Prayer comes in all kinds and forms, and one of the most fulfilling ways to engage in prayer is through the visual and using the body to create.

In this workshop, we will use silent listening, writing, and painting with markers to create your own personal prayer bowl. No skill is needed and I think you will find this to be a prayer experience that will stay with you for a long time.

Class is limited to 8 participants

Located at Safe Harbor’s Chloe Waldrop Taylor Renewal Center

Cost: $35 which includes all materials

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Too often in our culture we brush past the sorrow and grief we experience, hoping to wish it away or push it away with activity or positive thinking.  We may even feel guilty for the emptiness we experience because “we don’t have it as badly as so-and-so.”  In doing so, we may miss a beautiful encounter with God. 

Cost: $20 Class Limit: 7

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Looking for a way to creatively express your prayers?  Praying with Color is a workshop based on the popular book by the title of “Praying in Color” by Sybil Macbeth.  This is a unique way of encountering prayer when words escape you, your mind wanders, and your body doesn’t want to cooperate by staying still. 

Cost: $25 Class Limit: 7

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Sometimes we hear words like “grace,” “peace,” “love,” and “hope,” etc. so often that we don’t feel connected to them as much as we once did. This session of art journaling will provide an opportunity to creatively uncover some new dimensions that can refresh your soul. All materials provided.

Cost: $25 Class Limit: 7

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In this ancient prayer practice, we learn four movements of prayer as we read short passages of scripture and engage them in several ways.  This prayer method does not replace the in-depth study of scripture but is yet another way to encounter brief passages and hear God’s voice speaking through a particular word or phrase.

Cost: $20 Class Limit: 7

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In this workshop, you will choose from a selection of beads to create your own string of prayer beads and learn ways to use them as a tactical and sensory engagement with God.  This workshop is appropriate for older children (accompanied by a parent or grandparent) as well as adults.  All materials provided and included in the registration fee.

Cost: $30 Class Limit: 7

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Sometimes we hear words like “grace,” “peace,” “love,” and “hope,” etc. so often that we don’t feel connected to them as much as we once did. This session of art journaling will provide an opportunity to creatively uncover some new dimensions that can refresh your soul. All materials provided.

Cost: $25 Class Limit: 7

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“There is not a moment in which God does not present Himself under the cover of some pain to be endured, of some consolation to be enjoyed, or of some duty to be performed.  All that takes place within us, around us, or through us, contains and conceals his divine action.” -Jean-Pierre De Caussade.

By welcoming uncomfortable physical sensations, thoughts, feelings, and situations into the presence of God, we can learn and let go.  The Welcoming Prayer is a practice to help us with this.

Cost: $20 Class Limit: 7

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Have you ever placed yourself in the setting of a passage of scripture and looked at it from the inside out?  What would it be like to be a bystander as Jesus healed or taught?  What if you were the main character, with your own struggles? There is often a powerful connection with God in engaging scripture in this way.

Cost: $20 Class Limit: 7

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How does your past year look like a house metaphor?  In this session, we will spend time reflecting on your highs and lows of the past year through new eyes.  We will give space and thought to what remodeling or redecorating practices you might want to engage in for the coming year.

Cost: $20 Class Limit: 7

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As the days pick up the pace between Thanksgiving and Christmas, how can one make space for contemplating what it means to celebrate the coming of Christ? It might mean listening for God's gentle invitation to draw away for a day that softly turns us toward quiet contemplation.

In this six-hour retreat, we will look at Waiting through the eyes of Elizabeth, Mary, and Anna. We will examine our own lives in light of what it means to:

• Wait in a season of time out of time

• Wait in community for our purpose

• Wait with an ear to the future

We will engage practices using all of our senses to enhance our understanding of what it means to wait well and fruitfully in all three areas. There will be time for deep reflection through silence, music, writing, and visual art.

A simple lunch will be provided, and social distancing will be practiced. No charge, donations accepted.

Location: Sunroom at Corinth Reformed Church

Limit: 10 participants, first come basis

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Come and learn how to engage in prayerful conversation with God based on imagery.  In this practice, we will use art, nature, and everyday objects to draw into close communion with God.

Cost: $25

Class Limit: 7

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If you are looking for another way to pass your faith on to your young son or daughter as he or she moves into the next phase of life, this workshop will provide you with a meaningful opportunity.  You will choose from a selection of beads to create your own string of prayer beads, and learn ways to use them as a tactical and sensory engagement with God as you pray for your student throughout the remainder of this year.  Then, you may want to pass it on to them as a gift when they head out to college.  All materials provided and included in the registration fee.

Cost: $35 adults Class limit: 10

Register here: https://safeharbornc.org/on-purpose-class-schedule/ This class is a private offering, so you won’t see it listed:

• Click on “What We Do”

• Scroll to “Safe Harbor Classes”

• Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page

• Click the BIG BLUE BUTTON that says “Register Here” and type in “Private Prayer Beads”

In this ancient prayer practice, we learn four movements of prayer as we read short passages of scripture and engage them in several ways.  This prayer method does not replace the in-depth study of scripture but is yet another way to encounter brief passages and hear God’s voice speaking through a particular word or phrase.

Cost: $25

Class Limit: 7

Register Here: https://host.nxt.blackbaud.com/donor-form/?formId=5f9ffeea-4bed-4d79-a0b4-710177300377&envid=p-IGMhFNFbMUmRefeOJ32YAg

Looking for a way to creatively express your prayers?  Praying with Color is a workshop based on the popular book by the title of “Praying in Color” by Sybil Macbeth.  This is a unique way of encountering prayer when words escape you, your mind wanders, and your body doesn’t want to cooperate by staying still. 

Price: $35

Class Limit: 7

Register at: https://host.nxt.blackbaud.com/donor-form/?formId=5f9ffeea-4bed-4d79-a0b4-710177300377&envid=p-IGMhFNFbMUmRefeOJ32YAg

If you are curious about what the Enneagram is and whether it has anything to offer followers of Christ, this three-hour workshop will provide you with insight. When viewed correctly through the Christian worldview, tools such as the Enneagram can offer a way of engaging growth toward a more fully formed reflection of Christ. Participants will take a particular assessment prior to the workshop so as to have a more personal application of the principles taught in class and may desire some follow-up sessions for clarification.

Cost: $40 per person Class Limit: 7

Register here: https://safeharbornc.org/on-purpose-class-schedule/

God is present in every moment and circumstance of our busy days, but often we miss him unless his presence is glaringly obvious. Are we noticing times throughout the day or week that our hearts are drawn toward him? Away from him ever so slightly? The Prayer of Examen is a practice that will help you become more and more in tune with these subtle shifts, drawing you more deeply into the heart of God.

Cost: $25 Class Limit: 7

Register here:https://safeharbornc.org/on-purpose-class-schedule/