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"Leading a Life With God" and "Creating a Life With God" Books Available Online
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Journey on a
Virtual Prayer Path
The virtual prayer path is a time to draw away and connect your soul with God in the midst of your day. Images where taken as one journeyed along the path located on the MICAH site. To journey along with us click here >>
2009 Summer Retreats
MICAH offers a wide variety of retreats, events, and on-going opportunities focusing on your physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being! While most retreats and events occur in the Northwest Minnesota region, some do occur throughout the country. To learn more about these upcoming retreats as well as other opportunities in 2009 see our Retreat/Events page > >
Health and Spirituality:
MIND, BODY, and SPIRIT...
how are you feeling?
Every day we as a human race spend billions of dollars, amazing amounts of energy, and countless hours to feel better. It’s a search for completeness. We desperately want to be authentically healthy and whole individuals. However this search continues to be elusive. Why? Because even though we are physical, mental, and spiritual beings we don’t live like we are. And when we don’t nourish our mind, body, and spirit health and wholeness will never be a reality.At Riverview Family Practice and Integrative Medicine Center we want you to be truly healthy. Click here to read complete article >>
MICAH Introduces the ALL NEW Health and Spirituality Yearlong Comprehensive Program
No matter who we are, what we do, or what stage of life we're in we all need opportunities to reflect upon and examine our whole life, physically, mentally, and spiritually, in order to make serious and lasting changes.At the Minnesota Institute of Contemplation and Healing we have developed the Health and Spirituality Program because we believe everyone has the potential of being authentically healthy and whole.This yearlong comprehensive healing program is dedicated to helping you pay attention to your complete self. You will be given specific tools, individualized direction, and helpful encouragement from an experienced and diverse staff that genuinely cares about you and your quality of life.The Health and Spirituality Program is an investment toward becoming the person you were created to be. For complete details click here > >
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Holy Doodles - Cartoons
to Contemplate
Holy Doodles, Cartoons to Contemplate is a fun ongoing section of the MICAH website. The pictures you find here are images that came to mind from meditating on scripture passages, books, past events, conversations with friends and family, and from simply trying to be attentive to God in my everyday life. Following each drawing is a short paragraph about the drawing itself along with a few questions to ponder and discuss. The cartoons are copyrighted, however you are very welcome to use them as long as you credit where they came from. My hope is that these pictures will stretch your mind just enough to cause you to think more deeply about your life with God. Click here to view latest cartoon > >
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MICAH Wish List for
New MICAH Building
The Micah Building continues to be slowly transformed. The wiring is finished and all the rooms except for the bathrooms and part of the utility room have been sheet rocked. The kitchen cabinets are currently being built and could possibly be installed in April. Plumbing will start soon. As we get closer to having the building finished we are thinking more and more about the basic furnishings, cook ware, bedding, etc. We have compiled a wish list if anyone is interested in helping purchase the items we need. To purchase items you can call us at 218-281-4853 to let us know what you would like to purchase from the wish list. We can process your credit card over the phone. Or, you can also send a check to MICAH, First Presbyterian Church, 510 North Broadway, Crookston, MN 56716. We will also be glad to take used items that are in very good condition. To view the Wish List click here and check out the Events webpage > >
Peace, The MICAH Staff
Time Magazine Article
"The Rural Exodus"
Featuring Daniel Wolpert
Available Online
Time magazine reporter David Van Diema writes "In Minnesota, Daniel Wolpert pastors a conventional, aging congregation but also runs a contemplation center on a plot of former farmland. . ." To read the entire article "The Rural Exodus" featuerd in Time magazine click here >>To view the accompanying video clip entitled "Vanishing Pastors on the Prairie" click here >>
2009 MICAH Internships
In the spring of 2009 we will be offering various Internship opportunities with MICAH. Each internship can be tailor made to fit one's desires and gifts. Interns will learn about their particular field of interest as well as how their work is connected to and interacts with the spiritual life and the practice of discernment. These internships are:
Register Now > >
Spiritual Life and Leadership Intern
This internship is focused on the study and practice of the spiritual life and its relation to leadership. The internship will involve one's own personal study and practice in the spiritual life as well as helping lead various retreats at MICAH. Spiritual Life and Leadership Internship starts June 1, 2009 and will last from one to three months.
Culinary Intern
All foods served at MICAH are intentionally planned with the idea of sustainability and health in mind. This means foods will be organic, local when possible, and will be based on a whole food diet. The culinary intern will primarily learn about preparing these kinds of foods for MICAH retreats and functions. Other areas of focus will include learning about how to search out local places to purchase seasonal and organic foods, learning how to prepare menus and shopping lists, budgets, organizing and stocking the kitchen, researching and preparing special dietary meals such as no dairy, vegan, gluten free, etc. Culinary Internship starts June 1, 2009 and will last from one to three months.
Construction Intern
The construction intern will be learning skills associated with the completion of the MICAH building. Learning and experiencing what it means to notice God in the unhurried rhythm of work, rest, play, and quiet will also be an emphasis in this internship. Construction Internship starts May 1, 2009 and will last from one to four months.
Landscape and Garden Intern
The landscaping and gardening intern will learn about and be involved in a variety of creative assignments such as researching and designing landscapes, organic gardening, harvesting, irrigation, winterizing, as well as the care and upkeep of a green roof. Much will depend on the intern's interests and skills. There will also be an emphasis on the spiritual life and how it is connected to work. Landscape and Garden Internship begins June 1, 2009 and will last from one to three months. Cost for each internship is $500.00 per month. This cost includes room and board. To apply for an internship or for more information call 218-281-4853.Register Now > >
Update on the MICAH
Retreat House
Construction on the MICAH retreat house has entered the ‘winter phase.’ Now that the outside of the building is winterized and close to completion our work schedule is slowing down and we are concentrating on the inside. Throughout the winter we will be wiring, plumbing, putting up dry wall, installing the kitchen and bathrooms, and completing the guest rooms. When the weather warms up in the spring we will finish the slate stone front of the building and continue landscaping. We will be posting photos of the building throughout the winter months to keep you up-to-date on what is happening.
The overall goal of the design of the MICAH retreat house is to have a net energy use of zero. A geothermal heating and cooling system, which uses the constant core temperature of the earth, locally procured materials, a green roof, and a 33-foot windmill, are all part of the sustainable design. These, as well as other aspects of the architecture of the structure, are designed to fit with the landscape of the prairie and also with the mission of MICAH to live on earth in an elegant and gentle manner.
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