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

September 5-7, 2025

Plan to arrive on the first day for registration and a welcome reception by 3:00pm. The first session will begin promptly at 4:00pm. Plan to stay until our hard stop at 12:30pm on the final day of our retreat.

Your retreat journey will begin one month before the start of the retreat through our curated pre-work. We encourage you to set aside a hour a week to engage deeply with God through your pre-work.

Where

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

The closest, major airport is Piedmont Triad International Airport (GSO) in Greensboro, NC.

Investment

The Journey Home is a generous investment into your relationship with God.

$900 per person for Single Occupancy
$600 per person for Double Occupancy
Early Registration Discount of $100 off thru June 30, 2025. Use code SAVE100.

Each person must complete a registration form, even if you are attending with someone else. If you are willing to share a room but don’t have a roommate, we can pair you with someone else at the Double Occupancy rate.

Your investment into the Journey Home Retreat includes:

Lodging
Meals and daily refreshments
Curated pre-work
Retreat Guide grounded in scripture
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 leaders experience the deeper waters of the Father’s love, so that Jesus’ church can be famous for love. Chuck is now an empty-nester living in Weatherford, TX 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; and trained in Spiritual Formation under Ruth Haley Barton at the Transforming Center.

Mark Moody
Eden Retreat Facilitator

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 life.

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:

Safe retreat environment conducive for souls (which are very shy) to open up to more of God’s 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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