A DIY retreat you can use alone or with a small group - right where you are.
You can access the full content of a professional development retreat presented to a multinational team serving in the Middle East.
What You'll Receive:
- Audio recordings + transcripts (edited for privacy)
- Our teaching notes + slides
- Handouts for every session
All the resources you need to step into the themes of resilience, wholeness, and holy surrender—right where you are.
Plus, Plan Your Retreat with Ease:
And to help you get started, we also include:
✅ A sample schedule for a long weekend retreat.
✅ Guidance for retreating alone or in a small group.
✅ Recommended resources to deepen your experience.
This DIY retreat is perfect for...
The quieter days of Advent or Great Lent or any season when you sense God calling you to slow down to listen well so your inner compass can recalibrate.
When ever you participate, we hope...
Your retreat invites you to step away and pause in order to return and receive your actual life as a precious gift.
As you unpack the themes of this retreat:
We hope you'll discover how your actual life is your unique path to the Kingdom of God.
That's really the heart of missional resilience.
1 - This is a pilgrimage of hope that invites you, however imperfectly, to a less hurried life, in order to safeguard what's most precious to you in this season of your one and only life.
2 - While the particulars will be uniquely yours, the process often involves a turning toward (vs. turning away or against), – turning toward God, turning toward one another, turning toward yourself, turning toward your life.
3 - This turning toward is not the end in itself; but a means of grace – an offering, by which you can receive Jesus' resilience, his resurrection life alive in you. His resilience does not make you immune from the hardships and deaths we all encounter along our way.
4 - Rather our story of missional resilience often resembles climbing a spiral staircase. As we climb higher we encounter greater wholeness blossoming out of our brokenness, alienation, and sin. Which leads to stewarding greater pain, hardship, and lament. Which leads to greater holiness…
5 - Our story reveals how we are like the kintsugi pot, each broken and beautifully repaired with gold: "for we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago." (Ephesians 2:10)
6 - We're convicted these good things you've being created anew in Christ Jesus for is your unique participation in Jesus' mission.
That's why we need His resilience - that's what we must safeguard.
Each session and every activity in this DIY Retreat is intended to help you
uncover and safeguard the missional resilience required to live it where ever you are.
About Your Facilitators
Geoff & Kriss Whiteman have served in vocational ministry since 2000 and married since 2003. Together they completed the Resilient Global Worker Study during their graduate work at Asbury Theological Seminary. They live in Wilmore, KY with their son and beagle and worship at Holy Mother Queen of All Orthodox Church.
Give What You Can. Receive What You Need.
There is no set price. Whatever you contribute to access this retreat goes directly into our ministry travel fund for the coming year.
We suggest you give $100 so that your generosity now will enable us to say ‘Yes!’ to future care, teaching, and support opportunities—especially for ministry families serving far from home.”
Give what you can. Receive what you need. And may Christ meet you on the way.