Three weeks finished for the 2024 Spring100 Challenge!🙌🏻💯 Y’all are blowing me away with your dedication and enthusiasm. Way to go!! I don’t know about you, but I thoroughly enjoy the Friend’s feature this year.😃 It is adding a new level of community and accountability. So fun!! Reminder: Registration closes TONIGHT(April 8th) at 11:59pm(CST). NOW is the time to get friends and family to join the Spring100 Challenge!!
FUN Spring100 Week 3 Stats:
👉🏼 4,290 Participants
👉🏼 78,082.35 total miles walked to date for the 2024 Spring100
👉🏼 25 participants have already crossed the 100 Mile Finish Line!
Spring100 Featured Photographer: Nenni Grace
Spring100 Devotional
Truly Repent – That Times of Refreshing May Come
Mr Trent Moody || Week 3 Spring100 Devotional
In Acts 3 we find an amazing scene as Peter and John are entering the temple gate on their way to pray. At the gate was a lame man who had never walked in his entire life. He had to be carried to that spot in order to beg for alms.
Little did he know that the next men to come along would give him something far greater than alms. Peter and John looked at this man and said, “. . . In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk” (Acts 3:6). They then took him by the hand, and he rose up and began walking, leaping, and praising God.
All the people around who saw this were filled with wonder and amazement. Yet Peter took this opportunity to turn the crowd’s attention to something far greater than the miracle.
The miracle—as great as it was—was for the purpose of pointing to something more needful than physical healing.
Being healed from lameness is amazing, but the “no-longer-lame man” would one day die. What he and the crowd truly needed was something far greater than physical healing. They needed to be saved from their sins. Their greatest malady was not physical, but spiritual. They were all dead in their sins and trespasses.
Peter, seeing the crowd gathering, seized the moment to preach the gospel, telling the crowd, “Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord” (Acts 3:19).
Two words here are really helpful for us to understand what true repentance is. The first word “repent” means to change one’s mind or purpose. The second significant word “be converted” means to turn.
In its simplest form, these two words, together, give us the understanding that true repentance means a change of mind that results in a change of action or behavior.
Most people only partially repent by acknowledging that what they did or thought was wrong and sinful, but they stop short of true repentance and actually turning from their sin. Partial repentance is no repentance at all. In fact, partial repentance is actually presumptuous sin. It is knowing that what you are doing is wrong, yet continuing to do it anyway. Presumptuous sin is actually worse than sinning out of ignorance.
God’s message to this crowd, and to each of us, is that we must have faith in Jesus Christ (Acts 3:16), and we must truly repent of our sins. The result of true faith and repentance is “that your sins may be blotted out” (Acts 3:19).
This is the greatest miracle ever—that a holy God, through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, would blot out our sins! The idea behind the word “blotted out” is to obliterate. What a glorious truth! Jesus has totally obliterated and utterly destroyed the guilt of my sin! This is what brings “times of refreshing” (Acts 3:19).
These times of refreshing may come to you as well, if you will truly repent of your sins, and trust in the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross and the truth of the resurrection that declares God was fully satisfied with Jesus’ sacrifice.
As Peter declared to the crowd, so I declare unto you:
“Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord” (Acts 3:19).
QUESTION! What is your favorite feature in the NEW Spring100 Member Portal? Keeping up with friends? Quick and easy daily Mile Logging? The ability to keep track of your best day? Comment Below and let me know!!👇🏼👇🏼
Don’t forget! These posts are made possible by YOU!! Your photo submissions and comments make these posts extremely fun and my job of putting them together super easy. Thank you! So with that being said, don’t leave without commenting, and remember to send in your Spring100 walking/running photos for a chance to be featured in next week’s post. Thank you!
“Hiking in the Douro mountain region of Portugal 🇵🇹. Never seen so many waterfalls in one region in all our lives. Such beauty to behold and this under the curse. So thankful to the Lord for His mercies!! Pit stop for some lunch.” Melinda C. 🙌🏻💯 LOVE THIS!
Beautiful morning walk for Lori E. — The Lovely Rojas ladies enjoying a beautiful Spring100 walk for week 3!!🙋🏼♀️♥️💯
“The Mathews family enjoyed a beautiful sunset walk in chilly Minnesota! Nathan (3) is especially enthusiastic to walk a hunred miles!” SOOOOO excited to have the Matthews family back for another Spring100!!🙋🏼♀️👏🏼💯
Andrew C. enjoying an evening Spring100 walk!! 🙌🏻💯 Great having you check in for week 3!!
Jedidiah + his dad conquering a 5K for a beautiful cause during week 3 of the 2024 Spring100!💯👏🏼
“A beautiful Saturday morning walk with mom!❤ Im so grateful for the warm spring weather.😄” Lydia L.
Late night walk for Heidi v. and Melody P. + crew checking in for week 3!!👏🏼💯
“Doing spring 100 with my little pony pal, Otis! We’re both enjoying it!!” Carol Y. 🐴👏🏼
“I call this my Prayer Walk!” Aja L. — “Our evening routine.” Bernie B. 🙌🏻💯 WELL DONE!!!!
“Love spending the weekend with all my sisters!” Bethany C. 🙋🏼♀️ Such a fun Spring100 walking group!!
“Walking in the Birch Trees on the mountain!!” Barbara M.– “I love listening to all the bird sounds and looking at the springing buds while I walk! If anyone is behind by some miles, you are not alone! But together we can reach the finish line! 💪🏻 1 Thessalonians 5:11a Therefore encourage one another and build each other up” Megan J. 🙋🏼♀️💯 Great photos for week 3!!
“Hiking through the woods and the Bluebells are blooming!” Hope S. 🌸💯 Love the photo, Hope!!
“Enjoying the beautiful 108 degree weather here in Southern Mexico! It has been so much fun to get outside and spend quality time with my siblings!” Hannah W. ☀️ Phew!! Keep cool and enjoy week 4!!🙋🏼♀️💯
Great having Ethan A. checking in for week 3!! He’s conquering his Spring100 miles.👏🏼💯🙋🏼♀️
“Enjoying the wonderful spring weather!!” Grace F. and Macy C. — Grazia W. checking in during a fun hike for week 3 of the Spring100!🙌🏻🥾
“Two weeks in Scotland! Getting in our steps, rain or shine!!” Grace S. ☔️👏🏼💯
“A fun evening walk as siblings!” Herbel crew checking in and enjoying an evening Spring100 walk together!!👏🏼💯
“Little waking buddy who is determined to get all my miles.” Sharon Enns — “Martin family having a great time walking with our neighbor, Mr. Moore!”
Love it when Spring100ers get together!! Halbach and Schmechel ladies enjoying a walk and fun fellowship together!👏🏼🙌🏻♥️
“Its fun to get creative and find different trails to take our walks on. Sometimes when I feel unmotivated to walk I find a beautiful trail like this to walk on and its so worth going out again!” Mary R. — Emmi found some Spring beauties during her walk for week 3!! 😍🌷
“We had a fun time taking a city walk in the rain this week. 🙂 So thankful Spring100 is back this year!” Mary Jo H. 💯🙋🏼♀️ So happy to have you all back for another Spring100!!
“I was taken out of commission for days because of a stomach bug this week, but I’m slowly starting to get back to walking.” Sarah H. — “Going for a walk with my 96 year old grandmother in a coastal rainforest near our house in British Columbia.” Susannah D. ♥️🙌🏻
“I had a great 23rd birthday on Wednesday, part of it being a 3 mile walk on our beautiful Confederation Trail with my sisters Abigail and Elizabeth!” Hannah May S. 🥳🥳🥳 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HANNAH!!!!!!💯
Heather H. checking in for week 3 and Nicole and Noelle Schafer, getting some miles in together!🙋🏼♀️💯
Love seeing Elizabeth and Lydia all smiles as they grab their Spring100 miles!!👏🏼♥️
Great having Jenna snapping a Spring100 walking photo for week 3!!👍🏻👌🏻 — “Walking with my sister on a windy afternoon” Maggie H. 💯 Keep up the great work!!
“How many people can say that theyve walked the Spring 100 with a Confederate Soldier?!
Love walking with these guys! Always a joy and lots of laughs! ❤” Charity B. and crew
“Decided to go on a family hike and the trails ended up being mud pits! The kids loved it.” April B. — “My mom and I went to the Mall to walk together. 😁” Char K.
“Walking my neighborhood with Eastern Redbuds while a storm approaches in the distance!” Melissa A. 🌨💯
“Sunsets here are beautiful for evening walks!!” Kelly M. — “Finishing our miles for the day in the beautiful crisp spring air!” Lillian R. 👏🏼👍🏻 Keep on going!! You’r doing great!🙋🏼♀️
“Becca & I enjoyed a jog on this beautiful evening!” Lucy 😍💯
Esther M. checking in for snowy week 3 of the Spring100! ❄️🙌🏻 — “Stopping to smell the flowers as I walk with my daughter!” Melinda and Hadessa
“Went for a walk in the middle of a snow storm😏” Janae M. ❄️
“Do I triple the distance if Im pushing two people?! 🤔🙈😂” Priscilla A. — “Morning run with my brothers!” Rosalyn B. 👏🏼 WELL DONE!!
“First time Spring100ers:) Wonderful incentive to get out in the beautiful central Texas weather and enjoy the bluebonnets and wildflowers!” Anne E. 💐💯 So glad to have you join!!!!!!
“Getting walking in while working at the sheep farm 🐑” Ivory B. — “Evening walk with my husband!” Rachael M.
“We just had to go walk in this (hopefully last of the winter) beautiful snowy scene.” Shannon ❄️💯
“Walking next to the steer got him all riled.” Lady L. — “Took my walk to the park today! Enjoying the sunshine and some prayer time with God.” Kelsey G. 🙌🏻💯 Way to go!!
“Grabbing some miles while training with my search and rescue team!” Shannon Lehman👌🏻🙌🏻💯 Well done!!!!
“Lovely spring walks in Canterbury, UK accompanied by the ever-changing weather!” Ellie H. 😍🙋🏼♀️ So glad you got to enjoy Spring100 walks in the UK!!
“Sisters evening walk at golden hour 🙌❤” Victoria S. 😃♥️ LOVE IT!! Great job!!
“A beautiful sunset and crisp evening jog!” Andrew L. — “We walked to a beautiful waterfall and saw a rainbow!” Katherine V. 👏🏼 Keep up the great work!!
“I enjoyed a beautiful, breezy walk with some of my family!” Hannah Reed 🙌🏻💯 Great photo!
“A few Moore and Moody kids grabbing some miles on a fun afternoon walk at Bullitt Park in Big Stone Gap, VA😁 So thankful for great friends and Gods beautiful creation🙌🏼” Erin Moody 👏🏼💯 LOVE IT!
“Really enjoying our walks in the desert and the special mother-daughter time!” Anna C. 🙋🏼♀️💯♥️
“I’m pretty happy to have crossed the finish line this Saturday, it was a fun challenge!💪💥” Douglas F.🙌🏻💯👏🏼 WAY TO GO!!!! — “I had an invigorating jog this afternoon!” Annina F. 🙋🏼♀️♥️ SO glad to have you part of this challenge!
“We are loving the beautiful flowering bushes on our walks!” Elisabeth M. 🌸💯
“I went to a local park, which made walking all that much more enjoyable! Especially with this beautiful sunset!! 😁” Royal A. — “Finally got out as a family for a good brisk mile!” Stacy P. 👌🏻😄 WAY TO GO!!!
“Resurrection Sunday walk!” Katie C. 🙌🏻♥️
“Love hiking in the warm weather!” Rosalyn B. — “Sisters evening walk at golden hour 🙌❤” Victoria S.
“Lovely Sunday afternoon canal walk with these sweet ladies!” Naomi P. 👏🏼💯
“Hiking through the woods and the Bluebells are blooming!” Hope S. — “Soaking in the sunshine after days of rain, hail and snow!” Kristin T. 👏🏼Great job!!
Loved seeing this great Spring100 walking group! Great photo submited by Jacob B. 🙌🏻💯
Micah S. and baby A. checking in for week 3! Looks like they had a sasquatch sighting.😆🙌🏻🙋🏼♀️💯
“Getting some miles in at WindWolves Nature Preserve in Kern County, CA” Staphanie I. 💯🙌🏻LOVE the scenery!!
“Its a beautiful spring in Texas and Im loving my first time joining the Spring100!! Its been so refreshing and such a blessing to get outside-3rd week of walks have been all over the place :)” Aimee B. — “Enjoyed a walk with the fam today!!” Emma 👌🏻🙋🏼♀️ Good job, y’all!!
“Family walks are the best!💯 Praise the Lord for some beautiful sunshine and warmth!” Lehman family ☀️Amen!! Great having you all part of the challeng.😄
“Out walking with my Aunt Lynn and Sister Grace!” John S. — “Taking a Sunday evening walk on Kansas country roads 😊” Joshua + Lynnsey 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
The DaRosa Family Farm Crew getting in their miles here in Arkansas!!💯🙌🏻
DeLane, Daylie Grace, and Delight M. getting miles in together! 👏🏼🙋🏼♀️– “Went for a nice cool walk… Perfect weather!!!” Gabriel R.
“Enjoying getting in a few more miles with a friend ❣” Hannah P. 👌🏻 Spring100 walks are always funner with a friend! 👏🏼
It has been another beautiful week of walking here in East Texas! Rebekah has been such a blessing to grab evening Spring100 walks with. We are soaking up the cooler evenings before the heat shows up. Praise the Lord for another sucessful week of Spring100! Y’all are doing such a great job. Keep on pressing forward and keep your eyes steadfastly set on Christ!! 🙋🏼♀️♥️ Rachel @ Spring100
This week’s post is brought to you by:Brandon and Lindsay Statum-Certified Health Coaches
My husband and I have recently found the love of moving our bodies since we have lost weight (a total of 220 lbs). We became Certified Health Coaches about 2 years ago. We love to be able to accommodate and customize our program specifically for our client’s goals! We would love to connect with you to help you become the healthiest version of you! We look forward to success with other Christians in moving!
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“let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. This is the ‘stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.’ Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
Acts 4:10-12
Hannah May Stiff
I love how easy the mile logging is! I can’t tell you how many times my short term memory backfired the last two years I participated and I couldn’t for the life of me recall my miles.🤦♀️. SO glad this portal allows me to log immediately and save it.
Rachel @Spring100
YES!!!!! Love the easy mile logging and the ability to do it DAILY!!!!!😍💯
Abigail Stiff
The member portal has provided an easy way for me to add up my miles instead of writing it all down and trying to deal with a calculator.😏Hats off to whoever thought of it. This week has been tricky as I was sick, but I’m looking forward to catching up and enjoying warmer weather. Keep going Spring 100ers!
Rachel @Spring100
Yeah, Jalen did a great job dreaming up all the fabulous features. Thankful for his dedication and vision for building the Member portal!! 👏🏼💯
Elizabeth Ford
I especially have enjoyed the place where I can log my miles and the website keeps track of my miles for me!! Thank y’all!!! Spring100 so far has been really fun!!
Rachel @Spring100
I think the fact it calculates the miles you’ve enter is such a relief!! So gald you’re having fun, Elizabeth!! 👏🏼😃🙋🏼♀️
Hannah and Lauren
I love the friends feature where you can see how many miles each person has walked! The super easy mile log feature is amazing too! A suggestion for the future would be to have some kind of chat box where you can cheer on your friends and congratulate them. I’m not sure if that would work well or not, but I’ve thought that might be fun. 🙂 Thank you, Rachel, for everything you do! I always look forward to the Monday blog posts! 🙂
Rachel @Spring100
Love the suggestion!! I will put it down for next year. 🙂 THANK YOU!! 💯👏🏼
Amanda F
Is there a way to see how many days are left in the challenge?
Rachel @Spring100
This challenge is 93 days total! Started on March 19th and ends June 20th. ☺️♥️
Jalen @Spring100
Hey Amanda, there’s a new “Info” box on the Dashboard under the chart that shows you the number of days left, and also (roughly) calculates how many miles you’d have to walk per day (based on how many you’ve already walked and how many days are left) to reach 100 total by the end of the challenge. Hope that’s helpful!
DeLane M.
I’m trying my best to make your day, Rachel! 😉
As a (very) small-scale web and graphic designer, I love the ease of using the features on your fresh website! The ability to log miles and upload images, the super fun feature of connecting with friends through invites to the portal, etc., are great assets to the challenge.
Thank you so much for all you’re doing behind the scenes! Wow — my T-shirt will be well earned….
🤭🥾
Rachel @Spring100
You did indeed male my day, DeLane! 😉 I do love comments. THANK YOU and you are most welcome!! It is my pleasure. I enjoy every moment of it! 🙋🏼♀️
Bethany
I love the member portal and all the features included! The friends feature has been incredibly motivating and it’s pushed me to get more miles! The stats page is super fun as well, and the daily mile log is a lifesaver.
Rachel @Spring100
Isn’t the mile log a life saver!!?!!! Loving that so much. Such an improvement from previous years!!👏🏼💯
shericlaude
I love the entire Member Portal! I am hard-pressed to name my favorite feature, but since you asked, I guess it’s the ease of logging my miles. That has been wonderful!!! I love how neat and clean and precise everything is. The graph and numbers are so satisfying and help to whittle away at the miles! My thanks to Jalen!!
Rachel @Spring100
I love how clean everything is too!! Not at all hard to navigate. Jalen is A+!! He did a wonderful job!👏🏼💯
Reese Parfitt
This is our first year so we weren’t familiar with the layout in the past, but I really like the ability to log miles daily (even update more than once throughout the day if you walk more) and go back and fix any other day if needed. And the leaderboard with friends is a super motivator that adds a lot of fun to the challenge.
Rachel @Spring100
OH! I love the ability to fix days too!! It is helpful because some evenings I will sneak an extra mile in and I can go fix my already logged miles for that day. THANK YOU, Reese! Love the feedback!!🙋🏼♀️💯
John Silvey
The mile logging feature is definitely my favorite!
Rachel @Spring100
Isn’t it so easy?!!!!!! YES! Love it!🙌🏻
Melody Parizo
This is my first year doing the official Spring100 (thanks to #Alyssa Menkin the ladies in our church did a small scale spring100 on our own last year 😊), so I’m not sure what all is new…But I love being able to see how all my friends are doing. It’s a great way to motivate and it’s really fun! 😁
I also love seeing the pics people send in!
Rachel @Spring100
The weekly photos make this challenge SPECTACULAR!!!!!!!!!! 😍 Love each photo sent in and have so much fun sorting + posting them!!🙌🏻
Sarah Silvey
Lots of great pictures this week!! 👏🏻 I love the new friends feature and being able to keep up with everyone’s miles! And it is really nice to easily log my miles every day and see that total keep adding up. 😁
Rachel @Spring100
I love the friend’s feature too!!! Hey, feel free to add me to your friends 😁:My Friend’s Link!
Sarah Silvey
Aw, thanks! I’d love to!
Josh Camuso
I have really enjoyed being able to see what my friends are at on the leaderboard and being challenged in competing with them! The new design is super cool! 🙌🏼
Rachel @Spring100
Agreed!! I think the friends feature is really one of my favorite features tooooo.🙌🏻💯
Sherri Spear
This is our first year of participating, and we enjoy being able to connect with friends and encourage them to exercise in the great outdoors. : )
Rachel @Spring100
Welcome Mrs. Spear! I am so glad to have you join the Spring100 challenge this year and I’m praying it is a fun blessing for you. 🙋🏼♀️ Yes, perfect time of year to enjoy the great outdoors!💯😍
Maggie
Great job, everyone!! I’m enjoying the challenge this year! Thank you to Rachel for organizing everything. Thank you to Mr. Moody and all the men who have shared from God’s Word. Thank you also to Jalen for designing the incredible portal. Wow! I love the way you can log miles so easily and also love the little “Info” box that shows up under the leaderboard, breaking down days/miles remaining. So much thought went into it all. I really appreciate it! Keep it up, friends, eyes on our Savior!
Rachel @Spring100
Isn’t the newly added Info box sooooo helpful?!🤩 Jalen just added that this week and it has been PERFECT. 👏🏼 Aw, praise the Lord! So thankful for such a great team this year and the ability to host this challenge once again! God is good.🙏🏼
Amanda
My favorite feature in the portal is probably the daily mile log. But keeping up with friends has been super fun as well! 😊
Rachel @Spring100
It is really hard to choose a favorite, Isn’t it?! 😅
Amanda
It is! 😂
douglashflournoy
I think the whole new system is definitely an upgrade! one thing I would like to see is the graph being able to go past 100 miles… I have not yet decided if I’m going to continue as I’ve reached 100, but if I did, I would like to see my progress on the graph. I know there are usually some people that go for more than 100, so it would be useful for them too. . . And I know its not necessary, as it still says how many miles you’ve gone, but these are just my thoughts😉