july, 2024
Event Details
Dates: Friday-Sunday, July 12-14, 2024, PDT 
Location: California State University Long Beach (1250 Bellflower Blvd, Long Beach, CA)
REGISTRATION OPENS on MAY 20, 2024
Cost:
- Early Bird (May 20-31): $20 discount
- Regular (June 1-30): $300
Partial scholarships are available (due June 1).
Registration due: June 30, 2024
Are you ready… for the ultimate adventure of a lifetime?! Join women of all ages during this three day retreat as we study The Kin-dom Is Among you: Drawing Closer to God and One Another.
We have chosen Cal State Long Beach as the location for this year’s Mission u. As an institution, CSULB is open and affirming to all people, including our LGBTQ+ siblings. The campus is beautiful and has state-of-the-art classrooms and meeting spaces. They offer a wide-ranging menu in the dining hall and the dorm buildings have lots of common areas, including a fully-equipped kitchen for a lovely cup of tea and conversation before heading off to bed. Mission u is not glamorous or posh by any stretch of the imagination. Yes, you will be sleeping in a twin bed in a dorm room. Yes, your normal, cozy home routine will be disrupted, but we all know that it is only when we are disrupted or inconvenienced that we can grow. This is a perfect time to (re)connect with God and your sisters in the faith. It is a time to feel what it’s like to live in the kin-dom.
What would make Mission u even better? YOU! And if you were there last year, now is your chance to bring someone with you! This year we are offering a $15 discount to anyone who brings someone who is new to Mission u. Now is the time to start planting those seeds in the hearts of your friends. You don’t have to be in UWF or even be a Methodist to go to Mission u, so cast your nets wide! Think of the young women and girls in your life. We have excellent teachers and programing for all age groups. The Co-Deans Barbara Miller and Theresa Ellis are so very excited about this coming year’s Mission u! We hope you are getting excited, too!
More information will follow, but if you have questions, please reach out to ellis.theresa@gmail.com. Valerie “Lani” Hungalu shared with us at our Annual Meeting in October. She said, “Be willing to be transformed for the transformation of the world.” Mission u is our opportunity to be transformed, we just have to be willing. Let us heed the exhortation in Hebrews and keep meeting together. It is in the coming together that we continue to be transformed.
Learn more in the Pacific Waves newsletter (pages 22-28).
REGISTRATION OPENS on MAY 20
For questions, contact:
- Co-Dean: Barbara Miller (626.327.0914; barbmiller700@gmail.com)
- Co-Dean: Theresa Ellis (973.970.8791; ellis.theresa@gmail.com)