Gathering of Women, Continuing the Women's Journey

Program Details

Over the past few years, Rev. Lee Ireland has facilitated Gatherings of Women that have journeyed together. Wisdom and healing have occurred with an ongoing desire to walk more deeply into the freedom and gracious love that God is inviting them to experience.

For the 2022-23 year, we invite women who have been part of the original group two years ago and the women who have just completed the first year to join together for a brand new "Gathering of Women: Continuing the Women's Journey."

We've explored our own journeys as we unpacked Maureen Murdock's life offering, The Heroine's Journey. We've also learned how to discern our images of God and re-evaluate our Christian understandings through a study of JP Newell's book, Listening to the Heartbeat of God. This year, we will continuing learn how to listen more deeply to the guidance and voice of the Divine Spirit within our own lives as we use Julia Cameron's rich resource, The Artist's Way, as our guide. We are often not fully aware of our creative talents but Julia offers an amazing guide for our personal discoveries.

The group will meet ONLINE on the fourth Saturday of the month from 9:30-11:30 am beginning Saturday, September 24th through June, navigating the calendar as a group during the holiday months. There will be 9 sessions for the year.

Please note that this year, everyone will need to register and pay a nominal fee of $139 to receive the link and to support Lee and this ongoing ministry with women through Rolling Ridge.

About the Leaders

Lee Ireland

Rev. Lee A. Ireland is now retired after serving many churches as a long-time Interim Pastor. She lives in Niantic, CT and is focusing on spiritual formation programs, retreats and offering Individual Spiritual Direction sessions. She received her M.Div. from Andover Newton Theological School, and was trained as a Spiritual Director at Mercy Center, Madison, CT from 1997-99. She has served in 14 different congregational settings as well as working in a women's prison and as a per diem hospital chaplain. Since 1990, she has had the joy of leading retreats. She is well aware of how life throws us curve balls and we can become distracted from our soul's journey by many events that may lead us to dead-ends. As we choose to study the wisdom of others, journal, listen to our dreams or participate in retreats and spiritual formation programs, we learn how to listen within so we can stay on our faith journeys. We discern the guidance we need so we can live into our personal Calls, and live into unexpected moments which nurture the peace within and make our hearts and souls sing. We can then make new life choices that enable us to live in the Now as we love and serve from our centeredness, a sense of gratitude due our deepening relationship with God.