Jan 9 – 13, 2023
Executive Skills for Church Leaders
The Executive Skills for Church Leaders retreat explores how concepts from an MBA program can be applied to congregational life.
Dec 18, 2022
Tidings of Comfort & Joy: A Virtual Advent Program
Explore what faith is making of you this Advent season, and practice making gifts for the world in response. Enjoy Tidings of Comfort & Joy.
Dec 9 – 11, 2022
SPICE: Individual and Couple Empowerment
SPICE: Spiritual Program for Individual and Couple Empowerment is a Desert Sojourn Retreat to infuse calm, health and joy in relationships.
Dec 8, 2022
Spirited Book Club ~ The Gift of Years
Not only accepting but celebrating getting old, this inspirational and illuminating work looks at the many facets of the aging process, from purposes and challenges to struggles and surprises.
Nov 6 – 9, 2022
Vocation Beyond Occupation Retreat
If you’re in or approaching the “third chapter” of life, you are invited to explore questions of purpose, meaning, vocation, and more at this retreat.
Nov 3, 2022
Spirited Book Club ~ Almost Everything
From Anne Lamott, the New York Times-bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow, comes the book we need from her now: How to bring hope back into our lives.
Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2022
Retired Pastors’ Retreat 2022
The 18th Annual Grand Canyon Synod Retired Pastors’ Retreat features The Rev David Lose, pastor at Mt. Olivet Lutheran Church in Minneapolis.
Oct 25 – 28, 2022
Prayer: A Practice of RE-membering Retreat
Learn new ways of being RE-membered to the Divine Mystery and hone your own prayer practice at this special prayer retreat led by Spirit’s faith mentor, Jim Hanson, and friends.
Oct 21 – 22, 2022
Empowering Women WELCA Retreat
Featured speakers at the Women of the ELCA (WELCA) Grand Canyon Synod retreat include: Rev. Dr. Meghan Aelabouni, who will lead a Bible study via Zoom from Jerusalem, Rev. Rebecca Boardman, University of Arizona Campus Ministries; and Carolyn Tonneson, with Peter’s Hope/Bamburi Women’s Empowerment Center (Mombasa, Kenya, Africa).
Oct 13, 2022
Spirited Book Club ~ Baptized in Tear Gas
Spirited Book Club welcomes pastor and author Elle Down to discuss her memoir, ‘Baptized in Tear Gas: From White Moderate to Abolitionist.’
Oct 11, 2022
Healing of Memories Benefit Luncheon with Fr. Michael Lapsley
Benefit Luncheon with Fr. Michael Lapsley. Join Fr. Michael Lapsley, SSM, a world-renowned Anglican priest and peace advocate, and founder of the Institute for Healing of Memories in South Africa, for lunch and a presentation at Spirit in the Desert Retreat Center on Tuesday, October 11th, from 12:00 – 2:00 pm. Following lunch, he will share his perspective on world peace in light of the war in Ukraine and will facilitate a conversation about our roles as peacemakers. Fr. Lapsley is very well known…
Sep 22 – 25, 2022
22q Family Foundation Moms Retreat
Relax, connect and reflect at the 22q Family Foundation Moms Retreat at Spirit in the Desert! The 2022 retreat theme focuses on CONNECTIONS.