Oasis - Bring Many Names

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Bring Many Names: An Interfaith Day of Retreat

“My God: How beautiful and infinite are your names! You are always called by the name of our most intense desire...”

(Beginning of a poem by Ruben Alves; translated by Sherron George)

What is your deepest desire for life, for God?

Using the lovely fable In God's Name, by Sandy Eisenberg Sasso as a springboard, we will seek to uncover some of the names, or qualities, by which the Holy One speaks to each of us wherever we are in life. On this day of prayer you will find rest and renewal for your spirit as we open our hearts to some of the many faces and names for God.

Leadership:

Rabbi Choper is the rabbi at the Jewish Home of Greater Harrisburg and an organizer of interfaith dialogue as founding director of the Religion and Society Center. It was through his interest in Jewish-Christian dialogue that he came across Oasis Ministries over 15 years ago and began several years of spiritual direction with Kent Groff. Later he participated in a series of contemplative retreats and shared study with the Institute for Jewish Spirituality and became an early member of the Institute's Hevraya (Fellowship). He lives in Harrisburg and enjoys writing and playing violin.

Alicia Conklin-Wood is an experienced retreat leader and spiritual director with training from the Shalem Institute in Bethesda, MD. She is a retired minister serving as a Parish Associate at First Presbyterian, Lancaster. She and her husband Len have three grown children and five grandchildren. They also have a very large yellow lab, “Calvin”, who is a certified therapy dog. In her spare time Alicia enjoys reading, quilting and counted cross stitch, cooking, walking and tending her houseplants.

When?
April 30, 2010; 9:30 a.m.—3:30 p.m.

Where?
Progress-Immanuel Presbyterian Church (www.pipc-church.org)
3640 Ash Street, Harrisburg PA 17109-3941

Retreat Fee:
$65-95 (as you are able)

Registration Deadline:
April 26, 2010

Click here to register by email (betsykeller@oasismin.org)
or contact Betsy Keller at 717.737.8222