2025 Schedule & Meal Menu
Schedule
Childcare will be available for children ages 1 – 10 during all sessions and workshops!
Urban Workers Retreat April 11-13, 2025
Friday:
5:45pm-7:15pm: Registration
7:30pm: Welcome and Session #1: Start an Urban Ministry that will be Fruitful & Lasting
9:15pm: Snack and Free Time
11:30pm: Lights Out
Saturday:
7:30am-8:15am: Coffee Bar
8:30am-9:50am: Session #2: Running an Urban Ministry that is Fruitful & Lasting
10:00am-11:00am: Brunch
11:15am-12:05pm: Workshops
- Daryl Weaver- Unpacking Spiritual Gifts — Sun Beam
- Lowell Herschberger- Mental Illness — Berean
12:15pm-1:05pm: Workshops
- Roger Martin- Spiritual Warfare — Sun Beam
- MacKenzie Alspaugh- Life with Student Interaction — Berean
1:15pm-2:05pm: Workshops
- Rosanne Sommers- Partnering With Families — Sun Beam
- Manny Mercado- Kingdom Focus Entrepreneurship II — Berean
2:05pm-4:30pm: FREE TIME – NO CHILD CARE AVAILABLE
4:30pm-5:30pm: Supper
6:00pm-7:30pm: Worship and Ministry Highlights
8:00pm-9:00pm: Snack
8:00pm-11:00pm: Free Time
11:30pm: Lights Out
Sunday:
8:00am-8:45am: Breakfast
9:00am-11:00am: Session #3: Finish a Ministry Season that will continue to be Fruitful & Lasting
11:00am-11:30am: Clean-Up
11:30am-12:30pm: Lunch
Meal menu
Friday Night Snack:
French Pizza Bread
Veggies and Dip, Chips
Bars and Cookies
Soda/Drinks
Saturday Coffee Hour:
Yogurt Parfaits w/ Fruit
Fiber Balls, Bananas, Muffins
Chocolate Milk/ Milk
Saturday Brunch:
Biscuits and Sausage Gravy
Scrambled Eggs, Fruit, Donuts
Juice
Saturday Supper:
Chipotle Bowls:
Rice, Beans, Chipotle Chicken
Lettuce, Pica de Galla, Guac
Shredded Cheese, Sour Cream
Dressings
White Cake w/ Fruit Topping
Saturday Snack:
Meat & Cheese
Veggies & Dip, Snack Mix
Grapes, Cookies, Drink
Sunday Breakfast:
Baked Oatmeal, Cereal
Yogurt, Fruit
Cinnamon Rolls
Juice & Choc Milk
Sunday Lunch:
Sausage Sandwiches
Mac & Cheese, Pickles
Eclair Dessert
2025 Keynote speaker
Topic: Start . Run . Finish
Dave and Cindy Weber
2025 Workshops
Theme: Start . Run . Finish
Partnering with Familes
Rosanne Sommers
Are you looking for inspiration on how to really connect with your students’ parents and families? Rosanne will share stories and tips that she and her co-teachers have learned over the 15 years she has spent in daycare, preschool, after school, and kids club classrooms. You will come away with practical ideas of how to hold family activity nights and keep communication open to support the children and families you work with. It takes a village!
Including Students in Everyday Life
MacKenzie Alspaugh
Textbooks. Routines. Relationships. Dreams. Insecurities. A Walmart proposal. Interruptions. An ecclipse trip. Vulnerability. Spontaneity. A run-away. Jesus rants. Teenage turmoil. Whispered prayers. Brokenness. Resiliance. Teaching
In my workshop, I’ll share about my experiences with my students in and beyond my classroom.
Mental Health
Lowell Herschberger
If you are doing ministry for longer than a minute, you will encounter youth with mental illness and/or learning disabilities. Some Christians throw up their hands and call in the secular professionals; others over-spiritualize mental illness and apply guilt. Fortunately, our God cares about the heart, soul, body, mind, and spirit. A balanced understanding of mental health can help us move forward with power and love into the lives of our most vulnerable community members.
Spiritual Warfare
Rodger Martin
Jesus had a direct battle with Satan in the wilderness.
What makes you think you’re an exception?
What happens when you face spiritual warfare?
Kingdom Focused Entrepreneurship - Part II
Manny Mercado
“Do you own a business?
Do you consider yourself an entrepreneur?
Do you regularly interact with unbelievers in your place of work or desire to?
You may be underestimating the power that business/those connections could have for the kingdom of God!”
Unpacking the Gifts of APEST
Daryl Weaver
Ephesians 4:11 speaks of five spiritual gifts — Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Shepherds and Teachers –that Jesus has given to the church so that it can experience maturity, stability and unity. This workshop will unpack and explore some of the meanings wrapped up in these gifts so that we can better understand how to use them in our context today.
