Year OneHome
Author Paula D'Arcy
to Visit Lancaster, PA
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Hosted by Kairos
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Our Vision
At Kairos we envision people transformed by God’s love into the mind and heart of Christ for their sake and for the sake of the world.
Our Identity and Mission
Kairos is a Christian ecumenical ministry with Anabaptist roots that provides programs of spiritual formation and spiritual direction training. We welcome people to an inner life of deepening prayer and an ongoing journey of contemplative living in the world. Through prayerful reflection, solitude, and silence, people from diverse traditions can nourish their own growing desire for a deeper relationship with God and for inner transformation.The supportive community of experienced faculty and trained spiritual directors draws from the wisdom of contemplative spirituality to encourage this journey. Christian spiritual practices, scripture, contemplative prayer, and classic devotional writings illumine each path.
Individuals are further enriched through worship and opportunities for sharing their faith experiences with others on the contemplative journey.
Our Purpose
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To bring people together who desire to grow in their relationship with God, themselves and others.
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To provide programs in which participants explore their own spiritual roots, weed out the things that inhibit growth and claim the essentials for a deeper relationship with God.
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To provide direction in opening the self to various Christian traditions that can deepen faith and increase the understanding of God's movement.
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To offer assistance in exploring the riches of prayer and the contemplative life.
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To help believers be more attentive to God's continuing call, releasing their gifts into the body of Christ and the world around them.
Spiritual Formation
Embracing God's Embrace Of Your Life! The spiritual formation of our lives is an unceasing continuing personal process. As we open ourselves more deeply to our encounter with God, our noticing of Divine Presence everywhere and in everything is expanded. In scripture, as well as in other ancient wisdom literature, we rediscover the tools of deepening our spiritual awareness. The tools often identified by these early pilgrims were:- Seeing with our eyes;
- Listening with our ears;
- Reflecting with our minds;
- Contemplating and meditating with our hearts.
God's goal for our lives is that we become more like Jesus. Only God can make this happen. Only God can help us become WHOLE and HOLY. This is why God's Spirit works within us, to shape us into this likeness. This creative ministry of the Trinity has been spoken of as "Spiritual Formation," being formed by God.
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