February 4-6, 2025 | Woodmen Valley Chapel, Monument, CO
2025 Gathering SCHEDULE
Please note, this year the Gathering will be held from Tuesday to Thursday.
For a Google Map to the church, nearby airport and hotel blocks, click HERE.
Tuesday, Feb 4
- 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm — Registration
- 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm — Plenary 1
- 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm — Connection Time
- 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm — Break for Dinner Out (on your own or meet in the foyer to join a group – Restaurant Map)
- 6:00 pm — Clergy Vest (Upstairs Youth Room)
- 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm — Opening Eucharist
Wednesday, Feb 5
- 8:00 am – 8:40 am — Light Breakfast
- 8:00 am – 1:00 pm — Clergy Wives Retreat
- 8:45 am – 9:15 am — Morning Prayer
- 9:15 am – 10:15 am — Plenary 2
- 10:15 am – 10:30 am — Coffee Break (Foyer)
- 10:30 am – 12:00 pm — Synod Meeting
- 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm — Lunch
- 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm — Session 1 Workshops
- Building Resilience & Preventing Burnout (Laura Lanser)
- Buoyed by Prayer: Contemplative Forms of Engaging God
- Marriage and Ministry: Friends or Enemies? (Carson Leith)
- Navigating Sacrificial Service Without Losing Ourselves (Scott Shaum)
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Soaking Prayer Space (DRM Prayer Ministers)
- 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm — Session 2 Workshops
- A Vision for Pastor Theologians (Chris Bruno & Theology Workgroup)
- Church Polity [Rectors and the Vestry/Parish Council] (Ben Fischer)
- Church Size Dynamics
- Five Biblical Concepts for Addressing Racism (Donald Nwankwo, Chris Stroup)
- Safeguarding in our Churches (Hope Brians, DRM Chancellor, Anna Holsteen)
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Walking with Others through Sexual Addiction (Jonathan Fant, Dave Abels)
- 3:30 pm – 6:00 pm — Free Time
- 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm — Evening Dinner Event (Phantom Canyon, 2 E Pikes Peak Ave, Colorado Springs, CO 80903)
Thursday, Feb 6
- 8:00 am – 8:40 am — Light Breakfast
- 8:00 am – 9:00 am — Targeted Meetings
- Church Planting (Billy Waters)
- Deacon Gathering (Sarah Anderson)
- Exploring Ordination in the DRM (Matt Burnett)
- Partnering with your Rector in Youth & Children’s Ministry (Kyle Stanton)
- Worship Arts (David Norris, Jonathan Fant, Alli Coffey)
- 9:15 am – 9:45 am — Morning Prayer
- 9:45 am – 10:45 am — Plenary 3
- 10:45 am – 11:00 am — Coffee Break (Foyer)
- 11:00 am – 12:30 pm — Closing Eucharist and Time of Prayer
- 12:30 pm –1:30 pm — Lunch, Eat in or Grab a Boxed Lunch
LODGING: Reserved rooms at discounted rates at nearby hotels: Reserve by Jan 5, 2025
- Drury Inn & Suites
- Homewood Suites by Hilton.
- To compare hotels, visit here (click for link). Map
DELEGATES: All Clergy are delegates. All lay delegates need to be reported to the diocese by Jan 20, 2025 in order to vote at the Synod.