Soul Care Mini-Retreats

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In 2025 we inaugurated our Mini-Retreats on Zoom to spread Soul Care messages and get to know one another across our vast Horizon Texas Conference. In 2026 we will turn to how soul care supports our growth in Christ by looking at four metaphors Jesus used to describe our role as daughters of God: light, salt, leaven, and branches/fruitfulness. Join us for discussions, sisterhood fellowship, a few laughs, and worship at either 10:00 am or 6:30 pm. 

Each Mini-Retreat will be one hour, and incorporate prayer, insight, group discussion, and time for individual engagement with the topic. A handout with a short reading will be emailed out the week before the retreat. 
After that there will be an optional ½-hour guided prayer and contemplation session for those participants who wish to stay.

January 29    Light - done             
April 30          Salt - done       

July 30           Leaven - "Be ye yeasty"        - REGISTRATION BELOW -
                       10 a.m. or 6:30 p.m. (CDT)

“God’s kingdom is like yeast that a woman works into the dough for dozens of loaves of barley bread—and waits while the dough rises,” (Matt. 13:33, The Messenger).

Are you a Type A person? I am. I want immediate reactions when I take on a task, including serving God. But that’s not the way things are supposed work according to Jesus in Matt. 13:33. As with planting a tiny mustard seed, we must wait for the tree to mature before we can reap its goodness. Likewise, to create God’s bread of love, light, and grace for all to share, we must use the correct amount of yeast and other ingredients, knead the dough properly, and make it into a loaf. Then we wait while the ingredients transform into a  loaf of nutritious, crusty bread

In Bible stories such as Sari being promised a son, we learn that we might wait quite a while to receive an expected outcome. The Hebrews were led to wander in the wilderness as they learned God’s ways for forty years before the yeasty bread of the Promised Land was ready to partake!

Unfortunately, not all efforts to leaven bread with yeast produce good loaves. Using too little, too much, or damaged yeast will end in uneatable bread. We also can kill the yeast with water that’s too hot. Dead yeast is of no value at all.

It’s the same with God’s yeast. We can use it incorrectly, or we can be leavened with God’s yeast and transformed into spiritually mature people. The choice is ours.

Join us on Thursday, July 30 at either 10 a.m. or 6:30 p.m. (CDT) as we delve into what it means to answer the call to “be ye yeasty.”
 

October 29    Branches/Fruitfulness            Registration will open after the July 30th Mini-Retreat