September 24thPastor and Spiritual Leaders Retreat 2025
September 24, 2025. Camp Assiniboia.
Cost: $50
Guest Speaker: Rev. Dr. John Boopalan, Canadian Mennonite University
Theme: On Death and Dying
“Even to your old age I am the one; even when you turn gray I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save” - Isaiah 46:4
Various kinds of loss, including death, surround us. It is the task of a pastor to hold mundane and weighty matters with sacred trust and find ways to evoke love amidst loss. The workshop will tackle this situation by making references to existing cultural frameworks that affect our understanding of death and dying, on the one hand, and the sharing of vignettes (personal and borrowed), on the other, to generate collective thinking about the topic.
Schedule:
9:30am Registration, coffee and snacks
10:00am Worship
10:30am Morning session with John Boopalan
12:30pm Lunch
2:00pm Workshops
3:00pm Closing