

Come Find Rest and Renewal
Summer Retreats for Pastors and Staff Ministers
As a pastor and minister, the months since March 2020 have been marked by challenges and demands unlike any you’ve seen in your lifetime. You’ve literally remade ministries on several days’ notice, moving from in person congregational life to entirely virtual life. And the coronavirus pandemic coexisted with the bitter and polarizing partisanship of our public life and shone new light on deep seeded racial injustices.
These times have required constant innovation and courageous and faithful agility. Exhaustion and isolation among ministers have set in, meaning an opportunity for rest, renewal and time spent with an authentic community of holy friends could make a real difference.
So, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has partnered with CBF state and regional organizations for a series of spiritual retreats from mid-June to early September created especially for ministers that will be held at sites across the Fellowship this summer.
The retreats are designed to offer opportunities for worship, spiritual practices, holy conversation with colleagues and time for quiet and rest. And they will not include intense educational programming or informercials about things happening in CBF life or prognostications about post-pandemic church.
The retreats are $25 to attend and your only other costs will be the cost of travel to get to the retreat center and excursions with colleagues.
Retreat registration in some locations is reserved for senior pastors.
Retreat Dates, Locations and Contacts
June 21-24, 2021
Heart Ridge Retreat Center
Sunset, S.C.
Open to all Staff Ministers
Contact: Jay Kieve
June 28-July 1, 2021
Mercy by the Sea
Madison, Conn.
Open to Senior Pastors only
Spouses Welcome
Contact: Phyllis Boozer
RETREAT FULL
July 12-15, 2021
The Retreat at Center Hill Lake
Smithville, Tenn.
Open to all Staff Ministers
Contact: Rick Bennett
July 19-22, 2021
Cedar Hill Retreat Center
Carlisle, Ky.
Open to Senior Pastors in Kentucky initially
Contact: Bob Fox
LOCAL REGISTRANTS
CONTACT BOB FOX
August 2-5, 2021
Poverty Point Reservoir State Park
Delhi, La.
Open to ministers from CBF Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi
Contact: Ray Higgins
LOCAL REGISTRANTS
CONTACT RAY HIGGINS
August 9-11, 2021
Lutheridge Conference Center
Arden, N.C.
Open to Senior Pastors only
Spouses Welcome
Contact: Scott Hudgins
RETREAT FULL
August 16-19, 2021
Callaway Gardens
Pine Mountain, Ga.
Open to all Staff Ministers
Spouses Welcome
Contact: Jody Long
RETREAT FULL
August 16-18, 2021
Saint Francis Springs Prayer Center
Stoneville, N.C.
Open to Senior Pastors only
Spouses Welcome
Contact: Scott Hudgins
RETREAT FULL
August 31- Sept 3, 2021
Capon Springs and Farms
High View, W. V.
Open to all Staff Ministers in Mid-Atlantic CBF initially
Contact: Sean Roberds
LOCAL REGISTRANTS
CONTACT SEAN ROBERDS
September 7-10, 2021
Mary and Joseph Retreat Center
Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.
Open to Church Staff Ministers in Texas, Oklahoma and the West initially
Spouses Welcome
Contact: Glen Foster