Longing for your leadership team to become ‘something more’ as you lead the mission entrusted to you?

In these weeklong offsites, we immerse leadership teams with the three essential principles for transformation. Whether you are a bishop, pastor, diocesan leader, apostolate or other spiritual multipliers, this might be for you.

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Be renewed in our relationships.

Forever change the way we make decisions.

Leave fired up for the mission we were born for.

OUR APPROACH

PRAYER

The apostles prayed not just before doing their work, they prayed in order to know what to do. We see this as the key to restoring the initiative to God.

TEACHING & SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION

We look forward to sharing with you what God has given us… we are witnesses, not experts. And we know that God also speaks to us through each other.

HOSPITALITY & FELLOWSHIP

In order to recover our call to live our lives and mission in an authentically human way, we need to experience beauty and warm hospitality.

Through the generosity and sacrifice of our donors, the leadership immersives are offered free of charge. Teams are only responsible for their travel expenses.

WHAT LEADERS ARE SAYING

  • Bishop Andrew Cozzens

    I count my experience with the Acts XXIX Leadership Immersive as one of the more transformative experiences in my life. I have experienced few people who take Gospel leadership principles so seriously and witness to them so convincingly as Acts XXIX. My leadership team was deeply impacted spiritually and invited to a new way of supporting each other on mission truly based in the Gospel. We were filled with hope and enthusiasm for mission. 

    I personally have been deeply convicted about how to live a more human and apostolic missionary life. I left with much greater confidence in the Lord and the way I lead and make decisions has been transformed.

  • Fr. Bob LaCroix

    Our whole Leadership Team (myself included) left the week different than when we entered. Our understanding of our mission as a Leadership Team and staff changed. We came to a new understanding of the Biblical imperative to put a priority on first listening to God (and expecting to hear from him and then setting the agenda, rather than first setting the agenda, then asking God to bless it.)

    Furthermore, to missionary disciples already struggling with too many good things to do, this will take much more of our precious time. And this will be a good thing because God wants to teach us to stop rushing around, learn to wait for the Holy Spirit to fall upon us, then follow where He leads.

    We also received a new vision for our Leadership Team, our parish staff, and our whole parish to be a family. Our name is the Church of the Holy Family. It is more than a name. It is our identity.

  • Andrew Lichtenwalner, Ph.D.

    In my nearly twenty years of professional ministry work for the Church - in which the Lord has been beyond generous with the good people and opportunities to grow and serve that He has placed in my life - I count the days of the Leadership Immersive as the most significant thus far.

    The ACTS XXIX team, through their beautiful witness, time, and hospitality, have shown what it can look like as a team to live more as a family on mission and to surrender more completely to the Lord. The Leadership Immersive concretely helps leadership teams put into practice the principle of "restoring the initiative to God." In the Church, we speak often about the importance of prayer and discernment, but we are challenged beyond measure in living it out individually and collectively.

    If you are looking for a way to renew and reorient your team in putting the Lord first in everything you do and in the decisions you make, I know of no better experience than the ACTS XXIX Leadership Immersive. It has charted a new course. Come Holy Spirit!

  • Deacon Russ Ortisi

    In my secular work we do offsites frequently. We pay handily for them. When I saw you don’t charge at all I wondered how and why that could be. Now I know why. What you offer is truly priceless. Thank you.

“This was well worth my time.”

“I strongly encourage leaders to experience the Immersive.”

96% Strongly Agree | 5.0 / 5.0 Avg Score

UPCOMING DATES

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To indicate your interest in attending, please indicate the preferred date for your team. You can also indicate potential alternate weeks that are currently waitlisted.

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IMMERSIVES ARE NOT FOR EVERYONE

While participant feedback has been extraordinarily positive, we recognize that Leadership Immersives are not for everyone. To help you as a leader discern whether your team is sufficiently ready for participation in Leadership Immsersive please complete the readiness assessment. 

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OUR DISCERNMENT SERIES!

Hosted by Fr. John Riccardo and Mary Guilfoyle, this series was created to further help equip leaders forever change how decisions are made in the Church and in the world. Together, we explore how to remove obstacles to true discernment and establish the essential ways for praying together, all in order to restore the initiative to God—whether in diocesan life, parish teams, apostolates, or family life.

Speak, Lord: The Art of Synodality is available for streaming either via video or podcast!

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