www.acom.edu.au
Robyn Wrigley-Carr has been a lecturer in Spirituality at the Australian
College of Ministries (ACOM) for the past 6 years, teaching courses in
spirituality and leading both student retreats and spiritual formation
groups. She studied spirituality at Regent College, Vancouver and Wycliffe
Hall, Oxford University. Robyn met her husband, Gavin, at Regent College.
They have 3 daughters and live in Sydney.
(Early Bird Session)
Come and be refreshed before NYMC! This retreat will provide time and space
to slow down and connect with God before the bustle of the conference
itself. We will explore a variety of prayer practices and ways of being
attentive to God from a range of Christian traditions. You will be invited
to personally engage in these practices and connect with God in new ways.
Opportunities for spiritual direction, prayer ministry and corporate worship
will also be provided. The intention is both to provide a space for
spiritual refreshment before the conference, and to suggest some practices
and resources for making spiritual retreats an ongoing part of your ministry
practice.
(Wednesday 8:30am)
How do we protect and nurture our relationship with God between the busy
secularity of our post-modern 21st-century world, on the one hand, and the
pressures and demands of Christian ministry, on the other? Spiritual
disciplines are our little exercises for the soul, keeping us spiritually
limber and attentive to what God is doing about us. This elective will
explore a number of disciplines from various Christian traditions that can
inform and supplement our traditional Christian practice; including Sabbath
keeping, retreating and spiritual direction. We will consider the place of
spiritual disciplines both in our own lives and the lives of those we lead.
(Wednesday 2:00pm)
This elective seeks to introduce us to some new forms of prayer in order to
challenge, enliven and refresh the way we pray. We will briefly consider
some key principles about prayer, examine the way we tend to pray, and then
be introduced to a whole variety of different prayer practices from within
various Christian traditions (e.g. contemplative prayer, the 'Jesus Prayer',
centring prayer, Ignatian prayer, the prayer of the heart, the prayer of
examen, Christian meditation, lectio divina, etc.) It is hoped that this
elective will not only spur on our own lives of prayer, but will enable us
to find new ways of helping those we lead into a greater creativity,
intimacy, and diversity in their own lives of prayer.
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