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After 10 years as Bishops Officer for Church in the World, I am leaving the diocese to begin a PhD on the church and social justice.  I am doing this hike as my contribution to support these important and effective projects. Inn Churches, @The Bus Stop, The Maryam Project, Stopping Sexual Exploitation, Assylum and Refugee Issues. I will be hiking for 10 days across Switzerland following the "Jakobsweg" part of the ancient pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela.  The route will begin on the 23rd of August in St Peterzell in the Protestant German Apenzeller region, travelling through the centre of Switzerland and the Bernese Oberland and finishing in the French speaking Catholic region of Freiburg.  

I will be keeping a blog samandjoehike.blogspot.com or you can contact sam.randall@bradford.anglican.org