It was during our time at Christ Episcopal Church that we learned the purpose and process of doing prayer journeys in different areas of the U.S, It was important to train our own congregation and touch our own home area. The Musconetcong River was very important to the First Nations tribes in what is now northwest New Jersey. We even had one household who lived on the very river. Praying along the river locations was very meaningful and practical to our church.

This manmade recreational lake also includes the headwaters for the Musconetcong River. When we prayed to bless this lake, we were praying for all the waters that flowed through and past Christ Episcopal Church in Budd Lake and 90 percent of our parishioners.

Christ Episcopal Church’s first home was only a few blocks from here in Stanhope. Praying at this location felt like restoring a blessing that had been removed by leaving this town when the church moved. The former church building was now occupied by a Buddhist congregation. We prayed that they would all find the Lord Jesus.

This is a very serene park with campsites very near where many of us lived.

This is one of the mills on the Musconetcong River that became quite successful as a commercial enterprise.

Riegelsville is about at mile upstream from Mount Joy, where the Musconetcong flows into the Delaware River.