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During Harvest Time retreats, we share the realities of our financial lives and our life stories in a prayer-filled atmosphere that welcomes each person’s soul and real life struggles with honesty, openness, compassion and a sense of humor. Sometimes we engage in collective experiments with money to stir up issues we desire to explore and to open up new possibilities for how money can flow through our lives and into the world.
- Comments from participants about their experiences in Harvest Time circles: "I felt an openness and safety and was able to talk about my money and my faith." "I found a way to weave together the part of me that cares about social justice with the part of me that was born into money so that I can live with integrity." "I have been able to discern and express my clear yes's and no's." "I have been able to shift the way money moves through my life including how I earn, receive, spend, invest and give money. Where I used to feel stuck, now I feel free."
“If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. If you have come here because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” -Aboriginal Saying
Mississippi Circle is a gathering of Harvest Time and non-profit representatives from Community Wholeness Venture and Be Present, who are working together to transform the gift of a farm in Mississippi into a retreat center and organic farm dedicated to social justice and the healing of human beings and the earth. As we do so, we also creating the diverse community that will care for this retreat center.
We share articles, stories, and visual reflections from our network that support the journey with money and faith. Please visit the Resources page for a complete listing of available offerings. We also invite you to visit Harvest Time Executive Director Rosemary Feerick's web log site. Other sites of interest can be found on our Friends & Partners page.
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Harvest Time retreat circles are circles of transformation. We gather to engage with money because we know that the practice of doing so is one way that God can convert us as individuals, as a community, and as participants and agents of the economic systems in which we live.
Harvest Time staff are available to support individuals and couples in their relationship with money. During these conversations, individuals and couples reflect on their experience of God's presence and the specific questions, issues, and challenges that emerge when we attempt to align our money with our faith. The focus is not financial advice, goal-setting or fundraising, but on listening to the heart of God and for God’s leading when it comes to money.
In Circles of practice, we work in partnership with other organizations on specific projects that respond to needs in our communities and world. In the process, we open up dynamics around giving and receiving as well as dynamics around class, race, gender, and power so that we can build on foundations of trust and authenticity. Our experience is that partnership circles that open up conversations in this way are powerful places of personal and systemic transformation.