2025 SOUL OF A MINISTRY LEADER RETREAT
PRIVATE TRIP: Friends of Rob Lauer
May 21-25, 2025 | Minnesota's Driftless Region | $1,250
As ministry leaders, we understand the investment you make in others and the many facets of ministry that demand your attention each day. What is often missing from the list of needs is the time and attention needed for your soul's health and well-being. Is it time for you to give yourself the essential gift of devoted time away for rest, renewal, and re-imagining life and ministry from the place of a healthy soul?
Altar's staff brings over 75 years of vocational ministry experience and a deep understanding of the life of a pastor or ministry leader. Join us on an adventure that will heal and enliven your life for the sake of others.
Your Altar retreat marks the beginning of a new adventure. The Altar Team is commitment to your journey providing resources for your continued soul care, leadership development and transformation for a greater life and impact.
WHAT IS THE DRIFTLESS?
In the middle of fly over country sits an ancient landscape that stand out for its unique geology and incredible trout fishing.
During the last ice age, glaciers surrounded the Driftless Area but never plowed up and deposited materials (known as drift) as they receded. This left the area with fractured limestone and sandstone. Water percolates through this rock into the ground and is filtered, cooled, and given an excellent PH level. The water then comes out as springs and seeps and gives it incredible and abundant trout fishing.
NEED HELP FUNDING YOUR RETREAT?
Altar Fly Fishing was founded as a means to bring healing, refreshment, and long-term impact in the lives of leaders with a special heart for pastors, ministry and non-profit leaders. It is Altar’s mission to invest in leaders like you who are investing so much of their time, energy and resources into others. The problem? Many do not have the time or resources to invest in themselves or their future leadership which is leading to personal suffering from burnout and unhealthy souls. I (Eric Camfield - Altar's Founder) was in that very place years back which is why I made significant changes in my own life and started Altar Fly Fishing’s various ministries.
The Altar team can provide details on how to engage your congregation, community, and personal network to help support this much-needed time for rest and personal renewal. We hope that those who know you well will understand the importance of this retreat and be honored to share their resources to make this trip possible for you and countless others in ministry who desire to live out what they have been teaching to so many others. Caring for your soul is not a luxury, it is a vital practice that requires intentional time away.
FOR MORE INFORMATION please contact Altar Team Member STEVE EBLING (steve@AltarFlyFishing.org).
"As a church leader, my soul was more tired than I realized. The unique combination of fly fishing, fellowship, food and faith talks began to refuel my heart and soul. The length of the trip was long enough for refreshment, but short enough to allow me to take the step of faith to free up my calendar."
Kevin | Soul of a Pastor
"The retreat was even better than what I expected. It was like I pushed the "reset" switch spiritually. In addition to helping me become whole again, it increased my awareness of how to better care for my soul. I now have tools to assess the state of my soul so I can sustain healthy soul-care beyond the retreat."
Andy | Soul of a Pastor
