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All events are held at Orchard Hill
Rte. 17 & Orchard Way, Millerstown, PA 17062
unless noted otherwise.


THE SCHOOL OF PRAYER
Hands raised

Session Four:

 [Summer, 2013]—Fri., Aug. 16th at 6:30 PM till Sat., Aug. 17th at 4:30 PM
 Friday Evening:
Moving Outward: Seeking The Ministry We Need—Ellen Evans
    Healing Prayer
    The Prayer of Suffering
    Authoritative Prayer
    Radical Prayer
Saturday Morning:
    A Journey of Repentance Without Guilt & Shame—Laura Beach via SKYPE
    The Prayer of Suffering & Healing Prayer—Jason Guillaume
Saturday Afternoon:
    Prayer & The Powers That Be & A Prayer Walk—Alison Grove & Pat Gable
    Listening to the Least, the Last & the Lost—Pat Nissel

$600.00 in 4 installments of $150.00 / 5 ceus

Prayer is not only talking to God, but a way of life - a life of listening to God, having an open heart, living in community, being what God wants us to be, and doing what God wants us to do.




 TENDING THE FIRE: 2013
Learn to manage yourself and your
church effectively and courageously.

Barbara Lemmel

With Rev. Barbara Lemmel

Opening Intensive
March 19-21, 2013

Deepening Retreat
May 21-23, 2013

Sending Retreat
September 17-19, 2013

$1,200 / 9 ceus

Click here to download an application for the 2013 retreat.

Our shifting society and postmodern culture demand new approaches from churches and pastors. Church leaders worry about meeting the needs of the future while staying true to their essential traditions and beliefs. Tending the Fire offers tools to skillfully negotiate a congregation’s interpersonal dynamics.  These retreats are based in family systems theory as developed by Dr. Murray Bowen and Dr. Edwin Friedman in his book, Generation to Generation.



PRACTICING THE PRESENCE OF GOD
A Silent Retreat in the Benedictine Tradition

sunset from porch

With Russell Hart

Monday, Oct. 14th at 6:30 PM till Wednesday, Oct. 16th. at 10:00 AM

$120.00 includes room, meals & 2 ceus

God’s first language is silence, and this we will embrace in the silence of
the Orchard Hill retreat center and its environs. We will practice the seven
daily offices of the monastic tradition, celebrate the Eucharist, and take
time for private reflection, study and some light work. But mostly, in the
tradition of Brother Lawrence, we will practice the presence of God.


HEALING DYSFUNCTIONAL
CONGREGATIONS

Cross Shadow
Photo by Candace Kent
With Dr. Samuel Sheffler

Nov. 15th at 6:30 PM till Sat., Nov. 16th at 4:00PM

$100 includes overnight accommodations, meals & 1 ceu

Given the dysfunctional nature of society and the 21st Century Church,
the ability to identify, name and address this dysfunction within the life of the Body is crucial for persons who would become competent and redemptive leaders.

We will explore some of the resources and strategies available to those who would become a healing presence within the life of the Church.


THE SCHOOL OF PRAYER (2013-14)

Hands raised

Session One: Fall, 2013

Friday, November 22nd at 6:30 PM
till
Saturday, Nov, 23rd at 4:30 PM
Praying The Ordinary
Time Management
Lectio Divina
Centering Prayer
Listening To The Hispanic Voice


Session Two: Winter, 2014

Friday, January 24th at 6:30 PM
till
Saturday, January 25th at 4:30 PM
Simple Prayer
Prayer of the Forsaken
Prayer of Tears
A Prayer & Intercession Team For Every Community
Intercessory Prayer
Corporate Prayer


Session Three: Spring, 2014

Friday, April 4th at 6:30 PM
till
Saturday, April 5th at 4:30 PM

Unceasing Prayer
Prayer of the Heart
Meditative Prayer
Contemplative Prayer
Prayer & Discernment
The Jesus Prayer


Session Four: Summer, 2014

Friday, August 15th at 6:30 PM
till
Saturday, August 16th at 4:30 PM
Healing Prayer
A Journey of Repentance Without Guilt & Shame
Prayer of Suffering
Prayer & The Powers

$600.00 in 4 installments of $150.00 / 5 ceus

Faculty: Ellen Evans, Laura Beach, Russell Hart, Franklin Miller,
Barbara Yorks, Debbie Heisley-Cato, Joanne Link, Jason Guillaume,
Alison Grove, Pat Gable and Debra Roush

Prayer is not only talking to God, but a way of life - a life of listening to God, having an open heart, living in community, being what God wants us to be, and doing what God wants us to do.


WRITING AN ICON: THE THEOTOKOS


With Russell Hart

Friday, Jan. 17, 6:30PM till Saturday, Jan. 18, 4:30PM


Park Forest Village United Methodist Church
1833 Park Forest Village Ave., State College, PA

$75 includes materials, instruction & 1 ceu

This workshop, held once a year since 2007, includes lecture/discussion, demonstration of the icon "writing" technique, and the opportunity to
"write" your very own icon.  We also supply the gessoed panel and
artist’s supplies.  

This year’s project will be the traditional rendering of the Theotokos
[the God Bearer] in the Byzantine style.  The mother of Jesus Christ,
known to the Orthodox as the Mother of God, to Roman Catholics as the
Blessed Virgin Mary, and to Protestants as Mary, the Mother of Jesus,
holds a special place in Christendom as the model of Christian perfection,
whose response to the angel’s message, “Let it be done to me according
to your word,” made it possible for the Incarnation to occur.

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