This retreat is sponsored by The Center for Prayer and Spiritual Practice at Grace Episcopal Church.
Where Linwood Nature Preserve
When Saturday, April 5; 9 AM—3 PM
Cost $30, includes lunch
Contact Rev. Dr. Stuart Higginbotham
Register by April 1
Lent offers us a time for intentional focus as we reflect on how we live in the world. Do we live consciously or unconsciously? How do we live in our bodies? How do we live together on this planet? On Saturday, April 5, we will gather for a retreat day at the Linwood Nature Preserve in Gainesville to focus our attention on what it means to live an embodied life. We will gather to consider our community, church, and personal relationship “to this earth our island home.” How can we better live out baptismal covenant within the whole of God’s good creation?
We will explore how we can be in right relationship and learn from God’s creation, the land on which we live. Within our context, we will look at ways we can grow as stewards of the land that has been entrusted to us as members of Grace Episcopal Church in Gainesville, with the Chattahoochee River and Lake Lanier, the Oconee River Basin and watershed, and the ancestral land of Catawba, Creek, and Cherokee peoples.
“For the earth, forever turning,
For the skies, for ev’ry sea,
To our Lord we sing, returning
home to our blue green hills of earth.”
— Missa Gaia/Earth Mass, Paul Winter Consort
We are grateful to welcome Brian Sellers-Petersen as our retreat leader!
Brian lives in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains in Roslyn, Washington. He spent 30 plus years working for international relief & development organizations including 18 years with Episcopal Relief + Development. His coaching and consulting practice, Faithful Agrarian, focuses on agrarian ministry, churchland stewardship, and creation care. He also serves part-time as the Agrarian Missioner for the Diocese of Olympia and coordinator of Good News Gardens, a joint program of the Creation Care and Evangelism departments in the Office of the Presiding Bishop. He is author of Harvesting Abundance: Local Initiatives of Food and Faith.
LEARN MORELinwood Nature Preserve spreads over 30 acres of urban forest on the shore of Lake Lanier to serve the community with access to leisure recreation for human health and wellness and nature education for conservation of the environment.
You can explore more about the Linwood Nature Preserve at the link below. We will gather at the Ecology Center at 118 Springview Drive. Additional parking is located at the trailhead at 415 Linwood Drive.
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