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This report covers the formal program only, omitting the apple picking, scenery, hiking, singing, bonfire, visiting the alpacas, movie, sharing meals, and other wonderful events shared this fall by about 20 adults and 4 children.
Our facilitator for the weekend retreat was Allison Randall, from New England Yearly Meeting, sent to us by Friends General Conference traveling ministries program. She was traveling with her elder, her husband Bill Walker. Our theme for the weekend was twofold: “Getting to Know You, and Getting to Know Us”. The hope of the planning committee was that we could explore our meeting as a group: who are we, what do we believe, what do we care about, where we are going, what do we need to change, as well as spend some time allowing individuals to answer some of the same questions about their own spiritual journey, with the hope that addressing both sets of questions, as a supported group, would give us direction and vision, both individually and as a group.
We began on Friday night after supper with a worship sharing led by Matt Scanlon, based on a reading “on dreams” by Howard Thurman. This led us into a place of gentle and hopeful sharing and openness.
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