This year s women s retreat is scheduled for Sept. 17th-19th and the theme this year is to be Deep in our Heart . . The retreat will be lead by Canon R. Carter Echols who is Canon Missioner and Director of Metropolitan Ministries at Washington National Cathedral. Sister Barbara Jean of the Sisterhood of the Holy Nativity will also be in attendance again this year. Canon Echols will lead the women through several biblical stories, teaching us to understand women s relationships with Jesus in biblical times as well as in our own lives.
Registration forms are available through the church office.
The Men s conference is Sept. 24-26 with Terry Anderson as the keynote speaker for Friday night. Bob Wyatt will lead the Saturday sessions. Terry was the Chief Middle East Correspondent for the Associated Press in 1985 when he was captured in Lebanon and held prisoner for 7 years. His story should be intriguing and inspirational and unlike any heard before at the ECM Conf. Bob Wyatt is the Missioner for Evangelism and the Ministry of the Baptized in the Diocese of Maryland.