Retreats and Events

Advent Text Study	Wellderhostel	Staff Leadership
Curriculum Week	Dependable Strengths	Process Preaching
Lenten Text Study	Immigration	Lutherhostel

Advent Text Study - Information coming soon

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Wellderhostel

November 4-7

Our 2nd Wellderhostel offers a variety of workshops, field trips, worship, fellowship and afternoon free-time for rest and relaxation. Our leaders are Dr. Dale and Annie Anderson, two health care, re-fired “characters”  who set the stage for a PAIN-LESS, AGE-LESS, JOY-FULL, FUN-FILLED WELLDERLY celebration in the Lord! They will share these basic skills:

• Theater skills of the Happy ACT...Body, mind, spirit
• Aerobics, Neurobics, MINIrobics. Humor, Laughter and Music
• Little HO-HO Holistic Medical skills to Youth-full-ize and to promote energy and reduce pain
• RE-Fire,  RE-gain and Maintain-the-Brain.

Wellderhostel begins on Sunday Nov. 4 with Registration at 3pm and ends with Lunch on Wednesday Nov. 7

Cost: $345 per person-double occupancy. Includes tuition, class materials, all meals and lodging
*Private lodging is $20 extra per night, subject to availability.

Commuter Rate: $215 includes tuition, class materials and all meals.
Daily Commuter Rate: $75 includes tuition, class materials and meals.

Register & Pay Registration for Wellderhostel

(Pay the package you will attend: $345, $215, or # Days x $75)

 

 

Staff Leadership Events

Staff Formation: November 12-15, 2012

Head of Staff: November 15-18

Who should come - Pastors and lay staff who are decidated to the formation of healthy staff teams.  The focus of the first event will be on:

• Developing healthy, mission-oriented staff teams
• Discovering the gifts of staff members
• Exploring your ministry contexts
• Managing conflict and polarities

Second event will focus on:

• Developing missional leadership
• Leading healthy ministry teams
• Nurturing staff and lay leaders
• Embracking conflict as opportunity

Click here to download the brochure in pdf format

Head of Staff Schedule

Staff Formation Schedule

Call or email Cyndy to register - 480.488.5218, cyndy@spiritinthedesert.org

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January is a busy time in the desert! The weather is beautiful, the snowbirds are back, the tourists are roaming around and airline flights and car rentals fill up quickly.  Don’t wait – Register today so you can guarantee your room and air transportation/car rental if needed.
SPECIAL INCENTIVE:  
Register by August 1, 2012 for any program in January and receive 15% off!

New in 2013 - Curriculum Week @ Spirit in the Desert
January 4 - 11

Special rates if you come to more than one event.  All registration rates cover tuition, materials and meals.  Lodging is extra except for ALL INCLUSIVE specials

ALL INCLUSIVE: PARTICIPANT AND NON-PARTICIPATING SPOUSE
Tuition and fees for all 4 programs, 8 nights lodging & all meals - $995

We will send an email message with ideas for outings/shopping/museums—etc-etc,
to all those whose registration for Curriculum Week includes a spouse.

ALL INCLUSIVE: PARTICIPANT ONLY (double occupancy) - $675

Private Lodging for $20 more per night subject to availability

 

OTHER OPTIONS FOR ATTENDING MULTIPLE PROGRAMS

REGISTRATION FEE:

1.  If you attend all four events your registration is just $400 for the week.

2.  Attend "Process Preaching", the "Lenten Text Study", and "Immigration and the Bible, Jesus: Walking with the Migrants", registration is $260
3.  Participate in "Process Preaching" and the "Lenten Text Study" for a registration of $235

LODGING: Except for the specials listed above, $45 double occupancy, $75 single occupancy per night

 

Register and pay your deposit
(one-half of the fee for multiple program options)

Each day during Curriculum Week will begin with Morning Worship and Evening Vespers. Sunday evening will feature a special Worship with Bob Ravenscroft and Music Serving the Word!

YOU CAN ALSO CHOOSE TO ATTEND ONE PROGRAM

Dependable Strengths

January 4 - 5

Sally Peters 

Discover Your Call workshops use the Dependable Strengths® process to invite you to discover what God is calling you to be! Knowing your unique  pattern of dependable strengths helps you to:

• Offer your best towards a program or project
• Make better choices and commitments
• Have a clearer sense of how to live out God’s call in your daily life
• More easily recognize opportunities for growth and development
• Learn to spend leisure time doing something “just for the love of it”

Begins with noon lunch on the 4th and ends at 4:30 on the 5th.

Cost: $165 includes tuition, and meals.  We have a special deal on lodging - $45 + tax for double occupancy, $75 for a private room.  The best rates in Arizona in January!!  Contact Cyndy to book your room

Register & Pay $165 for Dependable Strengths

 

Process Preaching

January 7 - 9

Jerry Larson

PROCESS PREACHING ® is a system for delivering sermons freely without reading a manuscript or simply speaking off the cuff. The system recognizes the tremendous difference between the written world of communication and the oral world. Preachers bring to the seminar a sermon manuscript which they will be taught to speak freely. During the seminar preachers learn how to convert their written words to oral communication. This is done principally by learning a certain kind of oral rehearsal. Using this system preachers are able to deliver their sermons freely using oral language to express the meaning and ideas of the written text.

Students are asked to bring with them a manuscript for a sermon on which they are currently working.

Format: Lectures, extemporaneous preaching demonstrations, group discussion, and an individual session with each student. A manual will be provided for each participant.

Jerry Larson, D.Min., Luther Seminary, was a parish pastor for 39 years serving rural, small town, and suburban congregations. He retired in 2004 from Calvary Lutheran Church, Edina, Minn., where he continues to serve as pastor emeritus.

Tuition: $210 includes meals.  Lodging is extra.  We're offering a special lodging rate for this program - $75 per night per person for a solo room or $45 per night per person for a double occupancy room.  Such a deal!!

Begins Monday at 1:30 p.m. and ends at noon on Wednesday

Registration Deadline - December 1, 2012.  This program is open to the first 15 registrants and usually fills up. Register NOW!

Testimonial from Process Preaching 2012 -

“I just wanted to let you know I've been speaking freely for the last three sermons I've delivered. I have had several parishioners compliment my connection with them through the sermon and the passion with which I deliver it now. 100% positive feedback from them! I can never go back to bobble head preaching. Personally, this process is the missing piece I've been looking for. It's a game changer for me. Frankly, before the workshop, I was bored with preaching. Now I am energized because it is challenging to write the sermon and then prepare to speak it freely. I'm not able to sleep on Saturday nights because I'm so ready to get into the pulpit because, in spite of the seriousness of the preaching event, it's fun! Thank you for your willingness to give this tool to preachers. The Church is strengthened because of your efforts.”

Register & Pay $210 for Process Preaching

 

Lenten Text Study

January 10, 9:00 - 4:00

Julia Fogg

“Crossing the Desert on the Way to Resurrection—developing a migrant’s perspective”.  We are all migrants, invited to the table with Christ by the Grace of God. Lent reminds us of our journey as migrants, people who cross boundaries, negotiate borders and thirst in the desert on the way to the promised land of Easter resurrection. Listening to our Lenten texts and developing a migrant’s perspective challenges us to open ourselves to God’s hospitality and to embrace the journey as strangers in a strange land. During Lent we become Exodus people, leaving behind our known slavery and following God’s steps. Intentionally making this spiritual journey can also cultivate in us compassion and a heart for those Christians who must cross political and social borders as both migrants and immigrants.

The Rev. Dr. Julia Lambert Fogg is Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity and Chair of the Religion Department. In April, 2008 the senior class named her Professor of the Year. In her teaching and research, Dr. Fogg explores the ways in which culture and social practices shape community expressions of the gospel. Working with students, Dr. Fogg focuses on immersion pedagogical techniques. She utilizes service learning methods to teach both "theory" and "practice" in "Paul's letters," "Introduction to Islam," and "Liberation Theology."

She also leads a two-week travel seminar to Turkey in May (2007 & 2009). In her investigation of Paul's letters, especially Philippians, she argues that as Paul reflects theologically on community practices, he describes salvation in terms of a present and future, material and spiritual, social communion between Christ and his followers. Although Dr. Fogg specializes in Pauline studies, her work on the social and political dynamics of communities has drawn her into LA life. On Sundays, she preaches and presides at Messiah-Messias Lutheran Church in Pasadena, a diverse bi-lingual, immigrant congregation, where she works with at-risk youth on leadership skills and educational aspirations. This summer, Dr. Fogg will be teaching biblical perspectives on immigration in the contemporary church at Holden Village, a Lutheran Retreat Center in the Cascades of Washington state. Dr. Fogg currently is pursuing her research interest in immigration, the Bible and the church, as well as her interest in Islam and helping Christian communities understand their Muslim neighbors.

Register and Pay $45 for the Lenten Text Study

 

Immigration & The Bible, Jesus: Walking with the Migrants

January 11, 9:00 - 4:00

Julia Fogg (see bio above)

“Jesus: Walking with the Migrants”The Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia of the World Council of Churches called the Bible the “ultimate immigration handbook” in an attempt to bring awareness to the plight of immigrants around the world. Every year during the Passover, Jews celebrate their migration out of Egypt and slavery and try to understand their immigration through the desert. Jesus, too, is a migrant, a refugee shortly after his birth. When he does go home he takes up his teaching in the tradition of the migratory prophets who followed God across all sorts of boundaries. In this study we will look closely at Matthew 1-2 and Luke 4 to see how these two gospels set Jesus squarely in immigrant camp like Moses’ people, Elijah and Elisha. What does Jesus’ invitation to “follow me?” mean for us? How might walking with immigrants open our eyes to Jesus’ continued prophetic presence in our midst?

Register and Pay $45 for the Immigration & The Bible

 

Lutherhostel 2013

March 10 - 15, Terry Fretheim - "God, Creation, and the Problem of Suffering"

March 17 - 22, Marty Stortz - "Discipleship in the Key of John"

Mary Preus & Tom Witt will lead worship and music BOTH weeks.

More details to follow but if you want to register now please go to our payment page and pay your deposit.

 

 

All inclusive $650 for one week and a special $1250 for both weeks per person, double occupancy.

$350 for commuters.

Deposit is $300 for on campus guests and $175 for commuters.

 

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