Creation Care Contemplative Retreat

LOGISTICS:
WHAT to BRING:
 If not successfully uploaded to application, please bring a hard copy of your COVID-19 shots and booster(s). Camp Marshall requires all adults to be vaccinated.
 Comfortable clothing & sturdy footwear. Recommend rain gear & including layers so as the temperature changes you stay comfortable.
 If you are staying in Canterbury House: You will have a room with a (bottom) bunkbed with a mattress and will share a bathroom by gender. Bring your own pillow and bedding and towels. Robes and slippers recommended.
 5 PM Social Time: You are welcome to bring drinks and ‘evening nibbles’ to share before dinner. The Episcopal Church requires at least 50% of beverages at adult gatherings offered be non-alcoholic.
 If you pray with prayer beads, reflect in a journal, or have any other items from home that are important to your spiritual life, feel free to bring them.

Logistics:
 To Register (1) Go to your computer browser. Either type “Camp Marshall, Montana” and click on the website, or type in link: https://www.campmarshallmontana.org/ . (2) At top of website is a green strip with options including: “Programs/Retreats.” Click on “Programs/Retreats” then on the scroll down menu click on “Adult Retreats & Conferences.” (3) Scroll down until you see “Creation Care.” To register, click on the register button. Answer the questions and pay online or send a check to the Episcopal Diocese of Montana. You can also download information about the retreat.

 If you have Questions
o About this retreat contact “Creation Care” Facilitator, Rev. Valerie Webster vwebster587@gmail.com (406) 579-3980
o About Camp Marshall or registration questions please contact Executive Director, David Campbell at the camp office (406) 319-5041


 NOTE:
In order to register, you are required by the Diocese to have your COVID-19 Vaccination initial series. If you could not upload your vaccination record, when registering please bring a hard copy of your vaccination record with you.

 Lodging CM: We have 11 lower bunk beds available:
o Shared room (cost with meals $108) [Rm 3/4 (3); and Rm 9 (2)]
o Single room (cost with meals $128) [Rm 1; Rm 2; Rm 5; Rm 6; Rm 7; & Rm 8]

 Camper: We can provide space for up to 5 Campers on the Camp Marshall property (cost for trailers is $20 per night or $40 for the weekend (meals will be $63 per-person staying in the trailer)

 Staying locally and joining for meals and retreat (cost $63). In the past, retreatants have stayed at the Red Lion Inn (406) 872-2200, located a 20 minute drive away at
 209 Ridgewater Drive, Polson, MT 59860.

Grounding Texts:
• Sacred Earth Sacred Soul: Celtic Wisdom for Reawakening To What our Souls Know and Healing the World By John Philip Newell ©2021

“John Philip Newell shares the long, hidden tradition of Celtic Christianity, explaining how this earth-based spirituality can help us rediscover the natural rhythms of life and deepen our spiritual connection with God, with each other, and with the earth. Newell introduces some of Celtic Christianity’s leading practitioners, both saints and pioneers of faith, whose timeless wisdom is more necessary than ever. [ . . . ] Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul offers a new spiritual foundation for our lives, once centered on encouragement, guidance, and hope for creating a better world.” Amazon review

The Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor, Episcopal priest and writer notes: “Newell offered me a new creation story for Christian faith, one that matched my deep sense of what it means to be made in the image of God and called to communion with all living things. I commend this book to anyone who is to anyone who is ready to be born again.”

• Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World By Dr. Katharine Hayhoe © 2021. Also recommend her Climate Weirding Youtubes.

United Nations Champion of the Earth, climate scientist, and evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe changes the debate on how we can save our future in this nationally bestselling “optimistic view on why collective action is still possible—and how it can be realized” (The New York Times).

In Saving Us, Hayhoe argues that when it comes to changing hearts and minds, facts are only one part of the equation. We need to find shared values in order to connect our unique identities to collective action. This is not another doomsday narrative about a planet on fire.