January 2025
Monday - Friday
Penhurst Family Week
Leader: The Penhurst team
For members of the Penhurst Family, join us at the start of the year to learn about how you can pray for and support us throughout the year while enjoying peaceful time away with God. Come and stay at a special discounted rate of £85 pppn. Join the team for daily prayer, led walks and games around the fireplace.
Residential price: TBC
Non-residential price: TBC
February 2025
Monday - Friday
Space to Rest
Leader: Ruth Traynar
A week set aside for rest and spending time with God. Book in for the whole week or just a couple of nights. Ruth will host a short prompt morning and evening with time to chat around the fire after supper. An ideal time for anyone wanting to be with God in a loosely structured way with time for accompaniment available. Contact us in the office if you just want to book one or two nights instead of the whole week.
Residential price: £490.00
Non-residential price: £295.00
Monday - Thursday
Grace Space
Leader: Jack and Sandra Telfer
Step aside to be with the God of all grace, to meet with him where we really are and receive the deep refreshment only he can give. The retreat will include guided sessions, space for individual reflection and prayer and the opportunity for one to one prayer.
Residential price: £395.00
Non-residential price: £245.00
Monday - Friday
Valley Paths
Leader: Gill Hancock
We all go through difficult experiences in life (the death of a loved one, doubts, fears, depression, trauma, ongoing physical pain, past mistakes holding us back to name but a few). The temptation can be to `grit our teeth` to try and get through, pick ourselves up and carry on without giving ourselves time or permission to work through any emotional, spiritual or mental impact the crisis might have left us with. This course enables us to take time with God, reflect on past events, seek a better understanding and go deeper with him, gaining new layers of healing.
Residential price: £490.00
Non-residential price: £295.00
Monday - Thursday
Singles and Couples Debrief
Leaders: Wania Honman and Sandie Reeves
An opportunity for mission partners to process their transitions to the UK. Come and enjoy the peace and tranquillity of the retreat centre as part of your home assignment or re-entry to the UK. There will be a mix of group work and individual debrief sessions.
Residential price: £395.00
Non-residential price: £245.00
April 2025
Thursday - Sunday
Knowing You Jesus
Leader: Tony and Jilly Horsfall
A retreat for those in Christian ministry at home or abroad. This retreat is built around the famous prayer of Richard of Chichester which expresses his desire to know Jesus more fully in the beautiful words: `to see you more clearly, love you more dearly and follow you more nearly.` Hopefully this reflects the longing of every follower of Jesus, and by spending time in the gospel narratives we can immerse ourselves in his life so that by being with him we become like him and learn to do what he would do. There will be times for worship, personal reflection and personal accompaniment if desired. We will be using material from the book `Knowing You, Jesus` (BRF 2023) copies of which will be available at a discount price of £15 at the retreat. Tony & Jilly Horsfall
Residential price: £425.00
Non-residential option is not available
June 2025
Monday - Thursday
New Directions
Leader: Jack and Sandra Telfer
This retreat is for mission partners who have returned to live in the UK or are back for an extended home assignment. The focus will be on helping `unpack` and understand the process of transition and change that is involved in re-entry and to provide support strategies to process the many challenges.
Residential price: £395.00
Non-residential price: £245.00
Monday - Friday
Silent Individually Guided Retreat
Leader: Dawn Pointing
This individually guided retreat (IGR) will be a silent retreat, giving you opportunity for solitude and time to really land, reflect and pray. You will have the opportunity to meet an experienced spiritual director and retreat guide, each day, who will also lead a short morning and evening time of meditation and prayer to bookend each day. There will be plenty of resources available for contemplative and creative prayer and reflection.
Residential price: £490.00
Non-residential price: £295.00
Monday - Thursday
Invitations in the Wilderness
Leader: Mags Duggan
This is a retreat for those in vocational ministry or mission. It`s inevitable. A given. No child of God gets a free pass - including those called to minister in his name. We will all spend time in the wilderness. The wilderness is not a comfortable place; it can be a place of disorientation, of questioning, of distress and doubts. It is the place where we come face to face with the reality of our humanity; our limitations, our fears, our weaknesses and our temptations. And yet the wilderness is also the place where we are invited to encounter and embrace God`s presence and purposes for us in ever more profound ways. We are invited into a growing intimacy with God and a greater likeness to Jesus. In our time together we will draw from the Scriptures to explore the invitations which God holds out to us in the harder seasons of our lives - our wilderness days - and the lessons which the wilderness offers us which can shape our lives and ministries. Each teaching session will be followed by a time for personal reflection and prayer. There will be plenty of space for solitude and quiet, and an opportunity for spiritual direction if desired.
Residential price: £395.00
Non-residential price: £245.00
Monday - Friday
Restore, Refresh, Recharge
Leader: Jack and Sandra Telfer
A retreat for mission and ministry partners. An opportunity to lean back into the Lord, meet him where we are and receive his love, grace and strength as we continue our journey with him. We will reflect on our connectedness to Jesus, our receptivity and our capacity to engage with him and his call for our lives.
Residential price: £490.00
Non-residential price: £295.00
July 2025
Monday - Friday
Watercolour Painting Retreat
Leader: Viv Walkington
Explore the surprising, and often unpredictable technique of `Wet in Wet` Watercolour painting, here in the beauty and tranquility of Penhurst. It`s a great way to be experimental with your compositions and any landscape, still life, or portrait will undergo transformation with this varied, and bold technique. With practice, you will master soft edges, interesting skies, and patterns that loosely suggest form in a semi abstract way, it is perfect for expressing quickly changing light, a special moment in time, and your excitement about what you see before you.
Residential price: £490.00
Non-residential price: £295.00
Monday - Friday
4 Night Silent Ignatian Guided Retreat
Leaders: Susan Oakes and Mandy Callf
Come and deepen your relationship with God on this silent individually guided retreat (IGR). You will have the time and opportunity to pay attention to God and be more aware of his work in your life, to pray and reflect on your life and to consider any decisions you have to make and priorities you want to set.
Residential price: £490.00
Non-residential option is not available
August 2025
Monday - Friday
Refilling Whilst We Pour Out
Leader: Hilary Murdoch
Do you sometimes feel as if you are pouring out of an empty cup? Well, this is an opportunity to refuel and refresh. The retreat is for anyone working in Christian charities, missions, ministries or churches and also those in caring professions and roles such as medics, teachers, social workers and parents. Anyone who spends their life pouring out to others and sometimes forgets to look after themselves.
Residential price: £490.00
Non-residential price: £295.00
Monday - Friday
Healing Life`s Wounds
Leader: Pat Marsh
A gentle retreat offering rest, refreshment and healing. Drawing on themes from Pat`s latest book we will take a tender look at the emotional wounds underlying our struggles and discover that they don`t have to become a barrier to living life in all its fullness. Combining practical exercises with image, symbolism and guided scriptural meditations, we will explore how to find healing and wholeness with Jesus. There will be times of rest and stillness and optional one-to-one ministry.
Residential price: £490.00
Non-residential price: £295.00
September 2025
Thursday - Sunday
Knowing You, Jesus
Leader: Tony and Jilly Horsfall
This retreat is built around the famous prayer of Richard of Chichester which expresses his desire to know Jesus more fully in the beautiful words: `to see you more clearly, love you more dearly and follow you more nearly.` Hopefully this reflects the longing of every follower of Jesus, and by spending time in the gospel narratives we can immerse ourselves in his life so that by being with him we become like him and learn to do what he would do. There will be times for worship, personal reflection and personal accompaniment if desired. We will be using material from the book `Knowing You, Jesus` (BRF 2023) copies of which will be available at a discount price of £15 at the retreat. Tony & Jilly Horsfall
Residential price: £425.00
Non-residential option is not available
October 2025
Monday - Friday
4 Night Silent Ignatian Guided Retreat
Leader: Dilys Threshie
Come and deepen your relationship with God on this silent individually guided retreat (IGR). An IGR offers you the time and opportunity to pay attention to God and to be more aware of his work in your life. It also gives the space to pray and reflect on your life, to consider the decisions you have to make and the priorities you want to set.
Residential price: £490.00
Non-residential price: £295.00
December 2025
Monday - Friday
Painting the Story of Mary
Leader: Carol Morgan
We will dwell in the story of Mary, mother of Jesus using drawings and watercolour to describe and listen more deeply to the events that mean the most to us. No artistic skill required, it is about encountering the story and allowing it to become prayer.
Residential price: £490.00
Non-residential option is not available
