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Fall 2024 Programs at Procter Center
OPPORTUNITIES TO GROW IN FAITH AND LEADERSHIP
Throughout the coming Fall season, Episcopalians across the Diocese of Southern Ohio are invited out to our camp and conference center to grow in discipleship, spiritual formation, and connection to one another.
Please read below for information about our offerings ahead in this coming season and join us out on the farm for study, prayer, and play together!
Questions about these offerings?
Contact Jerusalem Greer, co-executive director of Procter Center, at jgreer@proctercenter.org or by calling 740-490-6025.
AGRARIAN MINISTRY CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
INFO SESSION:
September 4, 7 pm
EIGHT-SESSION COURSE:
January-May 2025
The Agrarian Ministry Certificate will be a new, hybrid program with the Stevenson School of Ministry and the Procter Center. Its purpose is to prepare church leaders to teach, lead, and inspire their faith communities to steward the land in a way that is faithful to our call as disciples of Jesus.
Brian Sellers Petersen of the Faithful Agrarian and Jerusalem Greer of the Procter Center, co-founders of the Good News Garden Movement, will convene the certificate program.
This certificate combines online convenings, a directed final project, and an in-person retreat at the Procter Center. Learn more.
An informational session will be held on September 4 at 7 pm Eastern. Register online.
HARVEST FESTIVAL & SEASON OF CREATION CELEBRATION
October 5, 2-5 pm
Come celebrate the Season of Creation with a good old-fashioned harvest festival! The day will include a $5 Chili Fundraiser, live music, porch pickin’ with Procter band alumni, fall produce picking, farm tours, face painting, and a fall craft show with local vendors selling their one-of-a-kind goods! We will end the day with a Season of Creation worship celebration.
Carpooling with a group from your congregation? Let us know so we can plan for your attendance! Email camp@proctercenter.org.
Want to be a craft show vendor? We would love to have you! Complete our online application today after viewing our event terms and conditions. Thank you!
BAKE PRAY REST: A CAMP FOR FORMATION LEADERS
October 22-24, 2024
Noon Arrival, Noon Departure
This "camp" retreat is for all formation leaders - lay and clergy- who would like to connect with other leaders, learn and share about formation resources and best practices, and
who would love a time of rest and restoration at Procter. Author, baker, and retreat leader Kendall Vanderslice, along with Procter's Co-Executive Director, Jerusalem Greer, will lead this camp-retreat, which will include the embodied spiritual practice of bread making. Kendall will also host a workshop on using the Bake with the Bible curriculum (free to DSO parishes), and Jerusalem will host conversations about reimagining formation programs and gatherings in a time of great change for the Church. Additionally, "campers" will have opportunities to rest and play together in true Camp Procter style.
Rates are all inclusive, space is limited:
DSO Formation Leader - FREE
NON-DSO Rate: - $350 per person
Register and learn more.
LOCATION
All in-person sessions will take place at the Procter Center.
Procter Center
11235 St. Rt. 38 SE
London, OH 43140
proctercenter.org
ABOUT THE PROCTER CENTER
As a ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio, Procter's mission as a farm, camp, and retreat center, is to embody and teach creation care, spiritual growth, hospitality, and belonging as we foster a beloved community. The center rests on 60 beautiful acres of a 1,200+ acre site in predominately agricultural Madison County, Ohio, conveniently located between Columbus and Cincinnati. Procter is a welcoming and affirming Episcopal Camp and Conference Center.
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Fall Youth Retreat
OCTOBER 4-6th at PROCTER CENTER
It is that time again! Time for what? The time of your life!
Young people in 6th-12th grades are invited to join the Diocese of Southern Ohio and Procter Center for our 2024 Fall Youth Retreat! Our time will include some of your favorite camp activities and people, including campfires, games, and our very first Harvest Festival and Craft Show.
(Not attending the retreat? The Harvest Festival is open to all!)
We can't wait to see you!
Questions about this program?
Contact Jerusalem Greer, co-executive director of Procter Center, at jgreer@proctercenter.org or at 501-681-2809.
DATE & LOCATION
Friday, October 4th through Sunday, Oct. 6th
Check-in on Friday at 5:30 pm
Depart on Saturday by 11:30 am
Procter Center
11235 St. Rt. 38 SE
London, OH 43140
proctercenter.org
REGISTER
The cost of the Fall Youth Retreat is $150/participant. Scholarships are available and may be requested on the registration form. If a young person desires to be at the retreat, Procter Center will do everything we can to make that happen.
The deadline to register is October 1.
Oct. and Nov. Beloved Community Book Study
OCT. 1 and NOV. 5 from 7-8 PM ON ZOOM
In April 2015, Archbishop Tutu traveled to the Dalai Lama's home in Dharamsala, India to celebrate His Holiness' eightieth birthday and to create what they hoped would be a gift for others. They looked back on their long lives to answer a single burning question: how do we find joy in the face of life's inevitable suffering?
We get to listen as they explore the nature of true joy and confront each of the "Obstacles of Joy" -- from fear, stress, and anger to grief, illness, and death. They then offer us the "Eight Pillars of Joy," which provide the foundation for lasting happiness. Throughout, they include stories, wisdom, and science. Finally, they share their daily joy practices that anchor their own emotional and spiritual lives.
Episcopalians across Southern Ohio are invited to join us for our monthly Beloved Community Book Study, which takes place on Zoom on the first Tuesdays of each month at 7pm. No matter how much of the book you've read or haven't read, please join us!
Register to receive your Zoom link and a free copy of the book, if you don't already have it! There is no deadline to register.
