June 4-6, 2010
Camp Mitchell
Quiet Day: Friday, 10 am – 3 pm, Holy Eucharist @ 2 pm, led by Rev. Joanna Seibert
Keynote Speaker: Rev. Kate Moorehead
2010 promises to be an enriching weekend for body and soul! Please download the brochure if you can, and get registered as soon as possible. You won’t want to miss this! If you need printed copies of the brochure, please call or email Sara — 479.587.8481, sara (at) everydaysimple (dot) org.
Quiet Day: Joanna Seibert, a deacon at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral and a pediatric radiologist at Arkansas Children’s Hospital, will read stories from her new book, The Call of the Psalms: A Spiritual Companion for Busy People. She will also read from a special “recovery” edition, The Call of the Psalms: A Spiritual Companion for People in Recovery written for people in 12-step recovery.
Advance Praise for The Call of the Psalms
“The Call of the Psalms is a book to keep beside your chair in the morning or your bed at night. Each page is an invitation to enter the Psalms at the level of the heart more than to “study” the Psalms. That is particularly fitting, because the Psalms are the collected prayers and songs of countless real people with broken hearts, soaring praise, ecstatic wonder, and downright anger. . . . The Psalms are life, unfiltered and painfully honest. Dr. Seibert’s stories follow the same pattern. They include stories that fill the heart to overflowing. There are stories that unmask our own failings. And there are stories that carry us to places we’d rather not visit. But, like the Psalms, there is a constant awareness that we are living life that is connected – to one another and to God. A Psalm, a story, and a suggestion for mulling it all over – this truly is a spiritual companion for busy and recovering people.” – The Rt. Rev. Larry Maze, 12th bishop of the Diocese of Arkansas
Women’s Institute: Our ECW delegates who went to Triennial were simply delighted with Rev. Kate Moorehead, and it is with great enthusiasm that we welcome her from Jacksonville, Florida, to join us at Institute!
Review for her latest book Get Over Yourself, God is Here: “With her brisk mixture of stories, memories, questions and rueful musings, Kate Moorehead conducts her readers on a forty-day walk through an experience of repentance that is anything but bleak. Rather, it is soul-satisfying.” – Rev. Barbara Cawthorne Crafton
General Information about the weekend (in case you need to try to explain it to others!)
Women’s Institute is an annual three-day retreat held the first full weekend of June, at Camp Mitchell atop Petit Jean Mountain, located near Morrilton, Arkansas. Women of all ages come together, bringing diverse experiences and representing different parishes and missions.
Women’s Institute begins on Friday with a personal spiritual growth day known as Quiet Day. Institute also features a noteworthy speaker, workshops, time to rest, and lots of love and laughter.
Institute is a strong tradition of the church women of the diocese and continues to draw women together, year after year, for personal experiences of the Divine, friendship and fun.