Spirituality
URC Silence & Retreats Network
The URC Silence & Retreats Network is for interested people to help and encourage each other. It publishes Windows each Advent, Easter and Summer to share poems, meditations, information and experience.

Members also receive Retreats, the
annual journal of the inter-denominational
Retreat Association. It contains the year’s programmes from over 200 retreat houses in the British Isles and some overseas, as well as articles and book reviews about retreats and spirituality.

£10 membership subscription by you or your church
Membership Secretary: Gill Jackson 01694 722390 rowland.jackson@btinternet.com

Click on 'Member Groups' and 'URC Silence & Retreats'
when you visit www.retreats.org.uk


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Some examples. Click links to their websites

Whirlow Grange Sheffield
Ampleforth Abbey North Yorkshire
Holy Rood House Thirsk
Scargill Kettlewell
Wydale Hall near Scarborough
The Briery Ilkley
St. Bede's York
St Cuthbert's Centre Holy Island, Northumberland


URC centres with accommodation for about 30
where you can organise your own group retreats


Keld Centre Swaledale Managed by Northern Synod
davidandlesleywhiting@compuserve.com

Glenorchy Centre Wirksworth West Derbyshire URC
secretary@glenorchycentre.org.uk
01629 824323
The Windermere Centre
A Spirituality for the Road
5th-8th February 2007

John Bell, from Wild Goose and the Iona Community, with music, worship, Bible and faith, develops a spirituality to sustain our life in mission in the 21st century.

Walk & Talk
4th-11th August 2007

A week in the glorious Lake District with guided walks, talking and sharing. A time to be refreshed mentally, physically and spiritually.
Led by URC Elders John Costello and Alvene Kinsey
Cost: including transport in the Lakes

For more details and bookings
and a full programme of other activities
see the Windermere Centre website
http://windermere.urc.org.uk
Books from Synod Resource Library
Streams of Living Water by Richard Foster
Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster
Multi-Sensory Prayer by Sue Wallace
A Closer Look at New Age Spirituality by Rob Frost
"Oh God, why?" A Spiritual Journey towards Meaning, Wisdom & Strength by Gerard W. Hughes
Walking the Labyrinth by Tchenka Jane Sunderland

Click for Synod Resource Library
and information about borrowing
Calligraphy
Creative Writing
Drama
Embroidery
Music
Painting
Photography
Poetry


For the 2007 programme of retreats
click on www.carmretreats.org