We have been blessed to have a variety of inspirational leaders for our national retreats:
- Father Vincent Pizzuto, “Horizon of Hope: Encountering God in Liminal Spaces”, March 2026
- A Time of Community Gathering, January 2026
- Rev. Sherry Bryant-Johnson, “Leadership in the Wesleyan Spirit”, November 2025
- Jason Ellingson, “Vulnerability As a Spiritual Posture with Jason Ellingson”, September 2025
- Ray Buckley, “New Fruit on Ancient Trees–Culture, tradition and spirit”, May 2025
- Rev. Dr. Cynthia Good, “Art and Spirituality” January 2025
- Marilyn McEntyre, “Even So, Be Not Afraid” November 2024
- Rev. Sherry Bryant-Johnson, “Abiding in Christ Together: Creating Gospel-Centric Retreats”, October 2024
- Karen A. McClintock, “Restoring Trauma’s Destroyed Attachments” , September 2024
- Rev. Jane Vennard, “Aging As Spiritual Practice”, July 2024
- Carrie Newcomer, “The Beautiful Not Yet”, July 2022
- A Gathering of the HOF Community Online, May 2022
- Dwight Judy, “Practicing Discernment,” March 2022
- Anne Kertz Kernion, “Self-Compassion Retreat,” January 2022
- Sarah Cledwyn, “Seasons of Self Care: Tending the Soul through the Cycle of Transformation,” November 2021
- Jerry Webber, “To Everything There Is a Season: Exploring Who and Where We Are,” September 2021
- Ingrid Cyros, “Contemplative Photography,” July 2021
- Melissa Tidwell, “Shaped by Story: Understanding and Sharing the Arc of Our Experience,” May 2021
- Amy Oden, “Christian Mindfulness,” March 2021
- An Online HOF Community Gathering, January 2021
- Postponed until 2022 due to COVID-19.
- 2018 Jane Vennard (Trinity Retreat Center, Pine Knoll Shores, North Carolina), “Spiritual Practices for Tending the Soul”
- 2016 Frank Rogers (Cenacle Retreat House, Houston, Texas), “The Way of Radical Compassion”
- 2014 Terry Hershey (Christ the King Retreat Center, Buffalo, Minnesota), “On Holy Ground: Tending the Tension between Being & Doing”
- 2012 Daniel Wolpert (Bon Secours, Baltimore, Maryland), “Soul Stirrings”
- 2010 Sister Dawn Mills (Picture Rocks Retreat Center, Tucson, Arizona), “Geography of the Soul: Barrenness and Beauty”
- 2008 Dwight Judy and Bishop Susan Wolfe Hassinger (The Wesley Center, Woodworth, Louisiana), “Spirituality and Transition”
- 2007 Kathryn Damiano (Nashville, Tennessee), “A Place of Belonging”
- 2005 Sister Kathleen Flood (Nashville, Tennessee), “A Prayerful Presence in the World”