About Us

“Our passion as a couple is to support, encourage and create space for others to know rest and refreshment. Retreat is what we all need from time to time. Having worked the front line for decades we know the value of meeting with God outside the pressure to perform. As Oswald Chambers said – it is never do, do and you will be but be, be and God will do though you. “

“Untying myself from St Paul’s after 24 years may seem a major even – humanly speaking it was. After such a long time work colleagues become lifelong friends. We have shared the journey of children growing up, parents dying and the odd major illness thrown in. We come from the broadest range of Christian traditions and of no faith. So leaving was hard but tempered with an honest trust in the unfailing love of God – knowing that should we remain open and looking for where the spirit within us becomes excited and senses a usefulness and even purpose – then an adventure is about to unfold.“

Whilst spending time in a silent Franciscan Monastery I read Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life by Richard Rohr. At the same time I re-read The Lonely Man of Faith by Joseph Soloveitchik. I came away reminded that our greatest impact on the world pours from a deep and often rich encounter with ourselves in the light of what God intended for us to be. Henri Nouwen touches much on this in The Wounded Healer. 30 years in ministry has left some scars but I would prefer to call them reminders of our shared frailty or windows into the pain others may also have endured.

So our prayer is simply this – make use of us Lord in bringing healing to others as we bathe in your unfailing yet often unfathomable love for us.