This year’s retreat will be one night shorter and will begin at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, Aug 8th and continue until Sunday, Aug 9th, after morning worship.

Taking into account that 2009 has been declared the Year of Astronomy, we decided to place our retreat under the theme, Heaven & Sky. We will try to have a hobby astronomer accompany us so that we might be introduced to the wonders of the nocturnal sky. Most of our activities will still be outdoors, including our open-air worship service on Sunday morning.

The hotel reservations have been made already, but there are still two ways for you to participate in the retreat.

For those of you who still want to camp, you are more than welcome to do so. You will just need to pay the daily fees for the use of the center, including the meal plan. These are not exorbitant prices. I have the numbers if you are interested.

Also, we invite anyone who just wants to come up for the day to consider coming. Again, the same fees and meal prices will have to be paid. I will be going up in a separate car on Saturday and coming home in the evening, so I have space for two people. Please let me know if you would like to join me.