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
