The Spiritual Growth weekly beat.
From: Randy Prentiss
To: The Saints at Hopewell
“Connecting with your life purpose and Day Away”
Connecting with Life Purpose…
How has God shaped you, with your gifts and your experience, to serve in this world? Pastor Mark Mast is leading a seminar on living a missional life. This seminar will be based on Mark’s doctoral work, and is geared toward helping people discover and put into practice their own life’s purpose.
The next meeting is Tuesday evening, November 24, at Beekman Road. They meet in the Community Room at 7:30 and will run on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month.
Day Away …
I love the quote from Geri Scazzero, “silence is one of the languages of God.” 
In the second half of our series on Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, we emphasized the need for Christians to build practices into their lives that help them to connect with God. Two of the practices we mentioned were silence and solitude.
As a church we have developed a practice which helps us to gather, slow down, have some silence and solitude, and step into a spiritual focus. This is accomplished in our annual Day Away retreat.Our Day Away will include some time in groups, time alone with scripture and ourselves, and times of silence, prayer and nothing.
I hope you will join us. I have included the information below.
Day Away Retreat Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009
Starts with Continental breakfast at 9:00 a.m. We end at 4:00 p.m.
MT. ALVERNIA RETREAT CENTER in Wappingers Falls.
Continental Breakfast and LUNCH are PROVIDED @ $25 per person.
PLEASE SIGN UP on a Connection Card so we have an idea of how many people are coming.
If you don’t have the money, just come- we want you to be there. Let us know if you need a ride.
Please call or email me if you have questions. Mark the date now and I will give you more info next week.
Thanks,
Randy
