Can we talk? The Church and the Recovery Movement

Program Details

This overnight workshop/retreat will explore the appropriate ways for congregations and the 12 Step meetings with whom they share their buildings to learn from one another and be changed in the process. Each of the resource people is working to incorporate these issues into the life and work of local churches and will reflect on their own experience.
This will be an opportunity for laity and clergy, individuals in recovery and people of good will to engage in thoughtful and meaningful conversation around these issues.

Come to the Day Apart Retreat led by Mike Clark on April 8 from 9:30am-3:30pm "WAS JESUS IN THE PROGRAM? The Gospels and the Twelve Steps" and SAVE $14 when you register for both.

About the Leaders

Mike Clark

Mike Clark has an affinity for The Gospel of Thomas that is contagious. He is a retired pastor living in Northampton MA. For the last 17 years (2002-2019) of his active ministry, he spent much of his time learning from those who were battling addiction and seeking transformed lives. His first book, Loitering with Intent, published in 2021, describes these years. For the last dozen years, actively engaging with Thomas -- teaching classes, utilizing it in counseling and spiritual direction, and leading many retreats for individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds, Mike has come to believe that a heart connection with this gospel can change the way we view ourselves, our relationship to our Higher Power and indeed our understanding of Jesus.