RESTORATION MINISTRIES offers hope, healing and wholistic growth in Jesus Christ. Caring for individuals, families, churches and organizations, we provide space to know and experience Christ's Holy Presence. We facilitate freedom, healing and wholeness and provide paths for spiritual growth and deeper communion with God by offering:
OFFERINGS
Our desire is to offer ministry through Restoration Ministries without cost or with minimal fees to cover cost of materials or related expenses. Donations are welcomed and may be made to Restoration Ministries as a tax-deductible contribution. Restoration Ministries is a tax-exempt 501c3 organization.
- Spiritual direction and soul care ministries
- Healing prayer sessions
- Resources for support and recovery at personal and/or family points of fracture
- Scripture and spirituality groups
- Retreats and retreat space where souls can find rest and renewal
- Collaborative ministries with the Church, local and at-large
OFFERINGS
Our desire is to offer ministry through Restoration Ministries without cost or with minimal fees to cover cost of materials or related expenses. Donations are welcomed and may be made to Restoration Ministries as a tax-deductible contribution. Restoration Ministries is a tax-exempt 501c3 organization.
CURRENT OFFERINGS
Restoration Ministries is a ministry and a ministry center that provides space for becoming more aware of, attentive and responsive to God's invitations in one's life. No matter what you are experiencing, or in what circumstances you may find yourself, you are welcomed into a growing relationship with God. We provide spiritual directors who come alongside to listen, to understand and to foster your relationship with God. Call for more information: 952.241.4150.
Drawn into Love with Christ
Exploring Bridal Spirituality with the Beguines
Saturday, February 20, 2010
8:30am - 3:30pm
$35.00 (includes lunch)
Location: Trinity Episcopal Church
322 2nd Street
Excelsior, MN 55331
Register: registration@restorationmn.org
Location to be determined
As we begin the Lenten season and prepare our hearts for Christ’s passion, our retreat, “Drawn into Love with Christ,” will explore what it means to be passionately in love with Jesus. He is the One who cared so intensely for us that he gave his life for us. That love did not cease two thousand years ago but continues to pour forth today, inviting us into an intimate relationship with him. Indeed, he is the Bridegroom who unceasingly woos us as the Bride of Christ to himself.
Guiding our exploration of this bridal relationship with Jesus will be the devotional writings of a remarkable community of laywomen from the 13th century known as the Beguines. One of the Beguines named Hadewijch calls us to come into the deeper life in Christ:
O beloved, why has not Love sufficiently overwhelmed you and engulfed you in her abyss? Alas! when Love is so sweet, why do you not fall deep into her? And why do you not touch God deeply enough in the abyss of his Nature, which is so unfathomable? Sweet love, give yourself for Love’s sake fully to God in love.
Please join us for a day of soaking in Scripture, reflecting on devotional classics by the Beguines, solitude, silence and sharing, as we set aside time to focus on our Lord and his phenomenal love for us.
Glenn Myers is a professor at Crown College where he teaches classes in spiritual formation, Scripture and church history. His book on the Beguines is projected to be released in early 2011 by InterVarsity Press. To taste a bit of the deeper Christian life modeled by the Beguines, see Glenn’s webpage:
deepwellswithglennmyers.blogspot.com.
EVENINGS OF LISTENING PRAYER
Join with us and others for evenings of LISTENING PRAYER. Framed in simple worship, Scripture and prayerful sharing, this space is provided for attentiveness to listening to God and others. We meet every Wednesday evening from 7-9pm. There is no registration nor cost. Anyone is welcome to come and experience this quiet, worshipful listening space. Location: Restoration Ministry Center, 7975 Stone Creek Drive, #130, Chanhassen, MN. 952.241.4150.
SHAPED BY THE WORD
Genesis: A New Beginning
Join us for a manuscript study of the book of Genesis. We meet on Tuesday evenings, 7-9pm at the offices of Restoration Ministries. This way of reading and responding through noticing and attending to God's revelation through Word and Spirit fosters personal renewal and transformation of mind and heart. Session 3: Tuesdays, January 26-March 16. Facilitated by Marjorie Karjalahti, MDiv. There is no cost for these sessions. New participants are welcome.
Register: registration@restorationmn.org.
FOSTERING INTIMACY WITH GOD
Experiencing the Exercises of St. Ignatius
These well-known spiritual exercises were developed and practiced to foster growth into becoming like Christ. Doing these proven spiritual exercises brings the participant into the life of Christ by spending time in Scripture and in a variety of prayer methods. The goal of the exercises is to be with, like and for Christ in the world in which we live. As one grows more deeply in relationship with Christ, we grow in becoming more loving of God, self and others. Participating in these exercises offers hope to us personally, but also for our world as we walk back into it with greater intention to bearing his likeness.
Participants will be given 3-5 passages of Scripture each week and will be practicing a variety of methods of prayer over the course of the series. We are asking for a personal commitment of 30 minutes of time 4-5 times per week to be set aside for doing the exercises. Participants will meet one-to-one with a spiritual director while working with the exercises.
Inquire at info@restorationmn.org
