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Mission Enablers’ Retreat: a time for reflection, recharging and support

March 5, 2027 - March 8, 2027

Description

This is an opportunity for those serving in mission across Scotland to come and spend extended time together and be refreshed in that calling. If you are involved in encouraging, facilitating, training, coaching or enabling mission, this is an opportunity for you to gather with like-minded people – for mutual encouragement and support.

Times of facilitated sharing and learning will be mixed with a choice of outdoor or indoor activities. The weekend will be underpinned by a daily rhythm of prayer and promises to be a time of warm fellowship and fresh inspiration. All this set in the beauty and ruggedness of the Western Highlands. A generous welcome awaits.

The retreat will begin from your own doorstep on 5 March, as you will be sent suggestions to help make your journey to Kilmalieu a time of pilgrimage. Likewise, after leaving Kilmalieu on 8 March you will be offered some guidance to ensure that your journey home is an integral part of the experience.

Food is home-made and consistently praised for its quality. Guests have access to a library, art room, chapel, lounge, sports hall and gym and are free to explore the 3000-acre estate, with its glorious mix of mountains, coastline and woodland.

This retreat is led by Peter Wood and Steve Aisthorpe. Peter is Mission Officer for the Church of Scotland’s Lothian & Borders Presbytery. Steve is the Centre Director of Kilmalieu and author of various books, including Rewilding the Church.

Kilmalieu occupies a stunning position on the shore of Loch Linnhe. It is a renovated eighteenth-century hunting lodge with a mixture of comfortable single, twin and family bedrooms. Food is home-made and consistently praised for its quality. Guests have access to a small library, art room, lounge, chapel and gym – and are free to explore the estate, with its glorious mix of mountains, coastline and woodland.

Peter Wood

Steve Aisthorpe

Dates:
Friday 5 March – Monday 8 March, 2027

Times:
Arrive between 4-6pm (free collection from 16:09 train into Fort William available)
Depart by 10am (free delivery to 11:40 train from Fort William available)

Cost*

£295 – If some people are willing to share a larger room, that will enable more people to participate and benefit from what is a subsidised price (but there is no pressure to do this).

*25% deposit can be paid at time of booking if the event is more than 6 weeks away.
If the cost is difficult for you, we may be able to help. Please contact us in confidence.

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Details

5-8 Mar, 2027

Kilmalieu

£295

Ages 18+

Fully Catered

Pickups from train station available

Details

  • Start: March 5, 2027
  • End: March 8, 2027
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