18th Annual Member Retreat

Na'aseh V'Nishmah: We will Do and We will Understand
Taking a Leap of Learning-Faith - Together

Retreat Photos

Dear Adat Shalomer,

Get ready to celebrate this anniversary year in style at our 18th Annual Retreat - Na'aseh V'nishma, We will Do and We will Understand. The theme and program will help us face new challenges and opportunities, grow together, and enjoy a new retreat location for our Chai year. June 9-11. Send your registration now! Reserve early for your pick of accommodations.

We will be in an exciting new place: Capital Camps and Retreat Center in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania -- just over the Maryland border, a 90-minute drive. This year's retreat program will allow us to fully enjoy this truly spectacular site, using it to draw closer to one another and to our tradition. The newly-renovated Capital Camps offers many advantages:

• Beautiful rolling hills, lakes, and streams in walking distance of the Appalachian Trail;
• Jewish facility with designated davenning spaces and a kosher kitchen;
• Lodging for more retreat-goers, while keeping costs comparable to previous years;
• Aquatics Center--5,500-square-foot outdoor solar-heated pool, diving board, two 40' water flumes, walk-in entry area, water-play features, and a pavilion for poolside events;
• Ropes/Challenge Course--zip lines, climbing wall, and multiple low-challenge activities;
• Arts & Activities Center--indoor/outdoor stage, amphitheater seating, and arts and crafts;
• Sports Fields and Courts--for soccer, basketball, softball/baseball, tennis, and volleyball.

This year's retreat theme draws on Exodus and Martin Buber, Abraham and Sarah and Soren Kierkegaard, Isaiah and Deborah and Broadway's RENT. We'll sing, pray, play, plan, learn, meditate, eat, dance, and schmooze together. The schedule also features plenty of free and semi-structured time, with opportunities to get to know each other in a deeper way than we can during the year. Some specific highlights include:

• Camp Adat Shalom in the Great Outdoors--stellar child and early teen programming;
• Shabbat services with Cantor Rachel and many others, in beautiful sacred outdoor spaces;
• Shtetl Olympics III--Bigger Than Ever on multiple playing fields, with lots of fun new events;
• Challenge Activities--using "low ropes," getting to know each other by working together;
• Torah: on creating conscious community, and on striking a balance between action & study;
• Meet Mincha-- Again, a short service with music, meditation, and a taste of Torah;
• Saturday Night Special--Details TBD; and,
• All the makings of a fabulous weekend: friends, good kosher food, Shabbat, campfire, community, and more...

Retreats last just 2 days a year, but they help define us as a community. To encourage more people to join us, this year we've lowered costs for new members, first-time attendees, and kids & families (see the registration form for a range of options, including tenting for fun and frugality). There's no better way to get to know folks, and to feel at home in community.

L'shalom, Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb

Additional Information

• Directions to Capital Camps
• List of items to bring with you
• Child Care checklist
• Child info form
• General retreat information
• Camp Adat Shalom children's programming
• Child Care, Babysitting, Pre-K

Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation
7727 Persimmon Tree Lane
Bethesda, MD 20817

E-mail info@adatshalom.net

Phone: 301-767-3333 x106 | FAX: 301-767-3340

Shabbat Services: Saturdays, 9:30 a.m.

We are an affiliate of the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation
and part of the Chesapeake Region of the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation (CRJRF)