A professional development retreat offered in an atmosphere of pastoral concern to ministers of the Gospel serving in the Middle East on a multinational team.

You can access the Google Drive with the audio recordings (edited to protect privacy), transcripts, slides, teaching notes, and handouts for every session! So you can...

Uncover the dynamics of your relationship with God, with one another, and with yourself that can support your resilience in this season of life and ministry.

There's also a Planning Your Retreat Folder with:

  1. Sample schedule to structure a retreat right where you are over a long weekend.
  2. In a small group or by yourself in solitude.
  3. Recommend resources to enhance your retreat.
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However you participate, we hope you'll take away...

…an invitation to receive your actual life as a gift: –as your unique path to the Kingdom of God.

  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)

It is our conviction that 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.

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Geoff & Kriss Whiteman have served in vocational ministry since 2000 and been married since 2003.

  • Through their degrees from Asbury Theological Seminary (Geoff: MA in Marriage and Family Therapy and ThM in Missiology. Kriss: MA and PhD in Intercultural Studies) they completed the Resilient Global Worker Study.
  • Today, they apply the wisdom gleaned to serving ministers of the Gospel: Kriss as the Program Manager for the Advanced Research Program at Asbury and Geoff as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice.
  • The Whiteman’s reside in Wilmore, KY with their son and beagle and attend Holy Mother Queen of All Orthodox Church.
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Whatever you contribute to access this resource will be set aside for our ministry travel fund this year. So give what you can.

Your generosity now will make possible our "YES!" to the opportunities and resources that come next.

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