The Journey Home Retreat

St. Francis Springs Prayer Center

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

April 22-24, 2025

Plan to arrive Tuesday, April 22nd for registration between 3:00-4:00pm. Plan to stay until our hard stop at noon on Thursday, April 24th.

Where

St. Francis Springs Retreat Center is located in Stoneville, NC. The address is: 477 Grogan Rd, Stoneville, NC 27048

Cost

We offer both a single and double occupancy rate: $900/pp for single occupancy and $600/pp for double occupancy. Early Registration Discount of $100 off thru January 30, 2025. Use code SAVE100. Each person attending must fill out a registration form even if you are attending together.

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 practice

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
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.

Kari Breckenridge
Eden Retreat Facilitator

Kari has served in pastoral ministry for over 20 years, and is passionate about the soul care and spiritual formation of leaders. She lives in Conway, AR with her husband, Adam, and their three daughters: Lucy, Susanna and Georgie.

Kari is a Coach with the Partnership of Associated Churches, a Certified Enneagram Coach through Your Enneagram Coach, and Co-Founder and Coach at Breckenridge Coaching.

Mark Moody
Eden Retreat Facilitator

A pastor, entrepreneur, and educator, Mark has helped launch initiatives in both the marketplace and ministry space from church campuses to a entrepreneurship leadership program for young adults to a retreat center. As a leader in the (re)training process, he’s most comfortable sharing what he is learning as a means to help others pay greater attention to their interior lives.

Mark lives in Anderson, South Carolina with his wife, Janice. They have five adult children and one teenager.

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

I was impacted by the depth of God's love for me. I have known that in my head, and experienced his kindness, but something about the combination of experiencing God come to me in specific ways in this relational, intentional space opened a deeper level of experiential knowing in me.

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The Journey Home Retreat: St. Francis Springs Prayer Center