The Journey Home Retreat

Montserrat Retreat House

The Journey Home Retreat is a two-night retreat designed to deepen your connection with God, yourself, and others.

Prioritize a few days away and we’ll help you experience more of what you were designed for in Eden.

When

January 21-23, 2025


Plan to arrive Monday January 21st for registration between 3:00-4:00. Plan to stay until our hard stop at noon on Wednesday, January 23rd.

Where

Montserrat Retreat House is located on Lake Dallas.
The address is: 600 N Shady Shores Drive, Lake Dallas, TX 75065

Cost

$600.00 per person. Each person attending must fill out a registration form even if you are attending together. Spouses or friends may choose to share a room but the price remains the same per person.

 

Your registration fee includes everything you need while on retreat:

  • A private room if you so desire
  • Meals and daily refreshments
  • Eden Curriculum
  • Teaching sessions
  • Guided practices

We’re all trying to get back to a home we’ve never been. The Journey Home Retreat will start you on a journey back to the relational habitat you were made for.

Your Retreat Facilitators:

Chuck Gschwend

Chuck Gschwend
Director of Spiritual Formation

A trial attorney, pastor, and trained spiritual director, Chuck is a seasoned retreat leader and is passionate about helping God’s people feel more at home in the love of God. Chuck is now an empty-nester living in Weatherford, Texas with his wife Lindy. They have three adult children.

 

 

Chuck has earned his JD, University of Arkansas School of Law; MABS Dallas Theological Seminary; Certificate in Spiritual Direction, LTI’s Selah program, affiliated with Gordon-Conwell Seminary.

Staci Sellers
Eden Retreat Facilitator

Staci has served in ministry for 25 years. With a degree in Public Relations, she has spent many years organizing events in her city, region, and local church. Her family has been part of a special community of believers for over 20 years. She has a heart for women to know and love the Lord, and for them to know their worth in Him. One of her main goals in any ministry she serves in is to care for the hearts and souls of women and help equip them to care for others in the same way.

 

Staci has been married to her husband Mark for 24 years. They have two teenage children and one very special Cocker Spaniel named Nova.

Nic Hill
Eden Retreat Facilitator

Nic Hill is a dedicated husband of 14 years and a proud father of four children. He is the Spiritual Formations Pastor at Solid Rock Church in Fort Worth, Texas, where he passionately guides and supports individuals on their spiritual journeys. 

 

 

Nic holds a Master of Arts in Christian Education and Biblical Counseling from Southwestern Theological Seminary and is a member of the Association of Biblical Counselors. 

The Journey Home Retreat is a safe place to lay aside your responsibilities at home and work to simply be souls before God. The reality for all of us is that even when we are in a healthy season, we long for more, relationally.

During The Journey Home Retreat you’ll experience:

  • Relationally safe environments conducive for souls (which are very shy) to open up to love
  • A reformation of your own emotional image of God
  • Resources that will deepen all your relationships
  • Guided practices to help you live more at home in the love of God
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Relational Depth

Because we are loved by God, we cultivate environments conducive to deep and meaningful relationships.

 

“Because we loved you so much, we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well.” 

 

We have been created as embodied beings with an innate capacity for relationship. Because emotion is the language of relationship, we champion the courage required to examine our emotion and the honesty and vulnerability necessary to admit what is true about ourselves in the presence of God and others. As our emotional quotient grows, our capacity for relationship deepens and enables us to create spacious environments for others to experience deeper relationships themselves. The more we have of ourselves, the more we are able to give to others, and vice versa. This relational flourishing bears witness of the reality of the kingdom of God in a relationally fractured, isolated world. We reject any desire or attempt to live out of an artificial, false self, and work hard to maintain and grow authentic environments with meaningful relationships.

Holy Restraint

Because we are loved by God, we sit in unresolved tension with others, curious about how God is at work for our good in his time and his way.

“Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.”

Because we are settled in the joy that comes from experiencing an identity as God’s beloved with an integrous life, we are naturally able to sit with others in the unresolved tensions of their lives. We reject any attempt to fix others apart from the leading and empowerment of the Spirit. Rather, we patiently wait with others, continually pointing them to the presence and work of God in their lives. This allows us to be relationally present, instead of pushing an agenda on God and others to behave in ways we assume is right. We reject any attempt to coerce transformation or “hurry” someone along in their journey toward maturity, instead holding a posture of dependence on God in the lives of others.