Boston

April 28, 2025

A ONE-DAY RETREAT

This year we are experimenting with a few One-Day PP&G retreats. Same heart. Same hospitality. Same focus on healing, connection, and re-imagination. Same basic flow...all in a six-hour experience.

Location: Anchor Church Boston Guides: Rev. Stephanie spellers, Aaron niequist

We are not where we were; we are not yet where we will be. We are on our way.

Join us in Boston as we seek to find Christ on the way. Or better said: to be found by Christ on the way. On this six hour retreat, we’ll enter deeply into the story of the Disciples on the Road to Emmaus (Luke 24) and allow the Risen Christ to walk with us. We cannot control what the Spirit might say and do, but we can make space to listen and respond. Would you join us?

Through this ancient text and evergreen spiritual practices, we’ll invite the Spirit of Christ to help us take the next right step into Love.

You don’t have to stumble this path alone.

Basic Schedule

MONDAY

8:30am Coffee and Registration
9:00am Morning worship, liturgy, contemplative practice 10:00am Teaching, interaction, holy space, and practice with Rev Stephanie Spellers 12:00pm Lunch Together 1:00pm Worship, Eucharist, and Sending Session with Rev Steph, Aaron, and team.
3:00pm Retreat Ends

*Hope you practice delight for the rest of the day in Boston!*

Come to exhale and learn a few spiritual practices
to re-center your soul in the unforced rhythms of Grace.

Come to meet other Christian leaders and be reminded that you're not alone.

Come to worship and learn at the intersection of multiple Christian traditions...
allowing God to fire your imagination for what could be.

Registration is open!

registration fee: $99

The Rev. Canon Dr Stephanie Spellers is one of the Episcopal Church’s leading thinkers and consultants around 21st-century ministry and mission and is Canon to the Presiding Bishop for Evangelism and Reconciliation.

The author of The Church Cracked Open, a foundational resource for our retreat, serves as Canon to the Presiding Bishop for Evangelism and Reconciliation. Spellers is responsible for supporting the ministry of the Presiding Bishop and Primate of The Episcopal Church as it pertains to evangelism and reconciliation efforts at the local, congregational, diocesan, and churchwide levels. 

If you want to get to know Rev Stephanie a little more, listen to her wonderful interview about Ecumenism on The Eternal Current Podcast.

Aaron Niequist is a liturgist, writer, and pastor. Aaron recently graduated from General Theological Seminary in NYC and currently serves at St Peter’s Episcopal Church Chelsea. After leading worship at Mars Hill Church (Grand Rapids, MI) and Willow Creek Church (Barrington, IL), he created A New Liturgy - a collection of modern liturgical worship recordings. He then curated a discipleship-focused, formational, ecumenical, practice-based community called “The Practice”. Aaron released a book called The Eternal Current: How a Practice-Based Faith Can Keep Us From Drowning and currently leads the Pastors, Priests and Guides ministry.  But that’s just job stuff.  The best part of his life is his wife Shauna, and their sons Henry and William.

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At the historic Arlington Street Church…

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