Cultivate: Developing Formational Church Cultures

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It is one thing to engage your own formational journey.  It is another thing entirely to lead a local church through theirs.  We have found that a community of diverse but likeminded people willing to honestly and vulnerably wrestle with the right questions will help you best understand what God is asking of you in your unique context.  Our retreats support and challenge you while developing life-long relationships along the way.

Registration begins Monday September 27, 2027 at 4pm and the retreat ends Thursday September 30, 2027 at noon, 

The Jesuit Retreat Center in Los Altos, California.  300 Manresa Way, Los Altos, Ca 94022

The retreat center is 17 miles from the San Jose Airport and 32 miles from the San Francisco Airport. 

$500 for the retreat.  Each participant has their own room.  All meals and snacks are provided.  (This is a subsidized rate and further need based scholarships are available.)  

Pastors and church leaders who have engaged their own formational journey and are wrestling with how to cultivate spiritual formation in their local churches.  

• A facilitated space for you to become clear about what spiritual formation is and to discern what it might look like in your context. 
• A practical workshop
• A learning community

• A ‘one size fits all’ approach
• A pre-packaged system for you to implement
• A lecture

• Why does the church struggle to ‘become the pleasing aroma of Christ’? (2 Cor 2:15)
• Why do many formational programs seem to ‘bounce off the surface’ of my church culture?
• Is it possible for the church to change, and if so, what role am I to play in that process?
• Why does church culture often seem resistant to spiritual formation?

• Define spiritual formation in your context 
• Develop formational leaders who can develop others
• Discover and address ‘defeater beliefs’ in your context
• Discern the next ‘right step’ for your ministry
• Dig in for the long haul

Registration is facilitated by Monte Vista Chapel