Spring Courses

March 5-14, 2010

Be Still and Know That I am God
with Peter Boles and Nancy Scott

A silent retreat is a time to rest, to pray with scriptures, to reflect on where you have been, to get in touch with how God is working in your life – all in the atmosphere of prayerful silence.

Peter Boles offers spiritual direction in his home in Victoria and at Queenswood. He was trained in spiritual direction at the Bethlehem Retreat Centre in Nanaimo, the Queenswood in Victoria and The Mercy Centre in California.

Nancy Scott is a graduate of the Education for Ministry Program and the Pacific Jubilee Program in Spiritual Direction. She is an Oblate with the Sisters of St. John the Divine.

Course fee: $865 (includes program, meals and accommodation)

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Quilting Week

April 18-24, 2010

Conquer Your Rulers!
with Dianne Jansson

Do you have a selection of rulers that you bought in a spurt of enthusiasm and then relegated to a shelf in the corner of your sewing area? Dust them off and bring them to class!

Learn how their correct use can benefit your quilt projects with extra speed and accuracy. A series of blocks using various specialty rulers will be provided. Others will be designed during the week to include any rulers you bring with you. The blocks will be used to create a sampler-style quilt. This course is a wonderful opportunity to use up some of those scraps from your stash, as well as good way to expand your piecing skills.

Dianne Jansson has an degree in Home Economics and taught dressmaking for many years in Australia and Canada. The last 25 years have seen Dianne’s focus change to quilting. Dianne believes that quilting is meant to be a pleasurable activity, and encourages her students to adapt designs to suit their personal needs.

April 18-24, 2010

“Stars About Town” and “Crazy Quilt Stars”
with Lynn Knox

“Stars About Town” (bottom left) is is an awesome quilt made “scrappy” or with just a few fabrics. The whole quilt is set on point with an incorporated border.

Crazy quilts were first seen in the US in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Traditionally they were made with bits and pieces of tapestry, silk, satin and other fancy fabrics. “Crazy Quilt Stars” (bottom right) is an updated version that can be made with traditional fabrics or today’s beautiful cottons. We will look at doing your stitches by hand or by machine. You can choose to make one quilt or start both quilts. We’ll send you the supply list for both quilts, and you can choose.

Lynn Knox was born and raised in Vernon and has been quilting for twenty years. She has been teaching for six years at Pleasant Valley Quilting and has developed her own line of patterns.

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Associates Work and Study Week

May 2-8 2010

Angels in the Attic
with Nancy Scott

…"in the Book of Revelation there are seven angels hanging around: trees full of angels, gift giving angels from a gift giving God." – Sister Doreen McGuff SSJD

Twice a year - in the spring and the fall - the Associates of Sorrento Centre have an opportunity to come together to worship, study, work and pray.

The Spring Associates’ Week is always one of the most special times of the Sorrento year. Our work will focus on preparing the site for the coming season. This year, study will be led by Nancy Scott.

Here we are introduced to a portrait - the unchanging realities upon which our faith relies in any period of history. The challenge and the gift is learning to see the holy in the ordinary. Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary. There are burning bushes all around. Every tree is full of angels. Hidden beauty is waiting, life wants to lead us into the ordinary, to the angels, to God.”

Nancy Scott is a graduate of the Education for Ministry Program and the Pacific Jubilee Program in Spiritual Direction.  She is an Oblate with the Sisters of St John the Divine.

Course Fee: By Donation

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Young Sojourners’ Weekend

May 7-9, 2010

Jesus’ Gang
with Phil Colvin

Teenage fishermen, thugs, tax collectors and geeks…

When Jesus wandered into town and introduced his gang of disciples, it must have been quite a shock to people who were expecting a group of old, religious leaders!

This May, if you’re between 14 and 25, come be part of our posse at Sorrento Centre! We’ll be having a great time playing and hanging out. And, like Jesus’ disciples, we’ll be working together building the community of God… in this case by helping with work projects around the centre. We will also be asking some hard questions.

We’ll ask why Jesus made such strange choices to be his closest friends and the people to build his church, and we’ll find out what plans he might have for us, his new gang, in 2010 and beyond!

Course Fee: By Donation

Chaplain for the week: Dan Hines
Dan Hines is an experienced youth leader and is currently a ministry developer and priest in The Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior based in Kamloops, BC.

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