Jesus' Way of Healing The College of Preachers 3510 Woodley Rd. This conference will explore the impact of desert grief on the life and work of the preacher. Preachers not only experience loss through the lives of their parishioners but in their own lives as well.
Most preachers experience many losses that are never acknowledged.
Those too, accumulate and take their toll on the heart. Each preacher inevitably goes through personal or professional deserts of loss and the disorientation of grief in his or her ministries. Each of us cuts our own path through the desert as we travel the backroads of the soul to a clearing of new life. The desert spirituality developed along with the journey can offer rich insights and discipline for nurture for the life and work of the preacher. This conference will assist the preacher to connect the insights gained along the journey's way to her and his own preaching.