Kingdom Resources for Christ is excited to host our first in-person retreat since the beginning of the pandemic. Please consider joining us April 7th-10th at the beautiful Ambassadors for Christ Retreat Center in Paradise, PA. (Cost is $50, plus $105 or $210 room rate in staying overnight)

Speaker Rebecca Shao will be speaking on Exploring Interpretations of Contemporary Pluralistic Culture According to Biblical Truth and will include time to meet and share with other Christians near and far.

If you can't make it for the full retreat, please consider joining us on Saturday April 9th for Rebecca's sessions and a special 'Hearing God' workshop led by Matt Reffie and the Project Arctos team.

For the KRC Spring Retreat Full Registration ($50 attendance, plus $105 - double occupancy room, $210 single occupancy room if staying overnight), please register here.

For the Saturday only registration ($20, includes all Saturday sessions and up to 2 meals), please register here.

The full schedule is below, please review and consider if and when you can join us. You are welcome for as much or little as you'd like. Meals are included in your registration price and we would love to share some time in learning and ministry together with you.

Please let us know if you have any questions!

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A glimpse of our first Skill Tree for the “Poor in Spirit”.

Martin Luther King Jr. once wrote that there were four basics steps necessary in any nonviolent campaign:

1. Collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist

2. Negotiation through existing avenues

3. Self-purification if those existing avenues deny justice

4. Direct Action (i.e. sit-ins, etc.)

When we look at the world, we can see a growing divide between one another. Some say we now make decisions more by our perceived identities than the ideas we encounter. Regardless of what side you choose to take, it’s apparent our world is broken.

As our team sought God, we felt a call to “return to the basics”, to go to Jesus’s earliest teachings that some people call the Beatitudes. Rather than looking for change in a year or decade, we see God calling us to move in a steady march over the generations. We likely will not live to see the changes we seek, but if we can still prove faithful in seeing God’s Kingdom here on earth, one where Christ is King over how we see ourselves, connect with one another, and live as a community.

It’s easy to think you’re a follower of Jesus, but it’s another to actually follow Jesus. Unless we practice what Jesus taught, we will end up tossed to and fro by the winds of the world and its decrees and desires.

Utilizing open-source software, we were able to put together a “skill tree”, a way for self-paced practice of what Jesus calls us to. Once one “skill” is practiced, it unlocks other “skills”, allowing us to see some progress and also giving some concrete direction for practicing the commands of Jesus.

During this session we introduced the first Skill Tree and have begun a four week pilot of journeying together in following Jesus. Our hope is to know Jesus more intimately not just by hearing Jesus’s commands, but by obeying them and so show ourselves as children of the Kingdom.

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Photo by seabass creatives on Unsplash

Do you ever have a hard time with motivation? Or maybe you’re just out of ideas?

Growing up, I liked doing my homework in front of the TV. Probably not the best way to stay focused, but even as an introvert I liked the idea of knowing something else was going on near me.

Whether you’re an extrovert, introvert, or somewhere in between, you might enjoy working in the presence of others. Some call this “ambient sociability”, or “playing alone together”. I’d like to say our space was “creating with the presence of others”.

Some of us read about red and pink flowers for inspiration while others wrote. One person painted a reminder that sometimes we think we’re falling only to discover we’re actually rising. Another brainstormed for her blog, Purpose Over Fear (which I highly recommend checking out). Together, we waited on God, opened up breakout rooms for 1:1 consultations, and joined together in our tasks of creating.

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Photo by Caleb Woods on Unsplash

“In a time of being pulled in many different directions, sometimes it’s important to plant your feet, listen, and act.”

During this session we took time to hear from God and share how we felt God speaking to us. When the world is full of tumult and confusion we often want to hide or charge in and force something to work. It’s hard to take time to be still and wait and so we felt it best to set aside time to hear from God before doing anything else.

The group shared both encouragements to one another and also calls to stop circling and “go north”. We were reminded how grace and love must be practiced and not just savored in our minds. Some felt God calling them to engage with their communities and families regarding injustice and our role as believers. Some others felt a call to rest in this season.

For future sessions, we plan to continue exploring what it means for the Church to “go north” and to set aside more time for seeing these calls and desires put on flesh through our lives.