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Sep 12
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We Didn’t Know We Needed a Polish Translator

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Friends, When Kal changed the location of our coffee meeting from Starbucks to Wagner Hills – a recovery home for men with addictions – I was fine with that. It was that day in March that I met Jack. He…

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Aug 23
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Garden Party Fundraiser – September 17, 2023

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We would love to have you with us in our back yard on Sunday September 17th for our annual garden party fundraiser. LIVE JAZZ will welcome you around 5:30. Wasim & Jamna will be our chefs for a 6:00 Pakistani…

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Aug 23
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June 16-18 Listening in Community

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Join us for the next Listening in Community Retreat!  June 16-18, 2023 with Rev. Denise Doerksen, BA MDiv on site as our Spiritual Director.  Her hope for this weekend is “To identify our spiritual landscape through sacred language and art.” You can read a…

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Aug 23
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Frisbee Golf Retreat 2023

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We’ve booked the Kroeker home for the weekend of April 14-16. Let’s come together and be refreshed. Some of our souls are tired, some are beat up, even wounded. Let’s band together and support each other so we all can…

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Aug 23
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I’m Going To Single You Out

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I was feeling privileged and a little surprised to be leading a group of pastors in a short retreat in Red Deer, Alberta. We started in the first chapters of Mark. We especially focused on how Jesus was singled out at his baptism…

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Aug 23
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Thank you for Partnering with us!

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As we hosted short retreats this year at our chalet in Abbotsford and in other settings our passion remains the same – we are serving some who are inspiring others to embrace a lifestyle of listening to God. What are…

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Aug 23
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Advent Listening In Community

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Listening In Community Weekends You are invited into this Listening Retreat, December 2-4, to enter the season of Advent. “Emmanuel – God with us”. This will be a gently guided retreat holding space for you to Pause. To Open. To…

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Oct 14
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A Surprising Visit

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A Surprising Visit Last week I had the amazing privilege of sitting with a man for an hour at the MARK Centre Chalet in Abbotsford. He was flown into Vancouver from his home in England to give a presentation linked…

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Jul 22
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Join us at our Garden Party Fundraiser September 11

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Friends, LIVE JAZZ starts at 5:30. Dinner at 6. Program from 7:00-8:00. Tickets on sale now through eventbrite until Sept. 5. If you would like to sponsor a table contact Steve or Theresa at the office. One of the things…

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Nov 02
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The Lutherans are Listening

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Warm greetings to you all. Thank you for standing with us through this difficult season. Many of our MARK Centre events have been postponed or cancelled, but we are grateful for what we have been able to do and confident…

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31603 Old Yale Road
Abbotsford, BC V2T 2B4
Phone: 604.556.7796
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This gently guided, personal retreat invites us to This gently guided, personal retreat invites us to Pause, Open, and Listen.  Contemplative prayer times together will take place in the mornings and evenings. You’ll have lots of personal space to relax and reflect.  

* Our standard nightly rates apply. There is no additional cost to retreat during these weekends. Call or email the office to book a room of your choice. Spaces are limited! 

 * Denise Doersken will be available for one on one sessions for $75 throughout the weekend

Contact us to reserve your spot! 
Office@markcentre.org
604-556-7796
Steve Klassen, Paul Young, and Jamie & Donna Winsh Steve Klassen, Paul Young, and Jamie & Donna Winship will be sharing stories this Friday. Open seating, free event.
Listening in Community weekends will be a contempl Listening in Community weekends will be a contemplative retreat experience for individuals or couples. Come for your own personal retreat time with the option to join rhythms of prayer in the mornings and evenings. A spiritual director will be staying at the chalet to open up the Great Room for short contemplative prayer in the mornings at 10am and evenings at 7pm. Contemplative prayer will be about 15 minutes and the Great Room will remain open for the hour in silence. 
Call or email the office for dates.
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Call or email our office to make a reservation. 
Office hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-1pm
604.556.7796
office@markcentre.org
“The Christian does not think God will love us b “The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.” -C.S. Lewis
“But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient fo “But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.” 2 Corinthians 12:9-10
“That person is like a tree planted by streams o “That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither - whatever they do prospers.” Psalm 1:3
“For God have us a spirit not of fear but of pow “For God have us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.” 2 Timothy 1:7
Men’s Frisbee Golf Retreat May 1-3, 2020 Join St Men’s Frisbee Golf Retreat May 1-3, 2020
Join Steve Klassen and Cliff Prang for an exciting new year of Frisbee, Friends, Faith, Forrest, Fun, Funny, Freedom, Focus, Fatherhood, Family, Flames, Food, F-cetera!
See our website for details. Call our office to register.
604.556.7796
office@markcentre.org
“Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardl “Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.” 2 Corinthians 4:16-17
“I will say to the LORD, “Your are my refuge a “I will say to the LORD, “Your are my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”” Psalm 91:2
“As the rain and the snow come down from heaven “As the rain and the snow  come down from heaven,
and do not return to it  without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,  so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,  so is my word that goes out from my mouth:  It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire  and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.” Isaiah 55:10-11 NIV

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  • About
    • People
    • Ministry Testimonies
  • Retreats & Events
    • Retreats
      • Listening in Community Weekends
      • “Come Away” – A Silent Women’s Retreat January 25-28, 2024
    • Events
      • Men in Psalms – every Wednesday
      • Garden Party Fundraiser – Sunday, Sept. 17
  • Steve Klassen
    • Bookstore
  • Chalet
    • Chalet
    • Chalet Services
    • Grounds
    • Reservation Policies
    • Serve
  • Listening Tools
    • Lectio Divina
    • Listening in Community
    • Examen
    • Silent Prayer
    • Spiritual Direction
  • Donate
  • Contact