The Retreat Experience

Renewal Retreats are individual, personalized retreats tailored around your chosen intention (need/longing) for getting away.

For each retreat we thoughtfully draw from the formation rich environment of the Asbury Seminary community and craft personalized days to move you slowly through formative experiences aimed toward your intention for the retreat.

Most retreats begin with a professional massage as well as a conversation with a personal trainer to discuss health and choose a gentle way to engage the body during the retreat.

The other elements of your retreat are chosen to fit your request. These might include a conversation with faculty around scripture, discerning prayer times, thoughtful leadership advice, sharing in the Eucharist and participating in chapel, fasting in solitude or delving into study.

Purposeful rest helped me keep haphazard

busyness at bay. As much as there is a “ministry of presence” maybe there

is also a “ministry of absence” (meaning it is good for me to get away). The fact that everything

[at the retreat] is cared for is a great blessing. After it is planned, you

just show up.- Leader on retreat

Thank you! Thank you! I am

leaving renewed, refreshed and healed. This week was what

I needed.- Pastor on retreat

I feel like I came away from this

retreat with a greater sense of purpose and motivation in

my spiritual life- Pastor on retreat

Retreat in a Formation Rich Environment

• Quiet hotel rooms available at Asbury Inn on Wilmore campus

• Work-out room, Olympic sized swimming pool and rural environment

• Library available for study daily except Sunday

• Chapel and daily Eucharist Monday to Friday

• Conversations with experienced leaders and gifted faculty

• Healing prayer sessions, discernment circles, listening prayer

• Spiritual direction to open and close retreat days

• Silence and solitude

• Your retreat room and retreat time is covered in prayer before and while you are at Asbury

RENEWALRETREATS

Contact Informationasbury.to/retreatasbury.to/alumni

Peg HutchinsDirector of Community Formation

859.858.2242

Tammy Cessna Director of Alumni and Church Relations

859.858.2306

Creating spaCe for Christian leaders in ministry and business to experienCe holistiC renewal

and spiritual direCtion

A joint ministry of the Office of Community Formation and Office of Alumni and Church Relations