Your Small Group and Convener
Listed below are the conveners for your small groups. If you are named as the convener below and know you will be running late on Sunday, please let your small group know and ask someone to substitute for you. The convener has responsibility for Sunday's dinner discussion:
- Convene with prayer
- Ask the Holy Spirit to be present in your time together
- Watch the time as each participant shares
- Close with a prayer of thanksgiving for the time together
Please judge how much time each person will have to share (5–10 minutes for a larger group) and use the questions for your sharing about prayer over the last quarter (the questions were in Ruth's recent email and also will be in your folder).
While the dinner hour can't have the same rhythm of silence-and-speaking as your group spiritual direction times, it can still contain the same spirit of allowing each person to share their experience of prayer these past three months and to receive their words with listening reverence. Before arriving, consider locating the picture of your small group and spending some time in prayer for each member.
The convener will act as time-keeper for the small group direction experience Monday night as well. Instructions will be given while on retreat.
Conveners: Phil Warner, Christina Wolford, Brian Black, Jess Scholten, Michelle Martinez, Glenn Pieters, David Acierno, Erin Pinkston, Scott Krone, Ignacio Gonzalez, Kristi Caulley, Bill Shereos, Dan Gorrell, Tina Harris, Ingrid Goranson, and David Arnold.
