Weekend Retreats

SEEKERS CHURCH.  For information about the theme and leader visit www.seekerschurch.org.

For Seekers Church, others welcome as space permits.

General Information: Weekend retreats run Friday dinner through Sunday lunch. The silence begins Friday night after dinner when the leader opens the retreat and introduces the theme. The leader usually offers brief meditations and morning and evening prayers on Saturday. The silence ends late-morning Sunday with a time of sharing and worship, followed by lunch, the departure meal.

The cost for weekend retreats is $180. To reserve a space, please send a $90 deposit with an application you can print from the application page.

Dinner on Friday at is at 7 pm and is the first official gathering. You are welcome to arrive and settle in any time after 4 pm on Friday; we recommend you arrive no later than 6:30. The retreat will end by 2 pm on Sunday.

Theme: LIVING WITH AN AWAKENED HEART.  God cannot find us where we think we ought to be, but only where we are. The invitation of this weekend is to come home to yourself, to your present experience, and to the Holy Spirit present to you in it all. The contemplative life is about facts, about what is, and seeing it with new eyes.
Leader: Tom Ryan, CSP, directs the Paulist Fathers' North American Office for Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations in D.C. He has authored 12 books in the area of spirituality and leads retreats throughout the U.S and Canada. 

General Information: Weekend retreats run Friday dinner through Sunday lunch. The silence begins Friday night after dinner when the leader opens the retreat and introduces the theme. The leader usually offers brief meditations and morning and evening prayers on Saturday. The silence ends late-morning Sunday with a time of sharing and worship, followed by lunch, the departure meal.

The cost for weekend retreats is $180. To reserve a space, please send a $90 deposit with an application you can print from the application page.

Dinner on Friday at is at 7 pm and is the first official gathering. You are welcome to arrive and settle in any time after 4 pm on Friday; we recommend you arrive no later than 6:30. The retreat will end by 2 pm on Sunday.

On this weekend we will have time in silence to reflect on the Biblical understanding of God's economy as a balance between the gift of Divine abundance and the limits that we as humans exercize in relation to that gift.  We seek to reclaim a more faithful way of life that reflects this balance; a way of engaging the world guided more specifically by Jesus' teachings and practices. 

Leader: Mike Little is the director of Faith and Money Network (formerly Ministry of Money) and co-pastor of Lazarus Church.  Kim Montroll facilitates trips of perspective to Haiti in conjunction with Faith and Money Network and works locally with the new Adams Morgan Youth Leadership Academy.  For Lazarus Church.  Others welcome as space permits.

Theme: DIVIDED NO MORE.  Even good things can be idols if they distract us from our spiritual search and practice.  What are our idols? Christian scripture helps us recognize them and return them to their proper places.  This weekend we will reflect upon our personal and communal idols in light of Jesus' parables, seeking to recognize the treasure in our fields, and turn away from the distractions.

Leader: Shelley Douglass lives and works at Mary's House Catholic Worker in Birmingham AL.  She is a member of Pax Christi and works against war and the death penalty.  She is well acquainted with idols and with struggle!

General Information: Weekend retreats run Friday dinner through Sunday lunch. The silence begins Friday night after dinner when the leader opens the retreat and introduces the theme. The leader usually offers brief meditations and morning and evening prayers on Saturday. The silence ends late-morning Sunday with a time of sharing and worship, followed by lunch, the departure meal.

The cost for weekend retreats is $180. To reserve a space, please send a $90 deposit with an application you can print from the application page.

Dinner on Friday at is at 7 pm and is the first official gathering. You are welcome to arrive and settle in any time after 4 pm on Friday; we recommend you arrive no later than 6:30. The retreat will end by 2 pm on Sunday.

Theme: STANDING ON THE EDGE OF ADVENTURE.  …safe beyond the bounds of what we know… (From a poem by Wendell Berry)  When we face a future which seems to hold only uncertainty and change, we are often seized by anxiety and fear.  How different it would be if our hearts were seized by a call to adventure.

Leaders:  Cheryl Hellner and Jim Hall live in a solar cottage they helped design and build as part of the Earth Ministry demonstration at Dayspring.  Their life together includes teaching, writing, caring for the earth, and wilderness travel.

General Information: Weekend retreats run Friday dinner through Sunday lunch. The silence begins Friday night after dinner when the leader opens the retreat and introduces the theme. The leader usually offers brief meditations and morning and evening prayers on Saturday. The silence ends late-morning Sunday with a time of sharing and worship, followed by lunch, the departure meal.

The cost for weekend retreats is $180. To reserve a space, please send a $90 deposit with an application you can print from the application page.

Dinner on Friday at is at 7 pm and is the first official gathering. You are welcome to arrive and settle in any time after 4 pm on Friday; we recommend you arrive no later than 6:30. The retreat will end by 2 pm on Sunday.

FESTIVAL CHURCH.  After an introductory meditation which will be led by a member of the church, the Great Silence will begin.  The silence will not be broken until Sunday morning when we will gather for sharing and worship.

For Festival Church.  Others welcome as space permits.

General Information: Weekend retreats run Friday dinner through Sunday lunch. The silence begins Friday night after dinner when the leader opens the retreat and introduces the theme. The leader usually offers brief meditations and morning and evening prayers on Saturday. The silence ends late-morning Sunday with a time of sharing and worship, followed by lunch, the departure meal.

The cost for weekend retreats is $180. To reserve a space, please send a $90 deposit with an application you can print from the application page.

Dinner on Friday at is at 7 pm and is the first official gathering. You are welcome to arrive and settle in any time after 4 pm on Friday; we recommend you arrive no later than 6:30. The retreat will end by 2 pm on Sunday.

Theme: THE WORD BECAME FLESH.  And the word became flesh and dwelt among us full of grace and truth and we beheld his glory is John’s shockingly earthy Advent proclamation to us. Christianity has one of the highest valuations of body and embodied/incarnated presence of God of all religions, yet tragically much of Christianity has become disembodied over the centuries. In this retreat we will open ourselves to reclaiming our richly embodied Christian spirituality, tradition and practice—in ourselves, our communities and world.  We will seek, by faith to enter more deeply and holistically into the reality of God making God’s home in and among us in Jesus.  Praying with Body and Heart (yoga and meditation) will be offered each morning for those who wish to participate.

Leader:  Jim Dickerson is pastor of New Community Church and chairman of Manna, Inc. in Washington, DC. 

General Information: Weekend retreats run Friday dinner through Sunday lunch. The silence begins Friday night after dinner when the leader opens the retreat and introduces the theme. The leader usually offers brief meditations and morning and evening prayers on Saturday. The silence ends late-morning Sunday with a time of sharing and worship, followed by lunch, the departure meal.

The cost for weekend retreats is $180. To reserve a space, please send a $90 deposit with an application you can print from the application page.

Dinner on Friday at is at 7 pm and is the first official gathering. You are welcome to arrive and settle in any time after 4 pm on Friday; we recommend you arrive no later than 6:30. The retreat will end by 2 pm on Sunday.

POTTER’S HOUSE CHURCH.  After an introductory meditation on Friday evening by a member of the church, we will enter the Great Silence, which will not be broken until Sunday morning at 10:00.  

For Potter's House Church.  Others welcome as space permits.

General Information: Weekend retreats run Friday dinner through Sunday lunch. The silence begins Friday night after dinner when the leader opens the retreat and introduces the theme. The leader usually offers brief meditations and morning and evening prayers on Saturday. The silence ends late-morning Sunday with a time of sharing and worship, followed by lunch, the departure meal.

The cost for weekend retreats is $180. To reserve a space, please send a $90 deposit with an application you can print from the application page.

Dinner on Friday at is at 7 pm and is the first official gathering. You are welcome to arrive and settle in any time after 4 pm on Friday; we recommend you arrive no later than 6:30. The retreat will end by 2 pm on Sunday.