Upcoming Retreats

Engage! Worship Retreat

LOCATION: Chester, CT

DATE: August 7-10, 2025

PRICE: $950

INSTRUCTOR:  Shannon Wall & Guest Presenters

FOR WHO: Designed for ordained clergy, lay leaders, and people discerning their future in ministry. 

Registration closes July 28th, 2025 

You are cordially invited to an immersive experience that will empower and equip you to lead creative worship and events that appeal to people with a variety of learning styles and faith traditions/stances. The goal is for people to say “I never want to miss an event at (name of organization)!” Bring your questions, curiosity, ideas, success stories, energy, enthusiasm, creativity, and willingness to try out innovative ideas in twice-daily worship. 

What will you take away from this time? 

  • An eight-week worship planning overview for a season or series of events of your choice 
  • One fully developed sermon or message 
  • An approach to scripture reading in worship that plays to your strengths and reflects your faith tradition/stance 
  • Progress on sermon/message delivery in areas you identify 
  • An understanding of best practices in hybrid worship 
  • A group of colleagues who continue to encourage one another 

Day One

  • Goal-setting: What do you want to leave with?
  • Congregational Participation: Mission, Community & Engagement
  • Worship Roadmap/Sharing Ideas
  • Hybrid Worship: Creating A Third Space
  • Individual Time: Distillation & Planning

 

Day Two

  • Sermon/Message Preparation, Development/Sharing
  • Bringing Scripture to Life

 

Day Three

  • Engaging Delivery: Preparation, Development and Sharing
  • Debrief

Shannon Wall

Shannon is an ordained minister, coach, and consultant. She brings deep experience and proven expertise to churches, non-profit, and for-profit organizations. Clients come to Shannon for her 15 years’ experience as an ordained minister combined with 25 years as a management consultant, business writer, marketing manager and product development executive. These careers all require strong listening skills, an empathetic ear, and a helping heart. Recent projects include spearheading significant revisions to the bylaws of a large Congregational church; reviving a dormant fundraising effort and helping a team raise an additional $300,000 for a roof repair on an historic building; and coaching a person being promoted to a new academic position who wanted to gain confidence and build skills she would need for the new role. Words are the throughline of these various pursuits. Shannon believes strongly in the power of words to inspire and connect us to a higher purpose, to one another, and to our best selves.

If you need to set up a payment plan, invoicing options, or you are not quite ready to commit, please fill out this level of interest form – your feedback allows us to plan bigger and better events in the future (and to save a place for you, if desired).

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