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As we accompany young people on their spiritual journey in a post-pandemic era, how we minister continues to grow and expand. It is a more holistic approach attending to the spiritual, mental, physical, and social well-being of those us minister with and alongside.
At times the question of, “Am I doing enough?” emerges. Rhythms of Renewal, a retreat for youth leaders, offers the opportunity to respond to this question. This retreat will provide participants time and space to sit with God in the beautiful retreat setting of the Canterbury Hills Camp in Dundas, ON (close to Hamilton) with others involved in youth ministry in the Anglican Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada. Participants will build connections, reviving themselves and their ministries in unanticipated ways.
To explore the theme of Worship, Wonder, and Play, we will be led by Adventureworks in cooperative and team building games that create community and connection (with the opportunity to participate in a ropes course!). For our worship and reflection, we will be led by retreat leader Pastor Anne Anderson (Chaplain at Martin Luther University College). Participants will be able to enjoy the wonder of God’s creation in the area around the camp through hiking and discovering the many waterfalls in Dundas, ON.
For a participant reflection from our 2024 event, read “Rhythms of Renewal” by Children’s, Youth, and Family Ministry Coordinator Alison Steele (Anglican Diocese of Niagara).
April 24th-27th, 2025 (arrival in Pearson International airport by noon, in Hamilton International airport by 2pm on April 24th, departure after 4pm on April 27th)
Note – The Camp doesn’t offer bedding or towels. If this is an issue, please note that on the registration form below.
For Anglicans – We are inviting one Youth Leader per Diocese to attend. On-the-ground costs (transportation, meals and accommodation) will be covered by the General Synod. Travel will be the responsibility of the Diocese or Parish. If a Diocese wants to send more than one Youth Leader, we will consider applications (given even representation from Dioceses across the country). The full costs of sending a second Youth Leader will be the responsibility of the Diocese or Parish. If you are unsure if you are the person for your Diocese, please reach out to your Diocese or to Sheilagh McGlynn at [email protected].
For Lutherans – If you would like to attend, please contact Deacon Gretchen Peterson at [email protected]. Youth leaders from the Eastern Synod are encouraged to reach out. There is the possibility of financial assistance for local youth leaders to attend.
Cost for the weekend $400.
The deadline for receiving applications is March 25th, 2025. Please DO NOT book travel until your participation has been confirmed by Sheilagh McGlynn or Gretchen Peterson. Space at the retreat is limited, so we want to ensure there is balanced participation across the country.
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40 “Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. 41 Whoever welcomes a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and whoever welcomes a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive the reward of the righteous, 42 and whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple—truly I tell you, none of these will lose their reward.”
12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing, but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. 17 I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.
15 When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my lambs.” 16 A second time he said to him, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Tend my sheep.” 17 He said to him the third time, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” Peter felt hurt because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” And he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep. 18 Very truly, I tell you, when you were younger, you used to fasten your own belt and to go wherever you wished. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will fasten a belt around you and take you where you do not wish to go.” 19 (He said this to indicate the kind of death by which he would glorify God.) After this he said to him, “Follow me.”
33 “No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a cellar or under a bushel basket; rather, one puts it on the lampstand so that those who enter may see the light. 34 Your eye is the lamp of your body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but if it is unhealthy, your body is full of darkness. 35 Therefore consider whether the light in you is not darkness. 36 But if your whole body is full of light, with no part of it in darkness, it will be as full of light as when a lamp gives you light with its rays.”
8 When Jesus had come down from the mountain, great crowds followed him, 2 and there was a man with a skin disease who came to him and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.” 3 He stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing. Be made clean!” Immediately his skin disease was cleansed. 4 Then Jesus said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”