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Renewal Retreats

Published Date: July 28, 2014

Note: Information regarding Renewal Retreats has been updated. View our current information on the Renewal Retreats page.

Renewal Retreats about creating space for Christian leaders in ministry and business to experience holistic renewal and spiritual direction.

The Retreat Experience

Renewal Retreats are individual, personalized retreats tailored around your chosen intention (need/longing) for getting away.  For each retreat we thoughtfully draw from the formation-rich environment of the Asbury Seminary community and craft personalized days to move you slowly through formative experiences aimed toward your intention for the retreat.  Most retreats begin with a professional massage as well as a conversation with a personal trainer to discuss health and choose a gentle way to engage the body during the retreat.  The other elements of your retreat are chosen to fit your request.  These might include a conversation with faculty around Scripture, discerning prayer times, thoughtful leadership advice, sharing in the Eucharist and participating in chapel, fasting in solitude or delving into study.

Retreat in a Formation-Rich Environment

  • Quiet hotel rooms available at Asbury Inn on Wilmore Campus
  • Work-out room, Olympic-sized swimming pool and rural environment
  • Library available for study daily except Sunday
  • Chapel and daily Eucharist Monday to Friday
  • Conversations with experienced leaders and gifted faculty
  • Healing prayer sessions, discernment circles, listening prayer
  • Spiritual direction to open and close retreat days
  • Silence and solitude
  • Your retreat room and retreat time are covered in prayer before and while you are Asbury

Pricing

$400 for 3 nights or $500 for 4 nights

Contact Peg Hutchins, Director of Community Formation, at 859-858-2242 or Tammy Cessna, Director of Alumni and Church Relations, at 859-858-2306 for more information.

Responses from Alumni

“Thank you!  Thank you!  I am leaving renewed, refreshed, and healed.  This week was what I needed.” – Pastor on retreat
“Purposeful rest helped me keep haphazard busyness at bay.  As much as there is a “ministry of presence” maybe there is also a “ministry of absence” (meaning it is good for me to get away).  The fact that everything [at the retreat] is cared fr is a  great blessings.  After it is planned, you just show up.” – Leader on retreat
“I feel like I came away from this retreat with a greater sense of purpose and motivation in my spiritual life.” – Pastor on retreat

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4 responses to “Renewal Retreats”

  1. Neil Haney says:

    I am an alumnus of Asbury Seminary class of 1987. I am trying to schedule a renewal retreat.
    My phone number is 937.206.7252.

    Blessings in Christ!

    Neil Haney

  2. Paul j Lawrence says:

    I am interested in the 5 day retreat starting July 16th.

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