Spiritual Formation
Groups:
Awaken and MyJourney
In these spiritual formation programs, you will meet with a cohort of other individuals once a month for one day to learn, pray, share and review spiritual growth assignments from the previous session.
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See below for full descriptions of each group experience.
Awaken is for you if you:
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Feel like you have gone to sleep in your faith
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Have strayed or become lost on the way
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Yearn for something more
The time may be ripe for a journey back to the heart of God!
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The mission of the Awaken Program is to awaken you to the love of God in everything, everywhere and everyone.
Awaken is designed to help you intentionally create space in your life to listen to God’s voice. It is a focused time, away from your day-to-day life, when you can stop and do something completely different.
AWAKEN
Overview
Through an intensely practical and closed community experience, you will embark on a full-day retreat once a month, for nine months. Each retreat will focus on a theme around the growth and nurturing of the soul. Each retreat includes impactful teaching, study of Scripture, spiritual practices, group spiritual direction and reflective readings. Past participants have said it is an experience like none other which transformed their lives and impacted the lives of those around them in profound and lasting ways.
Between retreats
Each month you will have a seminal book to read and reflect upon. Some of these books are from current authors, while others are chosen from our rich heritage of spiritual writers and leaders of the faith. There will also be guided opportunities for you to engage in spiritual practices that have been chosen to facilitate your awakening to a deeper intimacy with God.
Journey's end
At the end of the Awaken Program experience, you will have learned how to attend to your soul so you can better care for the souls of others. Transformed people can lead and serve in transformed ways — with greater vitality and joy — for they have encountered their Lord and Savior in the depths of their soul.
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AWAKEN PM:
New group starting January 10 for working individuals. Meets every other Wednesday, 6pm-9pm, January-May.
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Cost: $750 for nine group sessions. Does not include cost of books. 12 spots available.
Online registration available soon. Please email sylvia@thewayhomeministries.com to reserve your spot.
AWAKEN:
Awaken starts September 6, 2024, meeting on the first Friday of the month from 8am-4pm, until May 2025.
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Cost: $899 for nine full-day retreats. Does not include cost of books. 12 spots available.
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Online registration available soon. Please email sylvia@thewayhomeministries.com to reserve your spot.
MyJourney
The mission of the MyJourney Program is to prayerfully explore, with a group of trusted companions, different aspects of your life’s unique journey, observing God at work in and through it.
There is power in a story — in YOUR story. Your journey with God is wrapped up in — and inseparable from — your story.
We will embark on a journey into the various seasons and stages of our lives, where we see evidence of God in every chapter. With each telling of our story, we are invited by God to notice and remember. This process opens the door to transformational “God encounters”.
MyJourney
Overview
MyJourney is designed to help you intentionally develop a deeper awareness of yourself and God. Each full-day session, one per month, is a focused time to remember, record and reflect on the activity of God in your life.
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The OneLifeMaps Portfolio is the creative visual tool we’ll use to help you invite God into the process of reviewing your story. There are eight visual maps that we will journey through, one each month. You will be led through completing each map with Guidelines for Listening to God, Lingering Questions to prompt the soul, plus scripture and prayers to strengthen and support you on your journey.
Points of light and truth in your life will become visible to you in grace-filled ways. You might discover gifts God has uniquely equipped you with; or God may shine a light on a past experience He wants to talk to you about, in light of who He is calling you to be in the present.
Between retreats
Each month you will have a visual map to work on. Each map has an accompanying Resource Booklet with everything you need to complete the map.
During retreats
In addition to sharing with others what God has shown us in the development of that month’s map, there will also be guided contemplative moments during each retreat, during which we engage in spiritual practices that have been chosen to facilitate your journey to a deeper awareness of God.
Journey's end
At the end of the MyJourney experience, you will see that your journey, with all its peaks and valleys, is a wonderfully intentional story that you and God have written together. There have been defining moments and significant relationships that shaped you spiritually and relationally into who you are today. And God has uniquely prepared you for the chapters still to be written.
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What is the cost?
MyJourney Groups start in January and September 2024, meeting monthly.
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Cost: $499 for nine full-day retreats; includes the OneLife Maps Portfolio. 12 spots available.
MYJOURNEY JANUARY:
Meets the fourth Friday of each month, 8am-4pm, starting January 26, 2024.
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Cost: $499 for nine group sessions; includes the OneLife Maps Portfolio.12 spots available.
Online registration available soon. Please email sylvia@thewayhomeministries.com to reserve your spot.
MYJOURNEY SEPTEMBER:
Meets the second Friday of each month, 8am-4pm, starting September 13, 2024.
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Cost: $499 for nine group sessions; includes the OneLife Maps Portfolio.12 spots available.
Online registration available soon. Please email sylvia@thewayhomeministries.com to reserve your spot.