Retreats and Special Events
2009 Women's Retreat
Our speaker this year was Kris Grimm.
- Friday Evening: Get Real (Session 1)
Discover how God's promises in the gospel give us freedom and transparency; we can take off our masks and be real with each other, and help others grow to remove their masks too. - Saturday Morning: Extreme Makeover (Sessions 2 and 3)
God gives us a definition of true beauty in 1 Peter 3:3-4, and we examine how to apply these characteristics to our lives. In Colossians 3:1-14 we examine our responsibility to "put off" the old and "put on" the qualities of Christlike beauty. - Saturday Evening: Surrender (Session 4)
Based on Romans 12:1 we explore the need to surrender, present ourselves to the Lord, worship him and let go of our anxieties and fears. - Sunday Morning: Peace (Session 5)
Philippians 4:7 tells us what peace really is and how to obtain true, lasting peace through Jesus Christ.
2009 Annual Family Retreat (Teisendorf)
Our Teisendorf retreat this year focused on the task of creating a culture of peace in the local church. Our speaker was Bryce Thomas with Peacemaker Ministries. During the five sessions, we were reminded in many solidly biblical and practical ways how to apply the gospel to our relationships in the family, the church, and the city.
The sessions covered the Four G's of Peacemaking:
- Glorify God;
- Get the Log out of Your Eye;
- Gently Restore; and
- Go and Be Reconciled.
Learning to live in a lifestyle of grace, forgiveness and peace in MICC can have lasting impact not only on our community but other cities around the world as God sends us out to spread His fame and make peace with each other.
Several booklets featuring supplemental instruction from Peacemaker Ministries are available below in PDF format. Please read these to strengthen your grip on the concepts presented and apply them to your life.
Resources to read in PDF format:
Church Discipline and a Culture of Peace
Counseling the Church in Conflict
Cultivating A Culture of Peace
Getting to the Heart of Conflict
Implementing a Culture of Peace
Jonathan Edwards on Charitable Judgments
2009 Mens' Retreat (Burg Wernfels)
Our speaker this year was Kris Lundgaard. The topic for the weekend was The Enemy Within: Straight Talk about the Power and Defeat of Sin.
- The End of the Struggle Against Sin
- Cheating the Flesh
- What's Wrong with the Enemy Within?
- Man on Fire
2008 Annual Retreat (Teisendorf)
Our speaker this year was Mark Ashton from The Round Church at St. Andrew the Great, Cambridge, UK. The topic was The Gospel in Romans 1-3.
2008 Mens' Retreat
Men of Integrity
Our speaker this year is Voddie Baucham.
If we are going to take steps toward maturity and fruitfulness it will require that we be men of integrity - men with real security and significance in Christ, men with nothing to prove, nothing to lose, and nothing to hide. By being a man of integrity in the twenty-first century, we have the privilege to affect the lives of our great-grandchildren - in the twenty-third century. Step up to the challenge of multi-generational faithfulness as we learn lessons on being...
- Session 1: A Real Man
Lessons from Adam (Genesis 2) - Session 2: A Real Leader
Lessons from Jesus (Ephesians 5) - Sessions 3-4: A Real Lover
Lessons from Solomon (Song of Solomon) - Session 5: A Real Champion
Lessons from Job (Job 29:1-27)
2007 Annual Retreat (Teisendorf)
This year the 21st Annual MICC Church Retreat took place for the first time at HAUS CHIEMGAU , TEISENDORF from 25-28th May. John Waldrop was talking about "Before God's Face" (Isaiah 6:1-8) .
- The King is Dead (Isaiah 6:1)
- The True King is Very Much Alive (Isaiah 6:1-4)
- Knowing God and Myself (Isaiah 6:5)
- The Grace of God in Christ (Isaiah 6:6-7)
- The Mission of God (Isaiah 6:8)
2007 Mens' Retreat
Men of God
Often life's circumstances seem to make little sense. At the retreat, together we'll explore how God is at work in biblical stories to display for us the story of His faithfulness in our lives.
- Men of Redemption
Lessons from Nicoemus (John 3:1-21) and Zacchaeus (Luke 19:1-10) - Men of God
Lessons from Paul to Timothy (1 Tim. 6:11 and 2 Tim. 3:17) - Men of Grace
A Lesson from the Prodigal's Father (Luke 15:11-32) - Men of Action
A Lesson from Gideon (Judges 6-7) - Men of Prayer
A Lesson from Daniel (Daniel 6:1-28)
2006 Womens' Retreat
Our retreat topic: Tell Me A Story
Often life's circumstances seem to make little sense. At the retreat, together we'll explore how God is at work in biblical stories to display for us the story of His faithfulness in our lives.
- Friday night: My Story
- Saturday morning: Rachel and Leah's Story (Genesis 29:30-30:24)
- Saturday evening: Esther's Story (The Book of Esther)
- Sunday morning: The Story of the Woman with the Issue of Blood (Mark 5:25-34)
Is there an Intelligent Designer in the Universe?
A series of meetings with guest speaker John Mackay:
- Friday 16 June 2006
- "By Design: Evidence for an Intelligent Designer" - Saturday 17 June 2006
- Short presentation: The History of History
- Question & Answer Opportunity - Sunday 18 June 2006
- "The Eternal Gospel": The message of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation
2006 Annual Retreat
At our Mittersill retreat we heard from Pete McKenzie. Pete is a long term servant of Christ on the mission field and pastorate. Currently he has a ministry to men called The Influencers. He spoke five times from Paul's letter to the Philippians.
Paul wrote the letter while a prisoner in Rome, and it is filled with practical Christian wisdom, instruction and attitude. As we journey through this letter we will review or discover the keys to having a joyful attitude, and discover how Paul had a lasting, positive, spiritual influence on every generation of believers since the first century.
- Five Reasons to Believe
Pete introduces the weekend with his personal story of how he came to faith in Christ, and sets the stage for the exposition of Philippians. In each chapter Paul describes a thief that steals our joy, and an antidote to restore our joy. - Philippians 1 - "The Imperative of the Gospel"
Thief: Circumstances
Antidote: The Single Mind - Philippians 2 - "The Imperative of Humility"
Thief: People
Antidote: The Submissive Mind - Philippians 3 - "The Imperative of Eternal Perspective"
Thief: Things
Antidote: The Spiritual Mind - Philippians 4 - "The Imperative of an Unshakeable Hope"
Thief: Worry
Antidote: The Secure Mind
2006 Men's Retreat
The men gathered and were challenged to enter and enjoy a whole-hearted, Spirit-energized, soul-satisfying lifestyle of full-body contact discipleship.
Dennis McFadden spoke on the following topics of special significance to men seeking to understand a robust relationship to Christ.
- Teamwork and Mentoring (Ephesians 4)
- Men Called and Sent (Isaiah 6)
- Roadblocks for Men Pursuing God and His Kingdom (Matthew 6)
- A Man and his Sexuality - Part I (2 Samuel 11-12)
- A Man and his Sexuality - Part II
- Toweled to Serve, Restored to Serve (John 13, 21)
Why2Kinds?
A series of meetings on the subject of Biblical manhood and womenhood.
- 14 October 2005:
Created Part 1 (Genesis 1-3)
Steve Henderson - 21 October 2005:
Created Part 2 (Genesis 1-3)
Steve Henderson - 28 October 2005:
Recovered (Getting Specific and Q&A)
Dave Martin, Robin Henderson - 4 November 2005:
Challenged (Living in a Sex-Drenched Culture)
Philipp Gollner
