• Feeling weary, desperate, overbooked? 
  • Is "Sabbath" just a quaint idea or a practical possibility for you?
  • Does it seem to you that there is no escape from your responsibilities?
  • Are you searching for ways faith communities can support renewal?
It is difficult to find places to explore these questions — especially as they relate to spirituality. Left unexamined, these questions can stake a huge claim on our emotional energy. The Renewal for the Work Weary Soul retreat will use Mark’s story of “Feeding the 5,000" to provide a “safe” space for reflecting on these questions.

You can expect:

  • discussion of obstacles to renewal
  • identification of tools for renewal
  • communal Sabbath celebration
  • time for silence
  • beautiful surroundings
  • small groups with kindred souls
  • opportunity to be heard and to hear 
  • spirited singing
  • engaging leaders...
  • to be renewed
There's room for everyone at the Faith at Work table
...clergy, lay, and all manner of seekers...

Schedule:

Friday night, Oct 16
  • check-in before 5:45pm
  • dinner served at 6pm
  • program begins at 7pm

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    Sunday noon, Oct 18

  • the retreat ends before lunch

    • Cost: $95 

    This includes a registration fee of $35, 5 meals, 2 night's lodging and a great program.
    To register contact Steve Gehring

    Renewal for the Work Weary Soul

    Friday-Sunday
    October 16-18, 1998

    Calvin Crest Conference Center
    Fremont NE

    Give yourself or someone you love the gift of renewal in 1998!

    Leadership Team

    Steve Gehring, Omaha, lawyer, Faith at Work Board, mystic and runner.
    Pat Minard, Elkhorn, editor, seeker, mother of two, loves physiology, bio-energy and dream work, spiritual director, Faith at Work Board.
    Sue Smith, Omaha, therapist, counselor, mother of three, teacher, Faith at Work Board.
    Dwayne Odvody, Lincoln, midlifer (is this all there is?), gardener, husband, edge of the empty nest.
    Mari Greene, LaVista, child advocate, educator, parent of two grown kids, pet lover, life long learner, loves to swim.
    Melody Kramer, Lincoln, trial lawyer, aspiring author, hopeful romantic, forever marching to the beat of a different drummer.

    Where:
    Calvin Crest Conference Center is located less than an hour away from Lincoln and Omaha. The beautifully wooded 250 acre site overlooks the Platte River. The Conference Center offers new, comfortable accommodation, run by the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A.

    Air Travel: Arrive at Epply Airport in Omaha by 4:00pm on Friday and depart after 2:00pm on Sunday.

    Emergency phone: 402-628-6455.

    For more information and to register 
    contact Steve Gehring or Mari Greene


     

    Nebraska Faith At Work

    For more information on this resident team, contact Sue Smith. They are meet regularly and are available for local church renewal weekends and training in relational small groups.

    Check out scenes from last year's mixed retreat.

    In July of 1998 Marjory and Peter Bankson led this event at LaCasa de Maria in Santa Barbara CA, check out the report from the event.

    Marjory Bankson will be leading this event as a local church renewal weekend with Hope Presbyterian Church in Wheaton IL October 2-4, 1998

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