Theme: “Loving Well: Community, Healing, and Resilience”

Faculty:  Elaine Heath and Jeanine Heath-McGlinn

Contact: David Davies, Retreat Leader – or Adam Lassen, Registrar

Sponsors: Great Plains Conference UMC and Upper Room Ministries

A limited number of scholarships will be available.

The Five Day Academy is open to all laity and clergy and is ecumenical.

More information in the button below, with online registration coming in the Fall of 2023.

Faculty Reading Recomendations:

Elaine A. Heath, The Mystic Way of Evangelism, Revised 2nd Edition (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic), 2017.

Dennis Linn, Sheila Fabricant Linn, Matthew Linn: Good Goats: Healing Our Image of God (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist), 1993.

Jeanine B. Heath-McGlinn, Elaine A. Heath: Loving the Hell Out of Ourselves (a memoir), (Birch and Alder), 2022.

Henri J.M. Nouwen: Can You Drink the Cup? (Ave Maria Press), 1996, 2006.