steps becomes easier, simply increase your percentage. Most people find they can reach 10,000 steps per day within a few weeks of starting the program.

 

Step Four:  Take a Bible Verse Along As a Companion

 

Companion Bible Verses!

(Print out this page, cut the verses into strips, put them in a convenient place, and go walking!)

 

One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.  (Matthew 4:4)

 

Worship the Lord your God, and serve only him.  (Matthew 4:10)

 

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.  (Matthew 5:3)

 

Blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy.  (Matthew 5:7)

 

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.  (Matthew 5:8)

 

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.  (Matthew 5:9)

 

Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven. 

(Matthew 5:16)

 

I say to you that if you are continually angry with a brother or sister, you will be liable to judgment.

(Matthew 5:21)

 

If anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also.  (Matthew 5:39)

 

Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.  (Matthew 5:44)

 

If you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.  (Matthew 5:14)

 

Strive first for the kingdom of God and God's righteousness.  (Matthew 5:33)

 

Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.  (Matthew 7:7)

 

Take heart, son; your sins are forgiven.  (Matthew 9:2)

 

Take heart, daughter; your faith has made you well.  (Matthew 9:22)

 

Have no fear of them; for nothing is covered up that will not be uncovered, and nothing secret that will not become known.  (Matthew 10:26)

 

Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.  (Matthew 10:39)

 

The good person brings good things out of a good treasure, and the evil person brings evil things out of an evil treasure.  (Matthew 12:35)

 

For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.   (Matthew 16:25)

 

If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.  (Matthew 17:20)

 

Whoever becomes humble like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.  (Matthew 18:4)

 

"Lord, if another member of the church sins against me, how often should I forgive? As many as seven times?"  Jesus said to him, "Not seven times, but, I tell you, seventy-seven times.  (Matthew 18:21-22)

 

"Then who can be saved?" But Jesus looked at them and said, "For mortals it is impossible, but for God all things are possible."  (Matthew 19:25-26)

 

Since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God; they are now justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.  (Romans 3:23-24)

 

We hold that a person is justified by faith apart from works prescribed by the law.  (Romans 3:28)

 

Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.  (Romans 4:7)

 

God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us.  (Romans 5:8)

 

How can we who died to sin go on living in it?  Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?  (Romans 6:2-3)

 

I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.  (Romans 7:15)

 

To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.  (Romans 8:6)

 

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.  (Romans 8:38-39)

 

Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others.

(Philippians 2:4)

 

Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave. 

(Philippians 2:5-7)

 

Whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ. More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.  (Philippians 3:7-8)

 

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The above stepping routine can be found at: http://www.diabetesincontrol.com/programs/steps/getstarted.shtml

 

All Scripture quotes are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyrighted, 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and is used by permission. All rights reserved.

 

 

 

 

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Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church Is A Member of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America