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God’s Healing Gift: An Introduction to the Contemplative Dimension of Healing Prayer
Led by Dr. Francis Geddes, Ann Geddes & Lauren Loos

God's Healing Gift: An Introduction to the Contemplative Dimension of Healing Prayer is a five-day residential retreat with Dr. Francis Geddes, a researcher and trainer of the healing arts for over 30 years.

November 7 - 11, 2007
Shalom Prayer Center in Mt. Angel, Oregon
$495 and includes all meals and accomodations for the five days
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The retreat is limited to 15 participants and is not intended for intensive personal work but is a training workshop for those interested in the ministry of healing and wholeness.

As he prepares to retire, this retreat will be Dr. Geddes last God's Healing Gift retreat at The Center.

Description of Training

Presenter Bios

Retreat Schedule

Accommodations

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God's Healing Gift Retreat: Description of the Training

In the words of Dr. Geddes: “The purpose of this training is to develop the latent, God-given healing ability that all of us have.” The retreat begins with instruction on contemplative prayer, the foundation for the healing work that will be presented in this workshop. In the training, we shall learn ten spiritual exercises that enable us to focus our attention in a very concentrated way and access our own inner imagery. The exercises are drawn from Christian, Jewish, Eastern and Native American traditions and are designed to help us work with inner imagery that will serve as a metaphorical bridge between the ill person, the healer and God. These imagery prayers for healing are one way the Spirit works to help release and accelerate the God-given self-repair mechanisms that are part of the healing system of every person and are also part of the design of the Universe.

The training will consist of three presentations: An Introduction, Imagery Prayer and a Summary during the last session. The great bulk of the time will be spent in:

• Learning and practicing meditative/contemplative exercises (the first two to three days)

• Practicing healing prayer with one another through imagery and laying on of hands (the remaining days are devoted to this).

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God's Healing Gift Retreat: Presenters

Dr. Francis Geddes has studied, practiced, and taught Christian healing in the context of contemplative prayer nationwide over the past thirty years, training more than a dozen healing groups and more than 1,200 individuals.

Ann Geddes has taught yoga as a spiritual practice and was formerly director of the Solar Yoga Center in Brooklyn, New York.

Lauren Loos has been a member of the Caritas healing ministry at Trinity Cathedral for the past 10 years under the tutelage of Dr. Fancis Geddes. She is trained in the art of spiritual directions and a presenter of Centering Prayer with Contemplative Outreach.

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God's Healing Gift Retreat: Schedule

This is an intensive spiritual healing workshop with a full schedule as there is much to be learned in a short period of time. The daily schedule will be as follows: (subject to change)

5:30pm
7:00pm

Dinner
First Session

7:15am
7:35am
8:00am
9:00am
Noon
1:00 – 3:00
3:00 – 5:00
5:30pm
7:00 – 9:00

Yoga (optional)
Meditation exercise
Breakfast
Morning Session with a mid morning break
Lunch
Afternoon Quiet Time
Afternoon Session
Dinner
Evening Session

7:15am
7:35am
8:00am
9:00am
11:15am
Noon

Yoga (optional)
Meditation exercise
Breakfast
Morning Session
Eucharist
Retreat Close

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God's Healing Gift: Retreat Accommodations

God’s Healing Gift retreat will be held at the Shalom Prayer Center in Mt. Angel, Oregon. Shalom Prayer Center is located on the Queen of Angels Monastery grounds in the quiet rural setting of Mt. Angel near Woodburn, Oregon. Close by are the foothills of the Cascade Mountains and the beauty of Mount Hood. Fifteen acres of flower and vegetable gardens, fruit and nut orchards, and wooded areas provide places to walk or sit and enjoy the wide variety of birds.

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