A DAY APART WITH ANN WEEMS
Monday,
October 1st, 2007
8:30 AM till 4:00 PM
Mt.
Zion United Methodist Church, 4685 Mt. Zion Drive, Enola, PA
www.cpcumc.org/districts/newcumberland.html
$35.00
[includes materials, lunch and 1 ceu]
Walter
Bruggeman says of Ann: “[She] lives at the
interface of
poetry and faith…Her words are words of faith, but they are
chastened with severe pathos. All the while, her pathos is
encompassed by a voice of hope that knows the darkness well, but
refuses to give in.”
A writer,
speaker, liturgist and workshop leader, she is the author of seven
books, including: Family Faith Stories, Westminster Press, 1985;
Kneeling In Bethlehem, Westminster Press, 1987; Searching For Shalom,
Westminster/John Knox Press, 1987; Kneeling In Jerusalem, W/JK Press,
1991; Psalms of Lament, 1995, W/JK Press; Putting The Amazing
Back Into Grace, W/JK Press, 1999; and Faith In Words, Co-edited with
Louis Weeks, Geneva Press, 2004.
In 2005, Ann received the Peace Seeker
Award from the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship.
The
Center For Spiritual Formation presents:
WALKING
THROUGH DARK TIMES
With Russell
Hart & Vicki Wagner
Thursday,
October 4th--8:30AM till 3:30PM
Juniata
United Methodist Church
808 North
Fourth Street, Altoona, PA
$25.00
& .60 ceu [Bring your own bag lunch]
The dark
night of the soul is often taken for clinical depression.
Although they may overlap, when the dark night is primary, one
perceives that his or her trials are going someplace. In
depression, however, many find that their functioning in the world has
come to a standstill. We will learn about their similarities
and differences, and discover the “gift” of your
own dark night.
APPROACHING
ADVENT 2007
With Dr.
Paul Stambach
&
Sharonn Halderman
Monday, Nov.
19th from 9:30 AM Till 3:30 PM
Millerstown
United Methodist Church
23 North
High Street, Millerstown, PA
$20.00
includes materials & .60 ceu [Please Bring Your Own
Bag Lunch]
Welcome
the Advent—Christmas season with the Eucharist, great
preaching, fellowship and an Advent project to share with your family
and/or congregation. Paul is the preacher, and Sharonn will
lead us in a time of fellowship and creataivity.
The
Center & the CPCUMC
Board of the Ordained Ministry present:
TENDING
THE FIRE - 2008
With Rev. Barbara Lemmel & W. Alan
Delamater
The
Genetti Hotel, Williamsport, PA
Opening
Retreat: Tues., Jan. 8, 2008, 1 PM till Thurs., Jan 10, 4 PM
Facilitated
Peer Retreat: Tues., March 11, 1 PM till Thurs., March 13, 4
PM
Sending Retreat: Tues., May 6, 1 PM till Thurs., May 8, 4 PM
$1,100.00 inc. tuition, food & lodging @ 9 ceus
Right-click
and follow instructions HERE
to
download the registration
form.
This
process of education & spiritual formation designed to support
clergy in the practice of ministry consists of three three-day retreats
that will explore Systems Theory in the ministry & life within
the
families of the congregation. We will reflect on real-life
applications of Systems Theory, and consider intentional strategies for
spiritual formation within the ministerial setting.
“WRITING"
AN ICON
Our
Lady of Kazan
With
Dr. Russell M. Hart
Fri.,
Jan. 18th from 6:30 PM till 9:30 PM
Sat., Jan.
19th from 8:30 AM till 4:00 PM
Park Forest
Village United Methodist Church
1833 Park
Forest Avenue, State College, PA 16803
$60.00 includes tuition, art
supplies and 1.4 ceus
[Bring your
own bag lunch]
Experience
the icon, not
as an historical artifact, but as a Window” to a deeper
spirituality by immersing your self in the painting of your icon of Our
Lady of Kazan. As the image emerges on your panel, you will
encounter a deeper spirituality. This is an encounter with
the
Holy!
A
DAY APART WITH GLENN McDONALD
Monday , March 17, 2008
8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Aldersgate United Methodist
Church
1480
Jerusalem
Road, Mechanicsburg, PA
$35.00
includes
lunch and 1 ceu
Glenn
is the senior pastor of Zionsville
Presbyterian Church in suburban Indianapolis, a congregation
he helped organize in 1983. The church has grown from about
two dozen adults to nearly 2,000 members and is notable for its small
groups, ministry teams and highly decentralized style of ministry,
which prioritizes lay leadership. ZPC was recently identified
as one of America’s 300 Excellent Protestant Churches in a
study funded by the Lilly Endowment. Glenn is the author of The Disciplemaking
Church: From Dry Bones to Spiritual Vitality
[2004] and has co-authored Imagining
a Church in the Spirit, with Ben Campbell Johnson [1999]
The Center For Spiritual
Formation presents:
LISTENING
TO THE TROOPS
2:00—4:00
PM, Sunday, April 27, 2008
Paxton
United Methodist Church
Free Will
Offering/.35 ceu
We believe that one of the
best ways we can support our troops is to listen to them. Dr.
Richard Denison will talk about “The Battle Mind,”
experienced by troops in the field, and for a long time
afterward. There will be a panel, moderated by Dr. David
Reed, consisting of military personnel who have been on the ground in
Iraq and Afghanistan; representatives from the chaplaincy corps, and
spouses who must take care of the home front. We will close
with a service of Assurance of Forgiveness & Grace.
