Group & Retreat Facilitation
Bethany House of Prayer offers retreat and group facilitation for churches, ministry teams, clergy, boards, and other community groups, both on our campus and in your own setting. We provide a supportive environment where communities can step away from daily routines, slow down, and attend to the life of the group. We are honored to accompany you on your journey toward rest, reflection, and renewal, creating space to listen for the Spirit together.
Our Approach
Retreats and facilitated gatherings are typically led by two experienced Bethany facilitators, reflecting our commitment to shared leadership and the gifts of diverse perspectives. Our facilitators are lay and ordained leaders from a range of ecumenical contexts, skilled in spiritual direction, contemplative practices, and congregational life.
We begin by listening. In conversation with your planning team, we seek to understand your hopes and intentions for the gathering, then design a theme and structure that are grounded, flexible, and responsive to your group.
Facilitated retreats may include:
Guided reflection and meditation rooted in Scripture and Christian tradition
Periods of quiet, prayer, and contemplative silence
Structured conversation and communal discernment
Times of worship, prayer, or liturgy
Shared meals and informal opportunities for conversation
Walking and quiet time in our natural surroundings
On our peaceful campus, our spaces and rhythms support both reflection and connection. Off campus, we bring the same attentive, prayerful approach to your setting, adapting thoughtfully to your space and schedule.
Please complete the form below so we can learn more about your group and how we can best support your retreat or gathering.
“We who have lost our sense and our senses – our touch, our smell, our vision of who we are; we who frantically force and press all things, without rest for body or spirit, hurting our earth and injuring ourselves: we call a halt.
We want to rest. We need to rest and allow the earth to rest. We need to reflect and to rediscover the mystery that lives in us, that is the ground of every unique expression of life, the source of the fascination that calls all things to communion.
We declare a Sabbath, a space of quiet: for simple being and letting be; for recovering the great, forgotten truths; for learning how to live again. ”