Saturday, August 18, 2007

History of the Retreat

The first class retreat was held in April, 2002. The speakers were Pastor Jim and Marge Emery. The theme was Marriage A-Z. Most of our class did not know them too well, but formed a bond by the end of the weekend that motivated the class to approach Jim to be our class teacher more than a year later.

The second retreat featured speakers Pastor Scott and Heidi Bixby. The theme was Survivor - Making your Marriage Outlast. We did survivor-type activities to drive the point home.

The next retreat was led by Tom and June Hammond. We took a look through Ephesians at some foundational principles of the Christian life.

The fourth retreat's theme was "The Amazing Race." The speakers were Pastor Jeff and Robin Halsted. That's where this group picture was taken.



The following pics show our Amazing Race activity involving canoes, blindfolds, bananas and Berends.




3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Looking at the pictures from last time reminds me what beautiful weather we had - and that was October! Can we make sure we have that kind of weather again so we have no doubts about tent camping?

Foundations Retreat said...

Yes. We will use massive cannons to fire chemical agents into the clouds to "seed" them so all the rain will fall prior to the retreat.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for putting all this stuff together. It is great - like a walk down down memory lane.