Programme

March 2024

18 - 21 March
Monday - Thursday

Send My Roots Rain

Leader: Christopher Chapman

Send my Roots Rain will explore ways of allowing the life-giving water of the Spirit to soak down to your roots. Our roots lie in our story, in our experience of calling, and above all in abiding in relationship with our life-giving God. With the demands of ministry and the uncertainties that hang over the future, our roots can become dry. In caring for others we can neglect to look after ourselves. Yet every minister is also a disciple, called to the intimacy of companionship with Christ and continued growth in the Spirit. Our spiritual, physical and emotional health matters to God, who calls each one by name.

Residential price: £425.00
Non-residential price: £295.00

25 March
Monday

Ignatian Spirituality in Everyday Lives (1 of 3)

Leaders: Rev Peter Doodes and Fiona Bower

Is your spiritual life bogged down with the worries of the world? Do you feel as though your Christian journey is held back by personal issues and in need of a revival? If so then the uncomplicated way of Ignatian Spirituality is for you. Join us as we journey with him through the three days of an unlikely start and disaster, followed by realisation and change.

Residential option is not available
Non-residential price: £135.00

April 2024

12 - 14 April
Friday - Sunday

Crossroads Retreat *FULLY BOOKED*

Leaders: Jacqui Zanetti and Mary Monfries

"Stand at the crossroads and look. Look for the ancient paths. Ask where the good way is and walk in it and you will find rest for your soul." This retreat provides a unique space for people at a crossroads in life to pause, step back and reflect on where they are, the questions they find themselves in, what they really want and how to take steps forward.

Residential price: £270.00
Non-residential option is not available

15 April
Monday

Ignatian Spirituality in Everyday Lives (2 of 3)

Leaders: Rev Peter Doodes and Fiona Bower

Is your spiritual life bogged down with the worries of the world? Do you feel as though your Christian journey is held back by personal issues and in need of a revival? If so then the uncomplicated way of Ignatian Spirituality is for you. Join us as we journey with him through the four days of an unlikely start and disaster, followed by realisation and change.

Residential option is not available
Non-residential price: £135.00

20 April
Saturday

Being Mindful of Christ

Leader: Lauren Roskilly

Are you overwhelmed or stressed with the daily grind? Perhaps you just want some time out to recharge and reconnect with Christ? If you want to discover the presence and peace of the Lord on a new level, then this retreat is for you. You will learn how to turn your focus away from busyness, distractions, situations and difficulties and onto the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. There will be space to pray and worship together too.

Residential option is not available
Non-residential price: £45.00

29 Apr - 3 May
Monday - Friday

Praying with Jesus

Leader: Amy Boucher Pye

God meets us as we pray, and what better way to engage in this form of communication with the One who loves us than through exploring the prayers of Jesus from the gospels? Join Amy Boucher Pye as we delve into six of his seven prayers, from the Lord`s prayer through to his utterances on the cross. There will have plenty of time and opportunity to pray in creative and encouraging ways.

Residential price: £550.00
Non-residential price: £375.00

May 2024

20 May
Monday

Ignatian Spirituality in Everyday Lives (3 of 3)

Leaders: Rev Peter Doodes and Fiona Bower

Is your spiritual life bogged down with the worries of the world? Do you feel as though your Christian journey is held back by personal issues and in need of a revival? If so then the uncomplicated way of Ignatian Spirituality is for you. Join us as we journey with him through the four days of an unlikely start and disaster, followed by realisation and change.

Residential option is not available
Non-residential price: £135.00

24 May
Friday

Touching the Hem of His Garment

Leader: Carol Bostock and the Beauty from Ashes team

Jesus said He came to heal the broken-hearted... This Healing Encounter day led byt he Beuty from Ashes team, offers opportunity to engage with Jesus the Healer through worship, short talks, time for stillness and reflection, and optional one to one prayer ministry.

Residential option is not available
Non-residential price: £50.00

31 May - 2 June
Friday - Sunday

Praying In and Out

Leader: Val Freeman

To live well we need to be good both at breathing in and breathing out! And our life with God is the same. But it`s very human for us to over-focus on either praying in or praying out. This retreat looks at prayer in a broad sense and opens opportunity to find more balance in our life with God. We`ll explore how to receive from God as well as expressing ourselves to God; how to rest in as well as serving our loving Creator.

Residential price: £270.00
Non-residential price: £175.00

June 2024

14 June
Friday

Jonah - The Depth of God`s Grace

Leader: Rev Gary Cregeen

`Jonah and the Whale` could easily be viewed as a fairy tale or a fantasy - something that sits outside the main thrust of the Old Testament. But of course, it isn`t! It speaks of a sovereign God, who is rich in mercy, whose compassionate love for the lost then, remains the same today. Join us as we `plumb the depths` of this short but significant Old Testament book.

Residential option is not available
Non-residential price: £45.00

July 2024

9 July
Tuesday

One Day in Jesus` Ministry

Leader: Carol Bostock and the Beauty from Ashes team

Jesus said He came to heal the broken-hearted... This Healing Encounter day led byt he Beuty from Ashes team, offers opportunity to engage with Jesus the Healer through worship, short talks, time for stillness and reflection, and optional one to one prayer ministry.

Residential option is not available
Non-residential price: £50.00

September 2024

14 September
Saturday

Tell me more... Storytelling as spiritual...

Leader: Steve Gurr

In our being alongside others we often give space for people`s personal stories to be told and heard. The act of telling these stories, and our careful attention to them, is often the context for a person`s `knocking on the door` of the deeper questions of meaning and purpose, spirituality and faith. How might attentive listening and sensitive curiosity unlock these doors? How can we work in a more spiritually informed way to enable those we accompany to discover truth around meaning and purpose?

Residential option is not available
Non-residential price: £60.00

19 - 22 September
Thursday - Sunday

Behold Your God (Sept 2024)

Leader: Tony and Jilly Horsfall

Isaiah is packed with good things! Not only is it full of Jesus, with many passages pointing to him at the Servant of the Lord and coming Messiah, but it also calls us to enlarge our view of God so that we see him as the Sovereign Lord whose purposes are being worked out despite the opposition of the nations. As we read his beautiful words, hope rises within us as we are reminded that `the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea (11:9).`

Residential price: £425.00
Non-residential price: £295.00

October 2024

17 October
Thursday

You Spread A Table Before Me

Leader: Carol Bostock and the Beauty from Ashes team

Jesus said He came to heal the broken-hearted... This Healing Encounter day led byt he Beuty from Ashes team, offers opportunity to engage with Jesus the Healer through worship, short talks, time for stillness and reflection, and optional one to one prayer ministry.

Residential option is not available
Non-residential price: £50.00

25 - 27 October
Friday - Sunday

The Hidden Life of Trees

Leader: Brigid Main

Researchers see and hear trees communicating, helping and supporting each other via root systems and fungi. How can the trees help us deepen our prayer life and our own support systems? Come and spend a weekend in the beauty of autumn at Penhurst, discovering together how we can experience some of the underlying connectedness of all things in God`s creation and being open to God`s wild hospitality.

Residential price: £240.00
Non-residential price: £135.00

November 2024

4 November
Monday

And Jesus had Compassion on them

Leader: Carol Bostock and the Beauty from Ashes team

Jesus said He came to heal the broken-hearted... This Healing Encounter day led by the Beuty from Ashes team, offers opportunity to engage with Jesus the Healer through worship, short talks, time for stillness and reflection, and optional one to one prayer ministry.

Residential option is not available
Non-residential price: £50.00