You are warmly welcomed to join us in a group conversation
around the rich book, The Shape of Living by David Ford.
We will gather each Thursday in May, from 1-2.30pm at
First United Church in White Rock.
RSVP at donnadins@gmail. com or 604.961.1957.
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Worship as Transformation:
Experience and understand the living realities at the intersection of spiritual formation and worship
Date: Saturday March 10, 2012
Time: 9:00 – 3:00
Presenters: John Kiemele and Donna Dinsmore
Cost: $69/person includes lunch
Location: Carey (5920 Iona Drive @ UBC)
Register: http://www.carey-edu.ca/institute/index.php/event-registration
You are warmly invited to a rich Lenten series each Thursday in Lent from 1.00-2.30pm at First United Church WR.
We will gather in a “circle of trust” (Parker Palmer style) around a beautiful, rich book by Henri Nouwen, Beholding the Beauty of the Lord. * Have the introduction and the first chapter read for our first meeting on March 1.
Our time together will be an integration of head and heart into spirit, preparing us for Holy Week when we follow Jesus to death and resurrection.
Register by February 28 at donnadins@gmail.com or 604.961.1957.
*The book can be purchased used for a very reasonable price online at abebooks. I am willing to get a copy for you as well.
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“Take a deep breath!” We usually hear that or say that just before something important is about to happen. A deep breath is a sustaining breath. During this retreat, facilitator Donna Dinsmore uses our physical breathing as a metaphor for paying attention to God’s Spirit, and blends the importance of “paying attention” with “sustaining” for our spiritual experiences with God, ourselves and others. This contemplative retreat is not academic nor navel-gazing, but rather a leisured space and pace for silence, conversing, singing and journaling.
When: Saturday, Nov 5
Time: 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. (with lunch break)
Where: St David’s United Church 1525 Taylor Way, West Vancouver
Registration: $30 suggested donation (includes coffee, tea, snacks)
Register by Wednesday, November 2 to donnadins@gmail.com or by calling 604.961.1957
Bring: a bag lunch and a journal
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“Take a deep breath!” We usually hear that or say that just before something important is about to happen. A deep breath is a sustaining breath. During this retreat, facilitator Donna Dinsmore uses our physical breathing as a metaphor for paying attention to God’s Spirit, and blends the importance of “paying attention” with “sustaining” for our spiritual experiences with God, ourselves and others. This contemplative retreat is not academic nor navel-gazing, but rather a leisured pace and space for praying, singing, journaling and conversing.
When: Saturday, October 1
Time: 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (with lunch break)
Where: First Covenant Church, Seattle (400 East Pike Avenue)
Registration: $35 suggested donation (includes coffee, tea, snacks)
Register by Thursday September 29 to info@ selahcenter.org or calling 253-777-4277
Bring: a Bag lunch, a Bible and journal
Facilitator: Donna Dinsmore
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Tuesday, July 26, 7-9pm
Come be part of an ongoing worship conversation begun fifteen years ago at Regent College, Vancouver, Canada that has engaged a wide variety of Christians in Canada, NZ and the US.
We will sing and pray and engage with Scripture and then reflect on our experience together.
As we enter into God’s activity of attending we will discover that there is more going on than we can imagine.
There is no cost to attend other than your time.
Come and be part of this ongoing conversation that is sure to challenge and encourage!
Laidlaw College, Upper Room, 80 Central Park Drive, Henderson
RSVP by July 25th to ESilailai@laidlaw.ac.nz or 836 7820.
With gratitude to Vaughan Park Retreat Centre for the scholarship that made this and many other events possible.
Thursday, 14 July 7.30 pm
This special conversation will be, in addition to a dynamic reflection on what happens when Christians gather together to worship, a mirroring back of what scores of New Zealanders have told me about their community worship experiences, both the delights and the frustrations!
Please register: email Marion Nickerson at: admin@vaughanpark.org.nz or telephone 473 2600.
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St Mary’s Anglican Church, Wellington
Saturday, June 25, 2011
10.30-1.00 tea and first session
1-2 BYO Lunch
2-3.30 second session
You are invited to a dynamic, interactive conversation about the nature of this mysterious activity we call worship (which to be honest rarely seems mysterious).
Come be part of this ongoing conversation that is sure to challenge and encourage.
All are welcome to attend. Everyone!
Donna will also be preaching the next morning at St. Mary’s
at the 8.00, 9.00 and 10.30 services.
June 19-21 at Vaughan Park
Andrew Picard speaks to John Tucker, who calls me, and the hand slips into the glove!
I very much look forward to being with these fifteen pastors who are in their first or second year of ministry.
Spiritual Formation is the purpose and the subject of the retreat and there is nothing I enjoy more than exploring, with others in a circle of trust, the mystery of community worship.
I will be spending the summer of 2011 in residence as a Visiting Scholar at the Vaughan Park Anglican Retreat Centre in Auckland, New Zealand.
During my time there I will be compiling various materials from the graduate courses I have taught in the areas of worship, music and spirituality and integrating them with data from my varied experiences of worship facilitation. My project, an interactive, multi-voiced book provisionally entitled “Exploring the Aliveness,” will utilize the insights of Canadian Jesuit Bernard Lonergan in exploring the dynamism between God and lovers of God. In addition, I will weave together conversation with voices as diverse as Eugene Peterson, Mark Strom, former and present students, and the hundreds of fellow pilgrims who have participated in Worship Matters Conversations with me over the years.
I have the good fortune of being awarded a scholarship which will cover my living expenses. If you would like to support the work I will be doing, I humbly welcome donations towards my travel expenses.
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