2025 Women’s Retreat

FRIDAY EVENING, FEB 21 THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING, FEB 23, 2025 AT KENBROOK BIBLE CAMP, 190 PINE MEADOW ROAD, LEBANON • REGISTER BY JANUARY 24, 2025

You and your friends are invited to a weekend getaway for fellowship and spiritual renewal! Derry’s own Rev. Nancy Joiner Reinert will lead the retreat centered on the theme “God, the Master Gardener.” As we gather as a community of women, our hopes are to appreciate the infinite expanse of ongoing creation, consider what creation spirituality looks like, experience the gifts of nature, design spiritual practices, ponder where those practices may lead us, and grow in relationship with each other through study of scripture, conversation, and worship experiences of awe, sorrow, gratitude, wisdom and praise.

Our group will stay in Mountain View, a lodge that sleeps 30 and requires a short outdoor walk to the dining room. 

COST:

Your stay includes two nights’ lodging and four meals:

  • $280/person Single occupancy
  • $225/person Double occupancy
  • $180/person Triple/quad occupancy
  • $50/person Saturday only

What to bring:

  • Your favorite Bible, pen and paper
  • Photos and/or pictures of somewhere in nature that you feel close to God
  • Games/puzzles/book(s)/knitting or crochet projects you are working on
  • Your curiosity about God, the Master Gardener

Retreat Schedule

Friday, February 21
5-6:30 pm Arrive & settle in. Bring your dinner to eat at our lodge, or have dinner before you arrive.
7 pm Evening session

Saturday, February 22
8 am Breakfast in the dining hall
9 am Morning session with mid-morning break
11:45 am Group photo
12 pm Lunch in the dining hall
Afternoon free time: hike, rest, read, play games, do puzzles or a craft project
5 pm Dinner in the dining hall
7 pm Evening session

Sunday, February 23
8 am Breakfast in the dining hall
9 am Morning worship
11 am Pack up & depart

MEET REV. NANCY JOINER REINERT, OUR RETREAT LEADER

Nancy moved to Hershey in 1971, after graduating from Grove City College, to begin ministry as Director of Christian Education at Derry Church. There she met Wayne Reinert and became Nancy Joiner Reinert a year later. In 1986 Pine Street Presbyterian Church offered her the position of Director of Christian Education. Serving with Fred Anderson, Deb McKinley, Rebecca Langer, Ralph Snyder, Anne Myers and Jim Thornton was a joy. Those colleagues played a great part in Nancy discerning a call to pastoral ministry.

In 1993, Nancy left Pine Street to enroll at Princeton Theological Seminary. She graduated in 1997 and was called to First Presbyterian Church in Caledonia, NY (near Rochester). Solo ministry in a village church was quite different from being in large churches, but she loved the people and the setting, drawing heavily on her Christian Education experience.

In 2016, Nancy added HR (Honorably Retired) to the end of her name, and she and Wayne returned “home” to Hershey, where their younger son Paul and his wife, Emily, live with their two children. Emily is the daughter of Derry members Gregg and Jane Robertson. The Reinert’s son David moved to California, where he met and married Natalie. They are raising two children.