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Lumberjack Service Retreat
May 17-22, 2010
Every even year (2010, 2012…) campus ministry sponsors a domestic service trip to Hancock, Michigan to serve with Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly (Little Brothers), a non-profit agency. Little Brothers provides many services for the rural, aging poor, including free firewood, which reduces the burdensome heating bills of northern Michigan winters. Little Brothers supplies the saws, splitters, gasoline and wood through relationships with local logging companies…Rockhurst University students supply the muscle. A can-do attitude, rather than woodcutting experience, is all that is required. Contact Bill Kriege at 816-501-4855 for more information.
Frosh Get-A-Way
August 27-29, 2010
“The talks about changing relationships struck me, because I’ve really been struggling with that lately.”
This weekend retreat serves as fertile ground for first-year students to build friendships, conjure dreams for their next four years, and identify attitudes and lifestyle choices that facilitate growth and goodness. We go to Tall Oaks Retreat Center in DeSoto, Kansas, about 40 minutes from campus. Imagine open spaces, towering trees and hearty meals, and you’re on the right track. A day of teambuilding on the low ropes challenge course filled with fun and new friendships, while evenings simmer down with quality time around the bonfire or games of spoons, mafia, signs and four-square. Prayer and reflection are sprinkled throughout the weekend, with Rockhurst sophomores provide leadership and share of their own first-year experiences. All frosh are encouraged to attend Frosh Get-A-Way!
Emmaus Retreat
February 2011
“This retreat was different from others because it was not go, go, go. It was more laid back and focused on us as an individual”
How can I recognize God in my daily life now that I’ve lost that “retreat high”? Where is the resurrected Lord calling me? What images of God do I carry?
Get ready to unpack questions like these at Rockhurst’s Emmaus Retreat! Student leaders and campus ministers invite Emmaus retreatants to first remember and reflect upon their experience of falling in love with God during previous retreats like Retreat on the Rock, TEC, Search, Kairos or Awakenings. Retreatants are then encouraged to imagine new ways to recognize, honor and live their relationship with God. The weekend retreat is designed to be more tranquil with less talks and more time for individual reflection. Savior of the World Pastoral Center, located in rural Kanssas about 24 minutes form campus, is the retreat site. Students who have previously participated in a Kairos-style retreat are invited to experience Emmaus!
Retreat In Daily Life
Lent 2011
“I felt like I related to Jesus’ struggles in my own life at this time, and it gave me hope that things will get better.”
For centuries, the Jesuits - baptizers of millions, missionaries to the masses, and founders of schools around the globe, including Rockhurst University - have used prayer and spiritual direction as a formula for spiritual growth. The Retreat in Daily Life invites retreatants into a similar rhythm, all within the context of her or his normal daily life. For the season of Lent, retreatants commit to 30 minutes of private prayer each day and a 30 minute on-campus meeting with a spiritual director once each week. These meetings with a director are scheduled at times convenient for each individual’s schedule. If you are a Rockhurst student, staff, alumni, or faculty who considers yourself too busy for a typical weekend retreat or are simply looking for a way to enter more deeply into relationship with God this Lent, consider the Retreat in Daily Life!
SuperNatural Christians Retreat
May 2011
“I continue to work on accepting… that I am simply one part of this world despite what my ego might try to get me to believe.”
This six-day backpacking retreat invites participants to celebrate and explore their relationship to Earth in light of their Christian faith. Set in Upper Michigan's Sylvania Wilderness Tract, an 18,000-acre, 34-lake example of God's pristine creation, the SuperNatural challenges retreatants physically (hiking and canoeing), mentally (studying currentenvironmental issues) and spiritually (new prayer forms). Daily visits from bald eagles and nightly concerts from several families of loons provide added inspiration. Open to all undergraduate & graduate students, faculty, staff and alumni. All are welcome: Eagle Scouts, backpacking tenderfeet, and everyone in between!
Retreat on the Rock
TBA
“I thought I was the only person who doubted God’s love; I know now I was wrong.”
Retreat on the Rock is a weekend charged with God’s love for us! Student retreat leaders share moving talks, facilitate intimate small group discussions, and lead transformative prayer experiences. The goal of Retreat on the Rock is to provide retreatants with the opportunity to view both themselves and God from a new perspective, thereby deepening their relationships with God and others. Savior of the World Pastoral center, located in rural Kansas about 25 minutes form campus, accommodates this weekend retreat. Retreat on the Rock is open to all students.
Campus Ministry Retreats are open to students
of all religions and faith traditions.
For more information about retreats at Rockhurst
University, contact Cindy Schmersal at 816-501-4303. |
