Living Stones Men’s Ministry Retreat – Sept. 2026
Plans are underway for our 2026 Men’s Retreat at Camp Geddie on Friday Sept. 11th,12th and 13th in Merigomish, NS. This will give everyone lots of time to start early to save for the registration fee to be determined sometime next year.
Our Theme for next year’s retreat is: DEEP WATER FISHING. Over the last couple of years our themes have been “ Armed and Ready” and “Go” which leads us to ask the question, where do we go now? The answer is found in Luke 5:4 “Put your Boat into Deep Water and let down the nets for a catch” which I believe leads us to Deep Water Fishing as our theme inspired by Holy Spirit.
There is so much that Jesus tells us in His Word about this teaching so please spend time reading and meditating on Scripture verses Luke 5 vs. 4-11 in preparation for our weekend together.
We are pleased to have Pastor Gerry Bezanson, from Middleton as our weekend guest speaker. For those of us who know Gerry fishing is one of his favourite pastimes, so I expect he will have some great comparisons between the Natural and the Spiritual about fishing.
On Sunday morning at the end of our weekend together we will be having a Communion Service led by Rev. Dr. Stephen Croft. Women are welcome to join us for this Communion Service.
Luke 5:4–11 (ESV): 4 And when he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” 5 And Simon answered, “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.” 6 And when they had done this, they enclosed a large number of fish, and their nets were breaking. 7 They signalled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink. 8 But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.” 9 For he and all who were with him were astonished at the catch of fish that they had taken, 10 and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching men.” 11 And when they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed him.