PROGRAM THEMES

Providing customized programs around your theme or any of the
following:
Adult Themes
Called to serve
Reflect on the
unique gifts you are given and how you are called to use them in God’s
service
Change and
transition
Process the
changes in your life, becoming more able to embrace your new life
through reflection on Christ’s Presence with you
Faith and trust
Increase your faith
through a continually evolving process of moving closer to God and
learning to trust as you do so
Forgiveness
Follow the steps to
forgiveness that come only through God’s grace and enable us to become
more free
God in nature
Reflect on the
magnificence of God’s creation amidst nature. May be done outdoors.
God’s
love/our response
Experience
God’s healing and freeing love and discern how you are called to respond
Healing
Attend to
the areas of your life that need healing and open them to God’s
restoring love
Hope
Experience the
optimism and peace that come from knowing and trusting God more fully
Joy
Focus on gratitude
to find the joy of God’s Presence in your life
Listening to God
Overcome the noise
and distractions that disturb your prayer to hear how God is speaking to
you
Loss and grief
Process the loss of
loved ones, employment, health, abilities as we age or the myriad other
losses in life by finding God’s Presence in your journey
Nourishing your soul/renewal
Connect more deeply
with God and become refreshed and renewed in body and spirit
One in Christ
Deepen your
connection with others as you pray and share together as members of a
staff, parish council, vestry, elders, small faith group, family or
group of friends
Peace
Find the peace that
comes from knowing and trusting God rather than the fear which surrounds
us in the world
Return to God
Accept the
invitation to draw closer to God with your whole heart
Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius
Journey through the
Spiritual Exercises experiencing the themes of the 4 weeks – God’s
unconditional love/our sin, our call to discipleship, God’s ultimate
expression of love, and our call to love as God does
Surrender
Go deeper with God
as you focus on your faith, increase your trust and surrender to God’s
will
Seasonal Themes
Advent/Christmas
Focus on the real
meaning of Christmas by waiting and preparing for Christ’s birth
Lent
Journey
with Christ from Palm Sunday through the Last Supper, Passion, Death and
Resurrection using Scripture and music of the season
Easter
Enter the
joy of the season as you journey with Christ from the Resurrection to
Pentecost
Ascension/Pentecost
Focus on your own
personal gifts and calling as a disciple as you experience Christ’s
Ascension into heaven and gift of the Holy Spirit
Mary
Journey with Mary as
she gives her complete “yes” to God and reflect on how you are
responding to God in your life
Youth Themes
Choices/Following God
Focus on the
everyday choices you make and their importance in following God … or not
How much
you need God
Consider
how important God is to you and what priority you place on that
relationship
How is God
calling you?
Reflect on
the unique gifts you are given and how you are called to use them in
God’s service