Women’s Retreat 2025

“Meant for each other:

the Good Book and the ‘Book’ of nature”

Come and enjoy a day of fellowship, spiritual renewal, sharing, and fun! Join us for a day apart with other women and our guest speaker, Pastor Ann Dentry, a new member of St. Matthew, on Saturday, March 22, 10am to 4pm, in the Upper Room (take the stairs or elevator to the second floor). Coffee and tea will be served in the morning and lunch will be provided. Cost is $25. Sign-up forms will be on the hospitality desk. Space is limited. Sign up by 3/15/25. Contact Sue Covert at cvrtstew@aol.com with any questions.

 

About the Speaker:

Pastor Ann Dentry will be leading the March 22 Women’s Retreat, called “Meant for each other: The Good Book and the ‘Book’ of Nature.” The retreat’s time together will be for savoring how our experiences of God’s Creation foster spiritual health. We will look at some Bible passages that may come alive differently – even startlingly – when we read them in the ‘light’ of the outdoors. The retreat will have morning and after-lunch presentations and there will be time and space set aside for personal reflection. Pastor Ann hopes that our “eyes will be a little opened” to the greater empathy God stirs in us when we attend to The Wild in life.

 

Pastor Ann is a graduate of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg and the University of Toronto in Canada (doctorate in spirituality). She has served a variety of ministerial roles including Associate Pastor, Pastor, Campus Chaplain (University of Delaware) and has been a volunteer with the non-profit TALMAR (Therapeutic Alternatives of Maryland) in a project offering rehabilitation to military veterans in the setting of a community-supported farm. That experience led to work on the Synod’s Creation Care Team for 3 years.

 

Pastor Ann calls Gettysburg her home and deeply treasures time spent at libraries and narrow wooded trails that bring times of solitude.