Chinook's one of a kind Holy Week celebration: The Labyrinth

Alex Sprague is one of three Young Adult Volunteers (YAV’s) spending a year in Chinook, part of a program supported by five local churches. Sprague grew up in Wilmington, Delaware and got the idea to build and share a labyrinth with the Chinook community during Holy Week. In his home church back east he said the labyrinth is not a maze, though it has that appearance, but is rather a symbolic form of making a pilgrimage, walking a path ascending towards salvation or enlightenment.

The history of labyrinths

There are an estimated 2000+ labyrinths in the U.S.—located in such diverse places as chu...