Life and Ministry on the Road —2025

A Look Back at Life on the Road — 2025

The year 2025 was both a tremendous blessing and a whirlwind of travel for the ministries of Trailhead Tacos and Outdoor Nations Network.

We want to express our heartfelt gratitude to every pastor, church, and organization who believed in us and supported the work God is doing through these ministries. Your prayers, encouragement, and partnership made this incredible journey possible.

Below is a snapshot of our 2025 travels—a testament to the relationships built, the ministry shared, and the connections made along the way.

**Outdoor Nations Network & Trailhead Tacos

Ministry Travel Log — 2025**

January 9–30 – Creation Care and Adventure Ministry Class, Yellowstone Theological Seminary
February 2–4 – Moab, Utah pre-trip for Desert Fathers Collective
February 6–27 – Creation Care and Adventure Ministry Class, Yellowstone Theological Seminary
March 6–20 – Creation Care and Adventure Ministry Class, Yellowstone Theological Seminary
March 21–26 – Desert Fathers Collective, Moab, Utah
March 31 – Journey Church Troy, Missouri Executive Board Meeting Pastor Jesse Quiroz.

April 21 – Journey Church Cottonwood Men’s Event planning – Pastor Jerry Trewren
April 29–30 – Arizona Ministry Network Conference, Phoenix, Arizona

May 10 – Trailhead Taco Drop, Banner Church Men’s Gathering
May 11 – Banner Church, Mesa, Arizona – Pastor Josh Weisbrod
May 25–June 1 – Alaska

June 12–19 – Colorado River Trip with Nate Loper & Canyon Ministries (92 river miles)
June 21–22 – Auburn First Assembly – Pastor Rob Baker
June 21–27 – Tahoe Residency Internship Program, Tahoe Church – Pastor Terrence Sutton

July 26 – Chino Valley Word of Life Assembly of God Men’s Event – Pastor Todd League
July 29 – Urban Hope Church, Flagstaff – Executive Board Meeting – Pastor Adam Kling
July 30 – Desert Fathers Collective Planning Zoom Call
July 31 – Journey Church Cottonwood Men’s Event & Taco Drop – Pastor Jerry Trewren

August 2–6 – Journey Church, Troy, Missouri – Pastor Jesse Quiroz
August 7–10 – Eleven Point River Float Trip – Michael Ketcherside
August 13–17 – Visalia, California
August 18 – Visalia First Assembly – Pastor Mark Merril
August 29–September 3 – Yellowstone Theological Adventure Practicum – Yellowstone National Park back country Wilderness Kayak Trip – Vern Streeter

September 4–8 – Taco Drop, The Table Church, Park City, Utah – Pastor Bryon White
September 20 – Taco Drop, Wonderslaught Mountain Bike Festival, Prescott, Arizona
September 26 – Mancamp 1 Taco Drop, Arizona Ministry Network Men’s Ministries, Yisrael Vincent.
September 28 – Pastor Tommy Barnett at Urban Hope Church, Flagstaff, Arizona

October 3 – Mancamp 2 Taco Drop, Arizona Ministry Network Men’s Ministries, Yisrael Vincent.
October 6–November 27 – Theological Foundations, Yellowstone Theological Seminary
October 12 – Chino Valley Word of Life Assembly of God – Pastor Todd League

November 7–9 – Discovery Church, Catalina, Arizona – Pastor RJ Trewren
November 14 – Sectional Thanksgiving Dinner, Prescott Life Church – Pastor David Groff
November 15–16 – Abundant Grace Church, Lake Havasu City – Pastor Art Navarro

December 10 – Department of Child Safety Christmas Taco Drop, Summit Church,
Anthem, Arizona – Pastor Jeremy Naranjo & Pastor Stephen Harris

A Closing Prayer

Lord,
We thank You for every mile traveled, every conversation shared, and every heart You touched throughout this past year. We are grateful for the pastors, churches, and partners who walked alongside us in faith, prayer, and generosity. As we look back on 2025, we give You all the glory for what You have done through Trailhead Tacos and Outdoor Nations Network.

As we step forward, we ask for Your continued guidance, provision, and protection. Open new doors for ministry, deepen relationships, and keep our hearts humble and obedient to Your call. May everything we do point people to You and invite them into deeper community, discipleship, and adventure with Christ.

In Jesus’ name,
Amen.

A Call to Partnership

As we look ahead to what God has planned, we invite you to continue partnering with us through prayer, encouragement, and financial support. Your partnership makes it possible for us to show up in communities, serve churches, and meet people where faith and the outdoors intersect.

If you believe in this mission and would like to walk alongside us, we would be honored to have you join the Trailhead Tacos and Outdoor Nations Network family. Together, we can keep building meaningful relationships, sharing the Gospel, and creating space for life-changing conversations—one meal, one trail, and one story at a time.

Thank you for standing with us and for being part of this journey.

With gratitude in Christ,
Steve & Brenda Lummer
Trailhead Tacos & Outdoor Nations Network

Adventure Pastor, Outdoor Nations Network, outdoors, Prescott, RIM2RIM, Yosemite, Zion

MINISTERING IN THE GREAT OUTDOORS

by JOHN W. KENNEDY

Steven P. Lummer has pastored Discovery Church in Prescott, Arizona, for 18 years, but the congregation today looks a lot different than when he started.

Eight years ago, the renamed Discovery pivoted, shifting its mission. Rather than continue as First Assembly of God catering to traditional churchgoers, Lummer and his wife, Brenda, decided to concentrate on the growing local demographic that loved the outdoors.

Prescott is a magnet for recreation-minded residents, at the crossroads between major hiking and mountain bike trails. So, Lummer resolved to seek those who resonate spending time in places such as Yosemite National Park, the Grand Canyon, or Zion National Park. For his 60th birthday, Lummer hiked the Grand Canyon rim to rim for three days and 23.8 miles with his daughter, Natascha Kling. She and her husband, Adam Kling, are lead pastors at Urban Hope Church in Flagstaff.

“Our approach was to be a little bit John Muir, a little bit John Wesley,” says Lummer, who just turned 63. “Some people peeled off when we shifted and the tradeoff was painful, but we feel like it was what God wanted us to do.”

In addition to pastoring, Lummer became a U.S. Missions Outdoors Nations Network chaplain. Subsequently, Discovery Church has become outdoor-driven — hosting rock climbing, hiking, canoeing, kayaking, and biking events. Lummer has baptized people in rivers and parks. Lummer currently is raising funds to purchase a food truck that would be stationed at trailheads through the Outdoor Nations Network.

Like other recreational chaplains, Lummer has found that getting to know people over time is a necessary prerequisite to discussions about Jesus.

“Going to the trailheads and building relationships is a unique niche ministry,” Lummer says. “They are more open to talking when not boxed into a service.”

S. Brad Sasser says Lummer has mentored him in his recent endeavor to become a U.S. Missions outdoor chaplain. Sasser is in a similar hot spot for recreational enthusiasts, based in Damascus, Virginia, considered Trail Town USA. He builds relationships with Appalachian Trail hikers, cooking for them at hostels along the way. He also sets up at road crossings or gaps, providing fresh fruit, socks, and adhesive bandage strips to hikers.

Under his ministry Trail Servants, Sasser offers devotional content on an app that can be downloaded.

“It’s a lot of seed planting and watering,” says Sasser, who recently baptized three people he befriended. Sasser says he’s gleaned a wealth of wisdom from Lummer.

“To work with people in outdoor space really requires building relationships. It’s not, Hey, let me tell you about Jesus the first time you meet them,” says Sasser, 40. “As a church planter, Steve had to have tenacity and a tough skin to connect with people.”

Sasser, who has earned the trail nickname “Shep,” as in shepherd, says Lummer impressed upon him the need for compassion and empathy as an outdoor chaplain.

“A lot of time must be spent layering relationships with people,” Sasser says. “When people see that I care about them and what they do, they begin to ask questions about what I do.”

The Lummers, approaching their 40th wedding anniversary in August, met at Westside Assembly in Davenport, Iowa, when Tommy Barnett pastored the church. Steve accepted Christ under Barnett’s ministry.

After serving as a youth pastor in Iowa, California, and Ohio, Lummer planted Lakecrest Assembly of God (now Redemption AG) in Wentzville, Missouri, where he stayed for 13 years before moving to Arizona. Today, Brenda is a preschool teacher and Steve supplements his income as a real estate agent and adventure photographer.