Our Values
Retreat
“But he [Jesus] would withdraw
to desolate places and pray.”
- Luke 5.16
From time to time, Jesus would find the need to withdraw from His ministry of preaching and healing. He would retreat to quiet places to pray. Most pastors know they need to follow Him to quiet places to help keep their priorities true and their faith vibrant.
George Whitfield and Vance Havner remind us why pastors need to reorient their hearts and minds through prayer:
“A dead ministry will always make a dead people, whereas if ministers are warmed with the love of God themselves, they cannot but be instruments of diffusing that love among others. This, this is the best preparation for the work whereunto you are to be called.”
- George Whitfield
“Too much of our orthodoxy is correct and sound, but like words without a tune, it does not glow and burn; it does not stir the heart; it has lost its hallelujah. One man with a genuine glowing experience with God is worth a library full of arguments.”
- Vance Havner
Prayer
Community
No one can encourage and exhort pastors like other pastors. The retreat house will be able to accommodate several pastors at a time. Although each will be experiencing their own retreat, they will eat together and interact, as they wish, throughout their stay.