We are seeking to make this a time away to recharge your relationship with God. We have a leisurely pace planned for our retreat this year and a speaker who will delight and disarm us with her genuineness and vulnerability while wrapping vivid illustrations around life-changing truths.  Alicia Britt Chole delivers her message with conviction (and a good dose of humor!) to awaken our hearts and minds to consider the intimacy and intensity of God.

Anonymous: the unrecognized riches in uncelebrated seasons of your life - Luke 4:1-11.

We all experience times of hiddenness, when our potential is unseen and our abilities unapplauded. Author Alicia Britt Chole reminds us in this retreat that though we often want to rush through these anonymous seasons of the soul, they hold enormous power to cultivate character traits that cannot be developed any other way. Jesus' "hidden years" were essential in preparing him for the wilderness temptation as our "hidden years" are also key in preparing us for life's many challenges.

Alicia Britt Chole speaks to leaders, professionals, women's groups, ministers, and college students concerning spiritual life, self-deception, conflict, disillusionment, commitment, choices, mission, and mentoring. Describing her personal pilgrimage, Alicia explains, Truth to me was dead, God had never lived, life was full of pain, and death was the end of life. Then, in 1983, the God who pursues those who deny Him interrupted my existence - He captured my soul with raw love. Two decades later, God's tangible friendship still amazes me. To deny His existence, I'd have to first deny my own."