Ed and Clare
Drury’s Journey in Faith
Click
here for their blog to see how they’re getting on
‘We want to
see where this experience takes us, emotionally and spiritually’
This
year our summer holiday will be a little different! In August we plan to follow
the route taken by the Apostle James on his pilgrimage to Santiago de
Compostela, a total journey of some 500 miles (of which we hope to complete
around half this year.)
Having
spoken to others and read about the film ‘The Way’ we know that it has the
potential to be a life-changing experience.
This will certainly take us out of our comfort zone as we will not know
where we are sleeping from one day to the next and will be hoping to stay in
refuges along the way.
We
are inspired to do this firstly because it is a major challenge to us
personally and secondly because it is an opportunity to raise money for two
very important causes – Brain Tumour Research, which desperately needs funding
to improve 5 year survival rates and St James’ Church Cardington, especially to
help sustain its rare and wonderful tradition of choral services.
We
hope you will be encouraged to sponsor our challenge to help one or more of
these worthy causes (please click on the link below for details)
Click
on the other links to see the route we are taking (starting at St Jean Pied du
Port) and for the history of The Way of St James / The French Way.
Ed and Clare Drury
How to make a donation
If
you would like to support us, you can:-
EITHER make a donation online via justgiving.com
To donate to Brain Tumour Research please click on
this link
To donate to St James’s Church
Cardington please click on this link
Please be sure to confirm your
eligibility for Gift Aid so the charity gets the tax back from the Treasury!
OR you can post a donation to ‘Ed and Clare’s Journey in Faith’,
c/o St James’s Cottage, Cardington, Church Stretton, SY6 7JZ
(please make cheques payable to Mr E Drury).To
enable the charity to reclaim tax under Gift Aid rules please enclose a note
confirming you are a UK taxpayer and give your full name, address and postcode
Our Route – The French Way
Santiago de
Compostela This website has masses of photographs
taken by other pilgrims along the route.
The_French_Way This website has an example itinerary, with
information about towns and sights along the route.