Here are resources mostly geared for weekend retreats. Some can be easily adapted for adult
study sessions.
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3252 Family Enrichment/Leader’s Manual $12.95
The Family Enrichment Workshops is an eight-session curriculum designed to enrich and strengthen your family life. It is written for families with adolescents. Each family member participates fully in the various components that include: home study, devotional exercises, lectures, discussions and experiential exercises.
3308 Caring For God’s World $12.95
edited by Kristen Kemper
This is a one-of-a-kind resource book for instilling a commitment to earth stewardship in people of all ages. Its idea-filled pages are conveniently divided into three major sections: Children’s Activities, Youth Activities, and All Church Activities. There are in-depth outlines for Vacation Church School programs, plays, banner projects, worship services, art projects, youth programs, games, a puppet skit, ideas for producing an ecology fair, instructions for starting a recycling collection depot, a meditation and more.
3318 Stonework: A Weekend Retreat $ 6.50
by Jane Grant
The goal of this intergenerational weekend retreat is to build bridges between people and a foundation for your group. Throughout the retreat, participants will hear and reflect upon various biblical passages about rocks and stones so that individual spirituality is enriched and their sense of community is strengthened both with one another and with God. The five sessions designed to span Friday evening through Sunday morning culminate in a worship service “Lord, My Rock and Redeemer.”
3324 The Love Feast $ 5.95
by Robert Stowe
This intergenerational two-day retreat focuses on the agape feast of the early church and what this type of meal meant to early Christians. Each of the four sessions deals with a different aspect of this celebration and includes related activities. It offers participants an opportunity to explore the meals in the Bible, interpret a biblical feasts for their lives, and experience an agape feast.
3337 3 Avenues Of Spiritual Development $ 6.50
by Robert V. Dodd
Here is a guide for holding an adult retreat focusing on spirituality. Because most people live their lives in perpetual motion and really do not know how to relax or enjoy leisure time, opportunities for rest and recreation are built into the suggested retreat schedule. In such a context, the demands of hectic schedules are set aside so that God’s Word might speak to us. Written as a three-session retreat, it can be adapted for an adult class in the local church.
3340 The Sower and the Seed $ 7.95
by Elaine Ward
This is a five-session adult retreat based on the parable in Mark 4:38. The parable unveils the true loyalties and devotion of the hearer. Jesus gives hope to the peasant farmer...a bumper crop by which he can eat, pay rent, tithes, debts, and perhaps even buy the land itself, and be released from the bondage to his landlord. Liberation from worries, wants and wishes! From what do you need liberation? What is the kingdom of God like for you? There is structure which allows for spontaneity and flexibility.
3341 Encountering God $ 7.50
by Elaine M. Ward
Out of our longing for God, we look for ways to be open to God, to encounter and experience a relationship with God, and to be `’fed’’ by that relationship. This book can be used for an adult retreat, an adult class study or for private reflection and devotion. This guide uses several techniques to assist the reader in finding God: storytelling, journaling, group dynamics and prayer. It suggests looking for God in silence, service, imagination, scripture, love and creation.
3342 Angels Among Us $ 6.95
by Elaine M. Ward
In the Bible angels come in different shapes and different metaphors. Today some come as dreams, some as children, books or pets, nature, prayer or whatever opens us to seeing and hearing with trust in God. Angels are the poetry of the deep realities of the religious life.In prayer we encounter angels. No one has ever seen an angel, but we may feel their presence with our spirit and touch them with our heart. In the four sessions they will cover the biblical stories and their own stories of angels. What do they say? What is their meaning for us? How should we interpret them?
3345 Christian Healings: Again and Again $10.95
by Elaine M. Ward
Christian healing is a healing of the imagination, a healing that integrates serenity and action, a search for wholeness, meaning, courage and strength. This book is written for all of us who need healing “again and again.” This book of six full sessions can be used for personal reflection, adult retreats, or adult study classes. The many “To Do” exercises will help you explore your personal insights for your spiritual healing.
