sabbath-keeping for sabbath-providers, Friday, october 8, 2004

Come Away and Rest--a Retreat for Church Musicians and other church leaders

You create the space for Sabbath for other people week after week. How can you nurture your own sense of Sabbath in the midst of constant preparation for others? Come Away and Rest! You will receive a beautiful new journal and reflection time just for you. A lovely lunch will be provided followed by a short ride to the small Czech town of Spillville to hear a concert of Antonin Dvorak music, offered just for you, in the very rooms where Dvorak himself once performed. To complement the day, the Vocation program will provide up to $50, with a paid receipt, for a one night's stay for either Thursday or Friday nights in Decorah or Spillville.

Participants are limited to 15.

Hosted by Ann Beatty, Executive Director of the Rochester Choral Arts Ensemble and brothers Steven & Michael Klimesh, local experts and natives of Spillville.

Tentative Schedule:

8:30-9 a.m. Welcome and refreshments in Mott Room in Student Union
9-9:50 Sabbath-Keeping for Sabbath-Providers, led by Ann Beatty
10-10:30 Daily Chapel with the Luther Community in Center for Faith and Life, Sheila Radford-Hill, Director of Luther Diversity Center
10:30-11:30 Break and self-time
11:30 Optional short walking tour of Luther College campus
noon-1:00 p.m. Luncheon in Nobel Room, Centennial Union with the Klimeshes
1:00 Van departs for Spillville, via Calmar and Dvorak Memorial Inwood Park
1:30-2:30 Bily Clock Museum and Dvorak Museum, hosted by Michael Klimesh
2:30-3:00 Coffee and kolaches (Czech pastry) in Old School with introduction to Dvorak connection
3-3:30 Brief tour of St. Wenceslaus Church with Steven Klimesh
3:30 Concert by William Kuhlman, organ and H. Edwin Andereck, tenor "Dvorak and His Circle"
4:30--5 Time to look at organ, church, wander cemetery grounds
5:00 Optional return to Luther College
5-6:30 Optional dinner at the Old World Inn, Spillville, return to Decorah
7:30 Optional guest recital by Carol Breckenridge, 7:30 p.m. in Jensen Hall of Music, Noble Recital Hall, optional overnight stay in Decorah or Spillville

For more information contact Program Secretary Connie Barclay at barcco01@luther.edu

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