RETREAT INFORMATION

February 3-4 Stone Creek Church
February 5 9:30am Brookens Gymnasium / 12:30pm CUCC

The retreat will take place at Stone Creek Church on Friday, February 3 to Saturday February 4. We will conclude the retreat weekend with Sunday services at 9:30am at Brookens Gymnasium and 12:30pm at CUCC on Sunday, February 5.

Cost: $10 if submitted by Wednesday, February 1st. The cost will increase to $15 after that. You can submit your fee through your small group or at the Visitors' Table during Sunday Service.

Check-in will begin at 5pm and dinner will begin at 6pm on Friday.

SPEAKERS

REVEREND MITCH KIM Mitch Kim (Ph.D., Wheaton) is lead pastor of Living Water Alliance Church (www.livingwateralliance.org), raising up people between cultures as Kingdom workers in our globalized world. Drawing on sixteen years of ministry in one immigrant church, he has equipped youth workers through Joshua Generation (http://www.j-gen.org), participated in the Lausanne Congress for World Evangelization (www.lausanne.org), taught as an adjunct instructor at Wheaton College Graduate School and is co-authoring Expanding Eden (InterVarsity Press) with G. K. Beale , a biblical theology of mission from creation to new creation. Of Korean descent, he was born in southern California, raised in Tokyo, and lives in Warrenville, IL, with his wife Eunsil and children Elise, Ana and Eden.

REVEREND JUNG LEE Reverend Jung Lee lives in Roseville, MN with his wife and their four boys. He's the pastor of Covenant Life Church at the University of Minnesota. He served as an area pastor at CFC for 13 years (1997-2010) shepherding ABEL, CRH, and the graduate Bible studies. He studied Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and received his Master of Divinity from Biblical Theological Seminary in Hatfield, PA. Aside from his family and church, he has a special affinity for the Cubs, Portillo's Italian Beef, and saving big money at Menards.

PASTOR MIKE PARK Pastor Mike Park graduated from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign with a degree in Educational Psychology. Upon graduating, he began to serve at Covenant Fellowship Church as a Bible study leader, on the worship team, and as a youth pastor. Pastor Mike Park is married to his wife Grace. He has two daughters- Lydia (who is almost 5 years old) and Hannah (who is almost 3 years old) and has a baby boy James (who is 1 year old). He received his Master of Divinity at Covenant Theological Seminary in 2009 and is currently completing his Doctorate of Ministry at Covenant Theological Seminary. He is also serving as the lead pastor at The Crossing Church in St. Louis- an English ministry targeting Asian-American in the St. Louis area. He loves sports, music, and reading.

SEMINARS

Knowing God’s Will, Reverend John Chong

Children are often asked this question, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Over the years, this question can develop into quite a confusing dilemma. As we approach our young adult years, we are filled with questions like, "What career path should I follow?" "Who should I marry?" "Where should I live?" Do I have any real choices in my life or is it all just destiny?" In this seminar, we will offer both a biblical and a practical perspective on this important topic of knowing God's will.

Kingdom Calling, Reverend Mitch Kim
Does our worship on Sunday care transform our lives from Monday to Friday? Jesus taught us to pray, "Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven" (Matt 6:10) until "the kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ" (Rev 11:15). We have a kingdom calling-- not simply to endure the realities of earth until we make it to heaven but to transform the realities of earth by the powers of the kingdom of heaven. This seminar will bring a biblical understanding to our calling (vocation) in the world, whether we are called to be a missionary or master chef, a pastor or professor, a home builder or homemaker.

Burnout Prevention, Pastor Mike Park
In Exodus 20 God gave Israel the 10 Commandments as covenant stipulations or requirements that defined the kind of life the Lord calls His people to live before Him and with each other. Even a quick glance over the short list of commands shows that God is not only concerned about the spiritual aspect of an individual but the individual as a whole – physical, emotional/social, mental and spiritual.

It’s easy to see how the majority of the commands relate to us today, except one, the Sabbath rest. On one hand there are Christians who ignore the command, while others idolize it. Obviously both responses are not Biblical.

In this seminar we will: 1) Briefly articulate the Biblical definition of Sabbath, 2) Spell out concretely how to appropriate the Sabbath into our daily and weekly cycle of life, and 3) How not to idolize (abuse) the Sabbath rest. The majority of the seminar will be spent on the second objective.