retreat

All-Church Retreat October 1st
Meadowkirk Retreat Center
Middleburg, Virginia

Everyone came: singles; seniors, families, friends and neighbors for this special time together.

Matthew 22: 37-39: 37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.”

Directions to Meadowkirk Retreat Center

Registration is closed but contact laurabumpus@me.com for questions.
Loving God, loving others and loving ourselves will be the focus of the Fall Retreat and we hope it will be uplifting to you and the whole church. There are many reasons to come to take advantage of this opportunity to retreat with our church family. Some will want to devote some specific time to God. Some will want the chance to visit with friends. Some will want to just get away from their weekly routines or weekly chaos. If you’re new to Andrew Chapel, this might be a way for you to get to know us better and to make new friends. This can be an opportunity to spend time with God as a family, or it may be a time to be with grown-ups while your kids are enjoying their own programs. There will be opportunities to be alone and meditate, or maybe you’ll welcome the chance to be outdoors and take a walk in the countryside.

There will be a hot lunch served at noon, and our wonderful program will be lead by Rev.Rick Dawson, Executive Director of Camp Highroad.

The Meadowkirk facilities have been chosen specifically to allow for everyone in the church to attend. If you are in a wheel chair or are concerned about stairs, your needs have been a primary consideration. Meadowkirk does have handicapped paved parking; roll-in rest rooms and push-button doors.

See bottom of page for pictures of accessibility features.

Meadowkirk Retreat Center also has a website, www.meadowkirk.org. We will actually be meeting in the Stone Barn Chapel which is newly renovated and climate-controlled. Adjacent is a dining room where we will all come together for our noon meal. Just down the hill is the Bethlehem Cottage where the youth and children will meet.

	This is the climate-controled, Stone Barn Chapel outside showing the walkway from paved parking lot. This is where we will all meet in the morning and where the adults will continue having their sessions during the day. In the middle of this building is the lobby with handicap-accessible, push-button doors, and at the right end of the building is the dining room, where we'll all come together for our noon meal.
Inside of the Stone Barn Chapel, where the adults will be meeting. It has a piano, a pull-down projector screen, microphones with speakers, and comfy chairs:) There is also a portable carved lectern, if our speaker, Rev. Rick Dawson, wishes to use it. They will set the chairs and everything else up for us the day before.
	Left: The covered porch on the back of the building housing both our dining room and the Stone Barn Chapel at the opposite end of the building from the dining room. The porch overlooks the lower Catoctin Mountain chain and the meadows.
Stone alcove in the lobby of the Stone Barn next to the chapel and near where Andrew Chapel's refreshment table will be set up.	The "Bethehem" Cottage (on the right), where the youth and younger children will meet. It is just down a little hill from the Stone Barn Chapel / Dining Room, where we'll all come together for fellowship that morning and also for lunch in the dining room at noon. There is a large common room in the middle of the cottage, and then there are smaller "dorm" rooms with tables, chairs, and bunk beds on either side of the common room. There's also a small kitchen in this facility, and, of course, bathrooms on either side. We'll provide refreshments for the cottage as well.
Accessibility at the Retreat This is an All-Church Retreat, and everyone is welcome. If you are in a wheel chair or are concerned about stairs, your needs have been a primary consideration in trying to find a place that meets everyone's needs. Meadowkirk does have handicapped paved parking; roll-in restrooms with grab bars and room for caretakers; and push-button doors.
The handicap-accessible paved parking spaces leading to the walkway to the Stone Barn's Chapel, where the adults will be meeting.	The front of the building that leads both to the Stone Barn Chapel on the left end and the dining room on the right end of the building. It has push-button entry doors both from the outside and inside the lobby. In the next picture, you can see the push-button doors .
The family roll-in handicap-accessible restroom with extra-wide doors and grab bars. Other restrooms are also available for everyone.