No wifi for several days while we were "retreating" at Guronys and then travelling through airports, which delayed the blogging. I will continue till this is complete though!
On Friday, May 16 our Ubuntu team and 20 Methodist women from churches all around Lithuania met for retreat at a beautiful retreat center named Guronys. With five or six excellent interpreters we were able to get to know each other over the next two and a half days. Here is where we had time to share our life and faith stories, and listen deeply to one another as our community formed.
Sanctuary
Station for prayer
Chapel
Helen's altar made for usWe started with devotions from the Upper Room, read in English and in Russian. Many of the women spoke Russian, and the Upper Room is not printed in Lithuanian. Our sisters who spoke every language translated to Lithuanian as well.
We did "ice breaker" activities and enjoyed the elvin slippers to wear. We found out each other's favorite flowers, food, season, book, and learned what we had wanted to be as girls, what jobs we were doing now, and what had been our most unusual jobs. We made the connection: "the way I live is a result of what I believe. "
Genutė, Rosita, Sue, Ann, Danutė, Lidija
Feet of Rasa, Dangoulė, and Beth
ReginaThe light came early the next day.
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