This past weekend we traveled down to Warm Beach, WA for the annual Regent Fall Retreat along with many other students, families and professors. It was great to get away for the weekend and forget about job searching/studying and to breath some American air!
The speaker for the Retreat was Ross Hastings, who is a professor at Regent as well as head of the MDiv program. He spoke mainly on Chirst as the high priest from Hebrews, but also shared his personal life stories with us. I honestly wish I could tell you more about his sermons as Christ the high priest, but honestly a lot of it was over my head. :-) My theological vocabulary isn't very extensive so it was sometimes hard to follow along. I did however admire his honesty and openness to share his own life with us. In short, he's struggled with driveness, suffered depression, and his wife passed away from cancer a few years ago. He shared with us how the Lord met him during these times and how the Lord's been gracious to him.
Some other highlights from the retreat include the worship music (with John Stackhouse playing the piano in a jazzy/blues type style. Who knew he was so musically talented?), playing soccer, Céilidh (Irish line/barn dancing), a coffee house night, a variety show (with extreamly talented people I might add!), a bonfire with smores and a picnic with some girls from the Regent Spouses Network! Overall, we really enjoyed the time we spent over the weekend getting to know others at Regent!
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