Sorrento Centre's mission is to be a holy place of transformation through learning, healing, and belonging. Their vision is to love God and neighbor by encouraging encounters with the sacred through the arts, being an intergenerational centre focused on youth, innovative worship, and embracing God in Creation. Their strategic directions include developing youth leadership programs, hosting retreats, providing education to nurture relationships with God and Creation, and activities incorporating spirituality, creativity, healing and ecojustice.

1. SORRENTO CENTRE
Mission
Sorrento Centre is a holy place of transformation
for learning, healing and belonging
Vision Strategic Directions
We will follow Jesus in seeking to love God with Youth Leadership Healing & Wholeness
all our heart, with all our soul, with all our mind • Build the summer youth staff as a leadership • Promote attention to spirituality as a path
and with all our strength; and loving our neighbour development program toward healing & wholeness
as ourselves.
• Create a Winter Youth Leadership • Encourage physical activity that integrates
We will do this by Development program (WYLD) in the spiritual and material worlds and that
• encouraging encounters with the sacred through partnership with PWRDF, Sorrento Centre encourages us to listen to our feelings and
the Arts, encouraging creativity, and enabling a farm & others our bodies
deeper understanding of the emotional life; Retreats • Engage with Aboriginal communities to
• becoming an open, intergenerational sacred facilitate reconciliation
• Enable a Sabbath experience & reflective
centre known for our work with young people; practice for diverse audiences: clergy & laity, • Heal our relationship with the rest of
developing innovative and creative forms of families & parishes, writers, musicians & Creation by practicing ecojustice
worship, prayer and music; and by embracing our artists, non-profits and community based
experience of the Divine in Creation; Creativity & the Arts
organizations
• engaging in accessible theological education and • Develop the Red Barn Art Studio using
theological reflection on the pressing issues of our Learning skilled artists in the company of others;
time; • Provide general education for seekers and and invite artists to be in residence
parish members, that nurtures our throughout the year
• encouraging physical activities that honour the
body and enable all people to express the sacred relationship with God, strengthens Property
according to their ability; relationships across all generations &
• Ensure all buildings meet relevant
overcomes the separation of humanity from
• exercising a ministry of compassion, hospitality & standards and all assets are employed
the rest of Creation
justice; encouraging personal and communal with maximum effectiveness in relation to
reflection for the sake of learning and healing; and • Offer accessible education for licensed lay the mission & vision
by sharing our resources with our neighbours. leaders and vocational deacons