One Day with God
This Saturday, February 2, 10am – 4pm
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Register by Jan 30, 2008 @ 5pm: Email Anna Lee at alee@nyfaithjustice.org
Please provide your name and contact information (email / cell phone number)
Registration Fee: $15 (includes entrance fee and cost of lunch)
We would be delighted to have you join us for a retreat day with New York Faith & Justice! The registration fee of $15 can be paid upon arrival at the Metropolitan Museum at 10am.
To note, this Feb’s retreat, we will incorporate the spiritual discipline of “spiritual friendship.” We suggest that each participant come with a friend or colleague , if possible, with whom they can be vulnerable and share the day’s journey together in a road-to-Emmaus type situation (This will be based on Luke 24:13-35 where two friends walk with Jesus).
Once a quarter (every 3 months), NYF&J hosts a retreat of silence from 10am to 4pm. It helps us practice spiritual disciplines of silence, solitude, reflection, listening and learning how to enter into Sabbath rest, in the midst of a frenetic city center. This is especially important for activists who are known more for our “doing” than our reflection on who we are, and who we are becoming. One Day with God seeks to teach us as a community seeking God’s justice to experience God’s shalom in order that we might center ourselves back on the Jesus from whom our activism flows.
This Feb, we’ll be going to Metropolitan Museum of Art and inviting the Holy Spirit to speak to us through scripture and through the arts. We begin the morning together with corporate prayer and will be sent out into the museum to reflect and rest on God in pairs. Afterwards, we receive a handout to use as a tool to guide us through the day. We reconvene for lunch and debriefing and then are sent back into a time with Jesus. We reconvene at the end of the day to debrief and seal what God has told us in corporate prayer. While the attendee retreats, we will pray over the attendees that they might receive all that God desires for them to receive from God. We believe these retreats are an act of faith: to believe that God desires to meet with us and give us good gifts, and that the world that we juggle will not fall apart if we enter into God’s rest.
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