Retreats

Join us for a quilt enthusiast's weekend at Suttle Lake Camp. Lodge style accommodations and delicious meals will complement your weekend of enjoying the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show.

New this year is the Summer Quilt Expo with over 100 vendors at the Expo Center in Redmond; running in conjunction with the outdoor show. The cost to attend the expo is $15 and retreat attendants will receive a $3 discount coupon. 

To register visit here or contact Beth Dieker at (503) 407-0312.

Oregon Garden Resort in Silverton

• Returning to our first love. In a conversation with Bishop Michael, we’ll explore these questions: What do you love about being a follower of Jesus? What made you decide to follow Jesus? How has the following - and what you love - changed during your ministry? 
• The first task of leadership: working with others. One of the first things Jesus did was create a ministry team, a motley crew of disciples. Who is on our team? We will look through the lens of faith development and focus on who we have around us and how we lead them as followers of Jesus. 
• Talking with Jesus: a walking meditation. Taking advantage of some free time and the lovely setting of the Oregon Garden, we will set forth on an optional walking meditation to converse with Jesus (and, if we choose, others) about our ministry team and our own sense of self as leader. 
• The seven positions of leadership. Transformational leaders need to know, and be able to move fluidly between, several distinct leadership positions. We’ll look at stories of Jesus in these positions and explore our own experiences. 
• The three faces of compassion: Discovering and using tenderness, fierceness, and mischievousness to transform lives and congregations. Explore the crazy wisdom of Jesus in order to understand the dynamics of transformation. 

Listening for Guidance is the theme of our 2013 retreat. Led by Cammie Bella and Beth Dieker, this retreat will be focus on how might we hear God’s guidance. We all pray or have prayed sometime. We give thanks. We ask for things. We cry for help. How many of us were taught how to listen for guidance though? Many of us spend much of our lives in a “one way” conversation with God. No one taught us how to quiet our own chatter and listen for God’s voice - how to tune into God’s “channel”. We will explore some of the attitudes and practices which help us tune our “antennas” into the “God station”. As we practice what it means to be living in alignment with God’s desires for us, we come to know more and more what an abundant, whole-hearted life is all about. How to be the person God is drawing out of us and let go of the masks and armor we have constructed around us. How to be open to joy and let go of fear.

Alton L. Collins offers hotel-style accommodations with all linens provided. Participants will enjoy Chef Guillermo’s delicious northwest-fresh meals. Special diets are accommodated with advance notice.  The cost for the retreat is $165. Scholarship assistance is available by contacting Beth Dieker at the diocesan office: (971) 204-4124 or bethd@diocese-oregon.org.

You may register online at http://www.collinsretreatcenter.org/events.html or call (503) 637-6411 to register by phone. The retreat center is ADA accessible.

Location: St. John, Milwaukie

All youth in grades 6 through 12 invited to attend this great event! Outreach, Convention, and the Game Truck await you! Bring a friend and be ready for fun and faith-in-action at the Oregon Food Bank.

Remember to register by October 1 and save $5!

Downloads:

• Registration & Health Form
• Youth Covenant
• Adult Registration & Health Form
• Photo Consent
• Poster (Color)
• Poster (Black & White)