Winter Retreat!

This past weekend 25 of us Presbys headed up the mountain to Big Bear to spend 2 days relaxing, worshiping, playing, eating, not sleeping, and hearing from our wonderful speaker, Neal Nybo. It was a wonderful weekend, with our theme being "Encountering Joy" and our speaker having experienced Cursillo and having caught the vision of instilling joy and renewal into pastors and seminarians, so it had a little bit of a Cursillo feeling (not anywhere near a real Cursillo weekend, but it was still fun to see some masks come off people and see people start to encounter joy for themselves.) Here are some photos from the weekend...I didn't take that many, but here are the ones I do have!

Steve and Mary doing their assigned kitchen duty on Saturday morning

Becca, looking like a "real" musician, getting warmed up to lead us in worship Saturday morning

Chris, Lisa and Christina

Becca and Stacey leading us in worship on Saturday morning

Stacey, Christina, Dave, Dave, BeccaBaking desserts Saturday night--Denise, Sandra, and Ryanand Dave "helping" by doing some of the "clean up"Neal, our speaker, demonstrating that he is a man of many talents--here he is showing us his wood chopping abilitiesNeal had brought with him our official Southern California Presbyterian Cursillo "banner"--our surfboard with the butterfly, both to show us and to send it home with Becca to have her paint a better butterfly on it...here we are with Neal and Peter, another Cursillo-ite from Houston who goes to Neal's church in San Diego and came to join us for the weekend. and of course, our true California girl, Becca, decided to actually ride the surfboard--on the snow...I convinced her to get off the surf board long enough to take a picture with me...Jenni and Denise