Grace Brethren pastors and leaders from around the midwest are gathered this week at the Maumee Bay State Park Lodge and Conference Center in Oregon, Ohio, for the Central Focus Retreat.
Clancy Cruise, pastor of Grace Church, Marysville, Ohio, and executive director of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, is leading the sessions, which are focusing on the pastor and his family. Participants arrived on Monday evening and enjoyed a time of fellowship and worship before dinner. Following the meal, they divided into affinity groups where they discussed questions related to the home and family life of those in full-time ministry.
Tuesday afternoon affords time for relaxation, meditation, and fellowship, and the group will come back this evening after dinner.
The retreat concludes Wednesday morning prior to lunch.
- Sandy Barrett, of the FGBC office, greets pastors at the Central Focus Retreat.
- Pastors get acquainted (or re-acquainted).
- Armando Padovan and Jim Superman visit at the Focus Retreat.
- Mike Yoder, Columbus, Ohio, and Kip Cone, Winona Lake, Ind., connect at the retreat.
- Sessions are being let by Clancy Cruise, executive director of the FGBC.
- Worship Time
- Worship Time
- Clancy Cruise shares about the importance to taking time for your family while in ministry.
- Participants divided into groups to discuss questions related to the pastor and his family.
- Participants divided into groups to discuss questions related to the pastor and his family.
- Participants divided into groups to discuss questions related to the pastor and his family.
- Participants divided into groups to discuss questions related to the pastor and his family.
- Participants divided into groups to discuss questions related to the pastor and his family.
- Participants divided into groups to discuss questions related to the pastor and his family.
- Participants divided into groups to discuss questions related to the pastor and his family.
- Tuesday morning began with worship time.
- More group discussion on Tuesday morning.
- More group discussion on Tuesday morning.
- More group discussion on Tuesday morning.
- More group discussion on Tuesday morning.
- More group discussion on Tuesday morning.
- More group discussion on Tuesday morning.