October 2025, Berea Friends Meeting Retreat

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We gathered on Friday night with the last car arriving at 12am. We had a circle for sleeping guidelines and lights out at 1am.

Saturday we had breakfast followed by an opening circle with the query what is a form of loss you have experienced big or small and how has it affected you and/or how have you grown from it? We took a walk to the Stephenson Memorial Trail bridge over Silver Creek. Lunch. Then we drove to Berea Old Town Fall Festival where we explored local shops, festival activities and played frisbee in the park. We returned to the meeting house and carved pumpkins before dinner, and had a fire after dinner.

We explored loss and how we are changed from it during opening circle and around the fire. Sunday we had breakfast, cleaned the meeting house, and joined meeting for 15 minutes. We ended with Epistles.