MALIBU

November 17-19, 2025

LOCATION: serra retreat GUIDES: scott erickson, drew jackson, nina barnes, AARON NIEQUIST, becky ykema

Retreat Schedule

MONDAY

1:00pm Registration
2:00pm Gathering & Invitation 5:00pm Dinner Together 6:00pm Jesus and Bartimaeus: A Scott the Painter Experience
8:00pm Compline

TUESDAY

8:00am Breakfast 9:00am Opening Liturgy 9:30am Jesus and the Good Samaritan 12:00pm Lunch 1:00pm Solitude 4:00pm Eucharist Service 5:00pm Practice of Delight 6:00pm Dinner Together (Optional)

WEDNESDAY

8:00am Breakfast 9:00am Opening Liturgy
10:00am Circle Conversations 12:00pm Lunch
1:00pm Sending Session
2:00pm Retreat Ends

Gathering & Invitation / Personal Retreat / Tangible Next Steps

On Monday, we will arrive from all over the country and begin a shared journey. We’ll meet each other, worship together, orient ourselves to the retreat, and begin to exhale and slow down. Our retreat guides will help us explore “Christ on the Way” through poetry, teaching, reflection, and embodiment. After dinner, Scott Erickson will bring a full experience of art, comedy, practice, and creativity. We’ll end with a shortened Night Prayer and the opportunity for a great night of sleep.

Tuesday morning, Drew and Nina will guide us deeply into the story of the Good Samaritan. Through music, spiritual practices, scripture, and embodied prayer, we will be led into holy space in which God can do what only God can do. This will propel us into an afternoon of solitude on the Serra Retreat House grounds, and then back together for an ecumenical, practice-based Eucharist service. After dinner, we will dive into the practice of delight and celebration.

Finally, Wednesday morning will focus on heading back into our actual home communities. How can we translate the practices and rhythms of the retreat into our real lives and churches? What are the tools and resources that can support this good work? How can we become menders of the church cracked open? We’ll end the whole retreat with a time of prayer and sending.

Or said more simply: the three movements of the retreat are (1) Opening to the rhythms of Grace, (2) Swimming deep in the rhythms of Grace, and (3) Learning tools to invite others into the rhythms of Grace.

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Registration is now open.

Registration Fee: $649 ($399 registration + $250 for 2 nights of lodging at Serra Retreat Center)

Register by September 17, 2025, and receive $50 OFF. Use the code EARLYBIRD.

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