Solo Flight Singles Ministry Retreat

Sign up now for Solo Flight’s Retreat

Calls are already coming in from around the country for Christ Church’s third annual Solo Flight Singles Retreat -- “Becoming Like Jesus: A Weekend of Experiencing God’s Grace,” led by Chris Webb, president of the Christian church renewal organization Renovare.

With that kind of advance interest, there’s sure to be a large and varied group of people at the Cerveny Conference Center at Camp Weed, March 13-15, 2009. If you’re single -- never married, divorced or widowed -- be sure to sign up now for what promises to be an enjoyable and enriching weekend of spiritual discovery and shared fellowship.

The focus of the retreat is to explore spiritual disciplines that lead to a more mature life and faith. Father Bob Morris, who has heard Chris Webb speak, describes him as “an earthed individual” who is “funny, engaging, young and very spiritual.”

The weekend’s program includes activities and social time, all set amid the serene, “Old Florida” surroundings of Camp Weed, where you can hike through the woods or relax in a rocking chair. At the 2008 retreat, attendees created dramatic cross-shaped collages from “found” materials -- who knows what this year’s retreat will create?

As Solo Flight Singles Ministry has grown at Christ Church, from 20 active members in 2006 to more than 300 today, so have its activities and shared experiences in service, sociability and spirituality. Solo Flight members serve breakfast in the parish center one Sunday a month, take kayaking trips, help build Habitat homes and gather for social events.

“This is a church that takes singles seriously,” says Holly Scholl, one of Solo Flight’s founders at Christ Church. And singles can become as seriously involved as they wish in any or all Solo Flight events. Sign up now for the retreat and become better acquainted with your spiritual self, your fellow singles at Christ Church and others attending the event.

Cost for the retreat, including room, board and all materials, is $190 per person double occupancy, $275 single occupancy. The deadline to sign up is Feb. 1, 2009. For more information, contact Terry Totman at 285-7390 x 231 or terrytotman@christepiscopalchurch.org.

Solo Flight Singles Ministry members attending the 2008 spiritual retreat created large, distinctive “cross collages” that were displayed on the Christ Church campus. Sign up now for the 2009 retreat, “Becoming Like Jesus: A Weekend of Experiencing God’s Grace,” March 13-15 at Camp Weed.

By Kathy Cramer