Pastoral Posture // A time for ministry leaders to slow down, receive grace afresh, and rediscover the posture that only comes from knowing we are welcome before we are useful.
Join us in July for a short retreat led by Dan Steel, Principal and Ministry Program Director of Yarnton Manor.
Our annual led and catered group residential retreat, Pastoral Posture, offers extended space to step back, be refreshed in God’s presence, and rediscover the joy of serving Him with resilience and humility.
This is a time to slow down, listen deeply, and be renewed by the God who speaks – a time to be shaped afresh by His Word and drawn into deeper trust, even in seasons of uncertainty and struggle. Our time consists of 4 talks, but also lots of space and opportunity to pray, respond and reset.
Various ticket options are available:
- Come just for Wednesday (lunch included)
- Come and go each day (lunches included)
- Come and go each day (all meals included)
- Full tickets (accommodation and all meals) for individuals (staying in an en-suite room in a shared block)
- Come with a friend – Full ticket (accommodation and all meals) for 2 individuals (sharing your own guest house)
- Full ticket (accommodation and all meals) for a couple (with your own guest house)
- Come with friends – Full ticket (accommodation and all meals) for 2 couples (sharing a guest house together)
If the option that you would like is not available then please do contact us at hello@yarntonmanor.com and we will see what we can do.
Tickets will become available in October.
We have a generous bursary fund available if finances are tight – email hello@yarntonmanor for a confidential discussion about this.
Schedule:
TUESDAY 20th JULY
- 2 – 3.30pm – Arrive
- 3.30pm – Refreshments
- 4 – 5.30pm – Welcome & Session 1
- 5.30 pm – Break
- 6pm – Dinner
WEDNESDAY 21st JULY
- 9 – 9.15am – Morning Prayer
- 9.15 – 10am – Breakfast
- 10 – 11.30am – Session 2
- 11.30 – Refreshments
- 12 – 1pm – Solo reflection time
- 1 – 2pm – Lunch
- 2 – 3.30pm – Reflect & connect
- 3.30pm – Refreshments
- 4 – 5.30pm – Session 3
- 5.30pm – Break
- 6pm – Dinner
THURSDAY 22nd
- 9 – 9.15am – Morning Prayer
- 9.15 – 10am – Breakfast
- 10 – 11.30am – Session 4
- 11.30am – Refreshments
- 12 – 1pm – Session 5
- 1 – 2pm – Lunch
- 2pm onwards – Depart
About the Speaker:
Dan Steel is Principal and Ministry Program Director at Yarnton Manor. A native Oxfordian, he has been a pastor and church planter in Oxford and Birmingham for over 20 years, and is the author of Wise Church Planting, a global research study drawing on voices from 27 countries to support struggling planters and ministry workers. He is passionate about sustainable, long-term ministry practices – helping those in ministry to flourish rather than merely endure. Dan is married to Zoe and is dad to Ellie, Barney, Josh and Abi.
Date
20th - 22nd July 2027
Time
14:00 - 14:00
Lead by:
Dan Steel