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The Center offers a variety of events for adults of all ages. Click on any of the titles above to find a description and a link for online registration.
Our professional staff is available to offer resources and consultation to organizations planning their own events at the Alton L. Collins Retreat Center.
Contact: alcrc@cascadeaccess.com
or call us at 503-637-6411
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February 28/April 17/October 30 |
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LARC is an ongoing series of worship resrouce events designed for clergy and laity to attend together. Nationally-known leaders from across the country facilitate intense, one-day workshops offering practical tools for anyone involved in worship leadership. Regardless of your particular style of worship, LARC will help you understand how to integrate creative arts and solid theology into weekly worship that has passion and integrity. Each event begins at 9:00 am and concludes at 4:00 pm, with a bonus overnight and evening with the clinicians as an optional add-on preceding the program.
Click here for the flyer.
Click here for the brochure.
Register: Click here for more information and registration.
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February 28, 2012 |
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LARC is an ongoing series of worship resrouce events designed for clergy and laity to attend together. Nationally-known leaders from across the country facilitate intense, one-day workshops offering practical tools for anyone involved in worship leadership. Regardless of your particular style of worship, LARC will help you understand how to integrate creative arts and solid theology into weekly worship that has passion and integrity. Each event begins at 9:00 am and concludes at 4:00 pm, with a bonus overnight and evening with the clinicians as an optional add-on preceding the program.
Click on the title above to go to our LARC webpage for more information about the schedule and clinicians. Note that all registered participants for the Feb. 28 event will receive a free copy of the new Worship & Song music resource, compliments of the United Methodist Publishing House!
Click here for the flyer.
Click here for the brochure.
Register: Click here for more information and registration.
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March 19-22, 2012 |
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Opening, a Contemplative Prayer Retreat for Clergy |
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This retreat will provide a sacred space for clergy to connect prayerfully with God as frequently and deeply as possible. Each day will include times of corporate worship as well as ample opportunities for each participatn to experience individual converation with God. All the sacred spaces at Collins, indoors and out, will be available throughout the retreat for prayer and meditation.
Click here for the flyer. (Available soon.)
Register: Click here for more information and registration.
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April 17, 2012 |
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Description:
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LARC is an ongoing series of worship resrouce events designed for clergy and laity to attend together. Nationally-known leaders from across the country facilitate intense, one-day workshops offering practical tools for anyone involved in worship leadership. Regardless of your particular style of worship, LARC will help you understand how to integrate creative arts and solid theology into weekly worship that has passion and integrity. Each event begins at 9:00 am and concludes at 4:00 pm, with a bonus overnight and evening with the clinicians as an optional add-on preceding the program.
Click on the title above to go to our LARC webpage for more information about the schedule and clinicians
Click here for the flyer.
Click here for the brochure.
Register: Click here for more information and registration.
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May 5, 2012 |
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International Labyrinth Day Celebration |
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This event begins at 10 am and includes an introduction to the practive of walking a labyrinth as well as opportunities to share reflections of our experiences with this ancient spiritual practice. The Peace Path at the Collins Retreat Center has three elements to it: the labyrinth, a Peace Pole at the center, and our herb garen between the walking paths. Come engage in this multi-sensory experience that is sure to nourish your soul, and enjoy the hearty lunch that will sustain your body.
Click here for the flyer. (Available soon.)
Register: Click here for more information and registration.
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July 6-8, 2012 |
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Wesley Week 2012--Missional Wisdom: Holistic Evangelism in the Wesleyan Tradition (Laity)
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Claiming our Wesleyan heritage, the Collins Retreat Center is holding its first Wesley Week in 2012. We've selected evangelism as our inaugural topic. The presenter will be the Rev. Dr. Elaine Heath, the McCreless Associate Professor of Evangelism, Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. Dr. Heath has been working with establishing intentional communities of faith as one aspect of evangelism. This event is geared toward laity (with a clergy program offered July 9-11)
Click here for the flyer. (Available soon.)
Register: Click here for more information and registration.
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July 9-11, 2012 |
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Wesley Week 2012--Missional Wisdom: Holistic Evangelism in the Wesleyan Tradition (Clergy) |
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Claiming our Wesleyan heritage, the Collins Retreat Center is holding its first Wesley Week in 2012. We've selected evangelism as our inaugural topic. The presenter will be the Rev. Dr. Elaine Heath, the McCreless Associate Professor of Evangelism, Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. Dr. Heath has been working with establishing intentional communities of faith as one aspect of evangelism. This event is geared toward clergy (preceded by a laity program July 6-8)
Click here for the flyer. (Available soon.)
Register: Click here for more information and registration (soon!).
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July 22-25, 2012 |
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Taize Prayer Retreat |
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A retreat experience grounded in the music and patterns of worship from the Taize prayer community in France. There will be opportunities for group theological reflection, engaging both mind and heart (Freeing Theology), as well as one-on-one spiritual conversations available. One-on-one enneagram work will also be offered, all in the sacred setting of the Collins Retreat Center.
Click here for the flyer. (Available soon.)
Register: Click here for more information and registration.
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September 10-13, 2012 |
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On PAR* with God (*Practice, Act, Reflect) |
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The setting for this retreat will be three golf courses near the Collins Retreat Center: a par-three course, and two 18-hole courses. On the courses as well as at the Center, we will explore the meaning of PRT: Practice, Act, Reflect. In any endeavor we must practice the skills necessary to accomplish the task, we then must act based upon our practice, and fainlly to improve upon our action we need to take time to reflect. We will apply these principles to the game of golf and to our walk with God during this retreat.
Click here for the flyer. (Available soon.)
Register: Click here for more information and registration.
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September 18-20, 2012 |
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A Time to Sow |
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A lectionary reading week for preachers. Time for reading, study, group discussion,a nd reflection on scriptures and themes for every Sunday in the coming year. Includes a large binder of resources.
Click here for the flyer. (Available soon.)
Register: Click here for more information and registration.
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October 25, 2012 |
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Great Hymns of the Faith III |
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Begins at 10:30 am in the chapel with a morning of singing classic hymns both old and new. Learn the stories behind your favorites, and explore what it is that makes a hymn "great." Followed by a delicious luncheon prepared by the Center's Chef Guillermo.
Click here for the flyer.
Register: Click here for more information and registration (soon!).
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October 30, 2012 |
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LARC is an ongoing series of worship resrouce events designed for clergy and laity to attend together. Nationally-known leaders from across the country facilitate intense, one-day workshops offering practical tools for anyone involved in worship leadership. Regardless of your particular style of worship, LARC will help you understand how to integrate creative arts and solid theology into weekly worship that has passion and integrity. Each event begins at 9:00 am and concludes at 4:00 pm, with a bonus overnight and evening with the clinicians as an optional add-on preceding the program.
Click on the title above to go to our LARC webpage for more information about the schedule and clinicians
Click here for the flyer.
Click here for the brochure.
Register: Click here for more information and registration.
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To view all events at Alton L Collins and the other camp locations of Camp & Retreat Ministries
visit gocamping.org/calendar
a ministry of Camp and Retreat Ministries
of the Oregon-Idaho Conference of the United Methodist Church
problems with this web page? please email alcrc@relianceconnects.com
updated
1/30/12
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