Fr Joe Hunt 45th  Annual Retreat for

Members of Alcoholics Anonymous

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​November 17 - 19, 2023

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Registration

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3 p.m. - 6 p.m.  Friday Arrival/Registration

6:00 p.m . Evening meal in dining room

7:30 p.m.  Welcome

   Depart 1:00 p.m. Sunday

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Our weekend Promise: “We are going to know a new FREEDOM and a new HAPPINESS … we will comprehend the word SERENITY and we will know PEACE.” 

How?  Through working the 12-Steps of AA in fellowship with others.  Each 12-Step will be inspired by a recovering alcoholic sharing their experience, strength and hope; followed by intimate, small-group breakouts or one-on-one. 

The weekend offers abundant flexibility for prayer and meditation, self-reflection and sponsor led step work - “Many of us like the experience of an occasional retreat from the outside world where we can quiet down for an undisturbed day or so of self-overhaul and meditation.”  – AA .    Nothing is mandatory. This is not a silent retreat or a socializing weekend.  There is plenty of time to enjoy the lakefront grounds and the fellowship of other recovering people as desired. 

This is not a religious or silent retreat.  Our primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety.  

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Partial Scholarships are available.  The scholarship fund honors Tom Winslow who passed away August 24, 2012. Your donation to the Tom Winslow Memorial Scholarship Fund will assist others in financial need that might not otherwise be able to attend the retreat.  The recipient of a partial scholarship must be willing to accept a roommate.  Partial scholarships are not offered several years in succession.

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The contact for requesting a scholarship soon to follow...

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                (Fee: $250 per person – 2 nights, 6 meals)

             

               (Fee: $400 per couple sharing the same room – 2 nights, 6 meals)

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