MALIBU

November 18-20, 2024

Can These Bones Live? Holy space to bring the dry bones of our hearts, churches, and world to the God who promises to make all things new. We will rest and worship together, connect with others, and learn practices of re-membering and reimagination.

LOCATION: serra retreat GUIDES: Jonathan Merritt, Nina barnes, AARON NIEQUIST, Sophfronia scott, & jon huckins

Retreat Schedule

MONDAY

1:00pm Registration
2:00pm Gathering & Invitation 6:00pm Dinner Together 7:00pm What Happened in the Wilderness? 8:00pm Contemplative Compline

TUESDAY

8:00am Breakfast 9:00am Opening Liturgy 9:30am Practices for Peacemaking 12:00pm Lunch/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

Serra Retreat Campus and Building Maps

a note about this particular retreat: Heal and Share the healing.

This retreat in Malibu will begin 13 days after the United States’ presidential election. Here’s what we know for sure: No matter who wins, it will be a brusing, divisive, exhausting fall. Especially for faith leaders trying to guide their communities in the Way of Jesus.

Rather than avoid this reality, let’s lean into it. Our team is prayerfully re-adjusting the retreat for this particular moment. Ezekiel’s vision of The Valley of Dry Bones will remain, and we’ll follow the usual retreat flow. But we’ll also focus deeply on two particular desires: (1) To heal and (2) to become instruments of healing. May we invite the Spirit of Christ to bring the flow of peace into our weary hearts and bodies....AND learn practical tools for leading communities of peace, justice, and reconciliation.

Registration is open now, and we’re thrilled to introduce a phenomenal team of guides. You’ll see a few familiar faces, and a few who are brand new to PP&G. This team has a particular bent toward the peace-making, enemy-loving, shalom-building way of Jesus. For such a time as this!!

Please join us. For the sake of our weary souls, the sake of our divided communities, and the sake of the world...please join us!

Registration is now open.

Registration Fee: $599 ($349 registration + $250 for 2 nights of lodging at Serra Retreat Center)

Register by September 26, 2024, and receive $50 OFF. Use the code EARLYBIRD.

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