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Video Updates
…keeping you informed…
January 2023 Video Update
We are so thankful for you all and are looking forward to this new year!
November 2022 Video Update
Why would you support SonScape Retreats? Listen to the heart of one of our supporters.
June 2022 Video Update
Meet Lee and Becky Fouts . . . one of our amazing host couples! Listen as they share . . .
February 2022 Video Update
Giles and Angel Armstrong are excited for this new year and for what God is going to do . . .
Christmas 2021 Video Update
A Christmas greeting from the Armstrongs . . . from our home to yours.
October 2021 Video Update
Meet Becky . . . the smiling face behind the scenes helping our guests with everything they . . .
Updates
…our newsletters…
Fall Update 2018
A Journey Only God Could Have Designed
The journey began a decade ago. Several staff and board members purchased a piece of property in the Sanctuary at Whitestone in Tennessee for a future retreat center. We had the land but no funds to build.
Spring Update 2018
Canvas of the Heart
by Rob Lauer | While visiting family and friends in Illinois recently, I visited the world renowned Art Institute of Chicago. They have the most amazing collection of paintings, sculpture, and medieval armor I’ve ever seen.
Fall Update 2017
My Call to SonScape Retreats . . .
by Rob Lauer | A glimpse into my story reveals the motivation and my passion for SonScape Retreats. Twenty years ago I made a phone call that changed the trajectory of my life. At the time I was serving as a youth pastor . . .
Spring Update 2017
Passing the Baton . . .
The time has come to pass the baton! In October 2002 I was asked to become the CEO of SonScape Retreats. For the past 141/2 years, it has been my great privilege to serve as CEO and then President of an incredible ministry where . . .
Spring Update 2016
Something New . . .
On May 1 a new book will appear in Christian bookstores across the country. Pastors are People Too is written by Jimmy Dodd and Larry Magnuson as a part of a new series published by David C. Cook for and about pastors.
Fall Update 2015
SonScape Retreats . . . still on the move!
by Larry Magnuson
Fifteen years ago SonScape held 10 retreats reaching 75 Christian leaders annually. This year there will be 32 retreats; 3 will be held internationally and 29 between Colorado, Tennessee, and New York.
Reflections
…devotional thoughts from our retreat leaders…
The Importance of Weeding
Birthdays seem to come faster and more frequently as the year go by. After a couple fun parties, surrounded by friends, family . . .
Fatigue
The last three weeks I have had a nasty virus that literally sapped the energy out of me. Right in the middle of it . . .
Look at the Birds of the Air | Matt. 6:26
Hummingbirds are amazing creatures. Here in the mountains we enjoy them by the hundreds from May to August . . .
Personality Type or Typo?
Sometimes other people are better at expressing what is in your heart than you are. Marie Baldwin is a three-time alumni of SonScape Retreats . . .
Taking Responsibility
I am not always intentional, probably not even mostly so, but I do aspire to it. A commitment to intentionality has always been important for . . .
Seldom do we play and rare is our wonder…
Every child knows what summer means – bike riding, swimming, games of tag, frogs to catch . . .
Transformed Lives
…testimonies from our alumni…
Beyond our Expectations
The week is designed in every way to free the pastor and spouse to focus on self and couple and God. It took me a few days to truly let go and be free but what a great experience . . .
He truly met us in this place!
The opportunity to get away with my wife to spend time with God was phenomenal. We were able to stop, be still, and come to Christ with our burdens. He truly met us in this place!
a Holy Ground experience
SonScape to me became like a holy ground where you take your sandals off to listen to God as he speaks to you about a next phase and call in your ministry…
Grateful for SonScape
My husband and I were exhausted this spring . . . overworked, two family deaths, years of compounded hurts and wounds. We decided we really needed to get away . . .
Beautiful and Rare Balance
I marvel that as pastors we can proclaim to and believe about others an identity in Christ we ourselves have unknowingly let Satan blind us to . . . we love others but hate ourself . . .
An incredible, encouraging, and fulfilling week . . .
I came with my wife really not knowing or having a clue what to expect, as a couple or individually. I realize this was good, because it was more . . .
Other Interesting Info
…articles, videos, etc. from like-minded folks…
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