The Fresh Hope Christian Centre for Wellness is designed to help ministry leaders learn how to live well. It is a place of safety, creating opportunities for transformational moments - for renewal, for reflection, and growth.
Spiritual transformation is about going deeper in your personal journey with God. Christian leaders often talk about the importance of spiritual transformation but find stillness in the presence of God difficult. Pursuing this through formation, meditation, and discipline will increase physical, emotional, and spiritual resilience -- inspiring healthy life-shaping patterns of thinking, feeling, doing, and being. The Centre is dedicated to creating moments where spiritual transformation can take place -- and help leaders turn these moments into a lifelong journey.
The Centre focuses on sustainable health and spiritual transformation in two ways:
1. As a physical retreat - where leaders have a location conducive to emotional refreshment and spiritual formation; a place that enables deep reflection to find God's agenda.
2. As a learning hub - gathering research and resources, plus organising events that share these findings to support the sustainable health and pastoral excellence of ministry leaders
Both aspects of The Centre are about deep transformation and living well - seeking to shape and care for the souls of leaders, equipping them to guide their ministries to become spiritually transforming communities of fresh hope, discerning God's agenda for their ministry context.
The Centre for Wellness cares for the souls of leaders by helping them experience God's transforming presence in four ways:
1. Providing a "safe space" where leaders can be valued and encouraged -- sharing in genuine community with those on the same journey
2. Demonstrating personal spiritual disciplines that assist in establishing a sacred rhythm of life that will build personal resilience that will sustain leaders in ministry
3. Providing resources and teaching new skills which empower leaders to foster spiritually transforming communities-- able to discern and follow God's agenda.
4. Building support networks that challenge a leader towards continuous growth in their lives
