First Presbyterian’s
2011 Women’s Retreat
Friday evening, September 30th
and
Saturday, October 1st
at
Camp Loughridge
The Retreat
Friday evening begins at 6:30 pm with introductions and worship. Eat before you come—we’ll provide dessert!
For those interested in staying over, you are invited to stay the night (at no additional cost), sleeping in one of the newly renovated upstairs bunkrooms. Bring your own pillow, linens, and towels.
Saturday begins at 8:00 am with a continental breakfast followed by a morning devotional at 8:45. Our retreat will end at 6:30 pm.
The retreat will focus on three aspects of spiritual friendships:
Friendship as an Act of Trust: This is a time of developing friendship; learning about each other and, with God’s help, discerning the nature of the friendship.
Friendship as an Act of Love: This is a time of deepening friendship; exploring what threatens and strengthens friendships—both the tragic and the mundane things—and what God teaches us about these.
Friendship as an Act of Worship: This is a celebration of what God does in our relationships; creating, growing, sustaining them.
Our Speaker
Kristy Rodgers, Commissioned Lay Pastor at First Presbyterian Church, Bartlesville, followed a circuitous path into ministry. She spent 25 years as an Air Traffic Controller, both in the U.S. Air Force and as a civilian, before family needs precipitated a move to Bartlesville in 2006.
Ordained as an Elder at FPC Altus in 1991, she was active with the youth at that church for over a decade. She joined the staff at FPC Bartlesville as Director of Children’s Ministry in 2006, and was commissioned as a Lay Pastor in 2009. She has been serving the church in that capacity since that time, (functioning as an Associate Pastor), as well as preaching regularly at FPC Hominy, and occasionally at FPC Cleveland. She is the current moderator of EOP’s Resourcing Congregations Committee, and a Core Group leader with Bartlesville’s Community Bible Study class.
She and her husband, John, have three sons: Keenan, a 2009 graduate of OU, Taylor, a sophomore at OU, and Aaron, who will be a freshman at the Academy of Contemporary Music at UCO.