Camp Mennoscah Church Retreat 2017

Date: Saturday, May 6 – Sunday, May 7

Times: Arrive anytime after 1 PM on Saturday; Departure following lunch on Sunday afternoon

Location: Camp Mennoscah (9458 SE 40 St, Murdock, KS 67111)

Lodging and cost: Information about lodging and costs are available on the registration forms in the Gathering Place and in mailboxes.

To register on-line, click on this link:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSexXkllgh6AqpLSD5Tr2lrtlomoHmm-GKm68XL-RdYWWnmTBw/viewform?usp=sf_link

Retreat Schedule

Saturday, May 6:

1 – 5:30 PM: Arrive, settle in, optional activities (canoeing, fishing, disc golf, archery)

2 – 4:00 PM: Optional service activity

5:30 – 6:30 PM: Cookout

6:50 – 8:15 PM: Hayrack Ride

8:30 PM: Popcorn under the shelter

9:00 PM: Camp songs under the shelter

9:30 PM: Campfire @ Campfire Pit

Sunday, May 7:

8 – 9:00 AM: Breakfast

9:45 AM: Hymn sing prelude

10 – 11:00 AM: Worship

12:00 PM: Lunch

1:00 PM: Clean up and head home (or stay and play disc golf)!

 HOSPITALITY: A Space where change can take place

During month of February, the focus of our worship turns to “hospitality.”  While the word “hospitality” is often associated with images of “entertaining guests,” we will reflect on hospitality as the spiritual practice of welcome.    We begin by remembering that our welcome of “the other” is rooted in God’s unconditional welcome of us.

Anchoring our reflection these coming weeks are these words from Henri Nouwen (in Reaching Out):  “Hospitality means primarily the creation of a free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy.  Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer space where change can take place.”   

Looking ahead…

February 5:  Hospitality:  God’s Welcome

Sermon: Dawn Yoder Harms;  Psalm 36:5-9; Luke 7:36-50;   Romans 15:7

Reflection question:  When have you met God in the stranger?

Communion;   Worship music: Chancel choir

February 12:  Life-Changing Hospitality 

Sermon: John Tyson;  Acts 10:1-48

Reflection question:  When have you experienced hospitality as “a space where change takes place?”

Worship music:  Chancel Bells

Noon:  Guess who’s coming to dinner?

February 19:  Obstacles to hospitality

Sermon:  Dawn Yoder Harms;  Luke 10:38-42

Reflection question:  What gets in the way of your extending welcome/hospitality to others?

February 26:  Welcoming “strangers in the land“

Sermon:  John Tyson;   Deuteronomy 10:12-13, 17-19;  Exodus 23:9

Reflection question:  How might we extend God’s welcome as we interact with migrants in our community?

Worship music:   Jr. Choir