The Wesley Foundation at UVA

Want to get away from the UVa bubble for a few hours? Want to feel that campy feeling we grew to love on our spring break trip again? Want to learn how quantum physics and positive thinking are related and how they might affect how we experience the world? If you answered yes to any of the above, or at least raised an eyebrow then…

COME TO A RETREAT THIS WEEKEND! We will be watching a very intriguing and thought-provoking film called “What the Bleep Do We Know?” This film is half documentary, half fiction and discusses science, religion, psychology, and much more!

We will be traveling to Linden retreat center near Hampden Sydney. We will be leaving around 5pm on Friday (March 30) evening and packing dinners to eat on the road. We’ll watch the movie Friday night and engage in several activities inspired by the movie Saturday morning. We’ll be leaving the retreat center by 1pm, so everyone will have plenty of time to get back to go to Spring Fest and see Ben Folds or whatever else Saturday holds for you.

The cost will be $10, which will cover retreat center costs, snacks for the movie, and breakfast and lunch on Saturday. You should bring a sleeping bag, toiletries and a towel, writing materials/journal, a Bible, and walking shoes as there will be lovely spaces for walking outside.

Please let Deborah know if you will be attending and give her your $10 by noon on Wednesday 3/28. This can be done in person, or you can bring the money by the foundation Mon-Fri 9-12 and give it to our office manager Griffin, or slip it under Deborah’s door in a marked envelope.

This movie is really fascinating and I think this retreat has things for everyone to enjoy. Did I mention I’m bringing cookies?? Be there or be sorry!

Cliffs:
What: “What the bleep” Retreat
When: Leave Friday, March 30 5pm, return but 3 or 3:30 Saturday, March 31
Where: Linden retreat center near Hamden Sydney
Cost: $10 due Wednesday by noon

Wesley love,
Courtney Stuckwisch (cas5et)

Want to get away from the UVa bubble for a few hours? Want to feel that campy feeling we grew to love on our spring break trip again? Want to learn how quantum physics and positive thinking are related and how they might affect how we experience the world? If you answered yes to any of the above, or at least raised an eyebrow then…

COME TO A RETREAT THIS WEEKEND! We will be watching a very intriguing and thought-provoking film called “What the Bleep Do We Know?” This film is half documentary, half fiction and discusses science, religion, psychology, and much more!

We will be traveling to Linden retreat center near Hampden Sydney. We will be leaving around 5pm on Friday (March 30) evening and packing dinners to eat on the road. We’ll watch the movie Friday night and engage in several activities inspired by the movie Saturday morning. We’ll be leaving the retreat center by 1pm, so everyone will have plenty of time to get back to go to Spring Fest and see Ben Folds or whatever else Saturday holds for you.

The cost will be $10, which will cover retreat center costs, snacks for the movie, and breakfast and lunch on Saturday. You should bring a sleeping bag, toiletries and a towel, writing materials/journal, a Bible, and walking shoes as there will be lovely spaces for walking outside.

Please let Deborah know if you will be attending and give her your $10 by noon on Wednesday 3/28. This can be done in person, or you can bring the money by the foundation Mon-Fri 9-12 and give it to our office manager Griffin, or slip it under Deborah’s door in a marked envelope.

This movie is really fascinating and I think this retreat has things for everyone to enjoy. Did I mention I’m bringing cookies?? Be there or be sorry!

Cliffs:
What: “What the bleep” Retreat
When: Leave Friday, March 30 5pm, return but 3 or 3:30 Saturday, March 31
Where: Linden retreat center near Hamden Sydney
Cost: $10 due Wednesday by noon

Wesley love,
Courtney Stuckwisch (cas5et)

Dinner @ 6pm followed by forum @ 7pm.

Hi Everyone,

Welcome back to yet another semester of Lunch at the Pav. Due to a class at 12:30, I’m going to start Lunch at the
Pav at 11:45 rather than the traditional noon so I hope this is not sacrilage or anything.

For those unfamiliar, every Wednesday, we meet in the back room of the Pav to have lunch together and just chat and catch up with each
other.  It is a great time and you should come!

So bring your appetite for food and fellowship and join the most exclusive group UVA has to offer, the one only known as Lunch at the Pav.

Later,
Geoff (gwv7g)

The Wesley Foundation is pleased to announce that United Methodist Bishop Will Willimon will be our Jim McDonald Lecturer this year. Bishop Willimon is a theologian, prolific writer, and current bishop of the North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church.

He served for many years as Dean of the Chapel at Duke and is known for his prolific writing, including works such as Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony (co-authored with Stanley Hauerwas), Sinning Like a Christian: A New Look at the Seven Deadly Sins, Pastor: A Reader for Ordained Ministry, and, most recently, Thank God It’s Friday: Encountering the Seven Last Words from the Cross.

Bishop Willimon has a passion for campus ministry, rooted in his tenure at Duke, and is a passionate, humorous, and powerful speaker.

The Jim McDonald Lecture honors our former director’s ministry and his passion for ecumenism and for the intersection of church and academy. The year’s Lecture marks our 6th and is on Monday, March 26, 2007, at 7:30pm at the UVA Chapel. Bishop Willimon’s talk is entitled “Why Christians are Not Mere Monotheists: Christians as Trinitarians.” It is free and open to the public.

We are also sponsoring a workshop with local clergy and others who are interested in spending time with Bishop Willimon in a more intimate setting. The workshop is entitled “Sin and Salvation: Proclaiming Cruciform Good News” and will be held at the Wesley Foundation on Monday, March 26th from 10am -1pm (including lunch). Cost for the workshop is $15 per person and includes lunch. The registration deadline is Wednesday, March 21st.

For more information or to register for the workshop, please call the office (434-977-6500) or contact Deborah Lewis by email (deborahATwesleyuva.org).

10am -12pm Workshop with local clergy at the Wesley Foundation: “Sin and Salvation: Proclaiming Cruciform Good News”
12pm-1pm Lunch with workshop participants

The workshop is open to all who are interested, though it is geared toward the concerns of local clergy. Cost is $15 per person and the deadline for registration is Wednesday, March 21st.

Please call the Wesley Foundation office to reserve your space.

Informal worship in the Wesley Foundation dining room.

Come as you are…leave a bit more.

**This week’s worship is at 6:30pm (note the time change).**

Dinner @ 6pm followed by forum @ 7pm.

Hi Everyone,

Welcome back to yet another semester of Lunch at the Pav. Due to a class at 12:30, I’m going to start Lunch at the
Pav at 11:45 rather than the traditional noon so I hope this is not sacrilage or anything.

For those unfamiliar, every Wednesday, we meet in the back room of the Pav to have lunch together and just chat and catch up with each
other.  It is a great time and you should come!

So bring your appetite for food and fellowship and join the most exclusive group UVA has to offer, the one only known as Lunch at the Pav.

Later,
Geoff (gwv7g)

Informal worship in the Wesley Foundation dining room.

Come as you are…leave a bit more.