When: 31 May to 2 June 2024
Where: Saint George’s Anglican Church (sessions and lunches) and Espai d’Interioritat Francesc Palau, Carmelitas Misioneras (accommodation, breakfast, evening meals)
Registration: has now closed – please contact your local chaplaincy or info@anglicanchurchmenorca.com regarding payment for the retreat if you have registered.
Please see below for the registration form with more details.
Outline
Friday 31 May
18:00: Opening Eucharist at St George’s, Area Dean Paul Strudwick to preside & preach.
Saturday 1 June:
09:30: Session 1 – Bishop Alison White
I would like us to ponder together what we make today of the ‘kingdom’. We pray for it to come each time we pray the Lord’s Prayer. I hope to explore ‘kingdom’ as the core of Jesus’ presence and teaching. It comes with some ambiguity in our own context, and yet opens through the gospels a broad, challenging way for us to live together. Let’s look at Isaiah’s vision of the peaceable kingdom (Chapter 11) and see how that works through Jesus’ life and ministry into our lives today.
11:00: Coffee, followed by quiet time
12:00: Session 2 – Kathryn Anderson & Julia Jamieson MULOA
Kathryn & Julia look forward to sharing with you the vision & work of Mothers’ Union. We will pray together as our global movement do daily at midday. We will practice our listening skills and share some of the ways our 4 million members worldwide put their faith into action around the corner and around the globe. Joyfully working to build God’s kingdom of justice and peace by sharing God’s love through practical action, spiritual sustenance and compassion in 83 countries around the world.
13:30: Lunch served by MULOA at St George’s, followed by quiet time
16:30: Refreshments
17:00: Session 3 – Danny Hampson, followed by quiet time
I will be exploring how we are invited to participate in a joy-filled relationship with the triune God. I want to take a close look at what it means for followers of Christ that joy is both a gift from God and at the same time a fruit of the Spirit. Drawing on the scriptural promise that the joy of the Lord is our strength, it will be interesting to look at how this can be outworked practically in our quiet times, our Bible reading and our personal prayer life with God in general.
20:00: Evening meal at the Espai d’Interioritat
Sunday 2 June:
11:00: Closing Eucharist at St George’s with Confirmation and Commissioning
The Speakers
Rt. Rev. Alison White
I was delighted to be asked to be an Honorary Assistant Bishop for the Diocese in Europe last year after my retirement as the Bishop of Hull.
I was first ordained in 1986 and have had adventures in a variety of roles in pastoral ministry, parish development, vocations, theological education and spiritual direction.I am married to Frank and we live in the beautiful county of Northumberland in the UK
Julia Jamieson
& Kathryn Anderson
Julia:
I am married with 2 adult children and live in the suburbs of Kent.
My background is Library & Information Studies.
I was enrolled as a Mothers’ Union (MU) member on Mothering Sunday 25/03/1990 and have held a variety of MU roles at local, national, and now global level.
I was elected to the Worldwide Board of Trustees in 2022. My current role is one of governance. Prayer is at the heart of all we undertake and so I remain a grassroots member with a passion for equality, fighting injustice and empowering those who feel marginalized or invisible in our communities. Finding ways to give voice to such issues and enabling the sharing of such experience so that challenges may be overcome in practical, sustainable ways is a focus of my work.
Kathryn:
I trained as a Nurse in the 1980s, stayed at home with both my children till they were school age and then trained as a Primary School Teacher. In the years 2004 to 2009 I taught in the Nursery.
I became a member of Mothers’ Union (MU) in July 1996. Andy, my husband, and I moved to Eastbourne, due south of London on the coast, in 2009 which is where my MU journey really took off.
I started as a Volunteer in the Eastbourne Family Contact Centre – facilitating contact for estranged families not able to meet in the community – one of our main MU Diocesan Projects and within a year, September 2011, became the Coordinator for 10 years, was Branch Leader, from January 2014 for 3 years, Diocesan President from January 2016, for 4 years; I have been the Provincial President since January 2020 and am now in my final year.
Danny Hampson
I have been living and working in Ibiza for 10 years, with a practical focus on walking alongside those on the edges of society; namely the ostracised Roma, the homeless community and those in prison. In the UK I worked supporting people with acquired brain injuries, their carers and families. I have recently completed a master’s in theology and I have a particular interest in the Trinity and Spirit Christology.
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