Seasonal Retreats with Oasis Ministries

Seasonal Retreats with Oasis Ministries

Fall Harvest Retreat

November 22-23, 2008

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Ripeness is

what falls away with ease

Not only the heavy apple, the pear,

but also the dried brown strands

of autumn iris from their core….

Jane Hirshfield

Autumn is a season for gathering in and a season for letting go. A season of ripening seeds and withering strands. A season for the gleaning of grain and for the burning of the chaff. During this autumn harvest retreat we will attend to the wisdom of this season as we look at those parts of our lives that are ready to be released, even as we notice the fruits and the seeds of new growth they have borne. We will honor that upon which we have grown, glean the grain of goodness that may become our bread, and with grace let go, in order that our spirits might open to receive the nurture that is this blessed experience of life in the flesh.

“His winnowing fork is in his hand to clear the threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but he will burn up the chaff in the unquenchable fire” Luke 3:17

Location: Kenbrook Camp, 190 Pine Meadow Road, Lebanon, PA; www.kenbrook.org

Retreat Fee: $175-$195 (as you are able)

Registration Deadline: November 7, 2008

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Leader: Vicki Kensinger is a spiritual companion and mother of 5 residing in Palmyra, PA, where she tends her garden, her writing, and her spiritual direction practice, Sacred Listening. (www.sacredlistening.org). She has completed Oasis’ Spiritual Direction for Spiritual Guides two-year program, and the Deepening Year for Direction Ministries. Vicki serves on the Oasis Board of Directors and on the spiritual advisory board of SARCC in Lebanon County. She has a particular passion for women’s spirituality, poetry and the arts, gardening and nature.

Winter Retreat, “Love in Winter” with Melissa Stock February 13-14, 2009 Location: Mariawald Renewal Center, 1094 Welsh Road, Reading, PA 19607 www.hometown.aol.com/mariawald Retreat Fee: $175-$195 (as you are able)	“Love is fire that can’t be put out,” says Hildegard of Bingen. In the depth of winter, kindle your fire for God with the voices of some of our most passionate saints, both ancient and contemporary. Celebrate Valentine’s Day with a retreat that invites you to ‘waste time’ loving God. A spacious schedule will support periods of solitude, indoors and outside, and offer times in common to pray and reflect. Registration Deadline: January 23, 2009 click here to register
Leader: Melissa Stock has three grown children and three grandchildren. She received her training at Oasis through Spiritual Direction for Spiritual Guides, Years I and II. She also completed three years of Spiritual Formation and two of Ignatian Spiritual Direction Training at the Kairos School of Spiritual Formation. Melissa and her husband attend St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Mechanicsburg, Pa. where she is active in retreat leadership, spiritual direction, and Taize worship. Melissa enjoys the arts, reading, camping, and especially being out of doors for any reason.
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Spring Retreat, “Saying Yes to Life” with Nancy Brubaker April 17-18, 2009 4:30pm, Friday - 4:30pm, Saturday Retreat includes private and semi-private lodging, dinner, breakfast, and lunch. Location: Camp Swatara 2905 Camp Swatara Road Bethel, PA 19507 www.campswatara.org Retreat Fee: $175-$195 (as you are able) Registration Deadline: April 3, 2009 click here to register	Where are the places of new life in us right now? Where is the holiness of this moment? How can we connect with our deepest self and live more from there? What about the painful challenges of our life and our world? Join us as we explore hands-on practices to help us see with the eyes of love and flow with God’s ever-renewing life in us. We’ll have times of input and discussion, interspersed with solitude and reflection. Simple spiritual practices and gentle guidance in seeing life with our contemplative eyes will ground our time together. This retreat invites anyone who desires to explore how we can bring compassionate presence to the realities of our daily life in the world. As the earth awakens all around us, so we too are invited to awaken to the fullness of our human experience. Leader: Nancy Brubaker is a spiritual director in private practice, and is a staff person for the Kairos School of Spiritual Formation where she offers supervision for spiritual directors, facilitates centering prayer groups, and leads retreats. Otherwise, she can be found in her gardens, stargazing, or getting life education from her young adult children. She received an M.A. in Holistic Spirituality and Spiritual Direction from Chestnut Hill College in 2000.
For more information, please contact us at: oasismin@oasismin.org Phone: 717-737-8222

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