Summer Conference: Loving Our Neighbors as Ourselves

Loving Our Neighbors As Ourselves

A Christ-centered Spiritual Retreat for Families & Friends

Led by Chantal McKinney

June 16-19, 2025 Register by May 16.

Like the breath, the depth to which we practice self-compassion and self-care (inhale) determines the depth to which we are able to love our neighbors, our community, and our families (exhale). Nourish your body, mind, and soul this week through experiencing a variety of offerings to bring balance and peace to your life during these times. Ample free time allows participants to nap, hike around the lake, journal, or explore Kanuga.

A special afternoon track for church leaders, “Reclaiming Sundays as Sabbath,” allows for facilitated reflection, conversation, and planning around the topic of supporting parishioners’ needs for slower Sundays and intentional Sabbath amidst our hectic lives.

Chantal McKinney Chantal is a life-long seeker of the Divine. She is a writer, speaker, entrepreneur, coach, consultant, practitioner of community development, and former church planter who walks among the two worlds of faith and spirituality. She is passionate about making connections between how followers of Jesus are deconstructing and living out their faith in reimagined ways and what this means for our future understanding of church. 

She awaits the publication of her first book, “Following Jesus Beyond Church Walls.”

After serving within The Episcopal Church as a parish priest for twenty years, she founded Root Thrive Soar and now accompanies and trains churches and faith organizations around the country that are ready to shift towards de-colonized, missional community engagement in the spirit of Christ’s love.

Learn more at rootthrivesoar.com and chantalmckinney.com. Join her Substack at https://chantalmckinney.substack.com/.