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Come away and rest awhile with your beloved at a Couple Enrichment retreat in a beautiful lakeside home in Hickory, North Carolina (just off I-40, midway between Greensboro and Asheville, NC). This is the third annual contemplative couple enrichment weekend led by Marsha and Mike Green. The weekend is a time to renew, restore, and refresh your precious relationship for you, for your community, and for the world. The weekend is designed as a retreat, not a workshop, with invitations to explore your relationship with your partner. Opportunities will be offered to share in the group. For some meals we will hold the silence. There will be times to rejuvenate in nature as well as to relax alone or with your beloved. The intent is to deepen intimacy, hone our capacity to listen to one another and to the Spirit which enlivens our relationships, and to identify growing edges. This retreat is open to any couple in a committed relationship, regardless of legal status. It is offered under the care of Friends Couple Enrichment and with the support of the Durham Friends Meeting. Mike and Marsha Green are trained leaders in the Friends Couple Enrichment and have been offering workshops and retreats to couples and parents for over 20 years. For information and registration, contact Marsha Green. (marshaquaker@gmail.com)

The second annual Stoking the Fire Conference of North American Friends is hosted by Friends United Meeting. The conference is for those who are spiritually on fire; smoldering embers, ready to burst into flame; discerning risky new steps in faithfulness; or desiring deeper worship. For more information, see the FUM website. (www.fum.org)

The theme for this year’s gathering is Reconnecting Soul, Self, and Earth: Bearing Witness to our Global Moment. Joanna Macy will be the plenary speaker. For full information, including registration detail, see fcrp.quaker.org.