A Weekend Retreat Schedule

 

First Session

 

 6:00 Dinner

 7:00 Theme interpretation and welcome

            (use Worship Service #1)

 8:00 Break

 8:30 Bible study (use Bible study #2)

 9:30 Fellowship

10:30 Campfire (use Special Feature #5)

11: 30 Go to cabin

12:00 Cabin devotions (use Cabin Devotions #1)

12:15 Lights out

 

Second Session

 

7:00 Wake up

7:30 Morning watch (use Morning Watch #4)

8:00 Breakfast

9:00 Bible study (use Bible Study #4)

10:00 Recreation (see activities under "Recreation")

11:00 Celebration (use Worship Service #5)

12:00 Lunch

1:00 Go Home

 

Program materials for the first evening session are illustrated as follows:

 

Worship Service  #1

 

Theme: "Living the Christ Life" Theme Song: "Take My Life"

Theme Interpretation: "Living the Christ Life" by Frank Hart Smith

Group of three young men and three young women.

Man 1 is designated M1

Woman as W1

 "All W" is all women

All M" is all men

"All" means all six speak at once.

 

The six are dressed in black or in robes or simply in camp clothes. They enter, assume six positions relatively close together but not in a rigid semicircle. If lights are used: blackout, then prayer, assume positions, and lights up.

 

MI: We're here

WI: To share with you

M2: What we have found

W2: To be the life

ALL M: The life

ALL W: (softly) The life

ALL: (louder) The life

M3: We've found

W3: That the life

MI: Is life in Christ!

WI: (rapidly) life in Christ!

M2: (rapidly) life in Christ!

W2: (rapidly) life in Christ!

M3: (rapidly) life in Christ!

W3: (rapidly) life in Christ!

ALL M: And that no man

ALL W: Or woman!

MI: Comes to know God

W2: Except through

M2: Knowing Jesus!

M3: Accepting him as

MI: Savior

WI: Lord

M2: Motivator

W2: Of our lives

ALL: That's the key to

ALL W: The Christ life!

ALL M: The Christ life!

MI: And there's more

WI: More!

M2: There's prayer

W2: Prayer!

M3: And Bible study

W3: Bible Study!

ALL M: And the power of the Holy Spirit!

ALL W: (very deliberately) The power of the Holy Spirit!

M2: And all this finds expression in

W2: Being dependable

M3: And loving at home

W3: And everywhere else

MI: Maturing

M2: Finding my place

W2; In his will . . . .

MI: And being Christ's man

WI: Or woman

M2: Everywhere

W2: All the time

M3: SO let's get on with it.

MI & WI: Let's get on with

ALL W: Living the Christ life

ALL M: Living the Christ life.

ALL: Living the Christ life!

 
(All freeze, lights out, then move off)

Prayer Thought (retreat program director): Let us not just talk about "living the Christ life."  Lead us to live it.

Hymn: "Saved, Saved!"

Welcome to the Retreat

Hymn: "Lord I want to Be a Christian"

Story of "Stand Up, Stand up for Jesus"

 

Dudley A. Tyng was an Episcopalian minister in Philadelphia. Tyng had to resign his church because of his outspoken views regarding the rights of all men in the sight of God. In 1857 he organized the Church of the Covenant in Philadelphia. So powerful was his preaching that on March 30, 1858, a sermon on "Go now, ye that are men, and serve the Lord," saw 1,000 of the 5,000 men there accept Christ as Savior.  This great man of God was killed by some radicals who objected to his preaching the truth. On his death bed he said to his father, "Tell them, 'Let us all stand up for Jesus.'”  On the Sunday following Tyng's death, George Duffield, a Presbyterian minister and a close friend of Tyng, preached from Ephesians 6 and concluded the sermon with the words to this hymn - words he had composed for the occasion. The hymn was first published in a Baptist paper; later it was put to several different tunes. It has become one of the world's most beloved hymns.

 

Hymn: "Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus"

Prayer Thought (a leader from among the youth): May this week lead every one of us take a new stand in our Christian lives.

 

Special Music

 

Message: "Living the Christ Life"

Stop evaluating Christians by what the world thinks about them or by what they seem to be like on the outside. Once I mistakenly thought of Christ that way, merely as a human being like myself. How differently I feel now! When someone becomes a Christian, he becomes a brand new person inside. He is not the same any more. A new life has begun (2 Cor. 5:16-17, TLB)!

 

Closing Hymn: "There Is a Name I Love to Hear"

 

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