Lipscomb hosts New Wineskins Retreat for ministers nationwide

Janel Shoun | 

This week Lipscomb University continues its efforts to serve the ministry community, locally and nationwide, by hosting the annual New Wineskins Retreat.

Landon Saunders spoke to retreat participants on Thursday.
Lipscomb President L. Randolph Lowry mediated discussions on overcoming divisions.
The New Wineskins Retreat was originally established more than a decade ago by a collection of African American Church of Christ ministers and is now attended by ministers, both White and African American, from across the nation.

The retreat is held at locations around the country to build a support network of spiritual solidarity and Christ centered activism. The retreat provides a spiritually healthy environment for growth, refreshment and healing, while promoting a resourceful national support network for ministers and leaders and preserving an open atmosphere conducive for honest dialogue and strategic thinking.

Lipscomb is proud to host this year’s retreat and has designed an itinerary inspired by the pivotal year 1968, the year Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy were assassinated and Church of Christ pioneer and African American preacher Marshall Keeble died.

The participants in the retreat will enjoy a tour of the Nashville Public Library’s Civil Rights Room and a tour of The Hermitage mansion, as well as hearing a talk by author and nationally known preacher Landon Saunders and historian Ed Robinson.