Dave Battaino introduced the theme for the weekend, “Walking in the Light” and explained how the weekend would progress. We now introduced ourselves. At 7pm after our opening hymn “Praise with Joy the Worlds Creator, plus a couple more our first presenter Tom Taylor “The God We Never Knew” {Borg} and Luke 4:14-21. After we then broke for more song followed by social time.
Saturday morning after a good breakfast, Prayer and song we proceed into our Saturday program: Session (1) Paul Murdock leads us in “Prayer Study and Small group discussions. Session (2) Rev. John Harvey’s presentation of “Making Doctrine Real In Our Lives” Now is time for a few songs and time for lunch.
After lunch we gather again and Dave Battaino presents Session (3) “Mapping your Walk With Jesus and the 23rd Psalm. After this session we have free time until Supper. During this period of time we were able to go walking, Snow shoeing, etc.
After Supper we had a presentation by Lloyd Paul on “Men’s Ministries within the United Church. Lloyd is from the United Church main office in Toronto.
Sunday morning we had a pancake breakfast and the our Church service and communion. After lunch we said our farewells. All had very enjoyable week end. Planning to have our next retreat next year at the same time.
Ed Macdonald
