RETREAT RESOURCES
Before Retreat
INTRODUCTORY QUESTION
To help us listen with you and get to know you better, please ponder and answer this question. Answers will be shared with the group at the beginning of your retreat to help facilitate discussion.
CORE VALUES
The core values you choose are your core values personally - not yours for the church. God has brought this particular group together as elected leadership for a purpose in this moment of your church's history. Let's find out what collection of values God is leading us to discern and use. These will be shared with your group.
SPIRITUAL GIFTS INVENTORIES
Please complete the NUMBERS inventory ahead of our retreat. Your results will be shared with your group at your retreat, but your individual answers are confidential and will only be visible to our staff.
You may complete the following additional inventories as you feel called. They will not be part of your retreat report, but our Executive Director will review them with you individually. You may complete these online or download the pdf, then scan and email it to our Executive Director at: valori@partnershipforrenewal.com.
During Retreat
MATTHEW 6:24-33
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24 “No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love
the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God
and wealth. 25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will
eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more
than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they
neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds
them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 And can any of you by worrying
add a single hour to your span of life? 28 And why do you worry about clothing?
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, 29 Yet I
tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. 30 But if
God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown
into the oven, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 Therefore
do not worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will
we wear?’ 32 For it is the Gentiles who strive for all these things; and indeed your
heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But strive first for the
kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you
as well.
Matthew 6:24-33
New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
24 “No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love
the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God
and wealth. 25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will
eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more
than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they
neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds
them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 And can any of you by worrying
add a single hour to your span of life? 28 And why do you worry about clothing?
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, 29 Yet I
tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. 30 But if
God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown
into the oven, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 Therefore
do not worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will
we wear?’ 32 For it is the Gentiles who strive for all these things; and indeed your
heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But strive first for the
kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you
as well.
Matthew 6:24-33
New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
After Retreat
SURVEY
After your retreat is complete, we invite you to return here to provide your thoughts on our process. We appreciate your feedback, which allows us to continually adapt and improve. Please take a few moments to complete this brief survey.